THE IMPOSSIBLE JUMP! || 9.00 METERS! *(29 FEET, 6 INCHES)*
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- 9 meters. 29 Feet, 6 inches. Throughout the past century, many athletes have gotten close, but nobody has managed to achieve this mark.
Will it ever happen?
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I remember my track and field coach said that when Bob Beamon jumped his 8.90m, his lowest body part (at the highest phase of the jump) was 1.87m above the ground. So yeah, he could've cleared a 1.87m high jump with LONG JUMP TECHNIQUE (with the timing being perfect of course). I also remember my physical education textbook from high school said that Beamon's center of mass was 2.06m above ground at its highest point. HOLY. HOT. DAMN.
73.6 inches vertical O_O
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They would need a very long matress for that jump
@@jameswittmann1608 no it’s misleading bc he already tucked for his jump at max height, so his feet were at his waist since he’s 6’3 and has long legs, his legs are probably 45” long so his vert on this would’ve been a low 30
@@verybored2416 …
Excellent video. I find relevant to talk about *Ivan Pedroso* on that question. He jumped 8.96m in Sestriere (a person stood in front of the anemometer, probably intercepting the correct wind measurement which was initially 1.2m/s . There are some crazy foul jumps from Pedroso. One looks like 9.15m - 9.20m Check "Ivan Pedroso 9m Foul". His PB is "only" 8.71, but he is part of the GOATs
Yeah. He was the last potential to achieve new WR. Since then, long jump has been boring.
Nowadays, athletes even struggle to reach 8.3
@@lexsoft3969 he won every major championship from 97-2001 its ridiculous. Yeah its ridiculous that his 8.96 wasn't realised because the idiot stood in front of the wind gauge
Pedroso had a dozen jumps over 9m, sadly all fouls... and his legal PB is only 8.71...if we consider that Emmiyan jumped 8.86 at altitude in '87, Pedroso could manage 30 cm better in same conditions...
Pedroso also got the best height and full-body run in the air, my favorite jumper visually, he ran through the air with the greatest of ease.
@@lexsoft3969 And Anders Gärderud 3000m jump? 8.08 1976 in OS he should take many VM and Olympic gold even today!
Powell's foot on the board, although near perfect, still had a few centimeters to spare. If you factor that in, I think the '91 jump was right around 9.00m.
FACTS!!!!
Bob Beamon still jumped the furthest in 1968 because his rear end landed abit behind him and it was still 29ft, if he landed just alittle better like Powell did then it would probably like 30ft lol.
@@andrewg5418 Why is that funny?
@@allennewborn932 not funny in a bad way, it’s unbelievable he flew that far , and that was over 50 years ago
@@andrewg5418 what about Carl Lewis allegedly jumping 9 meters but the line man made a mistake
Bob Beamon's Mexico City jump is probably the greatest single performance in the history of sport. He not only was the first man to jump over 29 feet, he was first past 28. He surpassed the existing World record by a astounding 22 inches.
Didn't he die like a week later or something?
@@brandonbrodbeck6688 You could ask him yourself if you like. He has a place in Vegas.
Brandon Brodbeck Umm, no. You must be thinking of someone imaginary.
Lewis day was the best series of jumps imo
I'd like to make a case for a certain Norwegian hurdler.
longest under any conditions? i jumped out of an airplane and went like 2 miles.
If you don't use a parachute it could be a record.
@@gonzabuzz9844 😂😂😂
Make sure not to do a foul jump :P
You're lying. The most you can do is jumping out of the window when the husband came back.
Jump if you feel froggy. Just had to say it lol
That 9-meter limit on long jump, 2 hours for a marathon, and 100 meters in javelin are three barriers I wanna see broken before I die.
I’m assuming you mean 2 hours for an official marathon?
@@alejandrotorres712 Indeed
100m already been done in the jav, that's why they changed the spec of it back in the 80's
I think from most likely to least is the long jump, marathon, and javelin.
The 2 hour marathon has already been broken. Right?
