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high jumpTrack-and-field event of jumping for height. The equipment includes a semicircular runway allowing an approach run of at least 49 ft (15 m), the raised bar and its vertical supports, and a cushioned landing area. Jumpers must leave the ground from one foot. Three failed jumps at a height result in disqualification. Early jumping styles, including the near-erect scissors jump and the facedown Western roll-and-straddle, were largely superseded from 1968 by the faceup “Fosbury flop,” named for its leading proponent, the U.S. jumper Dick Fosbury. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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those in ruts tend to be accompanied by several others in the same, parallel, or intersecting furrows): Dick Fosbury, the high jumper of the 1968 Olympics, the man who went over the bar backwards, not forward, as was the status quo. If he'd been here in track for three or four years, he'd be a 6-7 or 6-8 high jumper by now. Case in point: Mizuki has a crush on Izumi Sano, a high jumper, and decides to go to the same high school as him. |
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