Who holds the long jump world record?

THE lengthy bounce has featured at each Olympic Video games since 1896.

The occasion is contested by each women and men, however who maintain the world data?

Mike Powell jumped to a world document of 8.95 metres in 1991Credit score: Hulton Archive - Getty

Who holds the world document for the longest lengthy bounce?

The world document for males's lengthy bounce is 8.95 metres, set by Mike Powell within the 1991 world athletics championships in Tokyo, Japan.

The American lastly overtook the mark set by Bob Beamon after 23 years.

Nonetheless US athlete Beamon remains to be the Olympic document holder, leaping 8.90 metres on his technique to successful the gold medal in 1968 in Mexico.

The world document for ladies's lengthy bounce is 7.52 metres, set by Slovakia athlete Galina Chistyakova in Saint Petersburg (then referred to as Leningrad) in 1988.

Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee is the Olympic document holder for the ladies's lengthy bounce, with a bounce of seven.40 metres that noticed her win the gold medal at Seoul 1988.

Who's Mike Powell?

Mike Powell is an American athlete who has held the lengthy bounce world document since 1991.

He was born on November 10, 1963, and is married to Canadian 400-metre hurdler Rosey Edeh.

Regardless of holding the world document and successful two world championship gold medals, Powell by no means grew to become Olympic champion, having to accept a silver medal in 1988 and 1992.

Who's Galina Chistyakova?

Galina Chistyakova is a former lengthy jumper who represented the Soviet Union and later Slovakia.

She holds the world document for ladies within the occasion, leaping 7.52 metres on June 11, 1988.

Regardless of holding the document for lengthy bounce, Chistyakova fell quick in her makes an attempt to turn out to be Olympic champion, along with her greatest end leading to a bronze medal in Seoul 1988, the identical yr she set the document.

What's Usain Bolt's lengthy bounce?

Regardless of asserting intentions to compete on this occasion earlier than his retirement from athletics in 2017, Usain Bolt has by no means set a recorded bounce.

He was filmed having a go on the lengthy bounce throughout a meet in Ostrava in 2017, however his distance wasn't recorded.

Powell was quoted in 2017 as saying that Bolt "might have lengthy jumped 9 metres had he educated for it" as a consequence of his tempo and energy over a brief distance.