I’m a shot putter. At my first high school meet, my best throw was 8.95 m. I still find it hard to wrap my head around the fact that a human can jump that far
thats quite weak lol
@@aasss7530 I was only a freshman at the time, had just started lifting, and was still adjusting to the increased weight of the shot from middle school to high school. I ended up with a personal best of 13.71 meters and got a few looks from colleges by the time I graduated
@@aasss7530 Yeh and how far can you throw? I know I couldn't do a 9M throw, but that was not the point, point is if you actually measure how far 8.95M is it's a long long way for a human to jump.
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3:10 I think “a few millimeters away” is very misleading. If you discount Powell’s all conditions 8.99 jump, his world record is 5cm away. That’s WAY bigger than “just a few millimeters.” However, I understand and agree with your point that for a long time, we’ve been very close to the 9m mark
Yeah, seems like he was confused and thought centimeters were the same as millimeters.
His point still stands though, as you said.
Yeah, at first I thought he was referring to the 9.99 jump and was based on rounding or something, but it's clear he mixed up centimetres with millimetres. I'll chalk this up to an American getting confused by the metric system. lol
Yeah, this is a "America vs the metric system" issue. It's meant to be 5cm, not millimetres.
I watched the Powell/Lewis battle live when I was living in Japan. Still gives me goosebumps how exciting it was!
No you didn't.
@Ching Chong - Indeed.
@@jonhohensee3258 where you even born
@@erenjaeger6082 - Where?
I saw it on television, three days later my dad died. Everytime i see this record stand the test of time i think about him.
We live amongst Super humans. I prolly jumped 2 meters in the pit!
I wouldn't make to the sand, all my skin would be on the track
ivan pedroso juumped 9,07 metres with half a foot overjump ....
Tukac, Powel je skocio 9 m. Odrazio se zapravo 5 cm prije
daske. Nista nije nemoguce, a ti si obican tukac!
Naaah yall unathletic ash then,i would jump atleastt..least 3m bro?infact ik soo cmoon,but ig to each is own!🤣🤷♂️💯🖤⚡
Without training i got 6 meters. Its not that superhuman
Having never done so in high school, I ran Track for 3 years ('76-'79) in college, for an after-class activity. Edwin Moses and Carl Lewis were my GOATS. Just on pure athletic ability, I had personal best of 48.0 in the 400 meters, and 24'8" in the long jump. What Lewis did as both a sprinter and long jumper makes me consider him the greatest Track and Field athlete I ever saw. Moses' consistency in the 400 meters make him my #2. What Usain Bolt did as a sprinter makes him an all-time great as well, without question, but Lewis , at his peak, was the world's best sprinter and long jumper simultaneously;a 10-year winning streak...65 victories... in the long jump, including jumping 28 feet or better over 70 times; from 1981 to the early '90s, was a top-5 world class sprinter.That's G.O.A.T. shit.
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Next year be like: Joshua Cheptegui is gonna be attempting to jump 9 meters
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that gave me a good laugh :D
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3:20 The comparison to a 5mm eraser head is incorrect. 8.95m is 50mm or 5cm short and even 8.99m is 10mm short, not 5mm short.
Mike Powell 8.95 m jump was achieved with a tail wind of 0.3 m/s. If the tail wind would have been 1.5 m/s, no doubt Powell would have broken the 9 metre mark.
And the record was stablished at sea level. It would have been 9m on altitude as well
Not necessarily. People tend to not realize how much little change can have adverse effects on performance. It's not a linear thing.
An increase in wind speed would mean Powell arrives at the board faster than he would've probably been ready for. Meaning, 1. His jump would have probably been a fault, due to adjustments required at the start of his run up 2. He would have had to adjust his take off speed to account for horizontal speed. 3. He would have had more forward rotation due to that speed, thus actually having a shorter jump.
@@theren8311 Game, set and match to you sir.
@@torernning8652 lol
@@theren8311 But he jumped 8.99 wind aided...
I remember watching that competition live and along with the announcers was in a state of amazement. It's a measure of Carl Lewis's greatness in this event that Mike Powell, who had lost to Lewis many times in various competitions, later said about this record that "Carl is so good that I had to break the world record just to beat him."
Fantastic analysis and great memories!
"If you thought that you'd be wrong." Love ya dude... classic.
