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unusual facts about jumpers


Joel Fram

He has conducted the Broadway productions of Wicked, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, James Joyce's The Dead, Jumpers, and Cats.


Aizhai Bridge

In September 2012, the Aizhai Bridge was the site of an international BASE jumping festival that included more than 40 jumpers from 13 countries.

Atanas Chochev

This ranks him seventh among Bulgarian long jumpers, behind Ivaylo Mladenov, Atanas Atanasov, Nikolay Atanasov, Petar Dachev, Nikolay Antonov and Galin Georgiev.

Christmas jumper

In particular, their popularity may be attributed to the influence of singers such as Andy Williams and Val Doonican, who appeared in these type of jumpers in their television Christmas specials.

Daria Grushina

Aged barely 15, as the third youngest participant, in Courchevel Grushina could beat two Italian professional jumpers, Lisa Demetz and Evelyn Insam, and her older Russian teammates Anastasia Gladysheva and Stefaniya Nadymova.

Debbie Brill

The only female high jumpers with more top ten rankings are Inha Babakova and Stefka Kostadinova, both with thirteen.

Erich Windisch

The technique was the standard form used by elite jumpers until the introduction of the V-style in 1985 by Jan Boklöv of Sweden.

Galin Georgiev

This ranks him sixth among Bulgarian long jumpers, behind Ivaylo Mladenov, Atanas Atanasov, Nikolay Atanasov, Petar Dachev and Nikolay Antonov.

This ranks him fifth among Bulgarian triple jumpers, behind Khristo Markov, Rostislav Dimitrov, Momchil Karailiev and Nikolay Raev.

Haugesund IL

Its most prominent members are long-distance runners Susanne Wigene, Karl Johan Rasmussen and Bente Landøy as well as jumpers Eugen Haugland, Terje Haugland and Hanne Haugland.

Igor Paklin

German jumper Carlo Thränhardt - in February 1988, Russian Vyacheslav Voronin - in August 2000 and Ukrainian Bohdan Bondarenko in 2013 (twice) - are the only other jumpers in history to clear 2.40 using a right foot take-off.

Input/output base address

Note: For many devices listed above the assignments can be changed via jumpers, DIP switches, or Plug-And-Play software.

Kelly Jenkins

Kelly was among the group of jumpers and jumper-wannabes that first approached Blaise Andrieux.

Konstantin Krause

This ranks him fifth among German long jumpers, behind Lutz Dombrowski, Frank Paschek, Josef Schwarz and Henry Lauterbach and equal to Marco Delonge.

Marco Delonge

This ranks him fifth among German long jumpers, behind Lutz Dombrowski, Frank Paschek, Josef Schwarz and Henry Lauterbach.

Maxim Rudometkin

Maxim Gavrilovich Rudometkin (c. 1818 – 1877) was a religious leader of a mid 19th century religious sect called the Molokan Jumpers, he lived primarily in a little village of the Lori Province called Fioletovo (previously called Nikitino) in the modern country of Armenia.

Michael Pelkey

Approximately 450 BASE jumpers from all over the world made more than 800 parachute jumps off the New River Gorge Bridge into the New River Gorge 876 feet below.

Moravia High Jump Tour

Of note, the top American men jumpers did not compete in the 2012 tour, remaining in the U.S. to participate in the (first) U.S. Open invitational track meet at New York's Madison Square Garden on 28 January 2012.

Nikolay Antonov

This ranks him fifth among Bulgarian long jumpers, behind Ivaylo Mladenov, Atanas Atanasov, Nikolay Atanasov and Petar Dachev.

Northwestern Miners

They formed an alliance with the Southport Sharks, a powerful club playing in the AFL Queensland and began wearing the Sharks' jumper rather than the Footscray Bulldogs jumpers they had previously used.

Oddvar Saga

Already in 1963 the ski jumpers Torgeir Brandtzæg, Toralf Engan, Bjørn Wirkola, Hans Olav Sørensen and Thorbjørn Yggeseth were as good as ready, and one was looking for a sixth man on the team.

Omar Craddock

He followed Christian Taylor and Will Claye in a succession of elite level triple jumpers to come from the Florida Gators track and field team.

Patrik Sjöberg

He has inspired many later Swedish high jumpers, most notably Kajsa Bergqvist, Linus Thörnblad, Staffan Strand, and Stefan Holm.

Petar Dachev

This ranks him fourth among Bulgarian long jumpers, behind Ivaylo Mladenov, Atanas Atanasov and Nikolay Atanasov.

Peter Prevc

He has two younger brothers, Domen and Cene Prevc, who are also ski jumpers, and two younger sisters.

Ron Beer

This ranks him eighth among German long jumpers, behind Lutz Dombrowski, Frank Paschek, Josef Schwarz, Henry Lauterbach, Marco Delonge, Konstantin Krause and Dietmar Haaf.

Scissors jump

One of the most eminent of these early jumpers was Marshall Brooks of Oxford University, who achieved the first jump of

Shadow Fists

Others who work for Kien include a reptilian joker called Wyrm who can track people by their taste, the brain-eating ace Deadhead, drug designer Quinn the Eskimo, a minor ace mercenary named Christian, Tachyon's grandson Blaise Andrieux during his brief stint as leader of the Jumpers, and a small army of crooked cops and politicians who are on the take.

Spyridon Vasdekis

This ranks him fourth among Greek long jumpers of all time, behind Louis Tsatoumas, Konstantinos Koukodimos and Dimitrios Filindras.

Ştefan Vasilache

This ranks him fourth among Romanian high jumpers, behind Sorin Matei, Eugen-Cristian Popescu and Constantin Militaru.

Susanne Beyer

Her personal best jump of 1.99 metres ranks her seventh among German high jumpers, behind Heike Henkel, Ulrike Meyfarth, Heike Balck, Alina Astafei, Rosemarie Ackermann and Daniela Rath and joint with Kerstin Brandt.

The Jocks and the Geordies

The Jocks (Scottish boys), who wore various tartan jumpers and wide tam o'shanter caps, were: Big Jock (the leader), Wee Eck, Hector, Angus and Sandy; while the Geordies (North East England boys) were all identically dressed in dark school uniforms.

What's My Scene?

Faulkner is a long-time supporter of Cronulla and the original promo clip for "What's My Scene?" included shots of band members in Wests and Cronulla jumpers.


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