Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins, who won Empire Games gold for Northern Ireland and held the world record, ...

An athlete who won a gold medal after a record-breaking long jump has described the moment she was named European champion. "It was so special, you can see how much it meant to me," said Jazmin ...

The video released today shows a truck breaking the world record for longest jump ever completed by a truck. Lotus F1 wasn't content to make just any commercial for their technology partner EMC ...

At the age of just 19, the Italian jumps talent became an Olympic medallist, a world indoor medallist, a European medallist ...

The then 70-year-old athlete returned to the Cherryvale Playing Fields in 2006 for the unveiling of a plaque commemorating her world record achievement. Hopkins' Northern Ireland long jump record ...

Six months later, Hopkins – aged 20 – won silver at the Olympic Games in Melbourne representing Great Britain. She also ...

And now he's after another. This time he's going after the world record for the longest ramp jump in a car. The record currently belongs to Tanner Foust at 332 feet, but Chicherit plans to break ...

3:15 -- The "Buckeye Bullet" ran the 100-yard dash in 9.4 seconds to tie the world record. 3:25 -- In his only long jump, he leaped 26-8 1/4, a world record that would last 25 years. 3:34 -- His ...

Before Beamon's leap, the farthest long jump had been 27 feet ... which included the world record co-holders, had the same factors going for them and they didn't jump close to Beamon.

Jamaica's Carey McLeod flies through the air Superman-style after slipping during his run-up in the men's long jump final at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Up Next.