SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — When Charles Austin walks into his gym, he can see a piece of equipment that changed his life 28 years ago. The high jump bar from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics sits below a ...
Fosbury stunned the sports world with a backwards flop over the high jump bar at the Mexican Olympics in 1968. He won gold, and invented a new... High jumper Dick Fosbury, who revolutionized the sport ...
As Alan Hanna stared down the high jump bar at a height — 7 feet, 3 and 1/2 inches — no one in Kansas history had cleared at the state track and field meet, an eerie silence filled University Stadium ...
When Brandon Cheeks II studied the high jump bar set at 7-feet, it seemed to get higher and higher the longer he gazed at it. So he stopped looking. “I’d never tried 7 feet , and it was high — and ...
Batesville senior Ayden Eckstein is one of Indiana's top high jumpers. The senior has battled injuries and was born blind in one eye, none of which has stopped him. He will high jump at Marian next ...
London Warmuth leaned back, strode forward and ran toward the high jump bar positioned five feet, six inches in the air. The Adel-De Soto-Minburn junior leaped into the air and fell into the blue ...
GALESBURG — Nick Walker leaped over the high jump bar and landed in the IHSA state finals field Thursday in the Class 2A boys track and field Galesburg Sectional. The Metamora senior turned his ...
DE BEQUE — Scottie Vines is just another De Beque High School student heading out the door for track practice. Wearing a dark gray long-sleeved T-shirt, black shorts and Nikes, Vines jokes with his ...
Dick Fosbury, a unique high jumper best known for dramatically altering the style of his sport, has died at age 76. Fosbury revolutionized the high jump by flying over the bar backwards, a style that ...