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Fosbury

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Fos·bur·y  (fzb-r), Richard D. Known as "Dick." Born 1947.
American athlete. He won a gold medal in the high jump at the 1968 Olympics, revolutionizing the event by going over the bar head first and backwards in what became known as the "Fosbury flop."
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Noun1.Fosbury - United States athlete who revolutionized the high jump by introducing the Fosbury flop in the 1968 Olympics (born in 1947)


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Hidden Universe by Lars Lindberg Christensen, Robert Fosbury and Robert Hurt Published by Wiley-VCH, Berlin, November 2008 145 pages, profusely illustrated Size: 247mm x 297mm ISBN-10:3-527-40866-5 ISBN-13: 978-3-527-40866-5-Wiley-VCH, Berlin Hardback.
 
 
 
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