Sentences with phrase «olympic long jump»

Olympic long jump champion has changed training group and is planning some competitive sprint action in 2014 to help him on the runway

Former Olympic long jump champion gains gold after injury, while Katarina Johnson - Thompson impresses and Molly Caudery proves promise with pole vault win

There was a consistent series of jumps from Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford but US champion Jeff Henderson leapt into the lead in the fourth round and the Brit couldn't respond, his best at 8.19 m from the second round.

Olympic long jump silver medallist Luvo Manyonga achieved a superb 8.62 m (+1.2) African record and world lead during the regional Gauteng North Championships in Pretoria on Friday.

Olympic long jump champion is included in Britain's 23 - strong team for Portland, as Andrew Robertson gets nod over Sean Safo - Antwi for second 60m spot

Former Olympic long jump champion wants to be in medal - winning form should he decide to compete in Birmingham

The event also sees a return to the UK for Collins, who last year at the age of 38 ran a 100m PB of 9.97 at the Lausanne Diamond League, while double world and Olympic champion Mo Farah, Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford and world 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu are among the other athletes confirmed for the meet.

Two days before, he had won the Olympic long jump from his 1991 conqueror and the world - record holder, Mike Powell.

Not exact matches

The only day at an Olympic track comparable to this one was Oct. 18, 1968, when Lee Evans became the first man to break 44 seconds in the 400, with 43.86, some dozen minutes after Bob Beamon's prodigious record long jump of 29» 2 1/2».

Dan Bramble was fifth in the long jump while Allan Smith was the best performing Brit in the high jump final, clearing a season's best 2.27 m in fifth after Olympic bronze medallist Robbie Grabarz had three failed clearances at 2.21 m and placed 12th.

Long jumper Lorraine Ugen then resisted the charge of Jamaica's double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson on the anchor leg to take gold alongside teammates Asha Philip, Dina Asher - Smith and Bianca Williams.

Tomorrow's Muller Anniversary Games action will see reigning Olympic champion Mo Farah take to the track where he won 5000m gold four years ago, while Ennis - Hill and Johnson - Thompson will compete in the long jump alongside Shara Proctor.

The men's long jump was won by South Africa's Olympic silver medallist Luvo Manyonga with a PB of 8.48 m.

The Olympic champion in the long jump was beaten too.

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.

A number of British athletes are in action, with Olympic, European and Commonwealth long jump champion Greg Rutherford among them.

Olympic and world heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis - Hill will compete in the long jump at the Müller Anniversary Games on «Super Saturday», which is completed by a full programme of para-athletics events with the IPC Grand Prix Final taking place between 12 - 2 pm.

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.

World and Olympic champion Robert Harting threw a best of 68.24 m in the final round to secure his victory in style, with Moscow Worlds silver medallist Piotr Małachowski again runner up behind Harting with 65.45 m. Jeff Henderson called it a day after his personal best leap of 8.33 m in the fourth round of the long jump.

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 «grand slam» long jump champion continued his winning streak in Olympic year by leaping 8.20 m at the street athletics event, while Kim Collins and Dafne Schippers stormed to 100m victory down Deansgate

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

In the women's long jump, Jazmin Sawyers leapt 6.62 m to beat a field that included Olympic champion Tianna Bartoletta of the United States.

Olympic bronze medallist Ivana Spanovic won the long jump with 6.90 m from Britain's Lorraine Ugen with 6.80 m, while Shara Proctor finished fourth with 6.55 m. Spain's Olympic champion Ruth Beitia claimed another victory as she cleared 1.98 m in the high jump, while Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic beat Germany's Julian Weber and Olympic champion Thomas Rohler in the javelin with a PB of 88.02 m.

Derek Drouin, Mutaz Essa Barshim, Bohdan Bondarenko and Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov will contest the high jump, while Tianna Bartoletta of the United States heads to the Swiss city as world long jump champion.

Rutherford goes for gold in the long jump, Farah in the 10,000 m while Enns - Hill can be crowned in the heptathlon all in that order between 11:53 and 03:18 BST at the Olympic Stadium in Rio.

Two Olympic champions meet in the long jump as London Olympics winner Greg Rutherford, who jumped 8.35 m to win in Birmingham, takes on the American who triumphed in the triple jump at the 2012 Games, Christian Taylor.

Having bounced back from two no - heights in Ostrava and Braunschweig to win the British title last weekend, Steve Lewis again failed to register a height having entered the competition at 5.45 m. Lesueur's personal best of 6.92 m in the third round of the long jump competition secured her the win ahead of world and Olympic champion Brittney Reese with 6.87 m as Britain's Shara Proctor leapt 6.70 m for fourth, while Compaoré won the triple jump, beating Olympic champion Christan Taylor by one centimetre with 17.12 m.

The Paralympic long jump champion is set to go up against the Olympic champion in Scotland on February 20

Also he won Olympic Gold medals for the long jump in 92 & 96.

The long jump for men has been a modern Olympic event since 1896.

(Battersea Press Release) From long jumping Lurchers to hounds that can hurdle, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home are supporting the GB Team with their very own squad of animal athletes ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio next week.

Where the game's basic Olympic events are covered, you have your various dashes and long jumps and pole vaults, the game also decides to mix it up with mini-games and dream events that serve as a fantastic contrast to the generally dry feel of many events.