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Defending Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou returned as the world leader. Tentoglou was also the 2023 World Champion and 2022 silver medalist. Wang Jianan won in 2022, Simon Ehammer won bronze and is #2 for 2024. 2023 silver medalist Wayne Pinnock jumped well indoors in 2024 but didn't quite match it outdoors. 19 year old Mattia Furlani showed several good results in 2024.
Greece: 5.90 m Long jump details: Miltiadis Tentoglou Greece: 8.48 m Wayne Pinnock Jamaica: 8.36 m Mattia Furlani Italy: 8.34 m Triple jump details: Jordan Díaz Spain: 17.86 m Pedro Pichardo Portugal: 17.84 m Andy Díaz Italy: 17.64 m SB: Shot put details: Ryan Crouser United States: 22.90 m SB: Joe Kovacs United States: 22.15 m Rajindra ...
Olympic Games: Athens, Greece [17] 2000 m steeplechase: 6:35.19 Xenia Kasimirova: 5 July 2003 3000 m steeplechase: 9:30.72 Irene Kokinariou: 13 June 2008 Athens, Greece High jump: 2.03 m Niki Bakogianni: 3 August 1996 Olympic Games: Atlanta, United States Pole vault: 4.91 m Katerina Stefanidi: 6 August 2017 World Championships: London, United ...
The women's long jump was introduced over fifty years later in 1948, and was the second Olympic jumping event for women after the high jump, which was added in 1928. The Olympic records for the event are 8.90 m ( 29 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) for men, set by Bob Beamon in 1968, and 7.40 m ( 24 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) for women, set by Jackie Joyner-Kersee ...
Miltiadis "Miltos" Tentoglou (Greek: Μιλτιάδης "Μίλτος" Τεντόγλου [miltiˈaðis te(n)ˈdoɣlu]; [4] born 18 March 1998 [5]) is a Greek long jump athlete, who is 14th in the all time lists, but one of the best in terms of achievements, as he is a double Olympic Champion with multiple World and European titles also to his ...
Bengaluru, India [113] Long jump: 6.83 m (+1.2 m/s) Anju Bobby George: 27 August 2004 Olympic Games: Athens, Greece [114] Triple jump: 14.11 m (+0.9 m/s) Mayookha Johny: 9 July 2011 Asian Championships: Kobe, Japan [115] 14.14 m (+0.0 m/s) Aishwarya B: 13 June 2022 61st Inter State Athletics Championships Chennai, India [citation needed] Shot ...
The long jump is the only known jumping event of ancient Greece's original Olympics' pentathlon events. All events that occurred at the Olympic Games were initially supposed to act as a form of training for warfare. The long jump emerged probably because it mirrored the crossing of obstacles such as streams and ravines. [2]
The men's long jump event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place between 31 July and 2 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. [1] Approximately 35 athletes were expected to compete; the exact number was dependent on how many nations use universality places to enter athletes in addition to the 32 qualifying through time or ranking (1 universality place was used in 2016).