Scissors jump
High jump technique
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The
scissors
is a style used in the athletics event of
high jump
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Gold medal winner
Ethel Catherwood
of Canada
scissors
over the bar at the
1928 Summer Olympics
. Her winning result was 1.59 metres (5 ft 3 in).
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G.H.G. Dyson,
High Jumping
, Amateur Athletic Association, London, 1956, p. 15