women’s long jump
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It’s been nine years since Tara Davis stood proudly at the top of the world as the women’s long jump champion at the World Under-18 Championships in Cali.
At the Outdoor World Championships in Budapest last August, married Tara Davis-Woodhall led the final with a jump of 6.91 meters at the end of the first round, and for a moment the sparkle of senior world gold was in her eyes. did.
On the very next jump Ivana Bureta pushed her into second place and in the end she had to settle for silver.
Seven months later, the 24-year-old American jumper will head to England to represent the women at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow 24.
Davis Woodhall topped the 2024 world list with a 7.18m that won the U.S. indoor title on February 16 in Albuquerque. This is four centimeters better than her career best, which she set outdoors at her home track, Mike Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas. In March 2021.
No other woman has attempted more than 7 meters this year. Bureta chose not to defend the title she won on home soil in Belgrade two years ago, and Jasmine Moore, who was second to Davis at 6.93 meters in Albuquerque, is concentrating on the triple jump, and second place on the season’s best entry list is young He is a player. German Michael Assani.
The 21-year-old, bronze medalist at the 2021 European Under-20 Championships in Tallinn, missed out on Malaika Mihambo by just two centimeters at the German Indoor Championships in Leipzig on February 18, setting her career best. It was lined up at 6.91 meters. Having failed to qualify her at the 2022 European Championships and the 2023 World Championships, she hopes to make her mark at her first international indoor championships.
Ese Bloom won her first senior medal in Glasgow, winning gold in the long jump at the 2014 Commonwealth Games aged 18.
Ten years later, the Nigerian athlete won a bronze medal at the Olympics, a silver medal at the World Outdoor and Indoor Championships, and a bronze medal at the World Outdoor Championships. She would have won her second world outdoor bronze medal in Budapest last year had Romania’s Alina Rotaru-Kottmann not dropped her to fourth place in the final round.
Bloom’s season best record is 6.84 meters, but his lifetime best is 7.17 meters, making him the only competitor other than Davis Woodhall to have a personal record over 7 meters.
Her Nigerian teammate Ruth Usoro, who finished eighth in the 2022 final in Belgrade, has a season-best of 6.87m.
The field also includes Lothar-Kottmann, who holds a lifetime best of 6.96 meters, and Monae Nichols, who placed third behind Davis-Woodhall and Moore at the 2022 U.S. National Championships with a 6.97 meter outdoor jump.
Larissa Iapichino, who won the European indoor silver medal in Istanbul last year with a personal best jump of 6.97m, heads to Glasgow with a season’s best jump of 6.80m. She is a 21 year old Italian and of course the daughter of Fiona May. Fiona May is a two-time outdoor long jump world champion, and she won the indoor world gold medal in Paris in 1997.
The European challenge will be strengthened by Switzerland’s European heptathlon bronze medalist Annick Kalin, who holds this year’s best record of 6.76 meters.
men’s long jump
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Unlike the mythical King Midas, Miltiadis Tentoglou is a real-life Greek endowed with a visible golden glow.
The 2021 Olympic Champion, 2022 World Indoor and European Outdoor Champion, and 2023 World Outdoor and European Indoor Champion, he has won every major award in the long jump.
At the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow 24, the arena where he won the first of his three European indoor titles five years ago, King Miltiadis will celebrate his 24th birthday, two weeks shy of his second year. He will defend the world indoor title he won in Belgrade on Sunday. Before.
Tentoglou, who turns 26 on March 18, won three of the three indoor competitions in 2024, jumping 8.09 meters in Ostrava, 8.06 meters in Paris and 8.26 meters in Piraeus on February 18. He achieved his sixth consecutive Greek indoor title by jumping .
A consummate competitive performer, he will no doubt be enthusiastic about the challenge posed by Mattia Furlani, the 19-year-old Italian sensation known to his friends as Spider-Man. Because he resembles Miles Morales, a fictional character from the Marvel franchise.
Furlani, 18, jumped 8.44 meters in Savona last May with the aid of a light wind (2.2 meters per second). At the Italian Indoor Championships in Ancona on February 17, he jumped 8.34 meters. This was the best indoor record by an U20 athlete, tied for second on the absolute all-time age group list, and matched Randy Williams’ performance at the 1972 Olympic trials. In Munich, an American teenager won the gold medal.
Russia’s Sergei Morgunov holds the record with 8.35m, and Furlani, who was European U18 champion in long jump and high jump in 2022, clearly holds the record as he jumped 8.31m and 8.24m in Ancona. It has the ability to exceed.
Furlani tops the 2024 world list alongside Wayne Pinnock, and while the Jamaican, who won outdoor world gold with Tent Glue in Budapest last August, will not be taking part in Glasgow, he is one of two from his homeland. There will be potential medal candidates.
2019 World Outdoor Champions Tajay Gale and Carey McLeod fought a dramatic battle in Budapest for the bronze medal behind Tentoglou and Pinnock. McLeod was third, but Gail won the medal on countback with a final jump of 8.27 meters.
McLeod was third on the season’s best entry list with 8.20m. Gale is in fifth place with 8.15 meters, one centimeter behind Colombia’s Arnovis D’Armelo, the Pan American outdoor and South American indoor champion.
The field will also feature Sweden’s Tobias Montler, who won silver in Belgrade two years ago, and American jumper Jarrion Lawson, who finished fourth in the Serbian capital and Birmingham in 2018.
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