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Injuries to leading long jumpers Mike Powell and Iván Pedroso allow an in form Carl Lewis to thrill his home country with a gold medal... winning jump in Atlanta. His leap of 8.50m is 21 cm better than Jamaica’s James Beckford and he becomes the third Olympian to win the same individual event on four occasions.
19 lip 1996 · Relive the moments that went down in history at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta. Access official videos, results, galleries, sport and athletes.
1996 Olympics - Women's Gymnastics Team Competition. American athlete Carl Lewis waves the American flag after winning the men's long jump final of the 1996 Summer Olympics, at the Centennial Olympic...
9 maj 1996 · Annie Leibovitz photographs 61 of America's most promising athletes as they vie for a chance to compete in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
The men's long jump was an athletics event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. There were 54 competitors from 41 nations, with one athlete not starting. [1] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress.
#FlashbackFriday The Atlanta ’96 Olympics was a historic outing for Nigeria for many reasons, one of which was Chioma Ajunwa’s GOLD-winning leap in the...
Less than two months after her return she finished fifth in her semi-final of the 100m at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games on 27 July, and then in the long jump final on 2 August, she produced an amazing first round leap of 7.12m (see photo above) to win the gold medal. The next day she ran the first leg for Nigeria in the 4 x 100m relay final in ...
