HENGELO, Netherlands (Reuters) - World champion Irving Saladino recorded the best long jump for 14 years on Saturday with a 8.73 meters leap at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games. Sign up here. Saladino's ...

A Texas cat recently earned a Guinness World Record by leaping a distance of 8 feet and 5 inches, the record for the longest jump by a cat. Oscar, a seven-year-old rescue cat from Dallas, had some ...

TOKYO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Italy’s Mattia Furlani underlined his status as the coming man in long jump when he won the world title with a personal best leap of 8.39 metres on Wednesday, as big ...

(CNN) — Arriving in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, triple jumper Jonathan Edwards made an unlikely purchase in duty free. He decided to pick up a pair of sunglasses – not for sunning himself on the ...

Tara Davis-Woodhall competes in the long jump in Times Square Athlos It was on Broadway, the home of theatre in New York City, where a one-off long jump competition became more of a show than an ...

That could explain why his triple jump mark has stood for so long, even with developments in nutrition, equipment and sports science. But Edwards also thinks that the record’s longevity boils down to ...