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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: Atlanta, United States Pole vault: 4.91 m Katerina Stefanidi: 6 August 2017 World Championships: London, United Kingdom [18] Long jump: 7.03 m (+0.6 m/s) Niki Xanthou: 18 August 1997 Bellinzona, Switzerland Triple jump: 15.32 m (+0.9 m/s) Hrysopiyí Devetzí: 21 August 2004 Olympic Games: Athens, Greece [19] Shot put: 19.10 m ...
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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]
Day 10 of the Olympics brought us Simone Biles’ final competition in Paris, a big day for Americans on the track, not one but two important soccer matches and much more.
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 ...
Suni Lee competed in the Tokyo Olympics and won a gold medal for best all-around athlete at the time, in 2021. Last year, she began suffering from kidney ailments that hindered her ability to train.
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...