Jumping Events

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• Which technique is most closely associated with modern high jump competition?
• What is the correct sequence of phases in the triple jump?
• In the long jump, what normally makes an attempt a foul?
• Which action is essential for a legal pole vault clearance?
• In high jump, the athlete must take off from [____] foot.
• The takeoff board in the long jump is located immediately before the [____].
• In the triple jump, the three phases are the hop, the [____] and the jump.
• In the pole vault, athletes try to clear a horizontal [____] resting on two uprights.