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Women's bobsleigh. Representing Great Britain. Winter Youth Olympics. 2012 Innsbruck. Bobsleigh. Jazmin Sawyers (born 21 May 1994) is a British track and field athlete and sports presenter who competes in the long jump, representing Great Britain and England. In 2023, she won her first major senior title at the 2023 European Indoor ...
Mary RandMBE. Mary Denise Rand, MBE (née Bignal; born 10 February 1940) is a British former track and field athlete. She won the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, the first British female to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field. Until Emma Finucane in 2024, she was the only British female athlete to ...
Long jump. Fiona May (born 12 December 1969) is a retired track and field athlete who competed for the United Kingdom and later Italy in the long jump. She won the World Championships twice and two Olympic silver medals. Her personal best jump was 7.11 metres, which was her silver medal result at the 1998 European Championships.
Jessica Ennis-Hill. Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill[1] DBE OLY (née Ennis; born 28 January 1986 [3]) is a British retired athlete, specialising in the heptathlon and 100 metres hurdles. As a competitor in heptathlon, she is the 2012 Olympic champion, a three-time world champion (2009, 2011, 2015), and the 2010 European champion. [4][5] She is also the ...
Representing Great Britain. Women's athletics. Commonwealth Youth Games. 2008 Pune. Long jump. Abigail Irozuru (born 3 January 1990, in Manchester) is an English track and field athlete, specialising in long jump. [1] She was sponsored by Virgin Trains West Coast and had a Class 390 Pendolino train named after her in September 2011.
Long jump. Representing England. Commonwealth Games. 2018 Gold Coast. 4 × 100m relay. Lorraine Ugen (born 22 August 1991) is an English long jumper and occasional 100 m sprinter with respective personal bests of 7.05 m and 11.32 s. [2] Ugen competed for Great Britain at the 2016 Olympics in Rio in the long jump, finishing in eleventh place.
The Olympic records for the event are 8.90 m (29 ft 21⁄4 in) for men, set by Bob Beamon in 1968, and 7.40 m (24 ft 31⁄4 in) for women, set by Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1988. Beamon's mark is the longest-standing Olympic athletics record by a margin of twelve years, which was the only time a man has set a long jump world record at the ...
4×100 m relay. Representing England. British Empire and Commonwealth Games. 1962 Perth. 4×110 yd relay. Ann Elizabeth Packer MBE (born 8 March 1942) is an English former sprinter, hurdler and long jumper. She won a gold medal in the 800 metres and a silver in the 400 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics. [1]