Three months ago, Wichita Trinity's Jesse Eklund had never tried high jump. Now the basketball standout is a Kansas state ...

SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — When Charles Austin walks into his gym, he can see a piece of equipment that changed his life 28 years ago. The high jump bar from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics sits below a ...

Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi, Tokyo Olympic gold medalist, qualifies for world meet finals in Oregon. Photo by Chris Stone “Citius, altius, fortius,” says the Olympic motto. Faster. Higher. Stronger. But ...

Dick Fosbury, a unique high jumper best known for dramatically altering the style of his sport, has died at age 76. Fosbury revolutionized the high jump by flying over the bar backwards, a style that ...

Cheyla Scott doesn’t seem familiar with the concept of disadvantage. When she was 8 years old, she challenged her 14-year-old sister Chanin, a standout athlete at Charlotte Latin, in basketball. And ...

If we’re talking about how high Noah Lyles can jump off the ground, by measuring how high his feet get in the air, that’s roughly 6 feet. The picture posted above by Track & Field Gazette on X from ...

The high jump often presents competitors with an abundance of down time. Two rivals fill it in very different ways. Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine climbs into a sleeping bag between ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — At the end of Saturday’s epic two-plus-hour men’s high jump competition, the two competitors who were tied for first place faced a life-altering decision. Did they want to share ...

HAVANA, July 25 (Reuters) - Records are made to broken, world high jump king and international idol Javier Sotomayor said, smiling behind dark glasses as the fierce Caribbean sun beat down on Havana's ...

With his hair colored in a design reminiscent of the eyes in a Picasso painting, Team USA athletics captain Roderick Townsend was ready to go for a three-peat at the Paralympics. "I'm a showman," ...

DES MOINES — Maia Denge-Hagen’s championship belief first truly sprouted somewhere between Marion and Des Moines. “I was talking to myself in the car, ‘I’m going to win it. I’m going to win it,’” said ...