George Horine

George Horine ( born February 3, 1890 in Escondido, † November 28, 1948 in Modesto ) was an American athlete who was successful before the First World War in the high jump. The launching of the Stanford University athlete jumped two world records and won an Olympic bronze medal. Horine has gone down as the first jumper 2 meters in the story.

Career

George Horine coined a new jump technique, which was henceforth referred to as Western - scooter and in 1874 invented by an American, William Page shear jump replaced. While the shear jump legs successively crossed the bar, was the Western scooter from a single horizontal movement, in which the parallel bar brought to ankle bone was drawn under the swinging leg over the bar. This technique had the advantage that the center of gravity was lower than that of the shear crack. The Western scooter was repressed only in the 70s by the coined by Dick Fosbury flop.

As Horine in the Olympic year 1912, a height of 6 '7 " skipped ( = 2,007 m), this performance was by the IAAF with 2,01 m - later corrected to 2.00 m - recorded as the first official world record in the high jump in the list.

In Stockholm he came up with the bad external conditions - the softened by rain runway was sprinkled with peat - not cope, skipping only modest 1.89 m, but sufficient for winning the bronze medal.

George Horine played throughout his career total of 64 races, of which he won 59. He jumped 17 times higher than 6 ' 6 "( = 1,981 m).

World Records

Olympic games

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