Talk:Standing high jump

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The following description is not correct and will be removed: "It is performed in the following way. The athlete first stands straight and sticks their arm straight up so that your hand and fingers are extended; a measurement is taken. Then from a standing or crouched position the performer jumps as high as they can; another measurement is taken at the peak of the jump. The first measurement is subtracted from the second to obtain the hight of the jump." Epim 13:50, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

World record
Juha Isolehto of Finland has also jumped 1.90 m (6 ft 2¾ in) in 1994. Almén set his record on May 3, 1980 in Karlstad, Sweden. The best performance by a woman is 1.52 m (4 ft 11¾ in) set by Grete Bjørdalsbakke of Norway in 1984 in Flisa, Norway (I failed to find an exact date for this). --Anshelm &#39;77 14:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Do you have a source for those facts ? I just added a source for 1.80 by Almén, but if he and Isolehto has both done 1.90 and there is a source for it, the article should be updated. /Cygnus78 (talk) 18:28, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Found one mention of the 1.90 jump by Almén. /Cygnus78 (talk) 18:42, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

I find those results hard to believe if we are talking about the same thing. Standing high jump is this: http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/18/84618-004-DAB5CEE6.jpg, not this: http://208.116.28.50/~staffans/newpics/edmonton/staendehojd.jpg

1.90 is impossible because it would require a vertical jump over 50 inches and that's like saying someone had a 9 seconds 100m sprint. So, I'm deleting that results from the article until you prove that we are talking about the same thing (picture maybe?). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.86.142.46 (talk) 01:32, 19 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Not sure why you mean it's impossible, there is even a video on youtube (here) showing a 1.80 jump. /Cygnus78 (talk) 22:11, 5 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I was referring to other technique, not that one on the video. When this was an Olympic event, they jumped using a scissor technique or even just a tuck. 190 is impossible to do like that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.86.229.109 (talk) 14:18, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

FDR's High School record
http://books.google.ca/books?id=gGiN4kyvAY4C&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=roosevelt+%2B%22standing+high+jump%22+record&source=bl&ots=NoFSNkNxq-&sig=SvnT3LzTCd3kaZZHXYubqH8XIG4&hl=en&ei=59B9S_-yLMuztgeAwMTJBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CA0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=roosevelt%20%2B%22standing%20high%20jump%22%20record&f=false

According to this FDR still holds, on account of its elimination, the national high school standing high jump record. (Lenerd (talk) 19:26, 19 February 2010 (UTC))

Patrik Sjoberg
Patrik Sjoberg once took part in an episode of Guinness World Record TV on Swedish Television. According to the host of the show he then set a new world record in standing high jump. I don't remember exactly how high it was and I am not sure if it was later accepted as a world record though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.117.226.58 (talk) 11:40, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

All time list / World record
I don't know how this event was performed but it's actually contemporary event. Of course distinction should be made but one version is measured at NFL combine every year and I think (top 5) list of that event could be included alongside this former athletics event for comparison's sake alongside technique description (of this event) which is missing. It can't hurt the article. It can "revive" it, give it contemporary note. 213.149.61.252 (talk) 19:31, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Technique
Couple of words about technique and different measurements that are existent. From ground to feet or from ground to fingers. How did they perform it? Did they jump over bar or jump on "table" at set heights? 213.149.61.252 (talk) 19:31, 1 May 2018 (UTC)