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High jump Jan Niklas Patrik Sjöberg ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈpɑ̌ːtrɪk ˈɧø̂ːbærj] ; born 5 January 1965) is a Swedish former high jumper . He broke the world record with 2.42 m ( 7 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) in Stockholm on 30 June 1987.
He won the long jump and high jump events at the 2016 Rio Paralympics [5] and 2015 Parapan American Games. In 2015 he set two world records (2.07 and 2.12 m) and won the world title in the high jump in his disability class. [6] Townsend-Roberts cleared 2.14 m (7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in) at the 2019 Mt. SAC Relays to take his world record over 7 feet. [7]
High Jump. Class Record Athlete Nationality Date Games Place Ref. T11: 1.59 Italo Sacchetto
The straddle technique was the dominant style in the high jump before the development of the Fosbury Flop. It is a successor of the Western roll , [ 1 ] for which it is sometimes confused. Unlike the scissors or flop style of jump, where the jumper approaches the bar so as to take off from the outer foot, the straddle jumper approaches from the ...
Erik Kynard Jr. (born February 3, 1991) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the high jump.In his Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London as a 21-year-old, he won a silver medal in the men's high jump.
CircusTrix was an American developer, operator and franchisor of indoor trampoline and extreme recreation parks. [1] [2] The company operates over 319 parks [3] [4] in the United States, Europe, and Asia [5] making it the largest trampoline park operator in the world, [6] [7] the largest operator of extreme obstacle courses in the United States, [8] and the operator of the largest trampoline ...
In his junior year, he broke his high-school record with a 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) jump, and the next year took second place in the state with a 6 ft 5.5 in (1.969 m) jump. The technique gained the name the "Fosbury Flop" when in 1964 the Medford Mail-Tribune ran a photo captioned "Fosbury Flops Over Bar," [ 5 ] while in an accompanying article a ...
A study was done comparing the performance of athletics competitors at the 1984 Summer Paralympics. It found there was no significant difference in performance in times between women in A2, A3 and A4 in the long jump, men in A2, A3 and A4 in the high jump, men in A4, A5 and A6 in the high jump, and men in A1, A2, A3 and A4 in the 400 meter race ...