high jump meaning
ENWHigh 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.
- The discipline is, alongside the pole vault, one of two vertical clearance events to feature on the Olympic athletics programme.
- Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) is the current men's record holder with a jump of 2.45 m (8 ft 01⁄4 in) set in 1993 – the longest standing record in the history of the men's high jump. Stefka Kostadinova (Bulgaria) has held the women's world record at 2.
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Definition of high jump in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary