Correction: An earlier version of the right-hand chart used the wrong benchmark for the high jump.
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Valberg was the country's first representative to compete at the Olympics, qualifying for the high jump at the 1948 games in London.
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Over the next two decades, Bush coached Willie Banks, who held the world record for the triple jump; Dwight Stones, a three-time world-record breaker for the high jump; and Andre Phillips and Greg Foster, Olympic medal-winning hurdlers.
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For the high jump scene, 105 high-speed cameras were used to film in bullet time.
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He also fell 2 centimeters shy of qualifying for the High Jump in the 2012 London Olympics.
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Michael George Glazebrook was a Headmaster of Clifton College, later a Canon of Ely, and is reputed to have once held the world record for the high jump.
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Lester Steers (June 16, 1917 – January 23, 2003) was an American track and field high jumper. In 1941 he broke the world record for the high-jump three times. His last record stood for 12 years.
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Joseph Patrick "Joe" Faust (born September 21, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American track and field athlete known for the high jump. He extended his personal jumping flight interests into mathematics and aviation.
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Great Sporting Moments: Athletics. The Independent. Retrieved on 2010-08-30. A new Commonwealth record for the high jump was established at the games by Emmanuel Ifeajuna of Nigeria, who became the first Commonwealth athlete to clear six feet and nine inches.
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Jayne Barnetson (born 21 January 1968) is a Scottish former athlete who competed mainly in the High jump. She finished fourth at the 1986 World Junior Championships. Her 1989 Scottish records for the high jump (1.91m) and Heptathlon (5803 pts), still stand.
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In August, Jones competed in the Olympic heptathlon and high jump. She placed 20th in the heptathlon and did not make the finals for the high jump. She was chosen to serve as flag bearer for Barbados in the Olympic closing ceremonies.
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The lists are updated as of February 22, 2013, and regard to the 21 individual Olympic specialities. For the high jump, the pole vault, the long jump, the triple jump and the shot put, the performances also include the indoor competitions (measures are identified by (i) in the tables).
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Levo was born in Timrat in northern Israel. Her parents were both athletes, her father is a sprinter and mother was ranked third in Israel for the high jump. Her brother is the actor Liron Levo. She married Hannoch Shahaf in 2016 and together they have two children.
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Jeanelle Scheper (born 21 November 1994) is a Saint Lucian high jumper. She is the second athlete from St. Lucia to qualify for the high jump final in the World Championships in Athletics after Lavern Spencer did it starting in 2007 when in 2015 she joined Spencer in the final.
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He qualified for the high jump final at the 1948 Summer Olympics where he finished 14th. Representing Malaya, he finished seventh in the 1950 British Empire Games 120 yards hurdles and eleventh in the high jump. He finished third in the 110 metres hurdles at the 1951 Asian Games, while representing Singapore.
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Varsity lettered in track and field for the high jump. Her mother was a homemaker and helped manage family business. Tara’s father was a business owner and politician, (now deceased) was also a local talk show radio host. Tara was a frequent guest and would talk politics with her dad as the "liberal daughter".
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Nafissatou "Nafi" Thiam (; born 19 August 1994) is a Belgian athlete specializing in multi-event competition. Her mother is Belgian and her father is Senegalese. As of February 2020, Thiam holds the Belgian record in women's heptathlon, women's javelin and women's long jump. She set a new world record for the high jump discipline within a women's heptathlon competition in 2019.
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A minor story features an alligator named Bolt Jenkins. He was "born as a handbag" and told he would never walk again. A song during his story reveals that he lives in the sewers. After seeing a frog named Boris Amphibiensky break the world record for the high jump, Jenkins has an epiphany, and becomes determined to break the record.
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Condinitha "Connie" Teaberry-Lindsey (born August 15, 1970 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American track and field athlete known for the high jump. She represented the United States at the 1996 Olympics, where she finished 18th. She set her personal best of in the 1996 Olympic Trials. She is now the Director of Cross Country, Track and Field Coach at Northern Illinois University.
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Maayan Furman-Shahaf (; born November 9, 1986) is an Israeli high jumper and triple jumper. She holds a personal best of for the high jump and for the triple jump. She competed for Israel at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in the women's high jump, coming in fifth at 1.88 m. She represented her country at the European Athletics Championships in 2012 and 2016.
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Rellie Kaputin (born March 12, 1993) is a Papua New Guinean track and field athlete who specializes in the jumps. She currently holds the national records for the high jump, long jump, and triple jump events. In 2017, Kaputin competed at the 2017 World Championships in London, Great Britain jumping 5 meters 59 in the long jump qualification round without advancing to the final.
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Retrieved on 2016-08-07.Selloane Joyce Tsoaeli. Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved on 2016-08-07. She was her nation's flag bearer at the 2010 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. Her personal bests of 5588 points for the heptathlon and for the high jump are Lesotho national records. She also holds the national marks in the 100 metres hurdles, long jump, triple jump, shot put and javelin throw.
