Long jump

Category: Athletics

The long jump is a test of Athlétisme where the candidates are exerted with Saut er further possible.

The athletes launch out in a race of dash on a rectilinear track, take an impulse on their best foot (or foot of call) right before a surface in Plasticine, and jump to land possible further in a sand vat. The athlete who exceeds the board of plasticine will not see his measured jump. It is said that it has bitten . The competitors generally have six tests and gaining it is that which carried out the longest measured jump. In the event of equality, one decides between the jumpers by taking into account the second best jump carried out.

The speed of race at the time of the impulse is determining, this is why of many sprinters good performances in long jump realize. The sprinter Carl Lewis was thus also brilliantly distinguished with the long jump (4 gold medals with the Olympic Games of Los Angeles in 1984).

The long jump was one of the tests of the ancient Olympic Games and it is present at the Olympic Games current.

Records (in the open air)

Male continental records

Female continental records

Chronology of the male world records

• October 18th 1968, with Mexico City: Bob Beamon (E. - U.) - 8,90
• August 30th 1991, with Tokyo: Carl Lewis (E. - U.) - 8,91 - not retained due to favorable wind
• August 30th 1991, with Tokyo: Mike Powell (E. - U.) - 8,95
• July 29th 1995, with Sestrières: Ivan Pedroso (Cuba) - 8,96 - the record was not approved because of an inattentive referee placed in front of the sensor of wind.

Chronology of the female world records

• June 4th 1983 with Bucharest: Anisoara Cusmir-Stanciu (Romania) - 7,43
• June 11th 1988 with Leningrad: Galina Chistyakova (the USSR) - 7,52

Chronology of the male record of France

• May 26th 1976 with Villeneuve d' Ascq: Jacques Rousseau - 8,26
• July 5th 1998 with Dijon: Kader Klouchi - 8,30

Chronology of the female record of France

• July 21st 1999 with Paris (Charléty): Eunice Barber - 7,01
• September 14th 2003 with Monaco: Eunice Barber - 7,05

See too

• Another long jump is the triple jump
• the other jumps are the Saut with the pole and the High jump .
• Glossary of the athletics

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