Franklin Jacobs

Franklin Jacobs (born December 30, 1957 ) is a former high jumper from the United States. His personal best of was a world indoor record in 1978, it remains the record for height differential, now held jointly with Stefan Holm.

Biography Jacobs was one of ten children of Jannie Jacobs, living in a shack in Mullins, South Carolina. His first love was basketball, and he played for Paterson East-side High. but later renamed it the "Slope", from the trajectory of his launch.

Jacobs barely graduated high school and got no athletic scholarship, but enrolled at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey with a federal grant. He established a rivalry with Dwight Stones over the next two years, Stones antagonized Jacobs by criticizing his unorthodox jumping style. In July, at a highly publicized international between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, Jacobs lost to Yashchenko on countback. In August, Jacobs won the Tanqueray Award for outstanding amateur athlete; by then he had won 27 collegiate events.

Jacobs won the British AAA Championships title at the 1978 AAA Championships.

Jacobs anticipated gaining lucrative endorsements from the 1980 Olympics, but the U.S. boycott of the Games precluded this. did not happen.

He subsequently had various jobs around Paterson, 1977 US Nationals Los Angeles, California

2.27 1978 NCAA Outdoor Eugene, Oregon

2.26 1978 US Nationals Los Angeles, California

2.24 1979 Pan American Games San Juan, Puerto Rico

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2.24 1980 US Nationals Walnut, California

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