German great Malaika Mihambo won a first long jump competition with a take-off zone rather than the traditional board at an ...

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When Lake Placid hosted the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, it would still be another 30 years before women were offered the opportunity to compete in ski jumping at the highest international level. This ...

African Games 2023 bronze medallist, Prestina Ochonogor, opened her season with a remarkable win at the Southwest Athletics Conference Pre-National Sports Festival Meet in Ile-Ife, Osun State, on ...

When Yaroslava Mahuchikh emerges for her season opener on Thursday she will embark on another four-year Olympic cycle, with a ...

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He was the first American skater to win an Olympic gold medal in 1948 and repeated as Olympic champion in 1952, after he successfully landed the first double axel and triple jump in competition.

Those involved with the University of Delaware’s High Performance Figure Skating Center have celebrated many triumphs, including in the U.S. Nationals and Olympics. On Thursday they endured the ...

American long jump great Greg Bell, who had been the oldest living Olympic gold medallist in athletics, has died at the age of 94. (More Sports News) Bell breathed his last on January 25 ...

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 ...

Arguably his greatest career achievement athletically came at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where Bell won the gold medal with a 7.83-meter long jump. In 1957, Bell helped IU win Big ...

led by Paris Olympics double gold medalist Carlos Yulo, who was awarded Athlete of the Year at the PSA Annual Awards Night at the Centennial Hall of Manila Hotel on Jan. 27, 2025. VIDEO BY RIO DELUVIO ...