Track and field onto a cushioned landing area. The men's high jump was included in the 1896 Olympics and a women's competition followed in 1928. Jumping technique has played a significant part in the history of the event. High jumpers typically cleared the bar feet first in the late 19th century, using either the Scissors, Eastern cut-off or Western roll technique. The straddle technique became prominent in the mid-20th century, but Dick Fosbury overturned tradition by pioneering a backwards and head-first technique in the late 1960s – the Fosbury Flop – which won him the gold at the 1968 Olympics. This technique has
Major sports event hosting in Britain during the 2010s sold for the event—more than were sold for the previous eight editions of these championships combined, and only 10,000 less than Rio de Janeiro sold for athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. The 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Qatar had total sales of only 15,000. On 11 March 2011 UK Athletics announced that they would submit a bid for the 2017 Athletics World Championships, whereby London would be used to host, using the Olympic Stadium built for the 2012 Olympic Games. On 11 November 2011 it was announced that the bid was successful. The 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup