Fosbury flop
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fosbury-flop-164-5879574
title:
Fosbury flop
text:
The Fosbury flop is a jumping style used in the track and field sport of high jump. It was popularized and perfected by American athlete Dick Fosbury, whose gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City brought it to the world's attention. The flop became the dominant style of the event; before Fosbury, most elite jumpers used the straddle technique, Western roll, Eastern cut-off, or scissors jump to clear the bar. Though the backwards flop technique had been known for years before Fosbu
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
High jump technique
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosbury_flop
date created:
2004-05-18T00:40:20Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T20:40:27Z
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