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The long jump is an athletics (track and field)
Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
 event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far from the take-off point as possible.

Competitors sprint down a runway (usually coated with the same rubberized surface as running tracks, crumb rubber
Crumb rubber

Crumb rubber is a term usually applied to recycled rubber from automotive and truck scrap tires. During the recycling process steel and fluff is removed leaving tire rubber with a granular consistency....
 also vulcanized rubber) and jump as far as they can from behind a foul line (commonly referred to as the "board", and usually defined by the trailing edge of a takeoff board embedded flush with the runway surface, or a painted mark on the runway) into a pit filled with finely ground gravel or sand.






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The long jump is an athletics (track and field)
Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
 event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far from the take-off point as possible.

Competitors sprint down a runway (usually coated with the same rubberized surface as running tracks, crumb rubber
Crumb rubber

Crumb rubber is a term usually applied to recycled rubber from automotive and truck scrap tires. During the recycling process steel and fluff is removed leaving tire rubber with a granular consistency....
 also vulcanized rubber) and jump as far as they can from behind a foul line (commonly referred to as the "board", and usually defined by the trailing edge of a takeoff board embedded flush with the runway surface, or a painted mark on the runway) into a pit filled with finely ground gravel or sand. The distance traveled by a jumper is often referred to as the "mark" because it is the distance to the nearest mark made in the sand from the foul line. If the competitor starts the leap with any part of the foot past the foul line, the jump is declared illegal and no distance is recorded. At the elite level, a layer of plasticine
Plasticine

Plasticine, a brand of modelling clay, is a putty-like modelling material made from calcium salts, petroleum jelly and fatty acids. The name is a registered trademark of Flair Leisure Products plc....
 is placed immediately after the board to detect this occurrence. Otherwise, an official (similar to a referee
Referee

A referee is a person who has authority to make decisions about play in many sports. Officials in various sports are known by a variety of titles, including: referee, umpire, judge, linesman, commissaire, timekeeper or touch judge....
) will observe the jump and make the determination. The competitor can initiate the jump from any point behind the foul line; however, the distance measured will always be from the foul line. Therefore, it is in the best interest of the competitor to get as close to the foul line as possible.

Usually, each competitor has a set number of attempts to make his or her longest jump, and only the longest legal jump counts towards the results. Typically, competitors have three trial jumps with which to make their best effort. Higher level competitions are split into two rounds: trials and finals. In competitions containing a final round, only a select number of competitors are invited to return for further competition. The number of competitors chosen to return to the final round is determined before the start of the meet by a committee composed of coaches and officials. It is standard practice to allow one more competitor than the number of scoring positions to return to the final round. For example, if a given meet allows the top eight competitors to score points, then the top nine competitors will be selected to compete in the final round. Taking an extra competitor to the final round helps to allow that athlete to move into a scoring position if the competitor can improve on his or her best mark of the competition. Final rounds are viewed as an additional three jumps, as they do not have any priority to those scored in the trial round. The competitor with the longest legal jump (from either the trial or final rounds) at the end of competition is declared the winner. (For specific rules and regulations in United States Track & Field see Rule 185).

There are four main components of the long jump: the approach run, the last two strides, takeoff and action in the air, and landing. Speed in the run-up, or approach, and a high leap off the board are the fundamentals of success. Because speed is such an important factor of the approach, it is not surprising that many long jumpers also compete successfully in sprints. A classic example of this long jump / sprint doubling is performances by Carl Lewis
Carl Lewis

Frederick Carlton Lewis is a retired American Athletics athlete who won 10 Olympic Games medals including 9 golds, and 10 IAAF World Championships in Athletics medals, of which 8 were golds, in a career that spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired....
.

The long jump is notable for two of the longest-standing world records in any track and field event. In 1935, Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an United States Athletics athlete. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 metres relay team....
 set a long jump world record that was not broken until 1960 by Ralph Boston
Ralph Boston

Ralph Harold Boston is an United States Athletics . He was an all around athletic star, but he is best remembered for his successes in the long jump during the 1960s....
. Later, Bob Beamon
Bob Beamon

Robert "Bob" Beamon is an United States former track and field athlete, best known for his long-standing world record in the long jump at the 1968 Summer Olympics, which remained the world record for 23 years....
 jumped 8.90 meters (29 feet, 2-1/2 inches) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
1968 Summer Olympics

The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City in October 1968....
 at an altitude of 7,349 feet, a jump not exceeded until 1991. On August 30 of that year, Mike Powell
Mike Powell (athlete)

Michael Anthony Powell is a former United States athletics athlete, and the holder of the long jump world record.Mike Powell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
 of the United States, in a well-known show down against Carl Lewis, leapt at the World Championships
1991 World Championships in Athletics

The 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Olympic Stadium, Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1....
 in Tokyo, setting the current men's world record. Some jumps over have been officially recorded ( by Mike Powell himself, by Ivan Pedroso
Iván Pedroso

Iv?n L?zaro Pedroso Soler is a retired Cuban athlete specializing in long jump.In July 1990, still at the age of 17, Pedroso jumped more than 8 meters for the first time....
), but were not validated since there was either no reliable wind speed measurement available, or because wind speed exceeded 2.0 m/s. The current world record for women is held by Galina Chistyakova
Galina Chistyakova

Galina Dmitriyevna Chistyakova is a retired Athletics who represented the USSR and later Slovakia.She was born in Izmail, Ukrainian SSR.She trained at Burevestnik in Moscow....
 of the former Soviet Union who leapt in Leningrad
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
 in 1988.

History


The long jump was one of the events of the original Olympics in Ancient Greece. The athletes carried a weight in each hand, which were called halteres
Halteres (ancient Greece)

The term Hualteres comes from the Greek language word for dumbbells . In Ancient Greece sports, halteres were used as lifting weights, and also as weights in their version of the long jump, which was probably a set of three jumps....
. These weights were swung forward as the athlete jumped in order to increase momentum. It is commonly believed that the jumper would throw the weights behind him in mid-air to increase his forward momentum; however, halteres were held throughout the duration of the jump. Swinging them down and back at the end of the jump would change the athlete's center of gravity and allow the athlete to stretch his legs outward, increasing his distance. Most notable in the ancient sport was a man called Chionis
Chionis of Sparta

Chionis of Sparta was an athlete of ancient Greece who was most notable for his jumping records in the ancient Olympics. Records suggest that in the 656 BC Olympics Chionis jumped a then record of 7 meters and 5 centimetres....
, who in the 656BC Olympics staged a jump of 7.05 meters (23 feet and 1.5 inches).

The long jump has been part of modern Olympic
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
 competition since the inception of the Games
Summer Olympic Games

The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event, occurring every four years, organized by the International Olympic Committee....
 in 1896. In 1914, Dr. Harry Eaton Stewart recommended the "running broad jump" as a standardized track and field event for women. However, it was not until 1928 that women were allowed to compete in the event at the Olympic level (See Athletics - track and field
Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
).

The approach

The objective of the approach is to gradually accelerate to a maximum controlled speed at takeoff. The most important factor for the distance traveled by an object is its velocity
Velocity

In physics, velocity is defined as the Derivative of Position vector. It is a vector physical quantity; both speed and direction are required to define it....
 at takeoff - both the speed and angle. Elite jumpers usually leave the ground at an angle of twenty degrees or less; therefore, it is more beneficial for a jumper to focus on the speed component of the jump. The greater the speed at takeoff, the longer the trajectory of the center of mass
Center of mass

The center of mass of a system of wiktionary:Particles is a specific point at which, for many purposes, the system's mass behaves as if it were concentrated....
 will be. The importance of a takeoff speed is a factor in the success of sprinters in this event.

The length of the approach is usually consistent distance for an athlete. Approaches can vary between 12 and 19 strides on the novice and intermediate levels, while at the elite level they are closer to between 20 and 22 strides. The exact distance and number of strides in an approach depends on the jumper's experience, sprinting technique, and conditioning level. Consistency in the approach is important as it is the competitor's objective to get as close to the front of the takeoff board as possible without crossing the line with any part of the foot.

Inconsistent approaches are a common problem in the event. As a result the approach is usually practiced by athletes about 6-8 times per jumping session (see Training
Long jump

The long jump is an athletics event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far from the take-off point as possible....
 below).

The last two strides

The objective of the last two strides is to prepare the body for takeoff while conserving as much speed as possible.

The penultimate (second to last) stride is longer than the last stride. The competitor begins to lower his or her center of gravity to prepare the body for the vertical impulse. The final stride is shorter because the body is beginning to raise the center of gravity in preparation for takeoff.

The last two strides are extremely important because they determine the velocity with which the competitor will enter the jump.

Takeoff

The objective of the takeoff is to create a vertical impulse through the athlete's center of gravity while maintaining balance and control.

This phase is one of the most technical parts of the long jump. Jumpers must be conscious to place the foot flat on the ground, because jumping off either the heels or the toes negatively affects the jump. Taking off from the board heel-first has a braking effect, which decreases velocity and strains the joints. Jumping off the toes decreases stability, putting the leg at risk of buckling or collapsing from underneath the jumper. While concentrating on foot placement, the athlete must also work to maintain proper body position, keeping the torso upright and moving the hips forward and up to achieve the maximum distance from board contact to foot release.

There are four main styles of takeoff: the kick style, double-arm style, sprint takeoff, and the power sprint or bounding takeoff.

Kick

The kick style takeoff is a style of takeoff where the athlete actively cycles the leg before a full impulse has been directed into the board then landing into the pit.

Double-arm

The double-arm style of takeoff works by moving both arms in a vertical direction as the competitor takes off. This produces a high hip height and a large vertical impulse.

Sprint

The sprint takeoff is the style most widely instructed by coaching staff. This is a classic single-arm action that resembles a jumper in full stride. It is an efficient takeoff style for maintaining velocity through takeoff.

Power sprint or bounding

The power sprint takeoff, or bounding takeoff, is arguably one of the most effective styles. Very similar to the sprint style, the body resembles a sprinter in full stride. However, there is one major difference. The arm that pushes back on takeoff (the arm on the side of the takeoff leg) fully extends backward, rather than remaining at a bent position. This additional extension increases the impulse at takeoff.

The "correct" style of takeoff will vary from athlete to athlete.

Action in the air and landing

There are three major flight techniques for the long jump: the hang, the sail and the hitch-kick. Each technique is to combat the forward rotation experienced from take-off but is basically down to preference from the athlete. It is important to note that once the body is airborne, there is nothing that the athlete can do to change the direction they are travelling and consequently where they are going to land in the pit. However, it can be argued that certain techniques influence an athlete's landing, which can have an impact on distance measured. For example, if an athlete lands feet first but falls back because they are not correctly balanced, a lower distance will be measured.

Sail

The sail technique is one of the most basic long jump techniques practiced by competitors. After the takeoff phase is complete, the jumper immediately lifts the legs into a toe-touching position. This is useful, as it allows the competitor to move into the landing position early.

Hang

The hang technique works by lengthening the body to make it as efficiently long as possible. Here both the arms and legs are extended to reach a maximum distance from the hips to increase distance. This position is held until after the jumper reaches the apex of the jump, at which point the athlete will snap the legs forward into a landing position.

Hitch-kick

The hitch-kick is also known as "climbing" or "running in the air". This technique counteracts the athletes rotational velocity by cycling the arms and legs during the flight, and is also the most complex technique.

In-the-air techniques are generally selected by the athlete and coach during training based on an individual athlete's skills and experience.

When landing, it is the primary objective of the competitor not to fall back in the landing pit. The jump is measured from the location in which the body contacts the sand closest to the takeoff point. For this reason many jumpers will work on keeping their feet in front of the body at a maximum distance from the hips. Upon landing, competitors will often use their arms in a sweeping motion to help keep the legs up and the body forward. upon contacting the ground, the athlete will push their legs hard into the sand and rotate the body sideways, this slows the vertical (downward) momentum of the bottom and also rotates it to the side of the athlete trying to ensure that the heels are the furthest back body part.

Training

The long jump generally requires training in a variety of areas. These areas include, but are not limited to, those listed below.

Jumping

Long Jumpers tend to practice jumping 1-2 times a week. Approaches, or run-throughs, are repeated sometimes up to 6-8 times per session.

Over-distance running

Over-distance running
Running

Running is a means for an Terrestrial locomotion in animals on foot. It is defined in sporting terms as a gait in which at some point all feet are off the ground at the same time....
 workouts helps the athlete jump a further distance than their set goal. For example, having a 100m runner practice by running 200m repeats on a track. This is specifically concentrated in the season when athletes are working on building endurance
Endurance

Endurance is the ability for humans to exert themselves for long period of time. Usually used in aerobic exercise or anaerobic exercise. The definition of 'long' varies according to the type of exertion - minutes for high intensity anaerobic exercise, hours or days for low intensity....
. Specific over-distance running workouts are performed 1-2 times a week. This is great for building sprint endurance, which is required in competitions where the athlete is sprinting down the runway 3-6 times.

Weight training

During pre-season training and early in the competition season weight training tends to play a major role. It is customary for a long jumper to weight train up to 4 times a week, focusing mainly on quick movements involving the legs and trunk. Some athletes perform Olympic lifts in training. Athletes use low repetition and emphasize speed to maximize the strength increase while minimizing adding additional weight to their frame.

Plyometrics

Plyometrics
Plyometrics

Plyometrics is a type of exercise training designed to produce fast, powerful movements, and improve the functions of the nervous system, generally for the purpose of improving performance in a specific sport....
, including running up and down stairs and hurdle bounding, can be incorporated into workouts, generally twice a week. This allows an athlete to work on agility and explosiveness.

Bounding

Bounding is any sort of continuous jumping or leaping. Bounding drills usually require single leg bounding, double-leg bounding, or some variation of the two. The focus of bounding drills is usually to spend less time on the ground as possible and working on technical accuracy, fluidity, and jumping endurance and strength. Technically, bounding is part of plyometrics, as a form of a running exercise such as high knees and butt kicks.

Flexibility

Flexibility
Flexibility

Flexibility may refer to:*Flexibility , the range of motion of an anatomical joint, which may be increased by stretching*Flexibility , in the field of engineering systems design, designs that can adapt when external changes occur...
 is an often forgotten tool for long jumpers. Effective flexibility prevents injury, which can be important for high impact events such as the long jump. It also helps the athlete sprint down the runway.

A common tool in many long jump workouts is the use of video taping. This lets the athlete to go back and watch their own progress as well as letting the athlete compare their own footage to that of some of the world class jumpers.

Training styles, duration, and intensity varies immensely from athlete to athlete and is based on the experience and strength of the athlete as well as on their coaching style.

World Record Progression


Men

MARKATHLETEVENUEDATE
7.61 Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
1901-08-05
7.69Cambridge
Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
1923-07-23
7.76Paris1924-07-07
7.89Chicago1925-06-13
7.90Cambridge
Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
1928-07-07
7.93Paris1928-09-09
7.98Tokyo1931-10-27
8.13Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan. It is the state's seventh largest city with a population of 114,024 as of the 2000 United States Census, of which 36,892 are university or college students....
1935-05-25
8.21Walnut
Walnut, California

Walnut is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. The population is 30,004 and its current mayor is Joaquin Lim....
1960-08-12
8.24Modesto1961-05-27
8.28Moscow1961-07-16
8.31Yerevan
Yerevan

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia. It is situated on the Hrazdan River, and is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country....
1962-06-10
8.31Kingston
Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the Capital and largest city of Jamaica and is located on the southeastern coast of the island country. It faces a natural harbor protected by the Palisadoes, a long spit which connects Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island....
1964-08-15
8.34Los Angeles1964-09-12
8.35Modesto1965-05-29
8.35Mexico City
Mexico City

Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
1967-10-19
8.90Mexico City
Mexico City

Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
1968-10-18
8.95Tokyo1991-08-30
Source:

*Ireland in 1901 was still part of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name and the state form of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801 until 12 April 1927....
; however O'Connor considered himself Irish and was competing on this occasion as a member of the Irish Amateur Athletic Association. In the source above he is listed as "GBI/IRL".

Women

MARKATHLETEVENUEDATE
5.98Osaka
Osaka

is a Cities of Japan in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshu.Osaka is a City designated by government ordinance under the Local Autonomy Law and the capital city of Osaka Prefecture....
1928-05-20
6.12Berlin1939-07-30
6.25Leiden
Leiden

Media:Nl-Leiden.ogg is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands and has 118,000 inhabitants. It forms a single urban area with Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp, Voorschoten, Valkenburg, Rijnsburg and Katwijk, with 254,000 inhabitants....
1943-09-19
6.28Gisborne1954-02-20
6.28Moscow1955-09-11
6.31Tbilisi
Tbilisi

Tbilisi , is the capital city and the largest city of Georgia , lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form Tpilisi and it was officially known as ?????? in Russian, until 1936....
1955-11-18
6.35Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
1956-08-20
6.35Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
1956-11-27
6.40Erfurt
Erfurt

Erfurt is a city in central Germany. It is the Capital of the state of Thuringia with a population of 202,929 . Erfurt is located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 150 km N of N?rnberg and 180 km SE of Hannover....
1960-08-07
6.42Berlin1961-06-23
6.48Moscow1961-07-16
6.53Leipzig
Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
1962-06-10
6.70Moscow1964-07-04
6.76Tokyo1964-10-14
6.82Mexico City
Mexico City

Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
1968-10-14
6.84Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
1970-09-03
6.92Dresden
Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
1976-05-09
6.99Dresden
Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
1976-07-26
7.07Kishinyov1978-08-18
7.09Prague
Prague

Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
1978-08-29
7.20Bucharest
Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....
1982-08-01
7.21Bucharest
Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....
1983-05-15
7.43Bucharest
Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....
1983-06-04
7.44Berlin1985-09-22
7.45Tallinn
Tallinn

Tallinn is the capital and largest city in the Republic of Estonia and of Harju County. It occupies a surface of 159.2 km? in which 397,617 inhabitants live....
1986-06-21
7.45Dresden
Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
1986-07-03
7.45Dresden
Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
1987-08-13
7.52Leningrad
Leningrad

Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia* Soviet helicopter carrier Leningrad, of the Soviet Navy...
1988-06-11

Source:

Top Ten Performers

Accurate as of March 9, 2009.

Men

Mark*Wind**AthleteNationalityVenueDate
8.95 0.3 Mike Powell
Mike Powell (athlete)

Michael Anthony Powell is a former United States athletics athlete, and the holder of the long jump world record.Mike Powell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
 		 Tokyo August 30, 1991
8.90A 2.0 Bob Beamon
Bob Beamon

Robert "Bob" Beamon is an United States former track and field athlete, best known for his long-standing world record in the long jump at the 1968 Summer Olympics, which remained the world record for 23 years....
 		 Mexico City
Mexico City

Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
 		 October 18, 1968
8.87 -0.2 Carl Lewis
Carl Lewis

Frederick Carlton Lewis is a retired American Athletics athlete who won 10 Olympic Games medals including 9 golds, and 10 IAAF World Championships in Athletics medals, of which 8 were golds, in a career that spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired....
 		 Tokyo August 30, 1991
8.86A 1.9 Robert Emmiyan
Robert Emmiyan

Robert Emmiyan is a retired long jumper who represented USSR and later Armenia. His personal best jump of 8.86 metres, which he achieved in Tsakhkadzor in May 1987, is the current European record, and also the fourth best result of all time ....
 		 Tsakhkadzor
Tsakhkadzor

Tsaghkadzor is a city and a popular health resort in Armenia located north of Hrazdan in the Kotayk province . The 2008 population of 1,430 is a decrease of more than half of the 3,400 reported in the 1989 census....
 		 May 22, 1987
8.74 1.4 Larry Myricks
Larry Myricks

Larry Myricks was an United States athlete who mainly competed in the men's long jump event.He competed for the United States at the Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where he won the bronze medal in the men's long jump competition....
 		 Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the Capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. The United States Census estimated the city's population, Indianapolis , Indiana the Unigov, at 795,458 in 2006....
 		 July 18, 1988
8.74A 2.0 Erick Walder
Erick Walder

Erick Walder is a former United States long jumper.His personal best was 8.74 meters, achieved in April 1994 in El Paso, TX....
 		 El Paso
El Paso, Texas

El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, Texas, United States, and part of the . According to the United States Census Bureau 2006 population estimates, the city had a population of 606,913....
 		 April 2, 1994
8.73 1.2 Irving Saladino
Irving Saladino

Irving Jahir Saladino Aranda is a Panamanian long jumper. He is the current World and Olympic champion, and Panama's first Olympic gold medallist....
 		 Hengelo
Hengelo

Media:Nl-Hengelo.ogg is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel. The city lies along the motorways A1/E30 and A35 and is has a station for the International Amsterdam - Hannover - Berlin service, see Transportation....
 		 May 24, 2008
8.71 0.0 Sebastian Bayer
Sebastian Bayer

Sebastian Bayer is a German long jumper best known for having history's second longest indoor long jump.He won the silver medal at the 2005 European Junior Championships....
 		 Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
*** 		March 8, 2009
8.71 1.9 Iván Pedroso
Iván Pedroso

Iv?n L?zaro Pedroso Soler is a retired Cuban athlete specializing in long jump.In July 1990, still at the age of 17, Pedroso jumped more than 8 meters for the first time....
 		 Salamanca
Salamanca

Salamanca is a city in western Spain, the capital of the province of Salamanca , which belongs to the autonomous community of Castile and Leon ....
 		 July 18, 1995
8.66 0.2 Louis Tsatoumas
Louis Tsatoumas

Louis Tsatoumas is a Greece long jumper.He was born in Messene.On 2 June 2007 in Kalamata he jumped 8.66 metres, achieving a personal best....
 		 Kalamata
Kalamata

Kalamata is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The capital and chief port of the Messenia prefecture, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf....
 		 June 2, 2007
*(meters), **(metres/second),***indoor event, 2nd longest indoor jump of all-time: Carl Lewis reached 8.79 in New York, NY on 27/01/1984

A = Altitude (above 1000 metres)
Source:

Women

Mark*Wind**AthleteNationalityVenueDate
7.52 1.4 Galina Chistyakova
Galina Chistyakova

Galina Dmitriyevna Chistyakova is a retired Athletics who represented the USSR and later Slovakia.She was born in Izmail, Ukrainian SSR.She trained at Burevestnik in Moscow....
 		 Leningrad
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
 		 June 11, 1988
7.49 1.3 Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Jackie Joyner-Kersee is a retired United States athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the women's heptathlon as well as in the women's long jump....
 		 New York
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 		 May 22, 1994
7.48 1.2 Heike Drechsler
Heike Drechsler

Heike Gabriela Drechsler n?e Daute is a German track and field athlete. She is one of the most successful female long jumpers of all time and also had several successes in sprint disciplines....
 		 Neubrandenburg
Neubrandenburg

Neubrandenburg is a city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated in the southeastern part of the state, at the shore of a lake called the Tollensesee ....
 		 July 9, 1988
7.43 1.4 Anisoara Cusmir
Anisoara Cusmir-Stanciu

Anisoara Cusmir-Stanciu . is a former Romanian Athletics who competed mainly in the Long Jump.Cusmir-Stanciu improved the long jump world record four times between 1982 and 1983....
 		 Bucharest
Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....
 		 June 4, 1983
7.42 2.0 Tatyana Kotova
Tatyana Kotova

Tatyana Vladimirovna Kotova is an athlete who competes for Russia in the long jump. Her statistics are listed as:Her personal best was a jump of 7.42 m at Annecy in 2002....
 		 Annecy
Annecy

Annecy is a city in the Rh?ne-Alpes Regions of France in southeastern France. It lies on northern tip of Lake Annecy , 35 kilometers south of Geneva....
 		 June 23, 2002
7.39 0.5 Yelena Belevskaya
Yelena Belevskaya

Yelena Belevskaya is a retired athlete who represented the USSR until 1991 and Belarus since 1992. She trained at Trudovye Rezervy in Minsk. Competing in long jump, in 1987 she won a bronze medal at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics....
 		 Bryansk
Bryansk

Bryansk is a types of settlements in Russia in Russia, located 379 km southwest from Moscow. It is the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast....
 		 July 18, 1987
7.37 N/A Inessa Kravets
Inessa Kravets

Inessa Mykolajivna Kravets is an Ukraine triple jumper and long jumper.She jumped the world record at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg with 15.50m after studying a picture of Jonathan Edwards ....
 		 Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
 		 June 13, 1992
7.33 0.4 Tatyana Lebedeva
Tatyana Lebedeva

Tatyana Romanovna Lebedeva is a Russian Athletics who competes on the world stage in both the long jump and triple jump disciplines.In the finals of the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics, after equalling Ashia Hansen's triple jump indoor world record with her first jump, Tatyana then improved on this twice finishing with a...
 		 Tula
Tula, Russia

Tula is an industrial types of inhabited localities in Russia in the European part of Russia, located 193 km south of Moscow, on the river Upa River....
 		 July 31, 2004
7.31 1.5 Yelena Khlopotnova
Yelena Khlopotnova

Yelena Khlopotnova, n?e Stetsura is a long jumper who represented the USSR and later Ukraine. Her personal best jump of 7.31 metres, achieved in Alma Ata on 12 September 1985, puts her 9th in the all-time performers list....
 		 Alma Ata
Almaty

Almaty is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of 1,348,500 , which represents 9% of the population of the country.It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1998....
 		 September 12, 1985
7.31 -0.1 Marion Jones
Marion Jones

Marion Lois Jones, also known as Marion Jones-Thompson , is an United States former world champion Athletics . She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia but has since agreed to forfeit all medals and prizes dating back to September 2000 after admitting that she took performance-enhancing drugs....
 		 Zürich
Zürich

Z?rich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Z?rich. The city is Switzerland's main commercial and cultural centre and sometimes called the Cultural Capital of Switzerland, the political capital of Switzerland being Berne....
 		 August 12, 1998
*(meters), **(meters/second)
Source:

Best Year Performance


Men's Seasons Best (Outdoor)

YEARDISTANCEATHLETEPLACE
19608.21Walnut
Walnut

Walnuts are plants in the family Juglandaceae. They are deciduous trees, 10–40 meter s tall , with pinnate leaves 200?900 millimetres long , with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnut but not the hickory in the same family....
19618.28Moscow
19628.31Yerevan
Yerevan

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia. It is situated on the Hrazdan River, and is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country....
19638.20Modesto
19648.34Los Angeles
19698.35Modesto
19668.23Leselidze
19678.35Mexico City
Mexico City

Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
19688.90Mexico City
Mexico City

Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
19698.21Odessa
Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the Capital of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major port located on the shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 ....

Chorzów
Chorzów

Chorz?w is a city in Silesia, southern Poland with around 114,680 inhabitants and an area of 33.5 km?. Chorz?w is situated on the Rawa river on the Silesian Highland in the heart of the Upper Silesian Industrial Area, 7 km north-west of Katowice....
19708.35Stuttgart
Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
19718.23El Paso
El Paso

El Paso is a common Spanish placename meaning "the pass". It may also refer to:...
19728.34Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
19738.24Westwood
Westwood

Westwood may refer to:...
19748.30Modesto
19758.45Montreal
Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
19768.35Montreal
Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
19778.27Nova Gorica
Nova Gorica

Nova Gorica is a town and a municipality in western Slovenia, on the Italy border. Nova Gorica is a new town, built in 1948, when the Treaty of peace with Italy established a new border between Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Italy, leaving nearby Gorizia outside the borders of Yugoslavia and thus decapitating the area of the...
19788.32Rovereto
Rovereto

Rovereto is a city and comune in the province of Trento in Italy....
19798.52Montreal
Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
19808.54Moscow
19818.62Sacramento
Sacramento

Sacramento, an Italian language-, Spanish language- and Portuguese language-language word meaning sacrament, is a common Toponymy in parts of the world where those tongues were or are spoken....
19828.76Indianapolis
19838.79Indianapolis
19848.71Westwood
Westwood

Westwood may refer to:...
19858.62Brussels
Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
19868.61Moscow
19878.86Tsakhkadzor
Tsakhkadzor

Tsaghkadzor is a city and a popular health resort in Armenia located north of Hrazdan in the Kotayk province . The 2008 population of 1,430 is a decrease of more than half of the 3,400 reported in the 1989 census....
19888.76Indianapolis
19898.70Houston
19908.66Villeneuve d'Ascq
Villeneuve d'Ascq

Villeneuve d'Ascq is a Communes of France in the Nord Departments of France in northern France.It is located between Lille and Roubaix, at the crossroads of the principal freeways towards Paris, Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels....
19918.95Tokyo
19928.68Barcelona
Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
19938.70Salamanca
Salamanca

Salamanca is a city in western Spain, the capital of the province of Salamanca , which belongs to the autonomous community of Castile and Leon ....
19948.74El Paso
El Paso

El Paso is a common Spanish placename meaning "the pass". It may also refer to:...
19958.71Salamanca
Salamanca

Salamanca is a city in western Spain, the capital of the province of Salamanca , which belongs to the autonomous community of Castile and Leon ....
19968.58Springfield
Springfield

Springfield may refer to:*Springfield , the place name in general*Springfield , the fictional hometown of the Simpson family in The Simpsons...
19978.63Padua
Padua

Padua is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 ....
19988.60Bad Langensalza
Bad Langensalza

Bad Langensalza is a city in the County of Unstrut-Hainich, Thuringia, Germany, with a population of c. 18,500 ....
19998.60Padua
Padua

Padua is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 ....
20008.65Jena
Jena

Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. With a population of 103,000 it is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt....
20018.41Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
20028.52Palo Alto
20038.53Castellón de la Plana
Castellón de la Plana

Castell?n de la Plana is the capital city of the province of Castell?n , in the Valencian Community, Spain, in the east of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Costa del Azahar by the Mediterranean Sea ....
20048.60Linz
Linz

Linz is the third largest city of Austria and capital of the States of Austria of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately 30 km south of the Czech Republic border, on both sides of the river Danube....
20058.60Helsinki
Helsinki

Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....
20068.56Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , is the second largest city of Brazil and South America, behind S?o Paulo, and the third largest metropolitan area in South America, behind S?o Paulo and Buenos Aires....
20078.66Kalamáta
Kalamata

Kalamata is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The capital and chief port of the Messenia prefecture, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf....
2008
2008 in athletics (track and field)

This page contains an overview of the year 2008 in athletics ....
8.73Hengelo
Hengelo

Media:Nl-Hengelo.ogg is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel. The city lies along the motorways A1/E30 and A35 and is has a station for the International Amsterdam - Hannover - Berlin service, see Transportation....


Women's Seasons Best (Outdoor)

YEARDISTANCEATHLETEPLACE
19766.99Dresden
Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
19787.09Prague
Prague

Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
19796.90Potsdam
Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the Germany States of Germany of Brandenburg and is part of the Metropolitan area of Berlin/Brandenburg. It is situated on the River Havel, some 25 kilometres southwest of the center of Berlin....
19807.06Moscow
19816.96Colorado Springs
19827.20Bucharest
Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....
19837.43Bucharest
Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....
19847.40Dresden
Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
19857.44Berlin
19867.45Tallinn
Tallinn

Tallinn is the capital and largest city in the Republic of Estonia and of Harju County. It occupies a surface of 159.2 km? in which 397,617 inhabitants live....
19877.45Indianapolis
19887.52Leningrad
Leningrad

Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia* Soviet helicopter carrier Leningrad, of the Soviet Navy...
19897.24Volgograd
Volgograd

Volgograd , geographical renaming Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia....
19907.35Bratislava
Bratislava

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 427,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River....
19917.37Sestriere
Sestriere

Sestriere is an alpine village in Italy, a comune of the Province of Turin. It is 17 km from the French border. Its name derives from Latin language: ad petram sistrariam, that is at sixty Roman miles from Turin....
19927.48Lausanne
Lausanne

Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French language-speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva , and facing ?vian-les-Bains and with the Jura mountains to its north-west....
19937.21Zürich
Zürich

Z?rich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Z?rich. The city is Switzerland's main commercial and cultural centre and sometimes called the Cultural Capital of Switzerland, the political capital of Switzerland being Berne....
19947.49New York City
19957.07Linz
Linz

Linz is the third largest city of Austria and capital of the States of Austria of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately 30 km south of the Czech Republic border, on both sides of the river Danube....
19967.20Atlanta
19977.05Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
19987.31Eugene
Eugene, Oregon

The city of Eugene is the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, Oregon, United States. It is located at the south end of the Willamette Valley, at the confluence of the McKenzie River and Willamette River rivers, about 60 miles east of the Oregon Coast....
19997.26Bogotá
Bogotá

Bogot? ? officially named Bogot?, D.C. , formerly called Santa Fe de Bogot? ? is the capital city of Colombia, as well as the most populous city in the country, with 6,776,009 inhabitants ....
20007.09Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , is the second largest city of Brazil and South America, behind S?o Paulo, and the third largest metropolitan area in South America, behind S?o Paulo and Buenos Aires....
20017.12Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
20027.42Annecy
Annecy

Annecy is a city in the Rh?ne-Alpes Regions of France in southeastern France. It lies on northern tip of Lake Annecy , 35 kilometers south of Geneva....
20037.06Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
20047.33Tula
Tula

Tula may refer to:In geography:*Tula, Hidalgo, a town in Mexico*Tula, Tamaulipas, a place in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico*Tula River in central Mexico...
20057.04Sochi
Sochi

Sochi is a Russian resort types of inhabited localities in Russia, situated in Krasnodar Krai just north of the southern Russian border. It sprawls along the shores of the Black Sea and against the background of the snow-capped peaks of the Caucasus Mountains....
20067.12Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk is Russia's third-largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast....
20077.21Sochi
Sochi

Sochi is a Russian resort types of inhabited localities in Russia, situated in Krasnodar Krai just north of the southern Russian border. It sprawls along the shores of the Black Sea and against the background of the snow-capped peaks of the Caucasus Mountains....
2008
2008 in sports

2008 in sports describes events in world sport in 2008....
7.12Monaco
Monaco

Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a small sovereign city-state located in South Western Europe . The territory lies on the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea....


National records

  • As of October 20, 2008

Men

NATIONDISTANCEATHLETEVENUEDATE
8.95 m Mike Powell
Mike Powell (athlete)

Michael Anthony Powell is a former United States athletics athlete, and the holder of the long jump world record.Mike Powell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
 		 Tokyo 1991-08-30
8.86 m Robert Emmiyan
Robert Emmiyan

Robert Emmiyan is a retired long jumper who represented USSR and later Armenia. His personal best jump of 8.86 metres, which he achieved in Tsakhkadzor in May 1987, is the current European record, and also the fourth best result of all time ....
 		 Tsakhkadzor
Tsakhkadzor

Tsaghkadzor is a city and a popular health resort in Armenia located north of Hrazdan in the Kotayk province . The 2008 population of 1,430 is a decrease of more than half of the 3,400 reported in the 1989 census....
 		 1987-05-22
8.73 m Irving Saladino
Irving Saladino

Irving Jahir Saladino Aranda is a Panamanian long jumper. He is the current World and Olympic champion, and Panama's first Olympic gold medallist....
 		 Hengelo
Hengelo

Media:Nl-Hengelo.ogg is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel. The city lies along the motorways A1/E30 and A35 and is has a station for the International Amsterdam - Hannover - Berlin service, see Transportation....
 		 2008-05-24
8.71 m Sebastian Bayer
Sebastian Bayer

Sebastian Bayer is a German long jumper best known for having history's second longest indoor long jump.He won the silver medal at the 2005 European Junior Championships....
 		 Turin 2009-03-08
8.71 m Iván Pedroso
Iván Pedroso

Iv?n L?zaro Pedroso Soler is a retired Cuban athlete specializing in long jump.In July 1990, still at the age of 17, Pedroso jumped more than 8 meters for the first time....
 		 Salamanca
Salamanca

Salamanca is a city in western Spain, the capital of the province of Salamanca , which belongs to the autonomous community of Castile and Leon ....
 		 1995-07-18
8.66 m Louis Tsatoumas
Louis Tsatoumas

Louis Tsatoumas is a Greece long jumper.He was born in Messene.On 2 June 2007 in Kalamata he jumped 8.66 metres, achieving a personal best....
 		 Kalamata
Kalamata

Kalamata is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The capital and chief port of the Messenia prefecture, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf....
 		 2007-06-02
8.62 m James Beckford
James Beckford

James Beckford is a Jamaican athlete competing in the long jump....
 		 Orlando
Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a major city in Central Florida, United States and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida, Florida. It is also the principal city of Orlando-Kissimmee, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area....
 		 1997-04-05
8.56 m Yago Lamela
Yago Lamela

Santiago Lamela Tob?o is a Spain athlete competing in the long jump. His greatest year was 1999, when he jumped 8.56 during the indoor season to win the silver medal at the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships....
 		 Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
 		 1999-06-24
8.49 m Jai Taurima
Jai Taurima

Jai Taurima is a retired Australian athlete who competed in the long jump. He won a surprising silver medal at the Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics with a personal best jump of 8.49 metres....
 		 Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
 		 2000-09-28
8.48 m Mohamed Salman Al-Khuwalidi
Mohamed Salman Al-Khuwalidi

Mohamed Salman Al-Khuwalidi is a Saudi Arabian long jumper.His personal best is 8.48 metres, achieved in July 2006 in Sotteville. This is also the current Asian record....
 		 Sotteville
Sotteville

Sotteville is a Communes of France in the Manche Departments of France in Normandy in northwestern France....
 		 2006-07-02
8.47 m Andrew Howe
Andrew Howe

Andrew Howe is an Italian Athletics who specializes in the long jump and Sprint . He won this event as well as the 200 metres at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics....
 		 Osaka
Osaka

is a Cities of Japan in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshu.Osaka is a City designated by government ordinance under the Local Autonomy Law and the capital city of Osaka Prefecture....
 		 2007-08-30
8.46 m Leonid Voloshin
Leonid Voloshin

Leonid Voloshin is a retired triple jumper from Russia. He won the 1990 European Championships in Athletics in 1990 as well as two European Championships in Athletics titles....
 		 Tallinn
Tallinn

Tallinn is the capital and largest city in the Republic of Estonia and of Harju County. It occupies a surface of 159.2 km? in which 397,617 inhabitants live....
 		 1988-07-05
8.46 m Cheikh Tidiane Touré Bad Langensalza
Bad Langensalza

Bad Langensalza is a city in the County of Unstrut-Hainich, Thuringia, Germany, with a population of c. 18,500 ....
 		 1997-06-15
8.45 m Nenad Stekic
Nenad Stekic

Nenad Stekic is a retired Yugoslavia long jumper, best known for his two silver medals at the European Championships. His personal best was 8.45 metres, a European record, achieved in July 1975 in Montreal....
 		 Montreal
Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
 		 1975-07-25
8.43 m Ignisious Gaisah
Ignisious Gaisah

Ignisious Gaisah is a Ghanaian athlete competing in the long jump.Gaisah currently lives and trains in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He came to the Netherlands in 2001 and soon flabbergasted everyone at his local club by saying his personal best was 7,85 metres and started proving it as well....
 		 Rome 2006-07-14
8.41 m Craig Hepburn
Craig Hepburn

Craig Hepburn is a retired Bahamas long jumper, best known for finishing 13th at the Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics.His personal best is 8.41 metres, achieved in June 1993 in Nassau, Bahamas....
 		 Nassau
Nassau, Bahamas

Nassau is the Capital , largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 260,000 , nearly 80 percent of the entire population of The Bahamas ....
 		 1993-06-17
8.40 m Gregor Cankar
Gregor Cankar

Gregor Cankar is a Slovenian Athletics competing in long jump who won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics. He finished sixth at the Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's long jump....
 		 Celje
Celje

Celje is the List of cities in Slovenia city in Slovenia. Exhibiting the typical characteristics of a Central European city, it is the regional center of Lower Styria and the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name - the Urban Municipality of Celje ....
 		 1997-05-18
8.40 m Lao Jianfeng
Lao Jianfeng

Lao Jianfeng is a retired male PR China long jumper.He finished tenth in the long jump at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics and won the silver medal in triple jump at the Athletics at the 2002 Asian Games....
 		 Zhaoqing
Zhaoqing

Zhaoqing is a prefecture-level city of Guangdong Political divisions of China in southern China....
 		 1997-05-28
8.40 m Douglas de Souza Sao Paulo
Săo Paulo

S?o Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, and along with Tokyo, Seoul and Mexico City is among the four largest metropolitan regions of the world....
 		 1995-02-15
8.39 m Godfrey Mokoena Lapinlahti
Lapinlahti

Lapinlahti is a municipalities of Finland of Finland.It is located in the provinces of Finland of Eastern Finland and is part of the Northern Savonia regions of Finland....
 		 2006-07-16
8.37 m Bogdan Tudor
Bogdan Tudor

Bogdan Tudor is a Romanian long jumper, best known for his bronze medal at the 1994 European Indoor Championships in Athletics. His personal best is 8.37 metres, achieved in July 1995 in Bad Cannstatt....
 		 Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1995-07-09
8.36 m Carlos Calado
Carlos Calado

Carlos Nuno Tavares Calado is an Athletics from Portugal and S.L. Benfica, who specialises in the long jump.His last major competition was in triple jump at the 2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships in early 2005, where he was knocked out in the qualifying round....
 		 Lisboa 1997-06-20
8.35 m Sergey Layevskiy
Sergey Layevskiy

Sergey Layevskiy is a retired long jumper who represented the USSR and later Ukraine. He won a bronze medal at the 1985 European Indoor Championships in Athletics and a silver medal at the 1986 European Championships in Athletics....

Roman Shchurenko
Roman Shchurenko

Roman Shchurenko is a Ukraine athlete specializing in long jump. His personal best jump, which he achieved in July 2000, is 8.30 metres. The same year he became, surprisingly, the bronze medallist at the Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics....
 		 Dnepropetrovsk
Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
 		 1988-07-16
2000-07-25
8.34 m Nai Huei-Fang Shanghai
Shanghai

Shanghai is the List of cities in the People's Republic of China by population in China and one of the List of metropolitan areas by population in the world, with over 20 million people....
 		 1993-05-14
8.34 m Younes Moudrik Algiers
Algiers

Algiers Nicknamed El-Bahdja or Alger la Blanche for the glistening white of its buildings as seen rising up from the sea, Algiers is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea....
 		 2000-07-13
8.34 m Victor Castillo
Víctor Castillo

V?ctor Castillo is a Venezuelan long jumper.His personal best jump is 8.34 metres, achieved in May 2004 in Cochabamba.In 2007 Castillo was found guilty of using furosemide, a so-called masking agent....
 		 Cochabamba
Cochabamba

Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the Capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the list of cities in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people....
 		 2004-05-30
8.33 m Ivaylo Mladenov Seville
Seville

||-||}Seville is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of Andalusia and of the province of Seville ....
 		 1995-06-03
8.33 m Aleksandr Glovatskiy Sestriere
Sestriere

Sestriere is an alpine village in Italy, a comune of the Province of Turin. It is 17 km from the French border. Its name derives from Latin language: ad petram sistrariam, that is at sixty Roman miles from Turin....
 		 1996-08-07
8.31 m Hassine Hatem Moursal Oslo
Oslo

is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....
 		 1999-06-30
8.30 m László Szalma
László Szalma

L?szl? Szalma is a retired Hungary long jumper. He won six medals at the European Indoor Championships in Athletics—two gold, three silver and one bronze—and finished fourth at the Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1983 World Championships in Athletics....
 		 Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
 		 1985-07-07
8.30 m Andreas Steiner Innsbruck
Innsbruck

Innsbruck is the Capital of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn River Valley at the junction with the Wipptal , which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some 30 km south of Innsbruck....
 		 1988-06-04
8.30 m Kader Klouchi Dijon
Dijon

Dijon is a communes of France in eastern France, the capital of the C?te-d'Or Departments of France and of the Bourgogne Regions of France. Dijon is the historical capital of the provinces of France of Burgundy ....
 		 1998-07-05
8.30 m Ngonidzashe Makusha
Ngonidzashe Makusha

Ngonidzashe Makusha is a Zimbabwean long jumper. He is the Zimbabwean record holder with 8.30 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Des Moines, Iowa....
 		 Des Moines 2008-06-12
8.29 m Chris Tomlinson
Chris Tomlinson

Christopher George Tomlinson is an England long jumper.Chris began competing for Middlesbrough AC at the age of 10, mostly over 100m and 200m....
 		 Bad Langensalza
Bad Langensalza

Bad Langensalza is a city in the County of Unstrut-Hainich, Thuringia, Germany, with a population of c. 18,500 ....
 		 2007-07-07
8.28 m Grzegorz Marciniszyn Malles 2001-07-14
8.27 m Gable Garenamotse
Gable Garenamotse

Gable Garenamotse is a Botswana long jumper who won has won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games.In 1999 he won the triple jump at the African Southern Region Championships, and participated in both long jump and triple jump at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics....
 		 Rhede
Rhede

Rhede is a municipality in the Borken in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the border with the Netherlands, approx. 5 km east of Bocholt, Germany....
 		 2006-08-20
8.25 m Milan Mikuláš
Milan Mikuláš

Milan Mikul? is a retired triple jumper who represented Czechoslovakia during his active career.He won the silver medal at the 1989 European Indoor Championships in Athletics and finished fifth at the 1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships....
 		 Prague
Prague

Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
 		 1988-07-16
8.25 m Sergey Podgainiy Kishinyov 1990-08-18
8.25 m Masaki Morinaga
Masaki Morinaga

Masaki Morinaga is a retired male long jumper from Japan. He set his personal best in the men's long jump event in Maebashi on 1997-02-07....
 		 Shizuoka
Shizuoka

Shizuoka can refer to:* Shizuoka Prefecture - a Japanese prefecture with 3.7 million people* Shizuoka, Shizuoka - a city in Shizuoka Prefecture with 700,000 people...
 		 1992-05-05
8.25 m Erik Nijs
Erik Nijs

Erik Nijs is a retired Belgium long jumper.His personal best jump is 8.25 metres, achieved in July 1996 in Hechtel. This is the current Belgian record....
 		 Hechtel 1996-07-06
8.25 m Morten Jensen
Morten Jensen

Morten Jensen is a Denmark athlete. He primarily participates in long jump, 100 metres and 200 metres.He competed at the World Championships in 2005 World Championships in Athletics - Men's Long Jump and 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's long jump, the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships, the 2006 European Athletics Championsh...
 		 Göteborg 2005-07-03
8.24 m Stephan Louw
Stephan Louw

Stephan Louw is a Namibian long jumper.At the Athletics at the 2001 Summer Universiade he won the silver medal in long jump and participated in 4 x 100 metres relay....
 		 Germiston 2008-01-12
8.23 m Siniša Ergotic
Siniša Ergotic

Sini?a Ergotic is a Croatian long jumper.He won the gold medal the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis and the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics in Munich....
 		 Zagreb
Zagreb

Zagreb is the Capital and the largest city of Croatia. Zagreb is the Culture of Croatia, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Cinema of Croatia, Economy of Croatia and Government of Croatia center of the Croatia....
 		 2002-06-05
8.22 m Tommi Evilä
Tommi Evilä

Tommi Evil? is a Finland long jumper. He gained fame following his surprise bronze in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, which was Finland's only medal in the games....
 		 Göteborg 2008-06-28
8.21 m Mattias Sunneborn
Mattias Sunneborn

Mattias Sunneborn is a Sweden long jumper.His personal best jump is 8.21 metres, achieved in June 1996 in Malm?. This is the current Swedish record....
 		 Malmö
Malmö

is the third most populous urban areas in Sweden in Sweden, situated in its southernmost province of Scania.Malm? is the seat of Malm? Municipality and the capital of Sk?ne County....
 		 1996-06-27
8.10 m Erki Nool
Erki Nool

Erki Nool is an Estonian decathlete and politician.Nool is a winner of the gold medal for Decathlon in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Although Nool did not place first in any individual event, his total score was the highest....
 		 Götzis
Götzis

G?tzis is a town in the western Austrian province of Vorarlberg, Feldkirch .The town is well-known for it's annual hypo-combined events meeting, where some of the world's leading decathlon and heptathlon gather in the M?sle stadium....
 		 1995-05-27
8.08 m Mesut Yavas Istanbul
Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
 		 2000-06-24
7.96 m Rogel Nachum
Rogel Nachum

Rogel Nachum is a retired Israeli triple jumper, who's personal best was 17.20 meters, achieved in June 1992 in Seville.Nachum participated in three Olympic Games: Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000 were he carried the Israeli flag at opening ceremony....
 		 Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
 		 1990-06-18


Long jump on coinage


Track and field events have been selected as a main motif in numerous collectors' coins. One of the recent samples is the €10 Greek Long Jump commemorative coin
Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Greece)

Euro gold and silver commemorative coins are special euro coins Mint and issued by member states of the Eurozone, mainly in gold and silver, although other precious metals are also used in rare occasions....
, minted in 2003 to commemorate the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries....
. The obverse of the coin portrays a modern athlete at the moment he is touching the ground, while the ancient athlete in the background is shown while starting off his jump, as he is seen on a black-figure vase of the 5th century BC.

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