Without watching the video I guess that he says "this is the most amazing performances that I have ever seen"
Remember, this was the "peak" steroid time, before the public was aware of such usage. People need to wake-up!!
Flight jumped 15 meters but didn’t have the cameras on
Fax yo
That's my typa jump
You’re alright, dude?
Must have been in June
I'm German but I was always a big fan of Mr. Lewis, he was not just fast his running was Art just Beautiful
I jumped 10 meters when I saw you uploaded, beat that
I watched him, my mans flew 10m straight up in the air
It’s true, I was the measuring tape
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I remember in high school that my coach would get angry that I couldn’t keep my feet together consistently but that when I did it would add a whole meter. My own run up was only 5 steps but with a good landing would be approaching 6m (age 13 & 5’4”) They thought I should approach faster and gave me a 23m run up.(despite having fast acceleration and top speed potential, my preferred take off had a very deep knee bend giving a lot of height but not compatible with high speed so limited in max distance potential) I got tired in the run up lost speed and was inconsistent hitting the board and lost distance then got even worse with shin splints. For the school jumper, good take off and landing will win a lot of competitions. The run up speed and take off angle can be developed slowly. Powell’s coach just worked on his run up for a very long time before letting him jump at full speed. (Probably prevented injuries that way too) Nice videos. Less beautifully edited but very informative are the Performance lab of California for anyone interested.
As person being coached by cubans during the las 8 years, the legend of a Ivan Pedroso's jump over 9 mts persist. The cubans said that during a PanAmerican games in Cuba, Pedroso jumped an over 9m foul. He kindly asked the judges to measure it from the foul and the result was a 9.03m jump.
Pedroso had a slight foul that appeared to be 20 cm past the 9m indicator in the pit. It's on CZcams somewhere. He had 2 or 3 huge foul jumps in his career.
@@peters6119 Yesss, Pedroso was well known for his massive fouls but in that specific jump they say it was, actually, measured as a 9mt jump.
Thank you for mentioning this - I was also about to bring Ivan Pedroso up! He has at least two fouls over 9m, plus that 8.96m in Sestriere where someone obstructed the wind gauge. All day the wind had been low so that was surely a legal jump, albeit at altitude.
@@georgec2894 even if the wind was over the allowed, would have been nice to see the real wind reading of that day... but with Pedroso jumping like that, I don't blame anyone to try to be as close as possible to watch the jump
Even not a word about Ivan Pedroso, an amazing athlete !!!!
Thanks for these videos - fascinating stuff.
My dude. 5mm and 5 cm are different things, this is 5cm. Great videos though! Keep it up :D!
Actually, Ivan Pedroso jumped farther at Sestriere in 1995, but the wind gauge malfunctioned, and the distance was disallowed for record consideration.
Nah someone stood in front of the gauge and probably intercepted the right wind reading.
Glad to have seen Lewis/Powel in live . Was so epic 2 world records in the best duel ever.
4:00 🤯😱 This guy can complete the entire Ninja Warrior course with one jump!
Food for thought-since a long jump world record was established in 1901, there have been four times when the record stood for 19 years 11 months or longer, including Beamon (just under 23 years), Powell (30 years and counting) and Jesse Owens (just about 25 years). There’s still some records on both sides that have been standing since as far back as 1983, but no one event has had anything close to world-record…stability?…throughout its history than the men’s long jump.
I noticed that too!
A contemporary long jumper (5th place in Mexico City) apparently witnessed Beamon leaping over nine metres in training. The man was a monstrous talent.
Several have jumped over 9mt in training.
But was the wind legal? Doing it when it counts and under legal conditions is what counts.
Great insight, thanks!
Great coverage!
Earth gravity also takes a little part. In Tokio it's just 9,798 instead of 9,81 m/s2. Just a smalltalk percentage, but it could add a few centimters!
I remember watching the Powell/Lewis battle with my parents when I was a little boy. But only through this video I realized that this is longer ago than Beamon's record held at all. 😳
Thank you so much for such videos.
Super.Merci.
