Who won the Olympic long jump?
Miltiadis Tentoglou
Heike Drechsler is the only woman to win two Olympic long jump titles. Ralph Boston and Jackie Joyner-Kersee are the only other two athletes to win three Olympic long jump medals in their careers….Long jump at the Olympics.
| Long jump at the Olympic Games | |
|---|---|
| Reigning champion | |
| Men | Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE) |
| Women | Malaika Mihambo (GER) |
Who won Olympics in 2012?
United States
Host nation Great Britain won 29 gold medals and 65 overall medals making it the most successful Olympics performance for that nation since the 1908 edition….2012 Summer Olympics medal table.
| 2012 Summer Olympics medals | |
|---|---|
| Location | London, Great Britain |
| Highlights | |
| Most gold medals | United States (47) |
| Most total medals | United States (104) |
Who was the winner of High Jump in Rio Olympic?
Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men’s high jump
| Men’s high jump at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | |
|---|---|
| Winning height | 2.38 |
| Medalists | |
| Derek Drouin Canada Mutaz Essa Barshim Qatar Bohdan Bondarenko Ukraine | |
| 2020 → |
Who won mens long jump?
31 athletes from 20 nations competed. Miltiadis Tentoglou won the gold medal, Greece’s first medal in the men’s long jump….Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men’s long jump.
| Men’s long jump at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad | |
|---|---|
| Winning distance | 8.41 |
| Medalists | |
| Miltiadis Tentoglou Greece Juan Miguel Echevarría Cuba Maykel Massó Cuba | |
| 2024 → |
What is the longest long jump in history?
Mike Powell 8.95 m
Long jump
| Athletics Long jump | |
|---|---|
| A long jumper at the 2007 Military World Games | |
| World records | |
| Men | Mike Powell 8.95 m (29 ft 41⁄4 in) (1991) |
| Women | Galina Chistyakova 7.52 m (24 ft 8 in) (1988) |
Who is the two time gold medalist in high jump?
Only two athletes have won two Olympic high jump titles, both women: Iolanda Balaș and Ulrike Meyfarth. A standing high jump variant of the event was contested from 1900 to 1912 and standing jumps specialist Ray Ewry won all but one of the gold medals in its brief history.