Sentences with phrase «commonwealth long jump»
Olympic, European and Commonwealth long jump champion looks ahead to this weekend's event and talks about his hopes of adding world gold to his medal collection
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The Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth long jump champion confirmed his intention to seek to add the global indoor title to his long list of accolades after a niggle and illness respectively kept him out of the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix and then the Indoor British Championships over the past two weekends.
The Commonwealth long jump silver medallist on the changes she has made and her experience recording the official anthem of Commonwealth Games England
The Olympic, European and Commonwealth long jump champion produced his best - ever mark on British soil and the joint second - best of his life at the Alexander Stadium despite having suffered injury problems in the run - up to the event.
A number of British athletes are in action, with Olympic, European and Commonwealth long jump champion Greg Rutherford among them.
Not exact matches
Also out in the field and New Zealand's shot put star Valerie Adams extended her unbeaten streak to 55 competitions, her first throw of 19.96 m her best to claim victory ahead of Germany's Christina Schwanitz, while Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor leapt his best in the final round of the long jump to move from fifth to first and beat Commonwealth silver medallist Zarck Visser of South Africa by just one centimetre — 8.09 m to 8.08 m. Britain's Greg Rutherford — gold medallist ahead of Visser in Glasgow — leapt a best of 8.04 m for fourth as just eight centimetres separated the top five.
Jamaica's Commonwealth bronze medallist Janieve Russell won the first Diamond League race of the evening, the 400m hurdles, in 54.16, while South Africa's Rushwal Samaai equalled the long jump meeting record with 8.38 m to beat Fabrice Lapierre by 2 cm.
It took just one jump — 6.89 m — for Shara Proctor to book her place in Thursday night's Commonwealth Games long jump final.
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