UTEP's Black track athletes boycotted a meet at BYU in 1968 to protest the school's treatment of Black people.

Records are routinely broken in other sports, but Secretariat’s record-breaking times in the 1973 Triple Crown have never ...

“Bob Beamon’s record was just a jump in Mexico City,” Kalbfleisch said of the famous 1968 long-jump world record that went unbroken for almost 23 years. “Secretariat’s Belmont was a more ...

The current men's world record is held by Morocco's ... At the same Games, Bob Beamon became the first long jumper to jump over eight metres with a leap of 8.90 metres. Like them, athletics ...

Ford, a Vanderbilt University signee, broke the Class 7A state meet record in the long jump with a leap ... winning the Class 5A boys’ high jump (6-8); Bob Jones’ Alivia Urrutia winning ...