6. Athletics. Malaysia High Jumper. 17th June 2018

In this article, I am going to talk about athletics.

According to Internet search data, I obtained the data for Malaysian High Jumper, the main information is their height and their personal best,

https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/loo-kum-zee-1.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hup_Wei

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauraj_Singh_Randhawa

I then draw a table below, jump above jumper height

	Personal Best – Jumper height
Loo Kum Zee 1.76m	2.24 - 1.76 = .48
Lee Hup Wei 1.80m	2.28 - 1.80 = .48
Nauraj Singh Randhawa 1.93m	2.30 - 1.93 = .37

According to http://www.scholm.com/eng50.asp list updated in 2014, there are 50 jumpers world wide since 1968 (beginning of Fosbury Flop style) who jumped 50 cm above their height. Let assume by 2018, there are 55 jumpers. Let assume jumper need some years to optimize/perfecting their style, let assume the style is already optimized since 1978, so now it is 2018 about 40 years, with 55 jumper jumped above 50 cm. I think Loo Kum Zee and Lee Hup Wei, had already approaching their personal best limit. There are among the top 100-200 high jumper in the world since 1978, if you consider height difference. As far as their skill (Loo Kum Zee and Lee Hup Wei) are concerned they are world class, why they did not get a medal in Olympic or Commonwealth, it’s because their height is not tall enough.

If you do an analysis of jumper height and their personal best, most Olympic medallist jumper high is at least 1.90 meter and the average jump above jumper height is around 0.40meter.

If you consider current time, they are considered world class if you consider height difference.

If Nauraj Singh (need to improve his skill) can improve his technique to be around 0.42 meter above his height, then he can do 2.35 ( a medallist in Olympic). In high jump, jumper height does matter. In many sports, size does matter, a simple calculation will show everything. TQ for reading, spread this info around.