Dick Fosbury, the athlete who revolutionized the high jump with his technique on his back, has died

American

, Olympic champion at the 1968 Mexico Games with a revolutionary technique on his back, died on Sunday at the age of 76, his agent reported Monday.

"It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that my longtime friend and client Dick Fosbury passed away peacefully in his sleep Sunday morning following a brief relapse of lymphoma

," agent Ray Schulte wrote in a statement on Instagram.

In Mexico 1968, the Americans regained the hegemony of the high jump.

But that moment was revolutionary for the specialty and not specifically for the result of the test:

, the winner, used a surprising style,

.

The experts initially doubted this technique but, from then on, it is the one used by all high jump specialists: the popular

.

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