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This is a list of the NCAA Division I outdoor champions in the long jump. Measurement of the jumps was conducted in imperial distances (feet and inches) until 1975. Metrication occurred in 1976, so all subsequent championships were measured in metric distances. The women's event began in 1982.
The men's long jump at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 15 and 16 July 2022. [ 1 ] 34 athletes from 21 nations entered to the competition. [ 2 ]
The long jump has been part of modern Olympic competition since the inception of the Games in 1896. In 1914, Dr. Harry Eaton Stewart recommended the "running broad jump" as a standardized track and field event for women. [8] However, it was not until 1948 that the women's long jump was added to the Olympic athletics programme.
The long jump at the World Championships in Athletics has been contested by both men and women since the inaugural edition in 1983. The competition format typically has one qualifying round contested by two groups of athletes, with all those clearing the qualifying height or placing in top twelve advancing to the final round.
The men's long jump was an athletics event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. There were 54 competitors from 41 nations, with one athlete not starting. [ 1 ] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress.
World Athletics will trial a new format for the long jump ... At the same time we’re working out ways we can get instant results so you don’t have to wait 20-30 seconds before the result pops ...
This is a list of records in the sport of Track and Field at the Community College level in the ... Long jump (wind) Javelin 800m 13.78w: 1.83m 6'0" 10.30m 33'9½" 23.54w
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.