4½ in. – snapping Carl Lewis’ 10-year, 65-meet long jump winning streak – 30 years ago this week. Powell’s world record long jump at the Tokyo 1991 IAAF World Championships still stands ...

While Jarryd Wallace and Derek Loccident also achieved world records in the long jump event, those were wind-assisted attempts. After his historic performance, the L.A. resident joined his fellow ...

And now he's after another. This time he's going after the world record for the longest ramp jump in a car. The record currently belongs to Tanner Foust at 332 feet, but Chicherit plans to break ...

3:15 -- The "Buckeye Bullet" ran the 100-yard dash in 9.4 seconds to tie the world record. 3:25 -- In his only long jump, he leaped 26-8 1/4, a world record that would last 25 years. 3:34 -- His ...

Greg Rutherford won long jump gold for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympic Games World Athletics is planning to introduce a new trial for measuring long jump take-offs. A "take-off zone ...

Men’s triple jump: 18.29m, Jonathan Edwards (GB ... That put him 12th on the all-time list and, while the world record probably remains a long shot, he is now within sight of it.

Cuban athletics has suffered a significant exodus of talent in recent months Thirty years after setting long jump world record, Mike Powell looks back at the feat and forward to Los Angeles 2028 ...

In the long jump, she tied the then-world record of 24-5½ at the 1987 Pan-Am Games. By winning a gold (1988) and two bronzes (1992 and 1996), she became the most decorated woman in U.S. Olympic ...

long jump, triple jump and her flagship event, the high jump. She produced a pentathlon high jump World Record of 6-4.25 and tied Jackie Joyner-Kersee for heptathlon high jump American Record of 6-4.

World Athletics is planning to introduce a new trial for measuring long jump take-offs. A "take-off zone" could be used instead of the traditional wooden board, where a no-jump is called if the ...