Official World Record Association was created as a NGO organization to promote, verify, catalog and register world records. Our authorized members, check, verify and admit, the authenticity of the world record applications, and finally register the world records. Elaborate the rules and regulations to set or to break the world records.
The first in the men's was recognised by the in 1912.As of June, 2009, the IAAF has ratified 40 world records in the event.Fourteen of the 16 records from 1912 to 1960 were set in the United States and were originally measured in feet and inches; they were converted to metric before being ratified as world records. As of January 1, 1963, records were accepted as metric marks, with marks measured in feet and inches to the nearest quarter-inch and rounded down to the nearest centimetre.: vii, 155–157 When measurements were taken in feet and inches the bar could be raised, for record-attempt purposes, in increments of one-quarter inch. Using the metric system a new record must be (at least) one centimeter higher. In 1973, American was the first jumper to set a world record. The namesake of the technique, impressed the world by winning the with the flop, but never held the world record. The last jumper to hold the World Record was (Soviet Union/Ukraine) in 1978—all record-setters since then have used the Flop technique.Progression.