Talk:Long jump

message: There is a consensus on Wikipedia that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman and should be referred to as such. 
Caitlyn Jenner leapt 7.22 at the Montreal Olympics. That's longer than 6.99, the next best by a woman in 1976. You cannot simply pretend it didn't happen.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:808C:2100:1990:D4BC:928C:BB58 (talk) 23:23, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Caitlyn Jenner

message: We have discussions about the policy going on at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 121#MOS:IDENTITY clarification and about the other usages of Jenner's identity at Talk:Caitlyn Jenner.  There is a lot of discussion to read at both locations. Trackinfo (talk) 03:12, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Jenner discussions

message: I was wondering if anyone knows the Standing Long Jump record, or if Standing Long Jump is even in the olympics? KelticK 22:27, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting question. See Ray Ewry; according to the page, he's still the holder of the record 3.47 m jump, the event was last seen in the olympics in 1912, and was discontinued in internation competitions in the 1930s. —Bunchofgrapes  (talk) 04:59, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Standing long jump record

message: Can the images scanned from the book illustrating the different techniques and the long jump board be viewed as fair use? I think these probably violate the copyrights. Has this been discussed somewhere else? David D. (Talk) 06:30, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: fair use

message: The intro for this article seems too long.  Maybe some of it should be moved into the body of the article?  David D. (Talk) 05:50, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. IMHO The 2nd paragraph ("Competitors sprint down..") and the 3rd paragraph ("Usually, each competitor...") should be moved to a new section within the article. Kvsh5 (talk) 16:42, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: LEAD

message: I don't think that standing long jump is an Olympic event.  They don't even do it at high school track meets.  There probably is a record but it will take some time to find.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.7.60.187 (talk) 16:38, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standing Long jump 

message: Use Wikipdia For Anything.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.245.22 (talk) 10:52, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Records 

message: In the Top 25 Jumps list, Carl Lewis' 8.68 from the Tokyo 1991 World Championship is missing. That was his first jump in the final and it was a new World Championship record at that time, the previous one was by him from the previous WC 1987 in Rome, and was just 1 cm shorter. 
Why isn't Carl Lewis' 8.91 at the '91 world championships listed? Tompw (talk) (review) 21:33, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems this old discussion was updated - with a comment about Lewis's 8.68 at the 1991 WC - now that we have the all-time 25 performances. I took the marks as per the World Athletics list, but the editor is correct - two of his legal leaps from that day are on the list, but not the legal 8.68. Can't see any reason not to include it. Canada Jack (talk) 15:27, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carl Lewis 

message: On the World Record Progression and National records sections the dates are listed as YYYY-MM-DD. However, on the Top Ten Performers section, the american format is used. Can anyone fix this? Thanks Kvsh5 (talk) 16:38, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, YYYY-MM-DD is not appropriate for English-language Wikipedia.  Scolaire (talk) 20:30, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistent date format 

message: As illustrated by the Sebastian Bayer record jump episode (added into the best performances table and then removed again), I think this article needs an addition about indoor performances. It seems quite absurd that his jump and Carl Lewis's 8.79 indoor jump are totally and completely absent. They are an important part of history so they deserve somekind of attention? JH-man (talk) 10:09, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not simply add all-time top 10 indoor lists? We have a similar situation in the pole vault, where the greatest vault in history - 6.15 by Sergey Bubka - is not mentioned as it was an indoor feat and the lists are outdoors. The problem here is that if we simply add Bayer's mark to the all-time lists, we are engaging in original research as the primary source here - the IAAF - does not intermingle indoor and outdoor achievements (there are exceptions, however, see the talk page for the women's vault progression), but unless the IAAF starts intermingling the marks, we should avoid doing so. Canada Jack (talk) 18:12, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't think anyone disagrees. Now we just have to find someone to actually do it, lol.  :)  I would do it myself but I'm afraid I'm not much into the standards used in articles like these etc. JH-man (talk) 09:19, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indoor/outdoor 

message: The international regulations are pretty much different from those used in the U.S – globalization is needed, maybe also a separate section for the regulations/rules. --87.95.16.243 (talk) 23:53, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Regulations

message: It also took me a long time to find the athlete in the first picture, (see para 4 of the 'Standing long jump record' section above), even after clicking on it; surely, after three years, a better picture could be found. RASAM (talk) 20:35, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 1st Picture

