Explain the event high jump. Write the different techniques used in high jump.

High jump is a field event in which an athlete jumps over a horizontal bar placed at a height, without knocking it down, after a run-up, taking off from one foot. Each jumper has three attempts at each height, and the jumper clearing the greatest height wins. Techniques of high jump: 1. Scissors 2. Western roll 3. Eastern cut-off 4. Straddle 5. Fosbury flop