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Fosbury flop
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English
Etymology
Named for Dick Fosbury, who brought the technique to light in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Noun
en athletics A high jump in which the jumper leaps backward and arches the back over the bar, thereby lowering the jumper's center of gravity below the body while it is aloft.
Translations
high jump
Finnish: fi floppityyli
Italian: it fosbury m
Japanese: ja 背面跳び はいめんとび, haimen-tobi
Russian: ru фо́сбери-флоп m
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