high jump

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But success requires more than just a high jump -- it also needs to pass through that opening.

From Science Daily • Nov. 4, 2025

He’s also a starting guard who dunks for the basketball team and is one of the favorites to win a City high jump championship after tying for second place last year.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025

Morgan Lake finished fifth in the women's high jump with a first time clearance at 1.86m before registering three failures at 1.91m.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

Divine Duruaku and Charlie Husbands agreed to share the men's high jump title after both cleared 2.14m, while Alessandro Schenini won the men's long jump with 7.85m in the first round.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

In the same year, he set a state record for the high jump in Illinois.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson