Track and Fields Athletics - High Jump

High Jump

It is a track and field athletics event: competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without any help or device. It looks simple but the High Jump requires speed, agility and technique, here are the 6 component parts of high jump: Approach, Take off, Flight, Bar clearance and Landing.

Approach: The approach must be made at maximum speed while still keeping the body under sufficient control to ensure a proper take-off.
Take-off: Jumpers must take off on one foot.
Flight, bar clearance and landing: Clear the bar and leave the landing mat while the bar remains in place. 

Rules:
1. Take-off from one foot only.
2. Don't disturb the bar or the uprights.
3. Jumpers have three opportunities to clear her bar in each round.
4. The winner is the person who makes the highest height without knocking over the bar to the ground. If there is a tie, the person with the lowest number of failures at that highest height, is the winner.

Did you know...?
Records breakers:
Men: 2,45 m Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) 27.07.93
Women: Stefka Kostadinova (Bulgaria) 30.08.87



This video shows you how was the evolution of the jump: