Paralympic heroes #5 and #6: Iliesa Delana and Łukasz Mamczarz

In Monday's F42 high jump final, Iliesa Delana and Łukasz Mamczarz cleared 1.74m to earn gold and bronze medals for Fiji and Poland. They each have one leg, and they each cleared the bar by hopping up and somersaulting over it. They won their medals competing against two-legged athletes with equivalent disabilities.

No textbook technique; no bouncy prosthetics. Fuck you Dick Fosbury, and the flop you flopped in on.

F42 is the most severe class of non-visual disability where the high jump is contested. The staggering world record of 1.96m belongs to Canadian legend Arnold Boldt, who also only has one leg and won high jump golds at five consecutive Paralympics (not to mention two more golds and a silver in the long jump). Click here to see Arnie somersault over 1.85m - all the more impressive because he managed to keep his glasses on!

The F42 high jump is absolutely captivating and puts its able-bodied equivalent in the shade - if you missed it, Channel 4's highlights are available here, and we've included some wobbly footage of Delana's winning jump at the bottom of this post. It's completely redefined our frame of reference to the point where we couldn't care less how high able-bodied athletes can jump any more: one-legged somersaulting is where it's at. So change the Olympic programme! Reset the records! Burn effigies of Javier Sotomayor's tibias! Perhaps that's going a touch far, but let's at least give these guys the acclaim and attention they so richly deserve.