Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Katelyn Hutchison covers all things track and field. PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 10: Gold medalist Hamish Kerr of Team New Zealand ...

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JuVaughn Harrison will compete in the high jump and long jump at the Olympics. He is the first American man since Jim Thorpe in 1912 to do both in the same Olympics. He stuck with the long jump in ...

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 ...

Italian high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi, who made headlines at the Tokyo Olympics for sharing the gold medal with Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim, participated in the men’s high jump final at the Paris ...

PARIS, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Gianmarco Tamberi's defence of his Olympic high jump title is in doubt after the Italian experienced the same stabbing kidney pain that led him to visit the hospital days ...

High jumpers Hamish Kerr and Shelby McEwen refused to share Olympic gold – three years after two athletes shared top spot on the podium after deciding against a jump-off. New Zealander Kerr and McEwen ...

TOKYO -- Three-time high jump world champion Mutaz Barshim has ruled himself out of the world athletics championships that open Saturday in Japan after failing to recover from a long-term foot injury.

After an injury, Vashti Cunningham and her father, Randall (yes, that one) came up with a new formula to master the high jump — rarely jumping. By Matthew Futterman TOKYO — There are not a lot of ...

How’s this for friendly competition? Olympic high jumpers — and best friends — Mutaz Essa Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi convinced Games officials to let them share gold on Sunday instead of jumping to ...