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 ...

Ivana Spanovic is a world-class long jumper from Serbia. She is a four-time Olympian and won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio. Spanovic has the third-best long jump indoors, a leap of ...

World Athletics will trial a new format for the long jump this year in a bid to reduce the number of fouls in competition – but the idea to change the long-standing event has received plenty of ...

Germany's Malaika Mihambo in action during the women's long jump qualification at the indoor European Championships. Olympic long jump champion Malaika Mihambo will cope fine if World Athletics ...

Aaron Rich (left) and his twin brother Ethan, seniors at Lyman Hall High School in Wallingford, both rank nationally in ...

The United States has captured another gold in track and field after Tara Davis-Woodhall won the women’s long jump at 7.10 meters. Davis-Woodhall, egging on the crowd with a "Skol" clap during her ...

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 ...

Possibly the greatest combination long and triple jumper of all time, Mike Conley was ranked top ten in the world an amazing ten times in the long jump and 14 times in the triple jump. A two-time ...

JuVaughn Harrison will compete in the high jump and long jump at the Olympics. He is the first American man since Jim Thorpe in 1912 to do both in the same Olympics. He stuck with the long jump in ...

The track stars won’t be the only athletes shining when events begin at Tokyo’s National Stadium on July 30. Some of the world’s best athletes in the long jump will put their talents on display during ...

The gold medal in the men's long jump at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro went to Jeff Henderson of the United States on Saturday night. At 8.38 meters, his winning jump was one-hundredth of ...