High-jump five times and technological revolution

High jump is one of the track and field sports jumping events. Also called raced to jump. By rhythmic run-up, single foot takeoff and landing, post-flight amcebar action such as composition to its final successfully on the margin of cleared the bar high grade and to determine unplaced.

The first kind of formal loaded in track and field, it is the high jump posture great-leap-forward appear in 1864 Oxford and Cambridge universities of track and field championship. That year, British athletes Robert KeJi with "leapfrog" created 1.70 meters first high jump world record.

In 1895, americans, pooh improved leapfrog, its characteristic is athletes in amcebar, when the body rapidly lateral swivel, two legs crossed like scissors, which is "shear type", this technique was created 1.97 meters record. 

In 1912, American athlete at Stanford university HuoLin advantage in using the left oblique run-up in the body, amcebar when left rolled beams of the technology won the championship, HuoLin put this technique named "roll style", it was this technology makes human beings first over 2 meters height.

In 1923, Soviet union athletes FuLuo zoff and create a "high technology, prone type" the new technical movement was soon track and field athletes had been accepted.

In 1968 the 19th Olympic Games, 39 high jupers in 38 people use this technique, make "stomach type" technology application reached a peak. However is in this Olympic Games, a new amcebar action debut.

During the 19th Olympic Games, American 21 year old fox berry amcebar action different, he cleared the bar, not face downwards, but face up, back forward on "fly" bar, this movement was named "in the backstyle" amcebar techniques. In this Olympic Games, fox Barcelona 2.24 meters achievement created new Olympic record, "in the backstyle high-jump" also subsequently became popular in the world. After more than ten years, prone style high and the back-style high jump what's advanced technology, TianJingJie has not yet been determined. Until the 22nd Moscow Olympics, federal Germany athletes to WeiXiGe back-style high jump technique of every conquer 2.36 metres high, defeated all adopt prone style high athletes, the back-style high jump it gradually begin to hold the high jump dominance, prone style high technology became gradually neglected.