I remember Yago Lamela, the Spanish jump athlete who broke the european record with 8.56. It was a joy to watch him compete. RIP Yago
Then European Indoor Record. German Sebastian Bayer is the current record holder (8.71), while the Outdoor European Record is still by Robert Emmiyan (8.86).
@@mr.sinjin-smyth Yeah that is true. At the moment Lamela's record has been surpassed. But he just happens to be my fauvorite athlete still to this day. Thanks for your update on the new record holders!
Where is that picture at 4:18? I'd love to have it as a poster!
The "kick" in mid air from Bob Beamon is simple amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bob Beaman jump covered by Jon bois is amazing descriptor of how incredible his jump was
I feel like Carl Lewis’ 8.91 jump in 1991 was actually better than Powell’s 8.95. Looking at 0:37 it seems to me like Lewis’ more controlled landing cost him a few centimeters.
it was wind aided regardless.
Wind aided 8.91 is not superior to a legal 8.95 with 0.05 of board left (meaning Powell actually flew 9.00 or more).
Amazing video but your eraser's example was incorrect, the difference b/w WR jump and 9m is 5cm not 5mm
He wasn’t comparing the WR jump to 9m. He was comparing the longest legal jump (8.99m) to 9m. Even this wind-aided jump was a few millimeters short of 9m.
Coolness, amazing.
his running style is flawless for a Sprinter , like watching water sprint so fluid
Lmao then there’s me who struggles to jump 5
thats hilarious that they smoothed over the sand quickly on anything near 9meters for Lewis and a good case for changing the long jump to "however far you can jump from a board area that is much larger, your foot tracked by laser camera" this would allow for the farthest jumps but take away from the skill of jumping and the glory you achieve when you get it all right and jump super far.
That crazzy
Very interesting!
I keep hearing of this 9.12 by lewis in 83, has anyone got a link or footage of it, that wud be great to see, and also the 9.06 of pedroso if pos
Search 1982 Carl Lewis 30 feet
I measure a Jump of Pedroso in 9,30 m. - See "Atletica Pura" page on Facebook
I think Powell could have done it with a better foot placement in that final
or better tailwind
wow!
Also don't forget Ivan Pedroso. From his Wikipedia page: At altitude in Sestriere in 1995, Iván Pedroso jumped 8.96 meters with a measured wind of +1.2. This would have been the world record, beating Mike Powell by one centimeter. However, the Italian Athletics Federation did not forward the result to the IAAF for ratification, since the wind mark was declared invalid, because a person stood in front of the anemometer, probably intercepting the correct wind measurement.
Iván Pedroso the best
my triple jump in middle school was 8.8m 😂
The triple jump is weird.
"Mike" god of long jump.. my hero, my idol, my god...
I was right there in Tokyo with the Canadian team. It was a wonderful moment even if I was a distance coach.
Carl Lewis. We used to watch in awe.
Nothing today matches the hype and worldwide excitement of seeing him run and jump. Especially the 1988 Olympics, when he was trying to win FOUR gold medals. AGAIN.
I should mention: I'm not American.
Jesse Owens of the modern era.
King Kong jumped from one Trade Center tower to the other but they were knocked down before we could get a ruling.
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Ahhh yes, my favorite track & field event!
Mine to. Track team-UNC (Chapel Hill,NC)
Bob Beamon’s jump broke the existing world record by about 22 inches. That moved the WR forward by about 5 decades. The WR was 24’111/2”in 1901; 26’8” in 1935; 26’111/4” in 1960; 27’43/4” in 1965: 29” improvement in 65 years. Beamon’s WR of 29’21/2” has improved by 1 and 3/4” in the last 52 years!!!! Beamon’s jump was the greatest single moment in all athletic history. It defied all reason, defied all imagination. Lewis is the greatest long jumper for sure. Beamon’s jump was the greatest jump.
One: high altitude.
Two: Beamon had never hit even 8.00 prior to this meet.
In its day it was crazy. Put Powell in Mexico City at that altitude the same day (1991) and he hits 9.30+.
Despite his greatness, no one made a movie on Carl Lewis. What amazing consistency.
Usain wanted to try other track and field events. With his speed, would he have hit the mythical 9.00 m mark? It takes speed and technique, but it is still a fair question.
