The standing high jump is an athletics event that was featured in the

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from

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15 ...

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. It is performed in the same way as

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

, with the difference being that the athlete has no run-up and must stand still and jump with both feet together. Ray Ewry was the best of the Olympic era, setting

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s for the standing high jump (1.65 m on July 16, 1900). He was also highly successful in the standing long jump and the standing triple jump. The event previously enjoyed wide competition, featuring on the Olympics athletics programme from 1900 to 1912, as well as at the 1922 and

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. The event was contested at the

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championships in the United States as an indoor event around the turn of the 20th century.Ray Ewry
Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-07. Its popularity waned in the 20th century, although it maintained championship status for a longer period of time in Scandinavian countries. One of the best results ever is 1.90 m by Swedish athlete Rune Almén in 1980 which at the time was a Swedish record and an unofficial world record. Later he also jumped 1.90 m, which today is the world record. The Norwegian record is 1.82 by Sturle Kalstad in 1983.

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of a 1.80 standing high jump {{Athletics events __NOTOC__ Events in track and field High jump Discontinued Summer Olympic disciplines in athletics

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