Austin, Fosbury & Davis - High Jump Record Breakers

With Charles Austin holding the Olympic High Jump record since Atlanta 1996, we look at how the record has progressed through time to his 2:39m height. Walter Davis became Olympic champion at the 1952 Olympic Games after set an Olympic record of 2:04m. With a height of 2:24m, Dick Fosbury won gold at Mexico City 1968 after pioneering the Fosbury Flop. Charles Austin set the current High Jump Olympic record of 2:39m at Atlanta 1996. Subscribe to the official Olympic channel here: http://bit.ly/1dn6AV5 Find more about the Olympic Games at http://www.olympic.org/olympic-games Follow your favourite athletes on the Olympic Athletes Hub: http://hub.olympic.org/

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1. Think you forgot sotomayor
2. There all USA and everyone else knows that
3. Second!
4. Awesome...I would love to see someone go 2.46M or up