Western roll Osborn (1924), Walter Marty (1933), and Cornelius Johnson (1936). Johnson's record, (), was equaled on the same day by Dave Albritton, the first world record holder to use what we now call the straddle technique. At first, the straddle was viewed as just a variation of the Western roll, and indeed video of the 1936 Olympics shows Albritton using a conventional Western roll at lower heights. The straddle did not come to dominate the high jump until the mid-1950s, by which time it was recognized as a separate style. Walt Davis was the last Western roll jumper to hold the
India at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics the final of the long jump event. India at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics India competed at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics from August 27 to September 4 in Daegu, South Korea. A team of 8 athletes was announced to represent the country in the event. Tintu Luka reached the semifinal of the 800m race in which she came 6th and could not qualify for the final but she managed to clock her season's best timing and qualified for the 2012 London olympics. Vikas Gowda managed to hurl the discus to 64.05m giving him 7th place in the