Fosbury Flop Fosbury Flop The Fosbury Flop is a style used in the athletics event of high jump. It was popularized and perfected by American athlete Dick Fosbury, whose gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics brought it to the world's attention. Over the next few years, the flop became the dominant style of the event and remains so today. Before Fosbury, most elite jumpers used the straddle technique, Western Roll, Eastern cut-off or even scissors jump to clear the bar. Given that landing surfaces had previously been sandpits or low piles of matting, high jumpers of earlier years had to land
Italy at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics Italy at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics Italy will compete at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics from 10 to 18 August in Moscow, Russia. On 23 July 2013 the President of the FIDAL Alfio Giomi, announced during the event which took place in "Augosto Azzurro" in the main hall of CONI, which are 59 Italian athletes who will participate in the world championships in Moscow. Italy national athletics team ranked 19th (with only six finalist) in the "IAAF placing table". Rank obtained by assigning eight points in the first place and so on to the eight finalists. IAAF