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Athletics At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's Long Jump
The men's long jump event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place between 31 July and 2 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. Approximately 35 athletes were expected to compete; the exact number was dependent on how many nations use universality places to enter athletes in addition to the 32 qualifying through time or ranking (1 universality place was used in 2016). 31 athletes from 20 nations competed. Miltiadis Tentoglou won the gold medal, Greece's first medal in the men's long jump. Cuban athletes Juan Miguel Echevarría and Maykel Massó earned silver and bronze, respectively, the nation's first medals in the event since 2008. For the first time in the men's Olympic long jump, the silver medallist achieved exactly the same distance as the winner so the result was decided on countback, similar to the procedures for the high jump and pole vault. Summary Injuries were to play a big role in the finals of this event. World leader Tajay Gayle showed up with his left knee tape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan National Stadium
The Japan National Stadium, officially the , alternatively , and a.k.a. formerly is a multi-purpose stadium used mostly for association football in Kasumigaokamachi, Kasumigaoka, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. The facility served as the main stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as the venue for track and field athletics events at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics in 2021. Demolition of the National Stadium (Tokyo, 1958), old National Stadium was completed in May 2015, allowing for the construction of the new stadium to begin on 11 December 2016. The original plans for the new stadium were scrapped in July 2015 by Prime Minister of Japan, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who announced a rebid after a public outcry prompted by increased building costs. As a result, the new design was not ready for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, as originally intended. A new design created by architect Kengo Kuma was chosen in December 2015 to replace the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Athletics
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of Athletics Federations and formerly abbreviated as the IAAF, is the international sports governing body, governing body for the sport of athletics, covering track and field, cross country running, road running, racewalking, race walking, mountain running, and ultramarathon, ultra running. Included in its charge is the standardization of rules and regulations for the sports, certification of athletic facilities, recognition and management of list of world records in athletics, world records, and the organisation and sanctioning of athletics competitions, including the World Athletics Championships. The organisation's president is Sebastian Coe of the United Kingdom, who was elected to the four-year position in 2015 and re-elected in 2019 for a second four-year term, and then again in 2023 for a third four-year term. History The process to found World Athletics began in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruswahl Samaai
Ruswahl Samaai (born 25 September 1991). Glasgow2014. Retrieved on 2014-08-02. is a South African track and field athlete who competes in the long jump. He was the bronze medallist in the event at the 2014 and the 2018 Commonwealth Games. In 2017 he won the bronze medal in the long jump event at the World Championships held in London. Career Samaai grew up in a poor neighbourhood of Paarl, living in a shack with his mother. He was driven to compete in athletics and would regularly walk nearly ten kilometres to the local running track to train. He attended Paarl Gimnasium and went on to study transport management at the University of Johannesburg. Profile: Ruswahl Samaai Varsity Sports. Retrieved on 2014-08-02. He made his first impact on the national scene as a 19-year-old at the 2011 South African Championships. He plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luvo Manyonga
Luvo Manyonga (born 8 January 1991) is a South African track and field athlete who specialises in the long jump. He won the 2017 World Championship in London and the 2018 Commonwealth Games title in the Gold Coast, Australia. He was the Olympic silver medallist in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. Manyonga was world junior champion in 2010, and the African Games champion in 2011. He competed at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, placing fifth. He was the runner-up at the 2016 African Championships in Athletics. During his career, Manyonga has been served with two doping bans. His second ban was issued in June 2021 when he was given a four-year ban following failure to provide anti-doping officials with sufficient information to complete drug testing. The ban will last until December 2024. He holds a personal best of , set in 2017 in Potchefstroom. Career Early life and career Born in 1991, Manyonga was raised in poverty by his mother in the Mbekweni township of Paarl, Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheswill Johnson
Cheswill Johnson (born 30 September 1997) is a South African athlete who predominantly competes in the long jump. Early life He studied logistics/supply chain at the University of Johannesburg. Career Johnson jumped 8.20 in Johannesburg on 1 February 2020, which was the 9th longest senior outdoor long jump in the world in 2020. Johnson qualified for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games when he leapt to 8.26m at the Athletics Gauteng North Bestmed Tuks Track and Field meeting in Pretoria on February 27, 2021. When he made the jump it was the leading jump in the world that year. Johnson joins fellow long-jumpers, African champion Ruswahl Samaai and Zarck Visser, in the South Africa Olympic squad, where he failed to register a jump in the qualifying round. He won the long jump at the South African national championships in Pietermaritzburg in April 2024. He competed in the long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics. He was selected to compete in the long jump at the 2025 World Ath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carey McLeod
