Track athlete Bob Beamon is probably best known for his world record, 29 feet, 2 1/2 inches long jump at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968. His world record jump stood for almost 23 years until it ...

When Bob Beamon sailed 29 feet, 2 1/2 inches to obliterate the world record in the long jump at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, it seemed unlikely his standard would ever be toppled. It was 23 ...

On October 18, 1968, Bob Beamon made track and field history by setting a world long jump record of 29' 2 1/2" that stood for 23 years. He broke the existing world mark by almost two feet, prompting ...

Bob Beamon is an American Olympic Hall ... He still holds the longest-standing modern Olympic record in Track and Field in the men’s long jump, 8.90 meters, which he accomplished at the 1968 ...

“Bob Beamon!” And Beamon, who for nearly six decades has held the Olympic long jump record, starts slapping his palms across the congas. Bop-a-bop-a-bop. The beat builds fast, until it feels ...

Bob Beamon and Stix Bones ... noted that while the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris are over, Beamon’s long jump record (8.90 meters) still stands (at over 56 years), and this makes it the longest ...

Bob Beamon, a native New Yorker and a scholarship ... Beamon focused his efforts and won gold with a remarkable, world record–setting long jump. So long was the jump that the judges’ optical ...

Bob Beamon shocked the track and field world ... who in 1985 set Cal’s still-standing long jump record of 26-6 1/4. Jeff Faraudo was a sports writer for Bay Area daily newspapers since he ...

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Normally heat records inch up incrementally. This was akin to American Bob Beamon breaking the long jump record by nearly 2 feet at the 1968 Olympics. As Gov. Gavin Newsom warned Wednesday ...

In Mexico City in 1968, Bob Beamon soared to one of the Games’ most enduring records. Now he has started a new life as a percussionist. (Julia Wall/The Washington Post) Warning: This graphic ...