high-jumper

Robbie Grabarz, a 24-year-old high-jumper who has just had his lottery funding cut, set a world-leading mark of 2.34m at a different meet that same day.

Charles van Commennee still focused on eight Olympic track medals 2012

MOOS: Not to be confused be that other Sotomayor from Cuba, perhaps the best high-jumper ever.

CNN Transcript May 27, 2009 2009

Ahuva Kraus-Kravitzky, a high-jumper who won the gold medal in the Asian Games in Manila in 1954.

Sport: Yishuv to the Present. 2009

Orit Abramovitch, a high-jumper, won a gold medal in the Asian championships in Manila in 1973 and also won a gold medal in the Asian Games held in Tehran in 1974.

Sport: Yishuv to the Present. 2009

Originally a high-jumper, Mr. Liu made an unusual switch into hurdling at age 15, after his original sports school had given up on him.

Where Have You Gone, Lei Feng? 2008

Mr. MATHIS: I have to tell you that Bill Russell is a very close friend of mine, and the reason that I wanted to go to the Olympics - I had a chance to go to the Olympic trials as a high-jumper, and the reason I wanted to go was because Bill was going, along with Casey Jones.

Golden Year Puts Johnny Mathis on Center Stage 2006

One of the Wallers was a cow-puncher from New Mexico, the other the champion Yale high-jumper.

The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

"If you keep on improving as you've done lately, you'll make a high-jumper in a hundred more years, old top!"

T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

The weight-putter and high-jumper received him with his usual cordiality.

Elegant Variation. 1908

He was always going to fencing and boxing matches: he was the French champion runner and high-jumper, and captain of a football team.

Jean-Christophe Journey's End Romain Rolland 1905