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The height Csák cleared in that event was the Hungarian record for the high jump for the next 24 years. She won nine Hungarian titles in all, including two in the long jump. She was a competitor of the National Gymnastics Club (NTE) from 1929 until 1939, a gymnast from 1929 until 1932, and an athlete from 1933 until 1939. She also received the International Fair Play Life Achievement Award in 2005.
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Although the pentathlon was primarily decided on place points, points were also earned for the marks achieved in the individual events. He won the gold medal. That same day, he qualified for the high jump final in which he finished in a tie for fourth, and on July 12 he placed seventh in the long jump. Thorpe's final event was the decathlon, his first (and as it turned out, his only) decathlon.
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Botswana entered twelve events at the games. Although she did not win a medal, Amantle Montsho ran her first race during the games. The award ceremony for the high jump was memorable for featuring an impromptu solo rendition of the national anthem by the winner, Kabelo Mmono. This was swiftly followed by a victory for the men’s 4 x 400 metres relay team, which won with a time of 3:02.24, a national record.
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In addition to the new track and field, the facility also contains specialized areas for the field events. Adjacent to the oval are pits and runways for the long jump, triple jump and pole vault events. Next to the oval within the infield there is an area for the high jump. On the east side of the facility is a throwing area complete with separate spots for the shot put, hammer/discus and javelin.
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She has a daughter, Katelin, and a son, Jacob. She is married to a physician, Dr. Douglas Coleman. She was again Commonwealth Champion in 1982 at the games in Brisbane. From 1970 to 1985, in the annual Track and Field News merit rankings, Brill was ranked in the world's top ten for the high jump twelve times (the exceptions being 1973, 74, 76 and 81; with 76 being the only active year of the four).
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At the 2014 World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon Jones won gold in the long jump, jumping 6.34 m into a strong headwind; she was the first Barbadian ever to win a World Junior Championship medal. She also qualified for the high jump final, but decided to skip it after the long jump gold to avoid aggravating a minor knee problem. In recognition of her achievements in 2014, Jones was named Barbadian Sportspersonality of the Year.
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As of March 2008, this point total ranks fourth all-time in New Jersey history. He also set a South Jersey single season touchdown record, also done in 2004, by reaching the end zone 39 times. During the springtime, Gause participated in the 100m and 200m dashes, 4x400 relay and the high jump events. He finished in the top 5 in SJ Group I during his junior and senior seasons for the high jump, garnering All-Conference accolades in the process.
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Following her graduation she signed up to compete professionally with the Mizuno Track Club. Imai broke the Japanese indoor record for the high jump in February 1998, winning in Beijing with a clearance of . She edged her rival Yoko Ota to the high jump gold medal at the 1998 Asian Athletics Championships, setting a personal best and championship record of in the process. She jumped one centimetre lower at the 1998 IAAF World Cup to take fifth place for the Asian team.
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Detroit Titans Academic HonorsUSTFCCCA Division I All-Academic Individually, seven different Titans have been selected Academic All-America by the USTFCCCA: Kim Hemstreet (2002), Kim Jess (1995), Andrea Karpala (2003, 2004, 2005), Ryan Byrne (2005, 2008), Krista Switzer (2006), Sinisa Simic (2007), and Amanda Smith (2008). Murray has had 2 NCAA championship qualifiers; Kim Hemstreet in 2002 for cross country and Paul Caraballo in 1997 for the high jump. Caraballo placed seventh at the NCAA championships in the high jump earning him All-American honors.
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He also broke the record for two stand jumps and for the high jump by clearing 5 ft. 6in. On 30 November 1889, an newspaper advertisement stated that he was playing to packed houses and that he had only one available open date for the rest of the year. His sole agent was stated to be John Taylor of Windmill End, Dudley. In December 1889, Darby was being billed as the "Champion Jumper of the Word", the "Ninth Wonder of the World" and as the "Flying Man".
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52 The puissance is similar to, but not the same as, the equestrian high jump competition, which consists of a single, slightly sloping fence made from a hedge topped with timber rails. The record for the high jump stands at , and was achieved by Captain Alberto Larraguibel Morales riding Huaso ex-Faithfull, at the Official International Event at Viña del Mar, Chile, on 5 February 1949. Puissance, (from French puissance), is also a word meaning "power". The event has been contested once at the Olympic Games, in 1900.
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Also available at the stadium are areas on each short side of the pitch for the high jump, javelin throw, pole vault and shot put events. In front of the Southern Stand there are pits for long jump and triple jump. When the stadium is used for association football, two dugouts are placed at the edge of the pitch in front of the Southern Stand. Behind the two dugouts, on the other side of the running tracks, is the entrance and exit to the players' changing rooms, which are located in the Southern Stand.
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During his hammer-throwing practice, accidentally hits Hefty Smurf's foot when trying to raise the hammer, and then throws it at very little distance. For the high jump, he jumps under the bar, but feels proud since he didn't touch the bar, just like Hefty Smurf told him. Then comes the training of the other Smurfs. Handy Smurf uses springs for the long jump, which Hefty Smurf tells him is again the rules, but then he notices he hasn't written a rulebook, so Papa Smurf offers his help writing one.
