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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Tara Davis-Woodhall who is undefeated in the women’s long jump this indoor season appears to be the same gregarious athlete who won a silver medal in last year’s world championships in Budapest, ...

Larissa Iapichino’s face said it all: hands on her head and mouth agape, it was the look of someone who could scarcely believe what she had just achieved. Even now, two-and-a-half months on from 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 ...