My favorite sport My favorite sport ----- HIGH JUMP High jump is my favorite sport cause it is a challenging sport and it’s difficult to do it well. I think the pose of high jump is very elegant and beautiful, so I love this sport and I’m interested in learning high jump. History of high jump High jump were first popular in Scotland in the early 19th century, it incorporated to the first modern Olympics Games in 1896. High jump has undergone the most radical changes of technique. The Eastern Cut-off Western Roll and Straddle, they’re methods used by the athletes before. Nowdays, Fosbury Flop involves going over with the jumper's back to the bar and became possible with the introduction of landing beds in the early 1960s and popularised by the 1968 Olympic champion Dick Fosbury. What is high jump 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. How it works Athlete jump unaided and take off from one foot over a four-metre horizontal bar. They have to clear the greatest height without knocking down the bar. All athlete have three attempts per height, although they can elect to ‘pass’. If three consecutive failures at the same heights, the competitor will be knock out. If competitors are tied on the same height, the winner will have had the fewest failures at that height. Therefore, a jump-off will decide the winner. Do you know that Built up shoes were used by many top jumpers from1956 to1957, with soles of up to five centimetres. Yuriy Stepanov from the Soviet Union cleared what was then a world record height of 2.16m in 1957 using such footwear but the IAAF banned these shoes the following year. Gold standard Russia has supplied three of the past four women's Olympic champions and the past two men's Olympic champions, Andrey Silnov and Ivan Uk. TOP 5 LISTS (2016) Woman outdoor all time Men outdoor all time 1. 2.09-Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) 1. 2.45-Javier Sotomayor(CUB) 2. 2.08-Blanka Vlasic (CRO) 2. 2.43-Mutaz Essa Barshm (DAT) 3. 2.07-Lyudmila Andonova (BUL) 3. 2.42-Patrik Sjoberg (SWE) 2.07-Anna Chicherova (RUS) 2.42-Bohdan Bndarenko (UKR) 4. 2.06-Kajsa Bergovist (SWE) 4. 2.41-Igor Paklin (KGZ) 2.06-Hestrie Cloete (RSA) 2.41-Ivan paklin (RUS) 2.06-Elena Slesarenko (RUS) 5. 2.40-Rudolf Povarnitsyn (UKR) 2.06-Ariane Friedrich (GER) 2.40-Sorin Matel (ROU) 5. 2.05-Tamara Bykova (RUS) 2.40-Charles Austin (USA) 2.05-Heike Henkel (GER) 2.40-Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) Our Icons Valerity Brumel Iolanda Balas The Soviet jumper set six world The Romanian won 150 consecutive records in the event in the space of competitions between 1957 and 1967 little more than two years between and set an unprecedented 14 world 1961 and 1963 before winning the gold records with a variant of the medal at the 1964 Olympic Games. outmoded scissors technique. She also won Olympic gold medals in 1960 and 1964, in Rome and Tokyo respectively, and was inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame in 2012. Here are videos of some high jump competitions http://www.olympic.org/athletics-high-jump-men http://www.olympic.org/athletics-high-jump-women https://youtu.be/vWde8sMxe1w The best high jump structure https://youtu.be/XBtBdNHBNSI .