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.
