Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The British long jump athletics champions covers four competitions; the current British Athletics Championships which was founded in 2007, [1] the preceding AAA Championships (1880-2006), the Amateur Athletic Club Championships (1866-1879) and finally the UK Athletics Championships which existed from 1977 until 1997 and ran concurrently with the AAA Championships.
At the end of the 2016 season, Rutherford hosted a long jump competition using the pit he had built in his back garden, for members of his athletics club, Marshall Milton Keynes. [53] Although he did not compete in the long jump, he competed in the alternative standing long jump event, reaching a distance of 3.26 metres.
Lynn Davies CBE (born 20 May 1942) [1] is a Welsh former track and field athlete who specialised in the long jump. He was the 1964 Olympic champion in the event . Early life
Tara Davis-Woodhall (/ ˈ t ɑːr ə / TAR-ə; née Davis; born May 20, 1999) [2] is an American track and field athlete. She won a gold medal in women's long jump at the 2024 Summer Olympics and also a silver medal at the 2023 World Championships.
Considering her achievements and longevity, Ivana Španović is regarded as one of the greatest female long jumpers of all time, with her indoor 7.24m jump ranked 3rd in all-time records. [ 4 ] In 2013, Španović became the first Serbian track and field athlete to win a medal at the World Championships in Athletics .
Long jump 6.90 m, CR: European Championships: Zürich, Switzerland 4th Long jump 6.65 m: 2015 European U23 Championships: Tallinn, Estonia 1st Long jump 6.73 m: World Championships: Beijing, China 6th Long jump 6.79 m: 2016 European Championships: Amsterdam, Netherlands 3rd Long jump 6.65 m: Olympic Games: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4th Long jump 6 ...
At the 2022 World Athletics Championships, he qualified for the final round and finished seventh with a jump of 7.96 m. [12] At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, he won the silver medal with a jump of 8.08 metres and became the first male long jumper from India to win a silver medal at the Games. [13]
He became an 8-meter jumper in 2017, improving from 7.54 m (24 ft 8 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) the year before.Gayle finished fourth at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and took the silver medal at the 2018 NACAC Championships, where he improved his personal best to 8.24 m (27 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in).