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unusual facts about long jump



Berliner Sport-Club

Lilli Henoch joined the BSC after World War I. In the 1920s she set world records in the discus (twice), shot put, and 4 × 100 meters relay events, and won German national championships in shot put four times, 4 × 100 meters relay three times, discus twice, and long jump.

Bo Roberson

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy he won the silver medal in the long jump, a centimeter short of the Olympic record 8.12 m gold medal jump by Ralph Boston.

Bogdan Tudor

Bogdan Tudor (born 1 February 1970) is a Romanian long jumper, best known for his bronze medal at the 1994 European Indoor Championships.

Centennial Stadium

The stadium features a 400m synthetic rubberized track surface, as well as separate areas for long jump/triple jump, high jump, pole vault, discus, hammer, shot put, and javelin.

Eva Šuranová

Eva Šuranová (née Kucmanová born April 24, 1946 in Ózd, Hungary) is a Czechoslovak athlete, who competed mainly in the long jump.

Ferry Field

In 1935 Ohio State sprinter Jesse Owens set world records in the 220 yard dash, the 200 meter dash, the 220 yard low hurdles, the 200 meter low hurdles, and the long jump, and tied the world record in the 100 yard dash.

Hans-Jürgen Berger

Hans-Jürgen Berger (born 21 September 1951 in Remscheid) is a German former long jumper who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Heide Rosendahl

Heidemarie Ecker-Rosendahl (born 14 February 1947 in Hückeswagen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon and long jump.

Klaus Beer

Beer won the silver medal in the long jump at the 1968 Summer Olympics, well behind Bob Beamon's record setting performance – Beamon jumped 8.90 m, while Beer jumped 8.19 m.

Konstantin Krause

Konstantin Krause (born 8 October 1967, in Bad Langensalza) is a retired German long jumper.

Lene Demsitz

Lene Stokholm Demsitz (Humlebæk) (Jørgensen) (born March 8, 1959 in Rønde, Midtjylland) is a retired female long jumper from Denmark.

Lin Ching-hsuan

Lin Ching-Hsuan (born 14 May 1992 in Taoyuan) is a Taiwanese long jumper.

Margaret de Jesús

Her twin sister Madeline de Jesús also competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics, and won a number of international medals during her career as a long jumper.

Mauro Vinícius da Silva

Mauro Vinicius Hilario Lourenço da Silva, commonly known as Duda (born 26 December 1986 in Presidente Prudente) is a Brazilian long jumper.

Mel Renfro

In 1962 Renfro contributed to the university's first NCAA team championship by finishing second behind teammate Jerry Tarr in the 120-yard high hurdles with a 13.8 time and third in the long jump with a 25-11 1/4 inch leap.

Norbert Brige

Norbert Brige (born 9 January 1964 in Angres, Pas-de-Calais) is a retired French long jumper.

Norman Tate

Norman ("Norm") W. Tate (born January 2, 1942 in Oswald, West Virginia) is a retired long jumper from the United States, who set the world's best year performance in 1971 by jumping 8.23 metres on 1971-05-22 at a meet in El Paso.

Payton Jordan

Billy Mills' upset victory in the 10,000 meters in 1964, the legendary leap of 29’2-1/2 by Bob Beamon in the long jump, the (third and) fourth gold medal in the discus by Al Oerter, the 100 meters sprint world record of 9.9 seconds by Jim Hines, Tommie Smith’s gold medal win in the 200 meters in 19.8 seconds, and Lee Evans’ world record (43.8 seconds) in the 400 meters were among the many Olympic highlights achieved when Jordan was coach.

Percy Perry Stadium

Percy Perry Stadium features a 400m polyflex synthetic rubberized track surface, as well as separate areas for long jump/triple jump, high jump, pole vault, discus, hammer, shot put, and javelin.

Schahriar Bigdeli

Schahriar Bigdeli (born 26 March 1980 in Grevenbroich) is a retired German long jumper.

Sheila Sherwood

Sheila Sherwood (born Sheila Hilary Parkin, 22 October 1945 in Parson Cross, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is a former international Long jumper whose career highlights included a silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico, and a gold medal at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.

Sports in Kerala

Other cricketers from Kerala include Tinu Yohannan, son of Olympic long jumper T. C. Yohannan and K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (344 first class wickets).


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1935 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships

Ohio State's Jesse Owens won championships in four individual events—the 100-yard sprint, the 220-yard sprint, the 220-yard low hurdles, and the broad jump (now called the long jump).

1936 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships

For the second consecutive year, Ohio State's Jesse Owens won championships in four individual events—the 100-meter sprint, the 200-meter sprint, the 110-meter high hurdles and the broad jump (now called the long jump).

Allsport

At the 1968 Olympic Games, Bob Beamon broke the World Record in the Long Jump with a leap of 8m 90 or 29 ft 2½ inches.

Amy Woodman

In February 2009, while training at Ferris State University, Michigan, she visited the UK and won the Aviva UK National Long-jump championship at Sheffield with a distance of 6.40 metres.

In March 2008 she won the USA National Collegiate Championships (NCCA) which were held at Minnesota State University, Mankato, clearing 5.94 metres in the long jump.