He wasn't a jumper. He tried it in a meet with laughable results. He didn't have the timing or the dynamic takeoff or the flexibility to get a good landing position. Long jumping is a complex event. I knew lots of sprinters who were faster than me who tried LJ but couldn't jump nearly as far. You need speed, yes. Without speed you have no chance. But the you need so many other things.
@@peters6119 - That’s what I mean, as well. Bolt’s specialty is sprinting.
Bolt was just a sprinter. Only the greatest athlete in all time, Carl Lewis, was able to combine the skills of a sprinter and long jumper.
It's not mythical.
@@celsovascao Although not as good as Lewis, Boling can jump 8.02 metres and has 100m and 200m PBs of 10.11 and 20.06
Ivan Pedroso also has many foul jumps over 8.95
As well as a legitimate jump 8.96, which was not counted as a WR for some reason...
Yeah I mean they are saying like if this fouls over 9m weren't 9 mtrs jumps at all. I guess you could think the rubber makes you jump further but don't know how it works
@@classicalgreekintroductory6045 because of windspeed being excess of 2,0m/s . The registration of the windspeed was blocked by one of Pedroso's entourage, but all other recorded jumps were having windspeeds of over 3,5m/s
@@madmonkeycycling9098 clearly this a´was a case of discrimination directed against a communist athlete. There were other jumps that day with legitimate winds as well and the guy allegedly locking the windometer was not part of Pedroso's entourage.
@@madmonkeycycling9098 Crazy how it was at the very same meet as the Mike Powell 8.99m jump.
There have been a number of athletes who have jumped more than 9 metres without wind-assistance but they were 'no jumps'. I have thought for many years now that the measuring system for long and triple jump is wrong because it does not measure the length of the jump itself but the distance from an arbitrary line to the landing point. It would be a great step forward to abandon the 'board' and create a wider take-off zone within which any take off point can be recorded electronically and its exact distance to the landing point accurately measured. We will then get proper recording of distances actually jumped and the injustice of an unmeasured 'no jump' will be a relic of the past.
Wow!
I'm sure it's already been said, but had Carl - in his prime - just concentrated on the long jump, then the record would now be over 9m.
Carl in his prime...who has since admitted he had tested positive for banned substances but claimied he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes who were allowed to escape bans?
Lewis was a career doper. His club, Santa Monica Track Club was awash in steroids.
He pissed hot at the ‘88 Olympic trials and the national team covered it up.
He isn’t the champion of anything. He’s always been a cheater and deserves nothing but scorn.
His best wind aided 8.91 was behind Powell’s legal 8.95.
I wanna see a 40-year-old jump 8 meters. The current record for M40 is 7.68 by Aaron Thompson. Lewis jumped 8.50 at age 35 (in a 1.3m/s headwind!) and Powell jumped 8.06 at age 37. Larry Myricks also jumped 8.50 at age 35 (in a 1.9m/s tailwind), 8.24 at age 37, and 8.09 at age 38. If they all continued until they were 40, they've might have done it.
I'm 42....I got this...
@@proverbalizerPretty certain Lewis could’ve done it. Myricks…probably.
I think it’s possible, someone will take the 9m mark one day. Mike Powell jumped 8.99m wind wind aided before, it was 4+ wind but still. Proves that we are capable of it
I remember that long jump final in the Tokyo world championship. That's hands down the greatest track and field competition I've ever seen. It was just two perfect athletes competing like they were in trance. Untouchable! Even Usain Bolt's sprint world records weren't as impressive as that.
they are
I think FloJo's WR is just as impossible, she ran that record into the next century. No one in 30+ years has come even close.
Yes because it was also wind aided - clearly an American cheat to get the record at their soil.
@@mysteriousdoge1298 Riiiiiight riiiiiight
@@eliblue70 Glad u agree.
Yeah flojos actual run itself was fantastically executed but it was likely wind aided and also steroid aided, like a lot of the women’s world records from the 80’s are unfortunately
she was a drug cheat
Could someone enlighted me how they measure the mark for long jump? Is there a window for human error? Because I always find it strange that the athletes accept the measurement so easily, even though I see them in the video land much further than the official measurement!
