DURHAM – Ever since he was a freshman, Rio Calle had been thinking about the state’s long jump record. Set in 1998, it was one of just a few that had stood since the previous century. On his final ...

State College senior Sanai Abdullah nailed a long jump of 19-2.0 that set a new meet record and basically gave her an insurmountable lead in the event at Saturday’s Jack Roddick Invitational Track and ...

Here’s the headline: Every single world jumping record, every one, is at least 20 years old. The most famous of the records, Mike Powell’s 8.95-meter long jump (roughly 29 feet, 4 inches) will turn 25 ...

David Powdrell of Highland stands alone no more. But he didn’t surrender his title as the state’s long jump record holder, either. The oldest and most venerable high school record on New Mexico’s prep ...

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Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Hailey Coey leaped an astonishing 21 feet, 0.75 inches in her final long jump attempt to break ...

FAYETTEVILLE – Razorback Henry Kiner set a meet record in the long jump as he reached a distance of 25 feet, 6 inches (7.77) while using a short approach during the Arkansas Spring Invitational at ...

STORRS- UConn track and field kicked off Day 1 of the Northeast Challenge at home in Storrs at the George J Sherman Family Sports Complex on Friday afternoon. The men's team concluded the first day in ...

CALN – Souderton’s Destini Smith broke a pair of meet records Friday at the District 1 Track and Field Championships. But one was a little unexpected. “I knew I could easily get the long (jump),” she ...

Arriving in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, triple jumper Jonathan Edwards made an unlikely purchase in duty free. He decided to pick up a pair of sunglasses – not for sunning himself on the city’s ...