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, ...

SHIPPENSBURG — Jacob Tom made his first appearance in the PIAA Track and Field Championships a memorable one on Friday. The Marian Catholic junior followed his runner-up finish in the long jump at the ...

Earlier this year, we heard about some tiny robots that used a bio-inspired mechanism to jump high into the air. The makers of those devices have now tweaked the design, creating bots that jump very ...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The prevailing message from long jumpers isn’t that big of a leap — leave their sport as is, fouls and all. World Athletics has been examining a way to cut down on scratches in ...

WSU long jump revolutionary John Delamere, left and right, in the early 1970s; and Cougar head coach John Chaplin, center. (Photo: WSU Libraries) "Brilliant guy. Perfect score on the SAT … I told him ...

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 ...

Oregon City’s Sophia Beckmon took to the podium with a solemn mood on Saturday morning at the OSAA Class 6A state championship track and field meet. Did she not win the Class 6A long jump? Of course ...

Shamoya Clemetson never had a moment to rest during the district track meet at South Fort Myers High School last month. The Barron Collier sophomore started the day jumping in the sand pits, where she ...

EUGENE, Ore. — The prevailing message from long jumpers isn’t that big of a leap — leave their sport as is, fouls and all. World Athletics has been examining a way to cut down on scratches in ...