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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 ...
Greece competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with a team of 101 athletes in 17 sports. Greek athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, France, Great Britain, and Switzerland.
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.
Olympics events to watch today, including the women's gymnastics all-around final ... count-at-the-2024-paris-olympics-216079941856">Team USA leads in total medal count at the 2024 Paris Olympics ...
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 ...
2024 Paris Olympics results from Day 3: Team USA wins medals in swimming and men's gymnastics, and U.S. women's basketball debuts Yahoo Sports Staff July 29, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Gymnastics events have been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. For 32 years, only men were allowed to compete. Beginning at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, women were allowed to compete in artistic gymnastics events as well.