World Record as of 2009: Mike Powell 8.95 meters
Seasonal Best of 2009: Dwight Phillips 8.74 meters.
She holds the world long jump record with 7.52m.
Mike Powell
From grade 4 Jack Beckett with a Long Jump holding 4,24 meters.
Mike Powell with a jump of 8.95 Meters. 29'4 1/2"
Amritpal Singh holds the Indian men's national record in the long jump with a leap of 8.08 meters done at the Federation Cup Athletics Championship in Delhi in March, 2004.
Galina Chistyakova, with a jump of 7.52 meters (24 ft 8.25 inches).
It was broken in 1968. The record were set aside until Mike Powell broken the record (he still holds it).
The current female world championship record for long jump is held by Galina Chistyakova from the Soviet Union, with a distance of 7.52 meters set in 1988.
Mike Powell in 1991 he set his record he jumped 29 ft 41⁄4 in !!
Lynn Davies is the Welsh record holder with 8.23m. He was also the Olympic gold medallist in 1964.
The prepositional phrase is for the long jump. Record is not part of it.
That is Ashia Hansen with a jump of 15.15 meters in 1997.Hansen jumped 15.16m indoors in Valencia in 1998. The best outdoor jump by a UK athlete is 14.96m, also by Hansen in Munich in 1999. She jumped a wind assisted 15.00m in the same competition.