Dick Fosbury, the American athlete who gave his name to the high jump technique, is dead

American athlete Dick Fosbury, Olympic champion in 1968, who revolutionized the high jump with a technique that became a school and now bears his name, died Sunday March 12 at the age of 76, announced his agent Monday

Dick Fosbury, the American athlete who gave his name to the high jump technique, is dead

American athlete Dick Fosbury, Olympic champion in 1968, who revolutionized the high jump with a technique that became a school and now bears his name, died Sunday March 12 at the age of 76, announced his agent Monday.

"It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that longtime friend and client Dick Fosbury passed away peacefully in his sleep early Sunday morning after a brief recurrence of lymphoma," Ray Schulte wrote on Instagram.