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    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...
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    revolutionizing the high jump event with a "back-first" technique now known as the Fosbury flop. His method was to sprint diagonally towards the bar, then curve and...
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    improved their technique until developing the universally preferred Fosbury Flop, in which athletes run towards the bar and leap head first with their...
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  • intentional fall sometimes called flop in the US Diving (ice hockey) Flop shot, in golf Fosbury flop, in high jump Flop (poker), a poker term describing...
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  • Fosbury (1947–2023), American athlete Fosbury Flop, a style of high jump named after Dick Fosbury Robert Fosbury, British astronomer This disambiguation...
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    development of the Fosbury Flop. It is a successor of the Western roll, for which it is sometimes confused. Unlike the scissors or flop style of jump, where...
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    Fosbury Flop jumper to set a world record. The namesake of the technique, Dick Fosbury impressed the world by winning the 1968 Olympics with the flop...
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  • 1976, and won silver in 1980. Dick Fosbury won the gold medal in the high jump using his unconventional Fosbury flop technique, which quickly became the...
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  • running both on the track and on the roads. Dick Fosbury was the first to do what is now called the Fosbury flop to the high jump. He learned to take advantage...
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    century, but Dick Fosbury overturned tradition by pioneering a backwards and head-first technique in the late 1960s – the Fosbury Flop – which won him the...
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  • firsts and numerous world records. These included: Dick Fosbury introduced the Fosbury Flop to the high Jump by jumping over backwards, whereas the prevailing...
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    Asian record in high jump. Barsham jumps off his left foot, using the Fosbury Flop technique, with a pronounced backwards arch over the bar which he achieves...
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    since the 1930 Olympic Congress. Dick Fosbury won by using a backward jumping style that was called the Fosbury Flop. This was the unveiling of the new style...
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    set of parents" according to their son Mark. In the days before the Fosbury Flop, the straddle technique was preferred in the high jump. Chamberlain liked...
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    the first person to high-jump 7 feet (2.13 m). this was all before the Fosbury Flop was introduced, with which all high jump world records after 1978 have...
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  • for a two-count. Strickland delivered a neckbreaker and performed a Fosbury Flop to Christian. Mother Wayne then grabbed the AEW World Championship, but...
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    These Games introduced the now-universal Fosbury flop, a technique which won American high jumper Dick Fosbury the gold medal. In the medal award ceremony...
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  • delivered a uranage onto the announce table. Strickland performed a Fosbury Flop, but Joe responded with a powerslam onto the concrete. Joe performed...
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    when she was a child, around the same time as Dick Fosbury was developing the similar Fosbury Flop in the US. Brill won gold in the high jump at the 1970...
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    direction. A full-blown "back dive scissors" is none other than the Fosbury flop, used almost universally today (though of course the "scissors" part...
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    his use of the old-fashioned straddle technique, at a time when the Fosbury flop had become almost universal in competitive high jumping. He retired in...
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  • Retrieved 8 July 2019. Kitney, Damon (27 April 2019). "Learning the 'Fosbury flop' taught boss to aim higher". The Australian. Retrieved 2 February 2022...
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    transitional event had him witnessing teammate Dick Fosbury winning the gold medal using the Fosbury Flop, leaving Brown as one of the last successful jumpers...
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  • specialist Sanford Fleming Railroads, time zones Dick Fosbury Olympic high jumper, inventor of the Fosbury Flop Sir John Fowler Bridges Sir Charles Fox British...
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  • player Dick Fosbury Sigma / Oregon State University 1968 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the high jump and creator of the Fosbury Flop Ron Fraser Gamma...
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  • fifth-highest jumper in history. Like all modern high jumpers, Paklin used the Fosbury Flop style, and he was the first to do so jumping off his right leg. "Athletics...
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    الدين غزال; born 21 April 1987) is a Syrian high jumper. He utilizes the Fosbury Flop style, jumping off his left leg. He was the national flag bearer at the...
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    European champion, and 2016 Olympic bronze medalist. Bondarenko uses the Fosbury Flop technique, jumping off his right leg. He is one of the tallest high jumpers...
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  • using the straddle technique. The more popular and more widely used Fosbury Flop technique was the most common technique used. Tarmak's win was the Soviet...
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    Robert G. Emmens, Doolittle raider Dick Fosbury, high jumper, Olympic gold medalist and inventor of the Fosbury Flop David Frohnmayer, former Attorney General...
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