Straddle (sport)
Straddle (German specialist vocabulary: Parallel tome or diving tome or Wälzsprung because the Springer thereby prone circulated over the bar) is called a high-jumping technique .
It is considered a further development of the roll style and has only been increasingly displaced by the Fosbury flop since 1968 and has almost completely disappeared from competitive sport since 1980. After the invention of the flop it was complicated as to and considered less effective.
technology
In the correctly executed straddle, the jumper makes an oblique roll forwards so that the upper body dips behind the bar, with the legs spread with bent knees (frog crouch) and one after the other cross the bar. Landing is done on hands and arms and rolling over the shoulder.
Representative
The most important representatives of this technology were:
- Olympic champion Valeri Nikolajewitsch Brumel ( USSR ), known as the human Sputnik . In the early 1960s he set the world records from 2.23 m to 2.28 m. Jump on the cinder track, landing on a small sand hill.
- Vladimir Yashchenko ( USSR ), 17-year-old world record in 1977 with 2.33 m; 1978 indoor world record with 2.35 m, the highest height achieved with this technology.
- Jüri Tarmak (USSR), last straddle Olympic champion, 1972, 2.23 m
- Rolf Beilschmidt ( GDR ), 1978 GDR record with 2.31 m
- Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR), 1977 world record with 2.00 m, making it the first two-meter jumper.
- Christian Schenk (GDR), the last significant user of this technique, jumped 2.27 m in his decathlon Olympic victory in 1988 - by far the highest height that an all-rounder has ever mastered.
- Thomas Zacharias ( Federal Republic of Germany , born 1947) was Western Europe's first 2.20 m jumper in 1970.