To be a good long jumper you have be a very capable sprinter. The fastest elite males will be taking off at near to 11 metres a second and females not too far off 10m/sec. At take-off the jumper will ...

Catch it live: The Men's Long Jump Final at the Paris Olympics will be held on Tuesday, August 6, at 2:20 pm ET. The Women's Final is on Thursday, August 8, at 2 pm ET. Whether an athlete wins gold or ...

Athlos, a women's only track and field series, is set to light up Times Square with a unique long jump competition.

The long jump is an event in track and field in which the athlete, after a quick run-up, takes off from the ground, trying to land as far away as possible on a platform filled with sand. In addition ...

Field events have been struggling to cut through to fans in recent years - street meets are a way of bringing back the crowds ...

LARAMIE — A completely reconstructed long jump technique led University of Wyoming freshman sprinter and jumper Taliah Morris to winning the first Mountain West freshman of the week award of her ...

WSU long jump revolutionary John Delamere, left and right, in the early 1970s; and Cougar head coach John Chaplin, center. (Photo: WSU Libraries) "Brilliant guy. Perfect score on the SAT … I told him ...