One of the first high jumpers to use the straddle technique ... At the Berlin Olympics, Albritton finished second to Johnson with a leap of 6' 6 3/4". He claimed the silver medal in a jump-off after ...

At Oregon State University, Fosbury first cleared 7' during the 1968 indoor season and became a surprise winner at the Mexico City Olympics ... antiquated jump style called the "scissors," until his ...

Olympic gymnastics team gold medallist Hezly Rivera performed ... Rivera worked smoothly through a wolf triple turn and an aerial, split jump, straddle jump combination to open. Then, she executed a ...

But that’s exactly what happened when Dick Fosbury took to the field at the Mexico 1968 Olympics. Prior to the Games, the dominant high jump technique was the 'straddle' technique. It involved an ...

NORTHERN Ireland’s Olympic silver medallist ... so they could practise high jumping, which then was not for the faint-hearted, with the athletes leaping straddle-style over the bar and landing ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — At the end of Saturday’s epic two-plus-hour men’s high jump competition, the two competitors who were tied for first place faced a life-altering decision. Did they want ...

Davis-Woodhall toppled the reigning Olympic champ, German Malaika Mihambo, with a 7.10-meter jump Thursday to capture her first Olympic gold and her first medal of any kind in the Olympics.

For 130 years, Olympic athletes have used various means to compete in the high jump. There was the western roll, which was followed by the straddle — and then along came the Fosbury Flop.

SAINT-DENIS, France – She stood at the top of the Stade de France long jump runway as a post card Parisian day slipped into an electric Olympic evening, the place she was always supposed to be.

ABOVE VIDEO: American Tara Davis-Woodhall claimed her first Olympic medal, winning the women’s high jump with a massive leap of 7.10 meters. Fellow U.S. athlete Jasmine Moore took bronze ...

This long jump performance from Davis-Woodhall is better than her Toyko Olympics results, where she finished sixth. "I did not expect to be in Toyko," Davis-Woodhall told Citius Mag. "I was a ...

LaFond won the triple jump gold medal at the Paris Olympics, delivering a commonwealth of 70,000 in the East Caribbean its first Olympic medal of any color. Born in Dominica, raised in Maryland ...