Orrin Anthony Barton (born October 17, 1969) is an American retired
high jump
The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...
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Barton was born in
Washington, D.C.
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He finished fifth at the
1992 World Cup, won the
1993 Summer Universiade
The 1993 Summer Universiade, also known as XVII Summer Universiade or World University Games Buffalo '93, took place in Buffalo, New York, United States.
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, finished eighth at the
1993 World Championships, won the bronze medal at the
1995 World Indoor Championships and seventh at the
1995 World Championships. At one time he was the third-ranked high jumper in the world and number one in the United States.
His personal best jump is 2.32 metres, achieved in June 1992 in
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World men's all-time best high jump (last updated 2001)
/ref> He also had 8.16 metres in the long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...
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1969 births
Living people
American male high jumpers
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Track and field athletes from Washington, D.C.
Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States
Medalists at the 1993 Summer Universiade
Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games
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