Traditional high jump Gusimbuka Urukiramende : Could early 20th century African athletes beat Olympic champions?
During the first half of the 20th century, extraordinary high jumping performances of East-African athletes were observed. These athletes used a specific native jumping style called Gusimbuka Urukiramende. Eye-witnesses believed that these performances could have been world-records and that these athletes could have competed at the Olympics. However, these athletes never participated in international competitions and there is no other proof to support these performance claims. We have analysed historical photos and cine sequences of these jumps, documented the movement analysis of this technique, quantified performance and compared it to contemporaneous elite performances. Our analyses demonstrate that Gusimbuka Urukiramende athletes did not jump as high as the world record. Nevertheless, even though they used a suboptimal jump technique (because they had to lift their bodies higher to cross the bar) they could cross bar heights of 188 cm or 106% body height and as such their performance still was worthy of participation to the Olympics.
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Journal of sports sciences - 39(2021), 16 vom: 05. Aug., Seite 1800-1806 |
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Van Caekenberghe, Ine [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 20.08.2021 Date Revised 07.12.2022 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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