Table of Contents

• Events

1. Field Events

1. Long Jump
2. Triple Jump
3. Javelin
4. Pole Vault
5. High Jump
6. Discus
7. Shot Put
8. Hammer Throw
9. Pentathlon
10. Decathlon
11. Walking
12. Quiz

2. Sprints
3. Relays
4. Hurdles
5. Middle & Long Distances

• Warming up
• Training
• Record Breakers
• Did you know?
  (Cool Track Facts)
• Track and Field Links
• Bibliography

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The High Jump

The aim in high jumping is to clear (leap over) a crossbar resting at progressively greater heights between two upright standards about 4 m (about 13 ft) apart. The contestant is allowed three attempts to clear each height. Most jumpers today employ the style known as the Fosbury flop to clear the bar. The Fosbury flop was named for its originator, American jumper Dick Fosbury, who used the style to win the event in the 1968 Olympics. To execute the flop, jumpers approach the crossbar nearly straight on; they leap and twist on takeoff, rise above the bar headfirst, clear the bar with their backs oriented toward the ground, and land on the foam pad with their shoulders.

Height in the high jump heights are measured perpendicularly from the ground to the lowest point of the crossbar.  You can fail if you: 

1. Dislodge the bar from it's pegs.

2. Touch the landing area beyond the plane of the uprights without clearing the bar.

3. Take off from both feet.

Rules for Ties in High Jump

1. The competitor with the lowest number of jumps at the height wins.

2. If the tie still remains, the person with the lowest amount of failures at the end of the competition wins!

3. If the tie still remains, the person with the lowest amount of jump ( successful or not) wins.

What happens if you clear the bar, but touch it and it falls after you have moved away from the landing area? That jump would count as a foul, not a bird.If you have not

The different types of jumping are the Scissors, the Western Roll, the Straddle, and the Fosbury Flop. While performing the Scissors your left foot should be over the bar before your right foot you should do this with out knocking down the bar. While performing the Western Roll you roll yourself over the bar trying as hard as you can to lift yourself with out knocking the bar down. While performing the Straddle you jump then straddle the bar with left foot first also trying not to knock down the bar. While performing the Fosbury Flop you try to roll yourself over the bar with out knocking it down.