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Following the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics and in honor of the United States Bicentennial, Franklin Field hosted The Bicentennial Meet of Champions track and field event on August 4, 1976. Montreal Olympians at the meet included Hasely Crawford, Don Quarrie, Michael Shine and Edwin Moses. The meet was also a chance for top runners including Houston McTear who had not been able to compete in Montreal to race against medal winners. 13,722 attended the event and saw Dwight Stones set a record for the high-jump and John Walker win the mile.
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Barbro Marie Susanne Lorentzon-Borg (born 11 June 1961) is a Swedish former track and field athlete who specialised in the high jump. She held the Swedish record for the high jump from 22 June 1980 to 20 April 1997, when her lifetime best of was beaten by Kajsa Bergqvist. She was born in Västerås to Inga-Britt Lorentzon (a 1960 Olympian for Sweden in the high jump) and Inge Lorentzon, a national men's sprint champion. Susanne followed in her mother's footsteps while her sister, Annika, took up sprinting like her father.
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Yelena Slesarenko hitting the bar while using the Fosbury Flop technique The rules for the high jump are set internationally by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Jumpers must take off on one foot. A jump is considered a failure if the bar is dislodged by the action of the jumper whilst jumping or the jumper touches the ground or breaks the plane of the near edge of the bar before clearance. The technique one uses for the jump must be almost flawless in order to have a chance of clearing a high bar.
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Before becoming a pilot Lady Heath had already made her mark. During the First World War, she spent two years as a dispatch rider, based in England and later France, where she had her portrait painted by Sir John Lavery. By then, she had married the first of her three husbands and as Sophie Mary Eliott-Lynn, was one of the founders of the Women's Amateur Athletic Association after her move from her native Ireland to London in 1922, following a brief sojourn in Aberdeen. She was Britain's first women's javelin champion and set a disputed world record for the high jump.
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He also participated on the varsity baseball and basketball teams and broke the then existing Academy records for the high jump and broad jump. Injuries, however, kept both him and his roommate, Dwight D. Eisenhower, from achieving greater fame in athletics. Following West Point, Hodgson attended Army Engineer school in Washington, D.C.. In World War I he joined the 11th Division with the 211th Engineers but not soon enough to travel overseas. Tours on the West Coast and Washington, D. C. followed by graduation from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth seemed to be preparing him for new opportunities.
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His mother is African American, while his father is Nigerian. Growing up, Iguodala rooted for the Chicago Bulls, and he cites Michael Jordan as the player he looked up to. Iguodala attended high school at Lanphier High School in Springfield, Illinois, a school that produced other notable athletes, including baseball Hall of Famer Robin Roberts and basketball guard Kevin Gamble. At Lanphier he did well academically and athletically; he won All-Conference academic honors, was on the National Honor Roll, was a State Journal Student-Athlete of the Week several times, and gained three letters in track for the high jump.
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Amels at the 2018 European Championships Douwe Jorn Amels (born 16 September 1991) is a Dutch track and field athlete who specialises in the high jump. He has a personal best of and represented his country at the World Championships in Athletics in 2013 and in 2019. Born in Drachten, his family was interested in athletics and he joined Impala, a local club, and began working with coach Hans-Jörg Thomaskamp.Douwe Amels. Atletiek. Retrieved on 2016-01-31.AMELS Douwe Jorn . Gwangju2015. Retrieved on 2016-01-31. He set a national junior record for the high jump in 2010 and competed at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics.
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Upon entering the outdoor season in June 2004, O'Dwyer pulled off a magnificent jump at 2.30 m to trump the home crowd favorite and 2000 Olympic bronze medalist Abderrahmane Hammad for the high jump title at the international meet in Algiers, Algeria. In doing so, he smashed both his personal best and a five-year senior national outdoor record (previously set by Brendan Reilly in 1999) and achieved an Olympic A-standard to book his place on the Irish team to the Games. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, O'Dwyer qualified for the Irish squad, as a lone athlete, in the men's high jump. O'Dwyer had crashed out prematurely of the qualifying round after failing to clear an opening height of 2.10 metres in all three attempts that left him bitterly disappointed by his poor performance.
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John Raven was born on 13 December 1914 in Cambridge,Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum the son of Charles Earle Raven, sometime Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge and of Margaret Wollaston. His mother's family endowed Raven with a distinguished intellectual pedigree, including between 1723 and 1829 seven Fellows of the Royal Society (among them Charlton Wollaston, Francis Wollaston (1694-1774), Francis Wollaston (1762-1823), George Wollaston and William Hyde Wollaston); Raven was also a 7th generation descendant of William Wollaston, the philosophical writer. On his father's side, he was related to Samuel Hole, Dean of Rochester.Raven, Chapter 1 Raven was educated at St Ronan's School, then situated at Worthing, before proceeding in September 1928 with a scholarship to Marlborough College, where he distinguished himself academically, winning prizes in English verse, Greek iambics, Greek and Latin prose and Latin verse, culminating in a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. He did not confine himself to the intellectual, playing in the First XV at rugby and setting new school records in 1934 for the high jump and 440 yards.
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