Andrew Owusu

Andrew attended the Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School (Presec Legon) and the University of Alabama, where he was an 8-time All-American with the Alabama Crimson Tide's Track and Field Team, competing in the long jump and triple jump.

Anja Valant

Her personal best jump for triple jump is 14.69 metres, achieved on 4 June 2000 in Kalamata and her personal best long jump is 6.54 metres, achieved on 18 May 1997.

Antonella Capriotti

Her personal best of 6.72 meters in long jump (established in 1994) still remains the third best performance ever in Italy after Fiona May's 7.11m and Valentina Uccheddu's 6.80m.

Chandi Jones

She was a basketball and long jump standout at Bay City High School in Bay City, Texas.

Chris Tomlinson

He attended Nunthorpe Secondary School, where he still holds many of its year group records for triple and long jump, before attending Prior Pursglove College in Guisborough.

David Sherwood

Sherwood is the son of John Sherwood, who won a bronze medal in the 400m hurdles at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, and Sheila Sherwood who won a silver medal in the long jump at the same Olympics.

Dawn Burrell

Burrell was runner-up to Shana Williams at the national indoor championships, but still was selected for the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships and she finished eighth in the long jump final.

Ed Hamm

At Lonoke High School, he won the state long jump for three years straight, 1923 to 1925, setting a state record of 23'2" his sophomore year.

George Kitchens

While attending Glenn Hills High School in Augusta, Georgia, he won the long jump at the 2001 national high school championships.

Gutterson Fieldhouse

He set an Olympic record with a 7.60 meter long jump, beating, among others, the great Jim Thorpe.

Inessa Kravets

Later that year at the 1992 Summer Olympics she claimed the long jump silver as part of the Unified Team.

Jasmin Feige

She had 6.63 metres as a personal best in the long jump, achieved in August 1985 in Zürich.

Jean Pickering

Desforges was an eight-time British champion in athletics, having won the 80 m hurdles four time (1949, 1952, 1953 and 1954), the long jump twice (1953 and 1954), and the pentathlon twice (1953 and 1954).

In 1953, Jean Desforges broke a British record and became the first British woman to long jump over 20 feet, when jumping 6.10 m in Nienburg, Germany.

Kerrie Taurima

The following year she won a silver medal in the long jump at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, coming in second place to compatriot Bronwyn Thompson.

Lonoke, Arkansas

Ed Hamm (1906–1982) - American track and field athlete, who won the gold medal in long jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Lotfi Khaïda

His personal best long jump is 8.05 metres, achieved in July 1994 in Sestriere.

Mapúa Cardinals

Henry Dagmil - Member of the Philippine track and field team; 2005 South East Asian Games Gold Medalist and record holder in the long jump event.

Mitchell Watt

As a 13 year old he competed in the GPS 100m, 200m, 400m relay, 100m relay, long jump, high jump, triple jump, shot put and discus, winning all of his events bar and discus with a respectable 4th.

National Tom Sawyer Days

Most of the competitions are inspired from the novels written by Mark Twain, for instance, the inspiration “Frog long jump” is from The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County which is Mark Twain’s first famous book.

Ndiss Kaba Badji

He has a personal best long jump of 8.20 metres, achieved in August 2004 in Sestriere.

Olga Rypakova

Her personal best long jump is 6.85 metres, achieved at the 2007 Universiade in Bangkok.

Pam Kilborn

At the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia, Kilborn became one of the stars of the Games, upsetting world-record holder Betty Moore in the 80 m hurdles race before winning the long jump contest ahead of two countrywomen Helen Frith (silver) and Janet Knee (bronze).

Paul Elvstrøm

He competed in eight Olympic Games from 1948 to 1988, being one of only four persons ever (the others are sailor Ben Ainslie and athletes Carl Lewis in the long jump and Al Oerter in the discus) to win four consecutive individual gold medals (1948, '52, '56, '60), first time in a Firefly, subsequently in Finns.

Phil Northrup

At the 1927 Penn Relays, Northrup won the javelin throw and finished second in the long jump to 1928 Olympic gold medalist Ed Hamm of Georgia Tech.

Sachiko Masumi

That year she placed second at the national championships, did a long jump/triple jump double at the corporate championship, and won the triple jump at the Japanese Games.

Sema Apak

At the 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Palembang, Indonesia, she won a gold medal in the 4x100 event with teammates Saliha Özyurt, Birsen Engin and Nimet Karakuş, a silver medal in the 4x400 event with teammates Özge Akın, Birsen Engin and Esma Aydemir as well as a bronze medal in the long jump event.

Suresh Babu

Suresh Babu led the Indian athletics team to the 1978 Commonwealth Games at Edmonton in Canada and won a Bronze medal for long jump.

Virginia Miller

Competing for the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks in 2000 and 2001, Miller set school records in the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meters, 800-meters, long jump and heptathlon.

Wen Yong Yang

Yang's athletes hold every school record in the jumps, including Kareem Streete-Thompson's outdoor long jump mark of 8.63 metres, which ranks him #8 all-time in the event.

Wilhelm Leichum

Wilhelm Leichum (May 12, 1911, Neu-Isenburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse – July 19, 1941, Gorky) was a German athlete who competed mainly in the long jump and 100 metres.