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    Richard Douglas Fosbury (March 6, 1947 – March 12, 2023) was an American high jumper, who is considered one of the most influential athletes in the history of track and field. He won a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics, revolutionizing the high jump event with a "back-first" technique now known as the Fosbury flop.

  2. Dick Fosbury was an American high jumper who revolutionized the sport by replacing the traditional approach to jumping with an innovative backward style that became known as the “Fosbury flop.”. Fosbury found the straddle-roll jumping style complicated and did not perform well when he employed it.

  3. Mar 13, 2023 · Dick Fosbury, a gangly civil engineering student who shocked his peers, delighted sports fans and started a revolution in competitive high jumping with his backward leaps, died on Sunday at a...

  4. Mar 13, 2023 · Dick Fosbury, legendary Olympic gold high jumper who revolutionized the track and field event, died Sunday of lymphoma, according to his publicist Ray Schulte. Fosbury was 76.

  5. Oct 20, 2018 · Dick Fosbury, then a 21-year-old Oregon State University student, used his new and innovative technique of jumping – a back-layout style he had dubbed the Fosbury Flop in a newspaper interview – to take the gold medal at the Mexico City 1968 Olympic Games and, into the bargain, the world was entranced.

  6. Mar 13, 2023 · Dick Fosbury - the man who revolutionised the high jump in athletics - has died at the age of 76. The American leapt backwards over the bar to win gold at the 1968 Mexico Olympics in a technique...

  7. Mar 13, 2023 · World Athletics is deeply saddened to hear that 1968 Olympic high jump champion Dick Fosbury, who revolutionised his event by introducing the ‘Fosbury flop’ technique, died on Sunday (12) at the age of 76.

  8. Mar 13, 2023 · Dick Fosbury, Olympic gold medallist and high jump pioneer, dead at 76. The 'Fosbury Flop' changed high jumping forever in the 1960s - and helped the American to gold at Mexico City 1968.

  9. Mar 13, 2023 · Olympic high jump champion Dick Fosbury, who revolutionized the event with a radically different jumping technique that was eventually named after him, died on Sunday at 76, his agent Ray Schulte...

  10. Mar 13, 2023 · Dick Fosbury, who introduced the Fosbury Flop and won the 1968 Olympic high jump title, died Sunday morning at age 76.