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A plaque on Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria, commemorating Valeriy Brumel 's high jump world record of 2.25 m set on 31 August 1961. The first world record in the men's high jump was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in 1912. As of June, 2009, the IAAF has ratified 40 world records in the ...
Derek Drouin (born March 6, 1990) is a Canadian track and field athlete who competes in the high jump. He won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and was the 2015 World Champion. [5] He also won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 2015 Pan American Games, and won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2013 ...
Debbie Arden Brill, OC (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian high jump athlete who at the age of 16 became the first North American woman to clear 6 feet. Her reverse jumping style—which is now almost exclusively the technique of elite high jumpers—was called the Brill Bend and was developed by her when she was a child, around the same time as Dick Fosbury was developing the similar Fosbury ...
Pan American Games. 1971 Cali. High jump. Patrick Clifford Matzdorf (born December 26, 1949) [1] is an American former high jumper, who set a world record of 2.29 meters (7'-6 1/4") at a World All-Star Track Meet in Berkeley, California. Matzdorf, a Junior at the University of Wisconsin, entered the July 3, 1971 meet against the Soviet Union ...
High jump. CAC Junior Championships (U20) 1986 Mexico City. High jump. Javier Sotomayor Sanabria (Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈβjeɾ sotomaˈʝoɾ]; born 13 October 1967) is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder. [2]
Parapan American Games. 2015 Toronto. High jump T42/44/47. 2015 Toronto. Long jump T47. Roderick Townsend-Roberts (born July 1, 1992) is an American Paralympic athlete. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics he set a high jump world record (2.15 m) and won gold in high jump, silver in long jump. [2][3][4]
John Curtis Thomas (March 3, 1941 – January 15, 2013) [1] was an American track and field athlete who set several world records in the high jump using the straddle technique. As a youth, he earned the Eagle Scout award. At the age of 17, while a freshman at Boston University, Thomas became the first man to clear 7 feet (2.13 m) indoors.
Biography. Born in the U.S. to Canadian parents, Joy lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, from age 9 to 17. Competing for the UTEP Miners track and field team, Joy won the 1975 and 1977 high jump at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, with a best mark of 2.22 m at the 1977 edition. [ 1][ 2] He won the silver medal in the ...