Essays Tagged: "High jump"

The high jump, its history, and how it originated.

The high jump is a sport in which you try to jump over a pole. The pole can be set at different heights ... to jump over a pole. The pole can be set at different heights such as one meter or two meters. The high jump started hundreds of years ago but wasn't really considered a sport. The high jump has many ... ears ago but wasn't really considered a sport. The high jump has many rules and basics to learn.The high jump first took place in the Olympics in Athens. It also took place during the summer of 1896. ...

(2 pages) 28 1 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Track and field- High Jump

Origin and History:Like sprinting, high jump and other field events all originated at the Olympic games in Greece, 776 B.C. After Roman ... mperor Theodosius I abolished the games in 393 B.C. because he thought them to be a pagan activity, high jump was popular in England, 1834, along with other events mainly because spectators enjoyed be ... titors to clear the bar. However, in the 1968 summer Olympics, Dick Fosbury won a gold medal in the high jump with his method. It was to sprint diagonally towards the bar, then curve and leap backward ...

(3 pages) 62 1 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Hae We Reached Our Limit Intimed Sports?

it in time recorded sports. Everyone knows every generation of athletes can run faster, jump higher, throw further etc. from the last but improvement in performance has either slowed or stopped ... ave be strong contenders, some maybe even favorites in 2000. An example of that would be the womens high jump. In 1956 the winning jump was 1.76 meters. By 1984 the gold medalist jumped 2.02 meters. T ...

(3 pages) 1483 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Shot put

15cm platform and putting action.14. Glide from elevated area and throw.15. Glide and throw under a high jump bar to promote a low power position.BASIC TECHNICAL COMPONENTS OF SHOT PUT Copyright: Mike ...

(5 pages) 2546 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Should Surfing Be An Olympic Sport ?

not take surfers seriously. Most of the people who run the Olympics believe that ice skating or the high jump are real sports, but surfing is more of a sport than both of them and many of the other sp ...

(1 pages) 1889 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

The high jump is a sports event in track and

The high jump is a sports event in track and field. The object of the event is to jump over a bar. The p ... event in track and field. The object of the event is to jump over a bar. The person that clears the highest bar wins the event. If more than one person clears the same height, the person with fewest m ... the lower heights wins. These are some of the interesting facts that are told in Rick Murphy's The Highjump. In the high jump, there are four basic parts of the jump. The parts are the approac ...

(3 pages) 3966 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports