Bob Beamon, who shattered the long jump world record at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, auctioned his gold medal for $441,000 on Thursday. The highest bid was $350,000 in a Christie’s auction. The ...

HEATH - One year ago Buckeye Central's Corbin Bloomfield's focus was on the quarter-mile with long jump just an event he happened to also do. He qualified for regionals in the 400-meter dash but bowed ...

CASPER — Taliah Morris leaned into the huddle of judges measuring her second attempt of the long jump preliminaries at the Wyoming Class 4A state outdoor track and field meet. The jump felt so good to ...

Making history at the Region IV track and field championships in the boys long jump on Friday morning at Dimond High School wasn’t the goal for Bartlett’s A’Lante Owens-Player. But the senior standout ...

SAINT-DENIS, France–She stood at the top of the Stade de France long jump runway as a postcard Parisian day slipped into an electric Olympic evening, the place she was always supposed to be. A place ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Razorbacks Wayne Pinnock and Carey McLeod placed second and fourth in the closest long jump competition in World Championship history as the gold and silver medals were decided by ...

SAINT-DENIS, France – She stood at the top of the Stade de France long jump runway as a post card Parisian day slipped into an electric Olympic evening, the place she was always supposed to be. A ...

Abby Mecklenburg of Linn-Mar became the first Iowa high school girl to surpass 20 feet in the long jump. / Linn-Mar Girls Track and Field/X There is a new all-time leader in the long jump in the state ...

Feb 20 (Reuters) - A plan to eliminate foul jumps from the long jump event is to be trialled this year, World Athletics CEO Jon Ridgeon said. Ridgeon believes the discipline needs to get rid of the ...

Tara Davis-Woodhall reacts after winning the women’s long jump and the gold medal during track and field at Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Saint-Denis on Thursday, August 8, ...