George Horine

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Horine at the 1912 Olympics

George Horine (born February 3, 1890 in Escondido , † November 28, 1948 in Modesto ) was an American athlete who was successful in the high jump before the First World War . The athlete starting for Stanford University jumped two world records and won an Olympic bronze medal. Horine went down in history as the first jumper over 2 m.

Career

George Horine coined a new jumping technique , which was henceforth called the Western Roller , and which replaced the shear jump invented by the American William Page in 1874 . While the legs crossed the bar one after the other during the shear jump , the western roller consisted of a single horizontal movement in which the ankle bone , which was parallel to the bar, was pulled under the swinging leg over the bar. This technique had the advantage that the body's center of gravity was lower than with the shear jump. The western scooter was not replaced by the straddle until the 1950s.

When Horine jumped a height of 6 ′ 7 ″ (= 2.007 m) in the Olympic year 1912, this achievement was added to the list by the IAAF with 2.01 m - later corrected to 2.00 m - as the first official world record in high jump .

In Stockholm he could not cope with the poor external conditions - the runway soaked by the rain had been sprinkled with peat - and only jumped a modest 1.89 m, which was enough to win the bronze medal.

George Horine played a total of 64 competitions over the course of his career, of which he won 59. He jumped 17 times higher than 6 '6 "(= 1.981 m).

World records

  • 1.98 m on March 29, 1912 in Palo Alto
  • 2.00 m on May 18, 1912 in Palo Alto ( improved to 2.01 m almost exactly two years later by his compatriot Edward Beeson )

Olympic games

literature

  • RL Templeton: The High Jump . 1930.
  • Roberto L. Quercetani: Athletics. A History of Modern Track and Field Athletics .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ athletiko.de: The high jump ( memento from January 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), queried on May 17, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Horine, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American athlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Escondido
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1948
Place of death Modesto