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Lewis was a dominant sprinter and long jumper whose career spanned from 1979 to 1996, when he last won the Olympic long jump. He is one of six athletes to win gold in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympic Games, and is one of two people to win gold in the same individual athletics event in four Olympic Games, along with USA ...
Powell fouled, and Lewis made his second best wind-legal jump of 8.84 m (29 ft 0.03 in). Thus the competition included three of the five best wind-legal long-jumps ever; two of them by Carl Lewis, plus a wind-aided jump by Lewis beyond the then world record (a record he had been chasing for ten years), yet Lewis still finished in second place.
The event is best-remembered for the men's long jump competition, when Carl Lewis made the best six-jump series in history, only to be beaten by Mike Powell, whose 8.95 m (29 ft 4.36 in) jump broke Bob Beamon's long-standing world record from the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Lewis' 1991 jump of 8.87 meters remains third on the world all-time list, and he won gold in the event at four consecutive Olympic Games. He was joined by a group of other accomplished athletes in ...
A proposed change to the long jump has stirred debate in the track and field community, so much so that even 9-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis has spoken out.
The event was won by 21cm by Carl Lewis of the United States, the nation's fourth consecutive and 20th overall gold medal in the men's long jump. Lewis himself had won the four straight victories, becoming the third Olympian to win the same event four times in a row (after Al Oerter and Paul Elvstrøm, counting the latter's wins in the Firefly ...
— Carl Lewis (@Carl_Lewis) August 9, 2024. Lewis, now the head track coach at the University of Houston, won nine Olympic gold medals as a sprinter and long jumper.
The event was won by 30 cm by Carl Lewis of the United States, the nation's 17th gold medal in the event. It was Lewis's second gold of the Games as he tried (successfully) to match Jesse Owens 's 1936 quadruple (100 metres, 200 metres, 4 × 100 metres relay, and long jump).