A high jump athlete should focus on a height they they are comfortable with at first. A beginning high jumper will not have learned the proper jumping techniques, and as they practice and learn, their high jump heights will rise.
Tall ones
Larry Jump is the best of the best
Babe Zaharias
The American, Charlie Dumas, in 1956.
Polevault
The long jump is where you have a long strip of sand which you run to and jump as far as you can along it whilst the high jump is where there is a pole which the athletes have to jump over and it gets raised every time each athlete has jumped. :)
it may be because the momentum may carry them ahead and also it increses the time of the athlete's fall after the jump.
anything over 40ft to be competetive
A high protein, high carbohydrate breakfast is best for athletes.
Jesse Owens discovered he was a good athlete in 1928 when he set Junior High School records by cleaning 6 feet in the high jump and leaping 22 feet 11 3/4 inches in broad jump.
Babe Didrikson, who won the 100 meter hurdles, the javelin and came in 2nd in the high jump at the 1932 Olympics.