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 ...

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, ...

Germany's Malaika Mihambo in action during the women's long jump qualification at the indoor European Championships. Olympic long jump champion Malaika Mihambo will cope fine if World Athletics ...

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 ...

Here’s a recent Olympics story via the Associated Press: SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — One of America’s very best in the medieval-looking pursuit of hammer throw thought she had seen it all when it came ...

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 ...

BUDAPEST, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece was involved in yet another last-round drama as he won long jump gold at the World Championships when his final leap of 8.52 ...

The track stars won’t be the only athletes shining when events begin at Tokyo’s National Stadium on July 30. Some of the world’s best athletes in the long jump will put their talents on display during ...