Operation Long Jump was the alleged German plan to assassinate or kidnap Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph ...

World Athletics will trial a new format for the long jump this year in a bid to reduce the number of fouls in competition – but the idea to change the long-standing event has received plenty of ...

Ivana Spanovic is a world-class long jumper from Serbia. She is a four-time Olympian and won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio. Spanovic has the third-best long jump indoors, a leap of ...

For 22 years, that mark had stood untouched. Generations of Indian long jumpers had come and gone without managing to cross it. On Day 4 of the championships, Ancy finally did.

The Tara Davis-Woodhall who is undefeated in the women’s long jump this indoor season appears to be the same gregarious athlete who won a silver medal in last year’s world championships in Budapest, ...

A proposed format change could shake-up the long jump at major track and field competitions, but will the idea take flight? That’s the big question for those involved in the sport right now, notably ...

GLASGOW, March 2 (Reuters) - Greek Miltiadis Tentoglou threatened to quit the long jump event shortly after winning the world indoor title on Saturday if the sport implements a rule change intended to ...

LSU track star JuVaughn Harrison will become the first man since Jim Thorpe in 1912 to represent Team USA in both the high jump and long jump at the Olympics after winning both at the trials over the ...

Skipping down the running track with a cowboy hat on her head and a grin across her face, Tara Davis-Woodhall hardly has the demeanor of an athlete about to win the biggest title of her career.

Making history at the Region IV track and field championships in the boys long jump on Friday morning at Dimond High School wasn’t the goal for Bartlett’s A’Lante Owens-Player. But the senior standout ...

JuVaughn Harrison is set to make history at Tokyo 2020, becoming the first American man since Jim Thorpe in 1912 to compete in both the high jump and the long jump. Harrison should be a contender in ...

Ancy Sojan shattered Anju Bobby George's 22-year-old women's long jump national record with a historic 6.88m leap at the National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships.