Introduction:
Long jump is one of the first disciplines that are practiced all around the world and long jump has not been deprived of genius athletes. When we enter a particular field or try to analyze the history of a particular type of leap, then it can be seen how any leaper in the long jumper has in some cases influenced the history of this true type of leaps in sports which have existed for decades. Taking through the time and considering present day’s long jumpers, here are the fifteen All-Time best long jump athletes.
15. Brittney Reese - USA
This is a brief profile of American long jumper named Brittney Reese. Currently she holds a title of the world champion and became the 2009 world indoor champion. Besides, she has a record in the long jump with 7.25m. Reese is known to be one of the leading long jumper and experts are looking forward for her to dominate the sport in years to come.
14. Ingrida Menkeviciute - Lithuania
Ingrida Menkeviciute is Lithuanian long jumper who has been in international sports since 1997. She is European indoor champion and has the national record for the event, 7.08 meters. Menkeviciute has been a consistent player at the international level, demonstrating regularity through out the years to some of the main championships where she reached the top 10’s.
13. Tatjana Kolpakova - Russia
Tatiana Kolpakova is a retired Russian long jumper, who rose to prominence owing to her world record jump of 7:37 meters in 1988. She also has the credit to have scooped a silver medal in the year 1987 world championships and a bronze medal in the 1988 Olympics. Kolpakova career was magnificent and made her one of the world’s most successful long jumpers.
12. Jackie Joyner-Kersee - USA
Heptathlete and long jumper Jackie Joyner Kersee is a well legend in this 80s and 90s period. She ranked one among the most successful athletes in the history of track and field and she is still a world record holder of the heptathlon. Heptathlon was the event for which she was known, but she was also a high jumper: She won gold medals in the high jump at the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games.
11. Heike Drechsler - Germany
Heike Drechsler is a former German long jumper as well as heptathlete referred to be one of the best athletes of all times. She is a three times Olympic champion in the long jump, world record holder, a 1986 IAAF World Championships in Athletics winner, and a two time Olympic Games winner (1988, 1992). Drechsler enjoyed a distinguished career which included 18 European Championship medals, six of them gold.
10. Evelyn Ashford - USA
Evelyn Ashford is a now retired American sprinter and long jumper who met her greatest achievement in the world Olympics. She is a four time gold Olympic winner in long jump in1984 and 1992 and 4×100m relay in 1984, 1988 and 1992. He is also a three times world champion in the long jump and an American record holder with 7.21 meters.
9. Fiona May - Italy
Fiona May is an Italian long jumper of British origin, who has had great results in international competitions. She has won Olympic medals twice, the silver medal in the 1996 Olympics and the bronze medal in the 2000 Olympics. May has also earned two silver medals at the World Championships and is also ex world indoor champion.
8. Ljudmila Konstantinova - The Russian Federation
Ljudmila Konstantinova is an ex-Russian long jumper who triumphed at the 1983 and 1987 world championships, and the 1980 Olympics. She also remember hold the record in the long jump with a record of 7.35m set in the year 1984. Konstantinova had high achievements in the sport since her ability was to perform at the elite level for more than ten years.
7. Women’s 100m champion: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jamaica
She is a Jamaican integration who is specialized in both sprints and jump event of athletics known as the Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. She is a two time Olympian, and won the event at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympics respectively. Fraser-Pryce is not only outstanding long jumper; she was the winner of gold medals at the World Indoor Championships in 2006 and 2010.
6. Carol Lewis - USA
A long jumper of United States of America whose performance in the international events is the well known. She has also been an Olympian twice and has claimed two medals-one silver at the 1984 Olympics and another bronze at the 1988 Olympics. He also earned a silver medal at 1987 World Championships and currently records 7.38 meters jumping thus making him the American record holder.
5. Mary Rand - Great Britain
I am talking about Mary Rand,a retired lady long-jumper from Great Britain who took home gold in 1964 and 1968 OlympicGames . She is also a two times European champion and currently holds British record having cleared 6.98 meters. This talented sportswoman also took part in the heptathlon and the winner of the 1966 European Athletics Championships.
4. Galina Chistyakova - Russia
Galina Chistyakova is one of the best Russian long jumpers who can set a record during her game in 1988 by 7.52 meters. She also claimed gold medals in the 1983 and 1987 world championships and the 1988 Olympic version. Her long career continued to blossom making her to be among the best long jumpers in Athletics history.
3. Tatjana Aleksandrova - Russia
Tatjana Aleksandrova is a World Indoor Championships long jumper who is from Russia she in the year 1991/1993 she was awarded a gold medal. She also became a two-time silver medalist of the 1995 World Championship while also being a holder of the Russian record of 7.32 meters. Alexandrova was also succeeding consistently in the major championships and became one of the top long jumpers of her talents generation.
2. Maurren Higa Maggi - Brazil
Maurren Higa Maggi is a Brazilian long jumper who has gold medals at the 1997 and 2001 at world championships and the 2000 Olympics. She also a bronze medal at the 1995 World Championships, and has the South American record with a 7.26 meters leap. Maggi Higa is one of most accomplished long jumpers of all time through her accomplishment in the sport.
1. Bob Beamon - USA
Bob Beamon is an American long jumper who sprang to what was once a world record 8.90 meters in 1968 Olympics. This leap broke the previous world record by 0.61 meters and today is still the record highest jump. Beamon also had a special triumph at the 1972 Olympic Games; he also has the current AMerican record measuring 8.68 meters.
Conclusion:
Every one of these 15 long jump athletes has had quite a memorable and noteworthy career – record breakers and medallists on numerous occasions at the highest levels of the sport. From Bob Beamon’s long jump record to the present day of Brittney Reeze’s world record, the heights of these splendid sportsmen-in-long jump cannot be overestimated. Their hard work and zeal to perform in this event have motivated all the future long jumpers to look forward to achieve greater heights.
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