High Jump

The high jump is a discipline Sport ive in Athlétisme. The candidates must cross a horizontal bar while jumping; the athlete who crosses the highest bar gains the contest. The competitors have the right to take a race of dash. The bar is moved up by stage (of 5 cm in 5 cm at the beginning of the competition, then of 3 in 3 cm), each competitor being entitled to 3 tests with each height suggested. For a few years, the tactics have made its appearance: when a jumper missed its first test (or its first two tests) with a determined height, it has the right to preserve its 2 tests (or its last test) at the following height.

The current world records of the discipline are held by the Cuba in Javier Sotomayor with a jump to 2,45 m in 1993. The female record is held by the Bulgare Stefka Kostadinova with a jump to 2,09 m in 1987 in Rome at the time of the Championships of the world of athletics.

Technique of the jump height

  • Chisel: the athlete jumps while raising the first leg, and when it passed, it raises the other, while falling down.
  • costal roller: the athlete tackles the bar of face and change to horizontal, on the side, the leg of call folded, under him. This technique limits the margin of progression considerably owing to the fact that there is not rotation of the body around the bar as authorizes it the following technique. However it limited the stress related to the fall to one time when the pits of reception were, most of the time, furnished with sand.
  • western roll: the athlete laterally attacks the obstacle while being rolled up literally around the bar, with the horizontal one. The problem of this technique was the release of the leg of call above the bar. It required the qualities of gymnaste tested that only Russian Valeri Brumel knew to carry, in the years 1960, at their higher point by establishing the world records with 2,28 Mr. Signalons still Vladimir Yatchenko who, whereas Fosbury was adopted by all the jumpers, rose to 2,33 m on July 3rd, 1977, then 2,34 during the summer 1978 in western roll, thus beating the old world records held by mythical Dwight Stones the man who crossed for the first time the barrier of the 2,30 Mr. C' is with Yatchenko that labelles world records height the technique of the western roll will die out.
  • Fosbury: it is the technique currently most used. It was used for the first time in an international competition with the Olympic Games of 1968 by Dick Fosbury. It consists in arriving back at the obstacle and jumping of back, while raising the two legs in the last above the bar. The jump was refused initially, then accepted after checking that no payment was enfreint. Dick Fosbury spent this day the bar to 2,24 m, new Olympic record. Dick Fosbury was gold medal.

Thereafter, it was proven that Fosbury was not the first to use this technique, without it not knowing it. Bruce Quande was photographed in 1963 passer by the bar on the back.

Records (in the open air)

World records

Masculine

Female

Continental records

Masculines

Female

Europe 2m06 Tia Hellebaut Belgian 2006 Gothenburg

Record of France

Masculine

Female

See too

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