medaltemplates article_title name birth_date
men 's athletics james stallworth -lrb- athlete -rrb-
 james stallworth april 29 , 1971
james stallworth -lrb- athlete -rrb-

james stallworth -lrb- born april 29 , 1971 -rrb- is an american track and field athlete , primarily known for the long jump .
he currently holds the nfhs high school record for the long jump , with a jump of 26 ' 4.75 , '' 8.04 metres set while winning the cif california state high school championships in norwalk , california on june 3 , 1989 .
see the jump on youtube .
stallworth attended tulare union high school , the same high school as the famous two time olympic decathlon champion bob mathias and discus gold medalist sim iness .
continuing his junior career , he won the usatf junior championships in 1990 , setting a still standing meet record of 8.17 metres which qualified him for the international team .
in plovdiv , bulgaria , he won the 1990 world junior championships in athletics , setting a personal record of 8.20 metres -lrb- which is currently tied for # 152 on the world all time list -rrb- in the qualifying round .
he also won a bronze medal in the 200 metres in that same competition .
in 1991 , as a 20-year-old , he placed second behind mike powell in the united states olympic festival , powell would claim the world record in the long jump two years later , a record he still holds .
with exceptional junior athletics results like these , one would normally expect an outstanding career as a collegiate or elite athlete .
no such career seems to exist .
in 2000 , james stallworth reappeared , competing unattached and achieving a 26 ' long jump in a local championship in long beach , california as a 29-year-old , which did not improve on his best set ten years earlier .
it ranked him 21st in the united states that year .
