Stamp: High Jump (Zaire 1980)

High Jump (Zaire 1980)

14 April (Zaire ) within release Olympic Games goes into circulation Stamp High Jump face value 1 Zairean makuta

Stamp High Jump in catalogues
Michel: Mi:CD OL07
Belgium: Bel:CD 1032

Stamp is square format.

According to the O.B.C. this series was never officially sold at post offices. It was probably sold directly to collectors and dealers.

Also in the issue Olympic Games:

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Stamp High Jump in digits
Country: Zaire
Date: 1980-04-14
Size: 38 x 38
Perforation: 13
Emission: Commemorative
Format: Stamp
Face Value: 1 Zairean makuta
Print run: 500000

Stamp High Jump it reflects the thematic directions:

Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping and throwing. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross-country running, and race walking. 

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating. The Olympic Games are held every four years, with the Summer and Winter Games alternating by occurring every four years but two years apart.

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 for landing. Since ancient times, competitors have introduced increasingly effective techniques to arrive at the current form, and the current universally preferred method is the Fosbury Flop, in which athletes run towards the bar and leap head first with their back to the bar.

An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track and field and marathon runners but excluding e.g. swimmers, footballers or basketball players. However in other contexts (mainly in the United States) it is used to refer to all athletics (physical culture) participants of any sport. For the latter definition, the word sportsperson or its gendered sportsman or sportswoman are also used. A third definition is also sometimes used meaning anyone who is physically fit regardless of whether or not they compete in a spo

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