Straddle technique

Straddle ( German specialist vocabulary: Parallel tome tome or diving or Wälzsprung because the Springer thereby rolls on her stomach on the bar ) is called a high- jumping technique.

It is considered a further development of the roll style and has been increasingly replacing only since 1968 by the Fosbury flop and has disappeared since 1980 almost entirely out of the competitive sport. After the invention of the flop it was considered too complicated and less effective.

Technology

When properly executed straddle (English: legs spread ) makes the Springer an oblique roll forward so that the upper body dives behind the bar, the legs are spread apart with the knees bent ( frog squat ) and washed successively the bar cross. The landing takes place on hands and arms and across shoulder Meshing.

Representative

Important representative of this technology were:

  • Olympic champion Valeri Nikolayevich Brumel (USSR ), called the human Sputnik. He introduced in the early 1960s to the world records 2.23 m to 2.28 m. Jump on a dirt track, landing on a small sandy hill.
  • Vladimir Jaschtschenko (USSR ) in 1977 as a 17 -year-old world record of 2.33 m; 1978 indoor world record of 2.35 m, largest mastered this technique height.
  • Jüri Tarmak (USSR), last straddle Olympic champion in 1972, 2.23 m
  • Rolf Beilschmidt (DDR ), 1978 East record with 2.31 ​​m
  • Rosemarie Ackermann (DDR ), 1977 world record of 2.00 m, so that first two- meter jumper.
  • Christian Schenk ( DDR), the last major user of this technique, jumped in 1988 with his Olympic decathlon victory 2,27 m - by far the largest amount that has ever been handled by a multi-event athlete.
  • Thomas Zacharias ( Federal Republic of Germany, born 1947) was in 1970 Western Europe's first 2.20 m Springer.
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