Dick Fosbury, high jump gold medal winner at the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City, is credited with having invented the form of high jumping called the flop and was originally known as the Fosbury Flop.
Men: Charles Austin, United States - 2.39 meters Women: Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgaria - 2.05 meters
Why, yes the 2012 Olympic high jump will take lace at wimberly.
Taken from Wikipedia The heats of the 100 metres were the first Olympic event to be conducted, and the winner of the first heat, Francis Lane, can thus be considered the first Olympic winner. The first Olympic champion was crowned in the triple jump, Harvard student James Connolly. Connolly also did well in the other jumping events, placing second in the high jump and third in the long jump. The first Events of the 1896 Olympics were contested on April 6th at the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens
Long jump and high jump.
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Zambia has two Olympic medals: one for high jump and one for long jump.
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Vertical Jump is when they (scorers )measure you and then you jump as high as you can. The winner is the person who jumped the furthest.
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The high jump has been an olympic event officially for over 100 years at the Olympic Games, and will continue to be held annually every year during the Olympic, including this year's games in Beijing, China.
The Olympic Games played in 2002 were the Winter Olympics and there was no long jump contested. In the 2000 Summer Olympics, Ivan Pedroso of Cuba won the men's competition with a jump of 8.55 meters and Heike Drechsler of Germany won the women's competition with a jump of 6.99 meters. In the 2004 Summer Olympics, Dwight Phillips of the United States won the men's competition with a jump of 8.59 meters and Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia won the women's competition with a jump of 7.07 meters.