Ulrike Meyfarth

Meyfarth was one of the first women to win big with the flop, taking Olympic gold in Munich in 1972 aged 16 and equalling the world record of 1.92m. Twelve years later, aged 28, she won again in Los Angeles, which makes her both the youngest and, at the time, the oldest Olympic high jump champion. Her career spans the whole period in which the flop went from novelty to standard.