message: Are somersaults really banned in long jumping, or they are just ineffective? Alone Coder (talk) 15:20, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably are banned. They are banned in high jump. Cls14 (talk) 13:48, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it's banned. Unlike the Fosbury Flop, they used it before the Olympics, thus giving time for it to be banned from Olympic competition, which banned it everywhere. If they had done like Fosbury did with his flop and waiting until the Olympics to use the technique, than it'd be the way we'd do it today. But instead they showed off before the biggest event, thus getting it banned. 68.107.138.161 (talk) 10:27, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Somersaulting is not banned in high jump, however, the technique of jumping off of two feet is.  If a jumper can attain the required efficiency clearly jumping off of one foot, its legal.  I've seen a one legged jumper win an open competition using the technique.   Fosbury did not hide his technique.  He and Debbie Brill clearly used it for a couple of years before the 1968 Olympics.  He won the NCAA Championship and used it in the multiple stage Olympic trials which were shown in as public a fashion as the sport has outside of the Olympics -- ABC's Wide World of Sports. Trackinfo (talk) 08:54, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

text: Is there any information on results prior to ban? When it was banned? When it was first introduced/seen at official competition? This should be in the article as a illegal technique. 213.149.61.252 (talk) 17:29, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Somersault 

message: Is "ancient" in the wrong place here, or...?
J.M. Archer (talk) 18:36, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "once was a fifty-five ancient foot" 

message: It kind of fails, when you click on the arrows (to try to line it differently). Pelmeen10 (talk) 13:38, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  National records table 

message: Can information be added as to the terms "broad jump" vs. "long jump"? I remember hearing it called a broad jump as late as the 1960s. Hieronymus Illinensis (talk) 03:51, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: In the early 1960s, I only heard it called the broad jump, but not too much later (mid-to-late 1960s?), all I heard was long jump.  This article confirms that :  https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2012/08/02/the-triumph-of-the-long-jump/ . Kdammers (talk) 14:15, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broad jump vs. long jump 

message: I discovered this technique on my own in late 1974 and used it my entire 1975 University of South Dakota track season. 
Dan Lennon was my South Dakota track coach at the time.
Did it for both indoor and out seasons. This included long jumping into mats during a few indoor field events. 
I was both a long jumper and high jumper and had trouble switching from jumping Up.
One meet in 1974 at Yankton College in South Dakota I took off from a long jump and since I
was so high in the air I just went for it. I immediately had it down.
With the technique mid 23 ft. jumps were normal for me.
In my second to last meet at Morningside College in Iowa I used the technique, off a concrete runway in flats,
to record 5 long jumps over 23 ft. 
I was never injured and it actually became a normal and easy technique for me.
I still have an old friend from that time who can back up my doing this technique as being "regular".
To me outlawing the technique is as conceptually dumb outlawing the flopping high jump.
Probably outlawed due to University insurance nonsense.
Just let the athlete sign a waiver.
Hopefully...someday Track   Men...will overrule insurance agents. 
All it takes is commitment and guts.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.28.145.113 (talk) 20:45, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Bruce Jenner among others tried the technique and it received some notoriety in the mid-1970s.  The IAAF made the technique illegal, writing a rule that the jumper's feet may not go above their head. Trackinfo (talk) 21:02, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  but its still not in the article right? itz really should be... see that this was reality not fake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyR4FQxDoyk&lc=Ugw_o3rapO-dZadteNp4AaABAg.9g4jtEznYL89g4kGGCtc4Y
Lasse Miranda (talk) 21:11, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Somersault long jump 

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message: I don't see any explanation of the colour code in the table.
:2nd ... Very strange :-(. JB. --92.193.189.61 (talk) 20:05, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  long jump record history 

message: Under the region / continental records section, a panamanian record is listed as the continental record for South America.
:Panama is member of CONSUDATLE/Atletismo Sudamericano. First check the official record pages on federation web site.Montell 74 (talk) 17:35, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, just to underline that, the records are per the World Athletics official list, which shows Panamanian Irving Saladino as the South American area record holder, geographical incorrectness notwithstanding. https://www.worldathletics.org/records/by-discipline/jumps/long-jump/outdoor/men Canada Jack (talk) 23:25, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Panama is not in South America 

message: The bottom left corner of the infobox overlaps with text in the body of the article when I view the article. The overlap is small and doesn't interfere with readability in my view (this may not the case for either devices or display setting though) but I still would like to fix it but don't know how. WireBeetle (talk) 10:54, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox overlaps with article text 

message: Surely this is incorrect? 51.9.131.114 (talk) 13:42, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Botswana Tops the Olympic Long Jump Men's Medal Table? 

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