World Athletics has ditched a reform to the long jump that would have replaced the traditional board behind which jumps must ...

GLASGOW, Scotland -- Miltiadis Tentoglou threatened to quit the long jump shortly after winning the world indoor title Saturday, saying he would change events if the sport implements a rule change ...

World Athletics was trying to replace the narrower take-off board in long jump events with a larger take-off zone with an aim ...

DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) — World Athletics’ experimental change to the long jump made its debut at the ISTAF indoor meet on Sunday when two-time world champion Malaika Mihambo won under the new rule.

A Lehigh Senior High School alum is one step closer to becoming an Olympian. Florida State junior Jeremiah Davis won the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in the long jump at the University of ...

Team USA has secured two of the three medals in women’s long jumping, thanks to a gold-medal performance from Tara Davis-Woodhall and a bronze-winning one from Jasmine Moore. This is Davis-Woodhall’s ...

Dakota Kruty achieved a personal record of 22 feet, 4.25 inches in the long jump at the Ohio Cardinal Conference track meet. Kruty was named OCC Male Track and Field Athlete of the Year. He credits ...

A spot in the Summer Olympics is a task that most athletes spend a lifetime working to achieve. Every four years a select few make the trip to the Games. In the U.S., the percentage that do is even ...

Linn-Mar’s Abby Mecklenburg comes in for a landing during the Class 4A girls’ long jump at the state track and field meet Friday at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. Mecklenburg won with a leap of 19 feet, ...