Carey McLeod (born 14 April 1998) is a Jamaican athlete who competes in the long jump and triple jump. Career McLeod studied at Kingston College in Jamaica before moving to the University of Tennessee. He placed himself among the top-10 triple-jumping collegians in NCAA indoor history, recording a mark of 17.17m to win the men's triple jump at the SEC Championships in Fayetteville. As well as setting a new school record he surpassed the 2020 Olympic qualifying standard, in addition to being the No. 1 mark in the NCAA and No. 3 in the world for the 2020-21 indoor campaign. His efforts in both the long jump and the triple jump earned him a nomination for the NCAA indoor field event athlete of 2020. As well as the 17.17 personal best in the triple jump, at the same event in Fayetteville he jumped a personal best 8.25 in the long jump. On 14 May 2021 he jumped 8.34m in the long jump at the Cushing Stadium in Texas to place him second on the senior list for 2021 at the time of the j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steffin McCarter
Steffin McCarter (born January 19, 1997) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the long jump. McCarter competed in the 2019 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump, long jump at the 2019 World Championships in Athletics where he advanced to the finals. He was originally an alternate for the competition and earned his world championship berth after national champion Will Claye decided not to compete. He represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1997 births Living people American male long jumpers World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States Texas Longhorns men's track and field athletes Track and field athletes from Texas People from Copperas Cove, Texas Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic track and field athletes for the United States 21st-century American sportsmen {{US-longjump-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marquis Dendy
Marquis Dendy (born November 17, 1992) is an American track and field athlete, primarily known for horizontal jumping events. He is the 2015 National Champion in the Long jump. His winning jump, of , though wind aided at +3.7mps, his first jump of the competition, was the longest jump in the world under any conditions in over 5 years. He grew up in Middletown, Delaware. USA National Track and field Championships Major Track and Field Championships NCAA Dendy just had completed his final season at the University of Florida, where he won the 2015 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in both the long jump and the triple jump, defending his 2014 championships in the same events. He accomplished the same double at the 2015 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, setting the meet record in the triple jump. His first NCAA Championship was the 2013 Indoor Championship in the long jump. High school Marquis Dendy competed for Middletown High Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibiki Tsuha
is a Japanese long jumper. In 2019, he competed in the men's long jump at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar. He did not qualify to compete in the final. In 2019, he also competed in the men's long jump at the 2019 Summer Universiade The 2019 Summer Universiade (), officially known as the XXX Summer Universiade () and also known as Naples 2019, or Napoli 2019, was held in Naples, Italy, between 3 and 14 July 2019. It was initially scheduled for Brasília, Brazil in July 201 ... held in Naples, Italy. He did not qualify to compete in the final. In 2020, he won the gold medal in his event at the 2020 Japan Championships in Athletics held in Niigata, Japan. References External links * * Hibiki Tsuha – Tokyo 2020at JAAF * * * 1998 births Living people Japanese male long jumpers Competitors at the 2019 Summer Universiade World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan Japan Championships in Athletics winners Athletes (track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shotaro Shiroyama
is a Japanese long jumper who won a bronze medal at the 2017 Asian Championships. He placed fifth at the 2018 Asian Games. In 2019, he competed in the men's long jump at the 2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global sport of athletics, athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athleti ... held in Doha, Qatar. He finished in 11th place. References External links * * Shotaro Shiroyama – Tokyo 2020at JAAF * * * 1995 births Living people Japanese male long jumpers Asian Games athletes for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games Olympic athletes for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Tokai University alumni Asian Athletics Championships medalists {{Japan-longjump-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Hashioka
is a Japanese athlete specialising in the long jump. He won a gold medal at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships. In addition, he finished fourth at the 2018 Asian Games. Hashioka qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and finished in 6th place with a distance of 8.10m. International competitions References External links * * Yuki Hashioka – Paris 2024at JAAF Yuki Hashioka – Tokyo 2020at JAAF * * Yuki Hashiokaat the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ... * * 1999 births Living people Sportspeople from Saitama (city) Athletes from Saitama Prefecture Japanese male long jumpers Asian Games athletes for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games FISU World University Games gold medalists in athle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lester Lescay
Lester Alcides Lescay Gay (born 15 October 2001) is a Cuban-born-Spanish athlete who competes in the long jump. From January 2025 he competes for Spain. He was a bronze medalist at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships. Career He won the silver medal in the long jump at the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, finishing behind teammate Maikel Vidal. He won gold at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics long jump competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina with a jump of 7.79 metres. Later that year, and still aged 16 years-old, Lescay achieved a new personal best of 7.91 meters in Havana. He made a 8.28m jump on the 23 February 2020 in Camagüey. It was the fourth longest men's senior outdoor long jump worldwide in 2020. It placed him tenth on the Cuban all-time list, as well as the sixth overall for an under-20 athlete of-all-time. Lescay was included in Cuba's squad for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021. At the Games, he jumped 7.69 metres without profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
