Standing long jump

The athlete takes off and lands using both feet, swinging the arms and bending the knees to provide forward drive.

In the early part of the nineteenth century the standing long jump was a popular event at highland games and military sports, but very few of these performances were measured.

[13][14] At Carrick-on-Suir in County Tipperary in southern Ireland, fifteen miles north west of Waterford, on Monday 1 April 1872, Maurice Davin, a farmer who later became the first President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), cleared 11ft 6in (3.50m).

The current unofficial record is held by Byron Jones, who recorded a jump of 3.73 m (12 ft 2+3⁄4 in) at the NFL Combine on February 23, 2015,[18] beating the official world-record jump distance of 3.71 m (12 ft 2 in) set by Norwegian shot putter Arne Tvervaag from Ringerike FIK Sportclub in 1968, in a different setting with different controls.

Their first standing long jump champions were Henri Jardin (Racing Club de France) 3.04m (9ft 11 3/4in), and Suzanne Liebrard (Fémina Sports) 2.215m (7ft 3in).

[21][22] The standing long jump is also one of the events at the NFL combine,[23] it was one of the standardized test events as part of the President's Award on Physical Fitness,[24] as well as the physical fitness test that officer cadets must complete at the Royal Military College of Canada and the United States Air Force Academy.