13 March 2023 at 19:35 Dick Fosbury turned high jumping upside down – Now he is dead The man who revolutionized high jumping, American Dick Fosbury, has died. This is reported by AFP, which quotes Fosbury’s agent. He lived to be 76 years old. In 1968, at the age of 21, Fosbury introduced what later became known as the “Fosbury flop”. Which consists of jumping backwards over the bar, thereby increasing the force of movement upwards with the help of centrifugal force. But it was to be anything but a flop. Today, there are hardly any high jumpers who know any other technique than the one that caused the world to widen its eyes during the Olympic final in Mexico. Fosbury set an Olympic record when he went over 2.24 meters. – I found that I could have a higher speed towards the list. With a good bend in the back, I could keep the center of gravity lower, explained the 1.93 meter high jumper who started jumping upside down as a 16-year-old. Several years later he said: – I think the flop is the natural style, and I was the first to figure it out. Despite great skepticism at the start, the new technique quickly gained popularity, and is today, so to speak, dominant among today’s high jumpers.
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