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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Women's HIGH JUMP, in athletism ("track and field athletics"). I show you a MAXICARD from ROMANIA with the FOSBURY style, the most efficient. A less efficient style was a variation of the SCISSORS technique, but that's what took the world record from 1,75m to 1,91m. "Iolanda Balaş (Romanian pronunciation: [joˈlanda ˈbalaʃ], later Söter, Hungarian: Balázs Jolán, born 12 December 1936 in Timișoara) is a former Romanian athlete of Hungarian descent, Olympic champion and world record holder in high jump, who is considered one of the greatest high jumpers ever." She won 2 Olympic Gold medals, and broke the world record 14 times. Undefeated in 140 consecutive competitions, from 1958 to 1967

Women's HIGH JUMP, in athletism ("track and field athletics"). I show you a MAXICARD from ROMANIA with the FOSBURY style, the most efficient. A less efficient style was a variation of the SCISSORS technique, but that's what took the world record from 1,75m to 1,91m. "Iolanda Balaş (Romanian pronunciation: [joˈlanda ˈbalaʃ], later Söter, Hungarian: Balázs Jolán, born 12 December 1936 in Timișoara) is a former Romanian athlete of Hungarian descent, Olympic champion and world record holder in high jump, who is considered one of the greatest high jumpers ever." She won 2 Olympic Gold medals, and broke the world record 14 times. Undefeated in 140 consecutive competitions, from 1958 to 1967.


1.74 m Thelma Hopkins (GBR)5 May 1956Belfast[1]
1.75 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)14 July 1956Bucharest[1]
1.76 m Mildred McDaniel (USA)1 December 1956Melbourne[1]
1.76 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)13 October 1957Bucharest[1]
1.77 m Zheng Fengrong (CHN)17 November 1957Beijing[1]
1.78 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)7 June 1958Bucharest[1]
1.80 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)22 June 1958Cluj-Napoca[1]
1.81 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)31 July 1958Poiana Brasov[1]
1.82 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)4 October 1958Bucharest[1]
1.83 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)18 October 1958Bucharest[1]
1.84 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)21 September 1959Bucharest[1]
1.85 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)6 June 1960Bucharest[1]
1.86 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)10 July 1960Bucharest[1]
1.87 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)15 April 1961Bucharest[1]
1.88 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)18 June 1961Warsaw[1]
1.90 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)8 July 1961Budapest[1]
1.91 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)16 July 1961Sofia[1]
1.92 m Ilona Gusenbauer (AUT)4 September 1971Vienna[1]

Her last world record remained unbeaten for 10 years! (1961 to 1971)

She was born in Timișoara, Romania. 
Close to Freidorf, where Johnny Weissmuller (the best Tarzan actor) was born.
He was an even MORE domineering sports champion.
As an amateur swimmer, HE NEVER LOST A RACE!
"Johnny Weissmuller (born Johann Peter Weißmüller; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in movies. Weissmuller was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal [water polo]. He won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven world records. After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs's ape man Tarzan in films, a role he played in twelve motion pictures. Dozens of other actors have also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller is by far the best known. His character's distinctive, ululating Tarzan yell is still often used in films."
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Happy Sunday Stamps meme!


6 comments:

  1. When looking at the image on the stamp: I think, this is impossible how she does this! Watching a high jumper in action, well it is just fluid motion.
    thanks for participating.

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  2. PPS: I just read your older post on Michelle Obama, and the USPS policies surrounding (dead) people on stamps: I heard this policy recently changed. Is this true?

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  3. That's a long time to be undefeated.

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  4. @viridian: yes, the policy was changed recently. But bureaucracy will still prevail, against many possible subjects of such stamps.

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  5. I remember her and Thelma Hopkins but never knew she made it to a stamp. She held that record a long time too.

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  6. Wow, that was a pretty impressive steady climb with her world records!

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