He won a gold medal in 1968, and the sport never looked back.
Dick Fosbury, who revolutionized high jumping with his back-first approach to the bar and won a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, died on March 12 in Ketchum, Idaho. He was 76.posted to Instagram.
In the fall of 1965, Fosbury, who was a skinny 6-foot-4, went to Oregon State University, where he would go on to win two NCAA titles in high jump. In 1968, he qualified for the Olympics in October in Mexico City. There, in a competition that went on for nearly four hours, he was one of two jumpers left with the bar at 2.24 meters .
Stones convinced his coach to let him work with it and they studied the one film available of Fosbury’s technique. Within two years, Stones went from jumping 6 feet to jumping 7 feet, 1 and 1/2 inches.
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