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High jump

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The Highest Ever Olympic High Jumps! | Top Moments

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Vashti Cunningham clinches Olympic spot with high jump dominance at trials | NBC Sports

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Improve your High Jump ft. Erik Kynard Jr. | Olympians' Tips

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Kenyan High School High Jump (OFFICIAL)

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HIGH JUMP 2019 (Official)

The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern most practised format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat for landing. In the modern era, athletes run towards the bar and use the Fosbury Flop method of jumping, leaping head first with their back to the bar. Since ancient times, competitors have introduced increasingly effective techniques to arrive at the current form.