Long jump

Athletics Long jump
An athlete performing the long jump at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships
World records
Men	Mike Powell 8.95 m (29 ft 4+1⁄4 in) (1991)
Women	Galina Chistyakova 7.52 m (24 ft 8 in) (1988)
Olympic records
Men	Bob Beamon 8.90 m (29 ft 2+1⁄4 in) A (1968)
Women	Jackie Joyner-Kersee 7.40 m (24 ft 3+1⁄4 in) (1988)
World Championship records
Men	Mike Powell 8.95 m (29 ft 4+1⁄4 in) (1991)
Women	Jackie Joyner-Kersee 7.36 m (24 ft 1+3⁄4 in) (1987)
World Indoor Championship records
Men	Iván Pedroso 8.62 m (28 ft 3+1⁄4 in) (1999)
Women	Brittney Reese 7.23 m (23 ft 8+1⁄2 in) (2012)

The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a group are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". This event has a history in the ancient Olympic Games and has been a modern Olympic event for men since the first Olympics in 1896 and for women since 1948.