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3 days ago · The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a group are referred to as the "horizontal jumps".
Sep 4, 2024 · Rehm has dominated the event for more than a decade and his world record is only 23cm shy of Mike Powell's able bodied record of 8.95m set way back in 1991. "Potentially he will jump further than the Olympic long jump champion," Australia's six-time gold medallist Heath Francis told Stan Sport's Paralympics Daily.
3 days ago · Lewis was up against his main rival of the last few years, Mike Powell, the silver medalist in the event from the 1988 Olympics and the top-ranked long jumper of 1990. Lewis had at that point not lost a long jump competition in a decade, winning the 65 consecutive meets in which he competed.
4 days ago · The world best time for a "football 40" is 4.17 by Deion Sanders, while the extrapolated best for an Olympic-level athlete (including reacting to a starting gun) is 4.24 by Maurice Greeneat the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. [255][256]Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Colemanreportedly ran a 4.12.
Sep 21, 2024 · Similarly, American Bob Beamon held the long jump record of 8.90 metres (29.2 feet) from 1968 until 1991, when it was broken by American Mike Powell, who leapt 8.95 metres (29.4 feet). Beginning in 1948, the women’s long jump has been an Olympic event.
Sep 13, 2024 · Held in Tokyo in 1991, the 3rd World Championships in Athletics, as the games were called then, saw new world records set by Carl Lewis in the men’s 100 m (9.86 seconds), the US team in the men’s 4 x 100 m relay (37.50 seconds), and Mike Powell in the men’s long jump (8.95 m).
Sep 7, 2024 · NATIONAL long jumper Abdul Latif Romly (pic) will be the last Malaysian competing in athletics at the Paralympics in Paris and one can expect a strong finish.
