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  • Question of

    Who flopped at the Mexico 1968 Olympics, but still took gold?

    • Vladimir Yashchenko
    • Dwight Stones
    • Dick Fosbury
  • Question of

    Footage exists of Canada’s Debbie Brill high-jumping, proving that she was the first to employ the ‘Fosbury Flop’. What is her invention sometimes called?

    • Brill’s Bend
    • Brill’s Bounce
    • Brilliant Brill
  • Question of

    Cuban Javier Sotomayor broke the high-jumping World Record in 1993, a feat yet not surpassed thirty years later. What did his leap measure?

    • 2.42m
    • 2.44m
    • 2.45
  • Question of

    What is the nationality of Yulimar Rojas the Women’s 2020 Olympic Triple Jump champion?

    • Colombian
    • Portuguese
    • Venezuelan
  • Question of

    Men’s triple jump featured in the very first Olympics of 1896. When was the women’s equivalent introduced?

    • 1928
    • 1972
    • 1996
  • Question of

    Who is the only Briton, male or female, to have won an Olympic triple-jump gold medal?

    • Ashia Hansen
    • Jonathan Edwards
    • Phillips Idowu
  • Question of

    Which of these long jumping legends never held the World Record?

    • Carl Lewis
    • Bob Beeman
    • Mike Powell
  • Question of

    Which of these long jumping legends has never won an Olympic Gold at the event?

    • Carl Lewis
    • Bob Beeman
    • Mike Powell
  • Question of

    Mike Powell set a World record of 8:95 metre in 1991. How many more centimetres was it than Ellery Harding Clark’s (also USA) jump to claim the first Olympic long jump gold, almost a century earlier?

    • 160
    • 260
    • 360
  • Question of

    And how much further was Powell’s jump than the current women’s WR set by Galina Chistyakova (USSR) in 1988?

    • 143cm
    • 193cm
    • 243cm

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