Stand jumping competition
Standing jump competitions (also standing (jump) athletics , standing competitions ) are jumping competitions in athletics that take place from a standing position.
Stand jumping competitions
The standing jump competitions include:
In addition to these there are z. B. standing long jump backwards or standing pole vault , the latter never prevailing (for safety reasons).
technology
Each competition has its own technique. Since you don't have a run-up, you have to get the momentum out of your arms. Here the arms are swung, you crouch down slightly and jump.
Olympia
From the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900 , standing vault, standing long jump and standing triple jump were Olympic disciplines . They were only carried out by men. American Ray Ewry won gold in all three . He was able to defend all three titles at the next Olympic Games in St. Louis in 1904 . In 1906 there were Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens , at which the standing triple jump was abolished. In the other two disciplines Ewry won again, just like at the 1908 Olympic Games in London . In 1912 in Stockholm the standing high jump and standing long jump were the last Olympic ones. Ewry already failed in the qualification this time. The American Platt Adams won the standing vault and the Greek Kostas Tsiklitiras won the standing long jump .
Standing long jump backwards, on the other hand, was never Olympic.
Records
- Stand long jump : 3.476 m by Ray Ewry (1904)
- Stand vault : 1.68 m by Harold Marion Osborn (1936)
- Stand triple jump :? (10.58 m by Ray Ewry, 1900)
- Stand long jump backwards: 2.87 m by Ray Ewry
History and today
Even the ancient Greeks organized long jump from standing and with weights in both hands, for example at the ancient Olympic Games . In modern times, the trend emerged at the end of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century . However, standing triple jump lost its followers relatively early, which is why it is only rarely carried out today. Standing high jump and standing long jump were carried out professionally until the 1940s .
Today these disciplines are only presented in youth or senior games or similar unofficial events.
Well-known standing (jump) athletes
- Ray Ewry (USA)
- Kostas Tsiklitiras (GRE)
- Irving Baxter (USA)
- Joseph Stadler (USA)
- Platt Adams (USA)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Raymond Ewry on www.wiesbadener-kurier.de ( Memento from May 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Disciplines of the ancient games