Sentences with phrase «world long jump»

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.

The additions to the team were confirmed on the day that it was announced that Greg Rutherford is to miss the defence of his world long jump title through injury (read more here).

World long jump silver medallist Shara Proctor, who is second on the 2016 world list, was picked after missing the trials with a niggle, while Lynsey Sharp, who finished third at the trials in Sheffield behind surprise winner Adelle Tracey, has been selected for the second 800m spot.

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He fell from the world's No. 1 ranking in both the 100 meters and the long jump for the first time since 1981.

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.

Drechsler had finished second in the 100 meters to teammate Silke Gladisch, but she skipped the 200 (a race in which she is ranked No. 1 in the world) to be rested for Joyner - Kersee's challenge in the long jump.

«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.

Carl Lewis earlier had overcome a bad stomach to win the long jump, with a leap of 28» 5 1/2», from the Soviet Union's Robert Emmiyan (28» 0»), but left a sour - grape taste in a few mouths with remarks on British TV to the effect that some winners in the Worlds had used performance - enhancing drugs.

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.

the 28 year old would surely jump at the chance of a return as long as he was guaranteed a decent run in the first team as he would not be keen, so close to a World Cup, to find himself warming the bench.

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.

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

at the World University Games in Turin, Italy, by East Germany's WOLFGANG NORDWIG, who pole - vaulted 17» 11» to break his own mark by half an inch, and HEIDE ROSENDAHL of West Germany, who added less than an inch to her old long - jump standard of 22» 5 1/4».

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

His next challenge will be the World Championships in Beijing next month with Rutherford keeping his fingers crossed for favourable weather in which to train on his ready - made long jump pit at home.

Long jumper Greg Rutherford still has sights set on the World Indoor Championships despite pulling out of this weekend's British trials due to illness.

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.

Tianna Bartoletta needed to do no more after her world leading 7.02 m in the second round of the long jump competition as no other athlete could also break the seven metre barrier.

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.

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.

Two athletes made the automatic qualifying mark of 6.70 m in the women's long jump — Serbia's world bronze medallist Ivana Španović (6.77 m) and Russia's two - time European indoor champion Darya Klishina.

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.

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 women's long jump competition had looked set to be a top contest and it lived up to expectations as Reese claimed her third world indoor title and sixth world title overall with a superb 7.22 m in the final round.

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

I did everything I could, but a string of injuries at the worst possible time means I will be unable to defend my world title in London,» said Rutherford, who opened his long jump season with a leap of 8.18 m at the Arcadis Great CityGames Manchester in May.

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.

Johnson - Thompson, who claimed world indoor long jump silver in 2014 and the European indoor pentathlon title in 2015, is also looking for a strong performance in Birmingham to start an important year on a positive note.

Three more medallists go in the men's shot put, with USA's winner Ryan Crouser again going up against his compatriot and world champion Joe Kovacs, plus Tom Walsh of New Zealand, while Spain's high jump champion Ruth Beitia and USA's long jump winner Tianna Bartoletta are back in action, with the American again facing Britain's Lorraine Ugen and Shara Proctor.

Over in the field events, recently - crowned British champion Greg Rutherford will continue his return from injury in the long jump, while in the women's high jump, world champion Maria Lasitskene will look to extend her winning streak as she forms part of a field also including Britain's Morgan Lake.

Britain's Shara Proctor, who won the Diamond League long jump overall last year, will have her work cut out as she takes on world No. 1 Tianna Bartoletta.

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.

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.

World triple jump champion Caterine Ibarguen faces a threat to her 24 - meeting long winning streak in the shape of Russian Yekaterina Koneva.

At last year's IAAF World Championships in Beijing, Johnson - Thompson bombed out after failing her long jump attempts and in Gotzis she looked shaky after failing to improve on a modest opening round leap of 6.17 m at the start of the second day.

The world indoor long jump silver medallist felt the victory was her biggest breakthrough so far — more so than her fifth place at last year's Worlds in Moscow.

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 AWorld 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 Aworld 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 AWorld 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.

It is not often that a woman jumps over seven metres, indoors or out, but USA's Brittney Reese sailed well past that barrier in today's long jump final to successfully defend her title at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul as Britain's Shara Proctor took bronze.

Grabowski and her colleagues found that Rehm and other world - class long jumpers with a below - the - knee amputation use a fundamentally different technique than competitors who do not need a prosthesis.

Thus, long jump Olympians of the Archaeopteryx world may have spurred the evolution of flight.

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