Herb Douglas, who turned a chance encounter with Jesse Owens as a teenager into fuel to win a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1948 Olympics, has died. He was 101. The University of Pittsburgh, ...

Texans Tara Davis-Woodhall won gold and Jasmine Moore won bronze for Team USA in the women's long jump at the Paris Olympics on Thursday. Tara Davis-Woodhall's fourth jump was 7.10 meters securing the ...

The 1936 Berlin Olympics are best remembered for Jesse Owens, who triumphed in a dramatic duel in the Olympic long jump against Germany's Luz... Was Jesse Owens' 1936 Long-Jump Story A Myth? The Track ...

BLOOMINGTON — Greg Bell, a gold-medal long jumper at the 1956 Olympic Games and member of the IU Athletics Hall of Fame, died Saturday at his home in Logansport. He was 94. Born in Terre Haute, Bell ...

LeBron James thinks he could win an Olympic medal in the long jump. The basketball legend recently led Team USA to gold in Paris for the third Olympic title of his glittering career and has revealed ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Greek long jumper Miltiadis Tentoglou was named the Best Balkan Athlete of the Year for 2024 on Friday. The 26-year-old Tentoglou, who won Olympic gold in Paris last year, is ...

Steve Jones - The 1984 world record marathon holder at Chicago (2:08:05), 2025 also marks the 40th anniversary of the fastest ...

The Olympics ended over two weeks ago. We’re still hung over from all the athletic competition. But if there’s one thing that can get you excited about Olympic sports again so soon after the London ...

Most track and field events feature heats or some other form of qualifying ahead of the event final. This includes all races between 100m and 5,000m, jumping events and throwing events. The top three ...