The American ousted the tummy roller strategy with his triumph at the 1968 Olympic Games.
Brought into the world in Portland, Oregon, in 1947, Fosbury became perhaps of the most persuasive competitor in olympic style events history by fostering the creative high leap strategy that changed his game during the 1960s.
Composing on Instagram, Fosbury's representative Beam Schulte said his client had passed on Sunday.
"It is with an extremely weighty heart I need to deliver the news that significant time-frame companion and client Dick Fosbury died calmly in his rest early Sunday morning after a short session with a repeat of lymphoma," composed Schulte.
"Dick will be extraordinarily missed by companions and fans from around the world. A genuine legend, and companion of all."
"Our game lost a genuine legend and trailblazer with the death of Dick Fosbury," said the USA Olympic style sports (USATF).
"He concocted the "Fosbury Flop", was a gold medallist at the 1968 Games, and stayed a promoter for competitors his whole life. Fosbury's inheritance will live on for a long time into the future."
USATF CEO Max Siegel said he was "profoundly disheartened" by Fosbury's passing and considered him a "genuine legend and trailblazer in the realm of olympic style events".
He added: "We will continuously be thankful for his commitments to the game and his effect on ages of competitors who emulated his example.
"Dick will be profoundly missed yet his heritage will live on as a motivation to all."
Progressive method
Before Fosbury's development, practically all high jumpers endeavored to clear the bar by utilizing the stomach roll strategy, in which they rose face-first while endeavoring to turn their body mid-get around the bar.
Rather than going after head first, the slender 1.93m tall Fosbury would curve towards the bar on his run prior to hopping in reverse and slumping onto the mat, which is as yet the standard strategy utilized by world class high jumpers today.
This structure is more successful according to a biomechanical perspective, as it permits less space between the jumper's focal point of gravity and the bar to be cleared, hence acquiring level.
Fosbury started trying different things with new types of high hopping while still at school, yet his new methodology originally pulled in overall consideration in 1968.
At the 1968 Games in Mexico City, Fosbury won the gold decoration subsequent to clearing 2.24 meters on his third leap, another Olympic record, beating colleague Ed Caruthers (2.22), while Soviet competitor Valentin Gavrilov (2.20) took bronze.
A 'fair' yet extraordinary jumper
The world record had been held by the Soviet Valeriy Brumel with 2.28 beginning around 1963, utilizing the stomach roll strategy.
In spite of the fact that Dick Fosbury was always unable to clear that level - as a matter of fact he tried and failed on that otherworldly day in Mexico City with three bombed endeavors over 2.29 - and despite the fact that there were numerous cynics who questioned the viability of the new strategy, it immediately acquired ubiquity, and before very long an ever increasing number of jumpers, people, began to utilize it.
As of now at the 1972 Games in Munich, 28 of the 40 contenders utilized the Fosbury procedure, and at Moscow 1980, 13 of the 16 finalists did as such also.
In addition, simply two different jumpers figured out how to win an Olympic award utilizing the gut roller since Fosbury's development, who was enlisted into the US Public Olympic style events Lobby of Distinction in 1981.
"The ongoing prominence of my style is a superb prize for the amount of I possessed to tolerate in the first place with a style that no one preferred," he said in 1984.
"I used to bounce in reverse in secondary school and everybody snickered at me, thinking of me as a weirdo and certain individuals a big talker for splitting away from the known standards.
"Until I won in Mexico in 1968 and turned into a legend."
With the 'Fosbury Flop', Cuba's Javier Sotomayor risen above 2.45m in 1993 to establish the worldwide best and set perhaps of the longest record in sports history in Salamanca.