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13 hours ago · The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a group are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". This event has a history in the ancient Olympic Games and ...
13 hours ago · The first flopper setting a world record was the American Dwight Stones, who cleared 2.30 m (7 ft 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in 1973. In the female side, the 16-year-old flopper Ulrike Meyfarth from West Germany won the gold medal of the 1972 Munich Olympics at 1.92 m ( 6 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), which tied the women's world record at that time (held by the Austrian straddler Ilona Gusenbauer a year before).
