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How does the fosbury flop develop?
The fosbury flop is a kind of high jump with a bow on the pole, one leg thrown up over the crossbar and a cushion on the back of the pole. So do netizens know about the development of fosbury flop? Interested netizens, let's take a look.

In 1 and 1839, Canada's Wolfland jumped over the height of 1.69 meters with his knees bent vertically. 1864, British athlete He Qi first jumped 1.70 meters. 1887, Peggy, an American with a height of only 1.69, jumped1.93m in this position. 1895, sweeney, an American, jumped off the height of 1.97 meters by using the new technology of "wave", which was later "scissors". This record has been kept for 17 years.

2.1965438+On February 9, 2002, American athlete Hollin jumped off the height of 2.0 1 meter with his original "roll" and became the first person in the world to break through the 2-meter mark. 1923, the Soviet athlete Walter Rozov adopted the high jump posture called "pole vault" at that time, and later called "prone position". Because this posture is difficult and the result is not high, it has not been valued by people. It wasn't until 1936 that American athlete Albleton set a world record of 2.07 meters in this position that people paid attention to it. In the next 20 years, "tumbling" and "prone" became popular. It was not until 1956 that Du Masi, an American athlete, jumped 2.15m, and the prone jump was recognized as the highest high jump technique. 1968, American athlete Forsberg made a unique arc run-up at the 19 Olympic Games. Back-to-back crossing the horizontal bar won the men's high jump at 2.24 meters. At that time, people called it "Forsberg style" and later called it "Yue Yue style". Since then, the fosbury flop technique has become popular and gradually adopted by most high jumpers.

3. 1973, Si Tong, an American athlete, set a world record of 2.30 meters with his back. By 1976, he raised the world record to 2.32 meters. Especially since the 1980s, the world record of men's high jump has been refreshed again and again by athletes who adopt fosbury flop. 1980 At the 22nd Olympic Games, the fosbury flop won all the medals in the men's high jump. 1983 At the first world track and field championship held in Helsinki, the world first-class high jumpers, 38 men and 33 women, all adopted the fosbury flop technique. 1983 China's Zhu Jianhua broke the world record with 2m 37 and 2m 38, and 1984 set a new world record with 2m 39. 1988 On September 8th, in the international track and field competition held in Salamanca, Spain, Cuban athlete javier sotomayor jumped 2.43m, setting a world record for men's high jump. In 1986, Bulgarian athlete Kostadinova set a new world record with 2.08m. In 1987, she set a new world record for women's high jump with 2.09m. ..

This is the development of fosbury flop.