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63 relations: Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump, Bakersfield, California, Beijing, Berkeley, California, Bulgaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Charles Dumas, Cornelius Johnson (athlete), Dave Albritton, Dayton, Ohio, Dick Fosbury, Dietmar Mögenburg, Donetsk, Dwight Stones, Eberstadt, Fosbury Flop, Fresno, California, George Horine, Gerd Wessig, Harold Osborn, High jump, Igor Paklin, International Association of Athletics Federations, Jacek Wszoła, Japan, Javier Sotomayor, John Thomas (athlete), Kobe, Les Steers, Los Angeles, Malmö, Melvin Walker, Moscow, Munich, New York City, Palo Alto, California, Pat Matzdorf, Patrik Sjöberg, Philadelphia, Rehlingen, Richmond, Virginia, Rudolf Povarnitsyn, Saint Petersburg, Salamanca, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Shanghai, Sofia, Soviet Union, Spain, Stockholm, ..., Straddle technique, Sweden, Tbilisi, Urbana, Illinois, Valeriy Brumel, Vladimir Yashchenko, Walt Davis, Walter Marty, West Germany, Women's high jump world record progression, World record, Yuri Stepanov (athlete), Zhu Jianhua. Expand index (13 more) »
Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump
The men's high jump was one of four men's jumping events on the Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics program in Mexico City.
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Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States.
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Beijing
Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.
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Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria (България, tr.), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, tr.), is a country in southeastern Europe.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.
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Charles Dumas
Charles Everett "Charlie" Dumas (February 12, 1937 – January 5, 2004) was an American high jumper, the 1956 Olympic champion, and the first person to clear 7 ft.
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Cornelius Johnson (athlete)
Cornelius Cooper "Corny" Johnson (August 28, 1913 – February 15, 1946) was an American athlete in the high jump.
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Dave Albritton
David Donald Albritton (April 13, 1913 – May 14, 1994) had a long career that spanned three decades and numerous titles and was one of the first high jumpers to use the straddle technique.
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Dayton, Ohio
Dayton is the sixth-largest city in the state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County.
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Dick Fosbury
Richard Douglas Fosbury (born March 6, 1947) is an American retired high jumper, who is considered one of the most influential and inspirational athletes in the history of track and field.
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Dietmar Mögenburg
Dietmar Mögenburg (born 15 August 1961) is a (West) German former high jumper who won gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and at the 1982 European Championships in Athens.
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Donetsk
Donetsk (Донецьк; Доне́цк; former names: Aleksandrovka, Hughesovka, Yuzovka, Stalino (see also: cities' alternative names)) is an industrial city in Ukraine on the Kalmius River.
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Dwight Stones
Dwight Edwin Stones (born December 6, 1953) is an American television commentator and a two-time Olympic bronze medalist and former three-time world record holder in the men's high jump.
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Eberstadt
is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Fosbury Flop
The Fosbury Flop is a style used in the athletics event of high jump.
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Fresno, California
Fresno (Spanish for "ash tree") is a city in California, United States, and the county seat of Fresno County.
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George Horine
George Leslie Horine (February 3, 1890 – November 28, 1948) was an American athlete who mainly competed in the high jump.
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Gerd Wessig
Gerd Wessig (born 16 July 1959 in Lübz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) was an East German high jumper who won the gold medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics, the first man ever to set a world record in the high jump at the Olympics.
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Harold Osborn
Harold Marion Osborn D.O. (April 13, 1899 – April 5, 1975) was a U.S. track athlete.
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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.
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Igor Paklin
Igor Vasilyevich Paklin (Игорь Васильевич Паклин; born 15 June 1963 in Frunze, Kirghiz SSR) is a retired Kyrgyz athlete who represented USSR and later Kyrgyzstan.
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International Association of Athletics Federations
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics.
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Jacek Wszoła
Jacek Roman Wszoła (born 30 December 1956 in Warsaw, Poland) is a retired Polish high jumper best known for winning gold and silver medals at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics respectively.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Javier Sotomayor
Javier Sotomayor Sanabria (born October 13, 1967) is a Cuban former track and field athlete, who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder.
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John Thomas (athlete)
John Curtis Thomas (March 3, 1941 – January 15, 2013) was an American track and field athlete who set several world records in the high jump using the straddle technique.
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Kobe
is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture.
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Les Steers
Lester Steers (June 16, 1917 – January 23, 2003) was an American track and field high jumper.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Malmö
Malmö (Malmø) is the capital and largest city of the Swedish county of Scania.
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Melvin Walker
Melvin E. "Mel" Walker (born April 27, 1914, died November 9, 2000 in Strongsville, Ohio) was an American track and field athlete specializing in high jump.
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Moscow
Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.
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Munich
Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States.
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Pat Matzdorf
Patrick Clifford "Pat" Matzdorf (born December 26, 1949) is a former high jumper from the United States, who set a world record of 2.29 meters (7'-6 1/4") at a World All-Star Track Meet in Berkeley, California.
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Patrik Sjöberg
Jan Niklas Patrik Sjöberg (born 5 January 1965) is a Swedish former high jumper.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
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Rehlingen
Rehlingen is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
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Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Rudolf Povarnitsyn
Rudolf Pavlovich Povarnitsyn (Рудольф Лавлович Поварницын; born June 13, 1962 in Votkinsk, Udmurtia) is a retired athlete, who represented USSR and later Ukraine.
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).
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Salamanca
Salamanca is a city in northwestern Spain that is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the community of Castile and León.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan (Saint John) is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.
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Shanghai
Shanghai (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.
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Sofia
Sofia (Со́фия, tr.) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.
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Straddle technique
The straddle technique was the dominant style in the high jump before the development of the Fosbury Flop.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Tbilisi
Tbilisi (თბილისი), in some countries also still named by its pre-1936 international designation Tiflis, is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million people.
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Urbana, Illinois
Urbana is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
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Valeriy Brumel
Valeriy Nikolayevich Brumel (Валерий Николаевич Брумель; 14 April 1942 – 26 January 2003)Great Russian Encyclopedia (2006), Moscow: Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya Enciklopediya Publisher, vol.
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Vladimir Yashchenko
Vladimir Ilyich Yashchenko (Владимир Ильич Ященко) or Volodymyr Yashchenko (Володимир Ященко) (12 January 1959 – 30 November 1999) was a Ukrainian member of the Soviet national team and former world record holder in the high jump (233 cm, 234 cm and 235 cm).
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Walt Davis
Walter Francis "Walt" Davis (born January 5, 1931) is a retired American athlete.
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Walter Marty
Walter George Marty (August 15, 1910 – April 24, 1995) was an American high jumper.
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West Germany
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990.
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Women's high jump world record progression
The first world record in the women's high jump was recognised by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) in 1922.
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World record
A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill or sport.
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Yuri Stepanov (athlete)
Yuri Nikolaevich Stepanov (Юрий Николаевич Степанов; 30 August 1932 – 13 September 1963) was a Soviet track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump and long jump.
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Zhu Jianhua
Zhu Jianhua (born 29 May 1963) is a retired Chinese high jumper.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men's_high_jump_world_record_progression
