Waaheb's winning return after long lay-off
Waaheb was an impressive winner on his hurdles debut at Fairyhouse to win the Premier Jump Weekend @ Fairyhouse Hurdle despite having had 538 days off the track.
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Heather Jameson
Heather Jameson: 100m, 200m and long jump
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Usain Bolt wants to try long jump at Rio 2016
Usain Bolt is a definite starter for another Olympic Games in four years' time, the six-time gold medallist has said.
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Athletics: Brittney Reese claims long jump gold
America's world indoor and outdoor champion Brittney Reese added an Olympic long jump gold medal to her growing list of titles with the second biggest jump in the world this year.
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Eventing: Aoife Clark finishes seventh
Ireland's Aoife Clark finished seventh in the Equestrian Individual Jumping event, after leading the event for a long spell.
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Long jumping for gold means aiming high
Which long jumpers will leave the London Games with a medal and which with just a memory depends, of course, on the horizontal distance they cover, Paradoxically, however, vertical velocity determines success more than horizontal velocity.
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Buck's strolls to Long Walk hat-trick
Big Buck's moved another step closer to jumping immortality with a faultless display in the Lough Derg Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot.
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Usain Bolt eyes long-jump for 2016
Usain Bolt is planning to continue his career as a long jumper if he is successful in retaining his 100 metres and 200m titles at the 2012 London Olympic Games.
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Kelly Proper fails to make Long Jump final
Kelly Proper's best jump of 6.29m, in the qualification rounds of the long jump was not enough to see her secure a place in the final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Doha on Saturday morning.
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Proper breaks Irish record again
Kelly Proper of Ferrybank AC has broken her own Irish Long Jump Record with a magnificent 6.62m leap at the Vienna Indoor Gala on Saturday.
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IOC to reallocate Jones' medals
The IOC will reallocate Marion Jones' Sydney 2000 Olympics individual sprint and long jump medals this week but will not give her 100m gold to Greece's Katerina Thanou due to her own involvement in doping.
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All-conquering Bolt could target long jump
Usain Bolt has revealed he could turn his hand to the long jump after his triple gold medal winning performance in the World Championships.
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Gillick added to Euro Indoors squad
Athletics Ireland has confirmed that double gold medallist David Gillick will defend his 400m European Indoor title in Italy next month.
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Maggi wins long jump by tiny margin
Brazilian Maurren Higa Maggi won the Olympic women's long jump gold medal by one centimetre from defending champion Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia.
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Saladino wins first gold for Panama
Irving Saladino became Panama's first Olympic gold medal winner on Monday when he won the men's long jump, then said he hoped it would spark a national holiday.
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Proper breaks Irish long jump record
Kelly Proper capped a marvellous season when she broke the long standing Irish long jump record at the Amsterdam Open in Holland at the weekend.
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Britain & Russia win European titles
Britain's men triumphed at the European Cup while a world best for the year of 7.04 metres in the long jump from Lyudmila Kolchanova helped Russia to a 12th consecutive title in the women's event.
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Navan review
Noel Meade's view that Jazz Messenger would get two and a half miles was vindicated in thrilling style in the Tara Hurdle.
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Devlin takes up Ireland role
Athletics Ireland have announced Gareth Devlin as their new High Performance Manager.
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New indoor jump record for McDonagh
Ciaran McDonagh last night became the first Irishman to long jump over eight metres indoors when he set a new national record of 8.00 metres at an invitational meeting in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.