It's measured based on the farthest back point of contact, so it will always be shorter than it looks.
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Imagine being the only person in the world capable of doing a certain thing. Fucking incredible.
I was in track in a high school that competed with Carl Lewis’s high school. The meet stopped when he ran the 100 & did the long jump
Great video.... but I think he needs to freshen up on his Metric system. Lol
The "5" he's talking about from 8.95 ..to ..9.0 meters is centimeters not millimeters.
5 cm is about 2 inches.
Other than that tho, this was a cool video.👍👍
Bruh I thought this was about somebody just breaking the world record
And jumping 9 meters
Video on Polevault and Bubka soon?
En el estudio del salto de powel se determinó que ese día ante la presión de la competencia powel hizo todo su esfuerzo y en el aire giro su cuerpo callendo de costado sobre su cadera...eso produjo que todo su cuerpo callese por delante de la caída de sus pies lo cual es una ventaja significativa....Louis por el contrario aterrizaba de con sus pies por delante y su trasero por detrás lo que le restaba centímetros...obviamente todo lo anterior no borra lo espectacular del salto de powel...
I can beat em all, I'll do helium saturation before the event, float away
Where on Earth do you get this footage?!
Bro for real. How did he find the 8.99 jump.
on youtube?
@@yrodro Theres only one video I found on CZcams that just got uploaded 3 months ago and it's a 47 min video. The 8.99 is extremely rare to find online been like that for years.ussualy people give up on finding it.
@@yrodro czcams.com/video/llZ4XN4TLkQ/video.html
I trained long jump for over a year to get to the greek fitness academy because a prerequisite was to be able to jump 6 meters as a male. When I finally got it down I felt like a god. 9 meters is an extra 50% and to think that people used to get close to that in the 80s without modern training and exercise knowledge is mind-boggling
If you wanted to beat Carl Lewis, you better get the world record.😤😤
Put a 10 million dollar prize on it so everybodies doing it and you might find sombody.
With all the new tech, there may come a time when foul lines will become obsolete. You jump and the jump is measured from your take off point not a line you never were at anyway. That would be more accurate as to how far an athlete actually can jump than the way they have been doing it for decades.
Yeah. There should be some material near the end of the run up that makes it visible to see where the athlete actually takes off, they could put sand there.
I say, just an alligator pit to the equation and we won't be quibbling over a set line on the track.
But you could say, timing the takeoff is part of the skill. Don't know if you would want to take that away.
@@n3lis94 Right, this has been the sport forever. Let's not change the rules like we do playing board games on family game night.
Totally agree
Cool! I also mkae running videos!
I love the way the jump looks when they slow it down. It’s like their walking on air
It's called a Hitch Kick.
Yeah.. walking on the air is common term to describe it.
At 6:40-6:47, Carl Lewis's walking on the air is fun to watch.
For the past week I’ve been considering that Mike Powell’s long jump record has stood for nearly 50% longer than the one he broke (set by Bob Beamon in Mexico City back in 1968).
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Powell’s jumps of 8.95 AND 8.99 BOTH were longer than 9.00 metres when you consider that the takeoffs had 5+ cm of the board unused.
Stop talking about Carl Lewis. He was juicing the entire time. Never should have been at Seoul because he failed a test at the trials and the USOC covered it up.
they were obviously all doping, just like in almost every sport. you don't be someone who's doping while clean...
🙄🙄🙄
Carl Lewis is to long jump what Michael Jordan is to basketball, and what Wayne Gretzky is to hockey.
Very true.
Much respect to Carl Lewis but Usain Bolt definitely much more better...Nobody won the 100m run two times in the Olympics, Bolt did it THREE TIMES that's insane.
@@claricekanda Carl Lewis won the Long Jump FOUR TIMES in the Olympics. 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996. We aren't talking about who is the best sprinter in this thread. We are discussing the best Long Jumper. Carl was Top 5 in the World for 17 YEARS, with 12 of those years as #1.
@@claricekanda Visionary00001 beat me to it, but anyways:
If we're we gonna use Olympic Titles compared to others, Carl Lewis is even more extreme. No one (except Lewis) has defended an Olympic title in the long jump. Carl Lewis won it not once, not twice, not thrice, FOUR TIMES.
