If 'white men can't jump' why are most top high jumpers white?

Wrong. Sotomayor set the world high jump record (2.43 m) in Salamanca, Spain, on September 8th, 1988 (Alt. 2,631 feet or little over the highest point in Alabama - 2405 feet). His 2.44m record was set the following year in San Juan, Puerto Rico (in a sea-level stadium where I high jumped in 2003). In 1993, again in Salamanca, Spain, he set the current world record of 2.45m.

Who cares who can jump? What real life scenario demands this ability?

Anyone with extreme jumping ability is keeping a metabolically wasteful genetic trait alive for the distant future. Maybe mammoths will be back and our descendants will need to leap onto them.

current greek long jump champion also has a bit of spring.

There have been billions of black people in history and none have managed to triple jump as far as Jonathan Edwards. But Deno would say that none of them have really made an effort at it and every NFL cornerback could break the record if they wanted :)

White men maybe can't jump, but they definitely can make themselves victims of the lying media.

so comes down to a lot of reasons.

you not only need vertical, but you need to be super lean, almost awkwardly lean. high jumpers look weird.

and the event isnt a pure test of vert jump.

a lot of black males with insane verts are too muscular/built to be gliding over the HJ bar like an leaned out alien looking hj weirdo. srs. watch the hj event sometime in the olympics, the dudes sometimes dont even look like homosapiens

hj guys are usually tall too.

any tall lean black male with high vert will play basketball anyways, and work on bulking up which kills HJ ability

Sorry to disappoint you, but...

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So from reading all of this white men are the best jumpers. Outside of US/UK most people know this already though ...

That's what I mean, HJ-ers are genetic throwbacks, probably from the Cro Magnon era when they needed to leap onto mammoths.

If and when mammoths come back, it will be a useful trait. But even then, we part-Neanderthals don't need to jump, being strong enough to simply stab the mammoths instead.

Yes, there have been many white guys that have medalled in jumps, including the long jump which the US has always been good at.

Us Aussies have also won a few global medals, including Gary Honey in 1984 when second to the greatest long jumper Carl Lewis

I was thinking of this guy. No one jumps higher than Matej. Do you know how high 390 cm is??? Shyts almost 13 feet. Ridiculous!!

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Exactly how high to do the most athletic volleyballers jump? What are the biggest spike reaches in the sport?

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High jumpers don't make a lot of money

This is what I was going to say. It's different than just jumping.

Along the same lines:

We have these NFL guys who think they can sprint and find out they can't. Why aren't some of them trying the long/triple jumps, high jump, discuss and shot put.

Billy Hoyle was, "a slow, white, geeky chump"!

Glad you posted this because I was about to. He not only dunked over a guy, he dunked over a guy, with another guy on his shoulders!