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Ewry took Olympic three gold medals in standing jumps in both 1900 and 1904, then won the standing high and long jumps at the 1908 Olympics, as well as the 1906 Intercalated Games. [3] After Ewry's retirement, Platt Adams became the winner of the final Olympic standing high jump competition in 1912. [4]
The men's high jump event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place between 30 July and 1 August 2021 at the Olympic Stadium. [1] 33 athletes from 24 nations competed; the total possible number depended on how many nations would use universality places to enter athletes in addition to the 32 qualifying through mark or ranking (no universality places were used in 2021).
The longest standing modern Olympic athletics record is Bob Beamon's achievement in the men's long jump at the 1968 Summer Olympics. [6] The jump, at 8.90 m (29 ft 2 in), also broke the existing world record by 55 cm (22 in), and stood as the world record for 23 years until Beamon's compatriot, Mike Powell, jumped farther in the 1991 World ...
Shelby McEwen, of the United States, competes in the men's high jump final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France.
Track & Field, also known as Hyper Olympic [a] in Japan and Europe, is an Olympic-themed sports video game developed by Konami and released as an arcade video game in 1983. The Japanese release featured an official license for the 1984 Summer Olympics .
TOKYO — Vashti Cunningham finished tied for sixth in the Olympic women's high jump, clearing 1.96 meters (6 feet, 4.3 inches) and failing to clear 1.98 meters.
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 ...
The game was originally released in Japan for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on July 24, 2019. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic delaying the start of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the game was not released outside of Japan and East Asia until June 2021, when it also released for Windows, Stadia, and Xbox One. The game features ...