He held the season-best 7 different years. And just like Bolt, he has 3 World Championship Golds in the 100m. The difference is that when Lewis did it the WC was every 4th year, as opposed to every 2nd year (when Bolt was active)
Carl Lewis still holds the world indoor record in the long jump after 37 years. And he jumped 8.62m at age 19, and 8.50m at age 35 (into a 1.3m/s headwind)
edit: Lewis also had one of the most impressive winning streaks of all time in athletics. For 10,5 years, and 65 finals, he was undefeated in the long jump.
@@charlesthorndike2702 ok for long jump but what Usain Bolt did at 100m, 200m, 4×100m, is much more impressive.
How about Ivan Pedroso? Are you gonna make a video about him?
Lewis was the most consistent long jumper at distances his competitors couldn’t match. 4 OG ‘s after all means 16 years of dominance. However, Bob Beamon will forever be for me, the greatest long jumper of all time. In 1968, he smashed the existing record by nearly 2 feet and still holds the second longest jump of all time and the Olympic record. Carl Lewis had 4 chances to break that record and couldn’t do it. In 1991, Mike Powell exceeded Beamon’s WR by 5 Cm, about 2 inches. But even Powell only did that once. If Powell had jumped 2 inches less in 1991, Beamon’s WR would still stand along with his OR after 66 years!
Track and Field was very different back in 1968. Everything from equipment to facilities to training techniques was primitive by today’s standards, but there was an even bigger difference. It was against the sport’s regulations for amateur athletes to be paid to compete. Beamon was a true amateur, there was no money in the sport for him to continue. He had won an Olympic Gold for his country and set an unbelievable WR. There was nothing more he needed to achieve in the sport. He had accomplished his goals and it was time for him to try and earn a living, so he simply hung up his cleats along side his gold medal and got on with the rest of his life. Give a young Bob Beamon all the advantages of today’s professional track athletes and who knows how far the man might jump. One thing is for certain, the man was gifted beyond belief. You can look through the all-time top performances in every other T&F event and you won’t find any other performance as old as his that still ranks #2 all-time.
Carl Lewis Jump 9.12 in Trening 83 Huston.Tom Telez show mi Video.
Yeah! Saved me mentioning this too!
They should just change the way they measure it, instead of forcing the athlete to step before a line let him jump whenever he is comfortable and then measure ✌🏼maybe even 10m is possible, just not with the current way of measuring.
Yes! I agree completely.
Yeah... in one or two decades in the future as maybe then when the tech is cheap and mobile enough to be used in high school level all around the world , then fair game ,no excuse of 9m barrier
Yep been looking for this one! What is up with this? Carl tied Bob (windage or not) and Powell 8.95! But isn’t it about the same in the triple jump? (Name escapes me) but I have a feeling it’s getting about time for someone to come along and at least get in the mix of the top 3 or break 8.95. I remember watching that and cheering for Carl because look at Mike’s previous jumps!!!!!!! Just scratched and watched Carl tie Bobs record if I’m not mistaken and then he hits the board just right all or nothing kinda strategy. Still unbelievable.
Great upload
Jonathan Edwards
I find it fascinating that there’s a wind speed criteria in long jump
The 8.95 jump was 6 cm behind the foul line so it was a 9.01 jump.
9m has been done.
Some kid who understands aerodynamics and drag wearing a Nike long jumping suit and shoes will come along and shatter that record.
I kept waiting for someone to snap their legs. Such vicious landings
Great video. But I have a question if anyone can answer it. I’m 13 and 5”9’ and I have a broad jump of about 9 feet (just using a tape measurer and jumping outside) so does the broad jump have any correlation to how far I could jump in the long jump? I’m also pretty fast. I play soccer a year up and every time I play I’m always the fastest one on the field. I’ve never done track before but I plan to next year when I’m a freshman since my school rn doesn’t have a track team.
Yes it does Alex. Keep learning and practising the right exercises and you can reach your full potential. Nobody knows how big your potential is however I recommend you dream big and go for it.