Sentences with phrase «long jump record»

«I'm really excited to get back on the runway where I was fortunate enough to set a British indoor long jump record last time the event was there in 2015.»

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Average pay for long - haul truckers jumped 17 percent since the end of 2013 to a record average of $ 57,000 in 2015, according to the National Transportation Institute.

U.S. oil inventories declined for 10 straight weeks as of January 24, the longest stretch ever recorded, before jumping again in the week ended January 31.

On June 12, 2003, Way got in touch with his inner Evel Knievel to set a Guinness World Record for longest distance jumped (75 feet) and highest air on a vert pipe (23» 5»)-- in one continuous run.

«We adjusted her training to allow her to long - jump at the Pan Am Games [where Joyner - Kersee tied East Germany's Heike Drechsler's world record of 24» 5 1/2],» he said.

In 1991 Powell not only broke the most astounding record ever — Bob Beamon's long jump standard of 29» 2 1/2», set in 1968 — but also produced his 29» 4 1/2» in the greatest mano a mano battle in field event history, defeating Carl Lewis, who also jumped his lifetime best, 29» 1 1/4», in the World Championships in Tokyo.

The 12 athletes — Pyka, Atwood, Tully, Crain, Dave McKenzie, the U.S. record holder in the hammer throw, triple - jumper Mike Marlow, shotputter Jesse Stuart, discus throwers Paul Bishop and Greg McSeveney, hammer thrower John McArdle, long - jumper Randy Williams, and hurdler Mark Patrick — had put their trust in their coaches and the USOC staff.

With framed photos of the race's past champions and the national flags of all the winners, with a high jump bar 8» 1/2» off the floor (Javier Sotomayor's world record) and a strip of tape on the floor measuring 29» 41/2» (Mike Powell's long jump world record), the Eliot was part shrine, part social club.

Houston's CAROL LEWIS jumped a meet - record 22» 1» for her second long jump title.

On the men's side, there is Kevin Bickner, who now holds the record for longest jump in U.S. ski jump history.

His wife, the former Mary Rand, who won a gold medal in the long jump — and set a world record — for Great Britain in the 1964 Olympics, listened patiently for a while.

San Clemente, Calif. (JSerra Catholic) 10/23/1995 (age 22.5) # 8 BACKGROUND: A three - star athlete recruit out of high school, Dante Pettis was a four - sport star at Junipero Serra Catholic, spending his time balancing baseball, basketball, football and track — set the Orange County record in the long - jump (24» 07»), running a personal - best 21.84 in the 200 - meters.

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

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».

Fry also equalled the then - world record for the long jump.

England's female long jumpers also impressed with Shara Proctor leading from the front, recording 6.89 m with her first attempt.

Serbia's Ivana Spanovic enjoyed her best ever season's opener as she jumped a meeting record of 6.95 m in the first round of the long jump to claim victory ahead of Canada's Christabel Nettey who leapt a best of 6.75 m in the fifth round.

The Commonwealth long jump silver medallist on the changes she has made and her experience recording the official anthem of Commonwealth Games England

The sell - out Anniversary Games crowd was treated to two British records in quick succession on Saturday afternoon as first Dina Asher - Smith stormed to a time of 10.99 in a 100m heat and moments later Shara Proctor soared out to 6.98 m in the long jump.

After claiming world indoor bronze and European outdoor silver last year, Ivana Spanovic won long jump gold in Prague, the 24 - year - old leaping a Serbian record of 6.98 m.

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.

Those who travelled from further afield made history of their own, too: China won their first ever world 60m medal thanks to Su Bingtian, the sprinter running the fastest ever time recorded by an athlete from Asia, while South Africa scooped a world - class silver medal of their own courtesy of Luvo Manyonga in the long jump, their first world indoor medal for eight years.

Two athletes over seven metres in top long jump final which saw Lorraine Ugen equal the British indoor record, while Trayvon Bromell won the 60m title ahead of Asafa Powell at the IAAF World Indoor Championships

The 22 - year - old's leap of 6.75 m in Birmingham, which she backed up with 6.72 m in the final round, saw her claim the British long jump title ahead of world silver medallist and UK record - holder Shara Proctor and it also secured her spot on the Great Britain team for her first Olympics in Rio next month.

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.

Okagbare added 200m victory in a meeting record time to her long jump win from earlier on in the evening.

Home fans were treated to wins in the field from world pole vault record - holder Lavillenie, world indoor long jump champion Éloyse Lesueur and Benjamin Compaoré in the triple jump.

Katarina Johnson - Thompson proved that she has been working hard to put to rest the demons of Beijing where three fouls saw her fail to record a mark in the long jump, ending her world gold medal hopes in the heptathlon.

A hamstring tear sustained at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Karlsruhe at the beginning of the month means the 26 - year - old can't aspire to repeat her 2016 and 2017 levels of indoors success, which included world and European long jump medals, an overall World Indoor Tour series win and a British indoor record leap of 6.97 m. Instead, her focus is now on rehabbing right to make sure she is in the best possible shape for Australia in April.

Fresh from breaking the British high jump record at the British Championships in Sheffield last weekend, Katarina Johnson - Thompson continued her record - breaking ways but this time in the long jump.

Former and current officeholders also recorded messages for Long and a full list is found after the jump.

French rally driver and professional skier Guerlain Chicherit's attempt to beat Tanner Foust's Guinness World Record for the longest car jump ended badly on March 18.

Jaguar had to do something different, and it did just that by setting a new Guinness World Record for the longest barrel roll of any production vehicle, doing so by hitting a 50 foot - long jump and completing a 270 - degree corkscrew in the process.

Do you know that a flea can break the current world record for long jump in the Olympics by about 970 feet if it were the size of a human athlete?

A cat named Alley even broke the Guinness World Record for longest cat jump.

UHI effects will generally lead to long term trends in an affected station (relative to a rural counterpart), whereas micro-site changes could lead to jumps in the record (of any sign)-- some of which can be very difficult to detect in the data after the fact.

Before jumping to conclusions, there needs to be much better justification of the basic assumption that we just happen to be sitting at a time when GHG forcing is larger than all other potential long term (longer than the observational record) oceanic imbalances.

Considering the un-adjusted data for the six nearest stations with long and continuous records (old Brisbane aero, Cape Moreton Lighthouse, Gayndah post office, Bundaberg post office, Miles post office and Yamba pilot station) the Bureau's jump - up for Amberley creates an increase for the official temperature trend of 0.75 °C per century.

My focal position was recording distances of the long jumpers.

Neurodevelopmental characteristics encompassed a count of perinatal insults, which included any of 12 prenatal or 12 neonatal problems recorded by physicians during the mother's pregnancy.29 Gross motor skills (eg, standing long jump, balance) were measured with the Bayley Motor Scale30 at age 3 years, the McCarthy Motor Scales31 at age 5 years, and the Basic Motor Ability Test32 at ages 7 and 9 years.