Long Jump Stockholm: Echevarria Goes 8.83. Will he get WR?

Unbelievable jump. They need to move the board back.

Terrific. It's about time we had someone threaten that record. Beamon's mark was considered untouchable but it's now several years longer between Powell and 2018 than between Beamon and Powell.

Besides, I get sick of all the hype toward the triple jump world record attempt. That is not going to happen, at least not for Christian Taylor.

Just a tremendous jump. He is young and I saw him jump at one of those previous meets recently and he has tremendous form and talent. They didn't measure what looked like a nine meter jump then and he just looks like he'll be world record holder soon and be the first over 9 meters legally. He is listed as 19 and will be 20 in August! He's about to do for the long jump what his countryman Sotomayor did for the high jump.

Would be nice to know feet and inches since I grew up in the USA.

I want to know how far he would have got if he didn't drag his right elbow through the sand.

He actually landed around 8.90.

ex-runner wrote:

I want to know how far he would have got if he didn't drag his right elbow through the sand.

He actually landed around 8.90.

It looked like his feet hit the end of the pit and he bounced back a bit.

zxcvzxcvxczv wrote:

Just a tremendous jump. He is young and I saw him jump at one of those previous meets recently and he has tremendous form and talent. They didn't measure what looked like a nine meter jump then and he just looks like he'll be world record holder soon and be the first over 9 meters legally. He is listed as 19 and will be 20 in August! He's about to do for the long jump what his countryman Sotomayor did for the high jump.

Yes, I saw that recent meet where he was jumping (Rome or Oslo I think) and he had a couple of mammoth jumps but they were 'no jumps' They both looked around 9m and I was frustrated that the commentators didn't make more of it, and the broadcasters never showed a replay close up on the board to see how far over he was.

I think he'll jump over 9m this year, barring injury.

Moments like these are why I still watch track and field. Insane jump. The races from NCAA were incredible and these types of performances are what makes the sport exciting.

The big question: when this guy defects, what country will he defect to?

No metric please wrote:

Would be nice to know feet and inches since I grew up in the USA.

That's your and your parents' fault for living in a stupid country.

No metric please wrote:

Would be nice to know feet and inches since I grew up in the USA.

Are there schools in the US which teach you things?

If not, you can also use the internet to get information.

Good luck...

Let anybody you know that a guy jumped 8.8 meters and watch the confused look on their face. Tell them the guy jumped 28+ feet and get at least an acknowledgement. Only arrogant a-holes speak metric garbage in the USA.

No metric please wrote:

Let anybody you know that a guy jumped 8.8 meters and watch the confused look on their face. Tell them the guy jumped 28+ feet and get at least an acknowledgement. Only arrogant a-holes speak metric garbage in the USA.

Ummm, ever heard of Engineers, Doctors, Pharmacists, Physicists, or Teachers?

P.S. Apologies for non-standard capitalization. And to Jordan Hasay.

P.P.S. I enjoy feeding trolls. They eat the best garbage: metric garbage.

No metric please wrote:

Would be nice to know feet and inches since I grew up in the USA.

What difference would it make.

the real arrogance is of American track and field fans and organisers continuing not to use the international standard of measurements and race distances.

A true athletics fan would understand that an 8m 80 jump is close to the world record and a big deal. Also high schools prioritising the Mile over the 1500m is a bizarre clinging onto the past when it would be far more relevant and interesting to see what developing elite athletes are doing over the actual Olympic distance.

Get over yourself, boiii. In America, we run the 400-meter dash, not the 1312.34 foot dash. Same goes for most other races. In the American collegiate system (the NCAA, it is possible you've heard of it), NONE of the jumps (and by jumps, I mean the long jump, the high jump, the triple jump, and the pole vault, in case you didn't know) are measured in feet. At meets, they are measured and announced in metric. Occasionally, the converted imperial distance is displayed.

I don't care about getting more Americans interested in who long jumps how far, since I know plenty of folks (Americans, or other "arrogant a-holes" who I can talk to about how impressive an 8.83m jump is (or 28' 11.75'' for your narrow-minded self).

I am a sprinter/jumper who has never run a race over 600 meters, but I follow and do my best to understand important benchmarks in all events from the 60m dash up to the marathon. If it is really that hard for you to process metric information, why are you commenting on a thread about the long jump? If you consider yourself a fan of the jumps, you don't know yourself very well. Get over it. Learn metric benchmarks. They are REALLY not that difficult.

Off the top of my head:

6.40 - 21 feet

6.70 - 22 feet

7.00 - 23 feet

7.32 - 24 feet

7.62 - 25 feet

7.93 - 26 feet

8.22 - 27 feet

8.53 - 28 feet

8.84 - 29 feet

8.95 - the long jump WR, only 12 centimeters farther than Echevarria's leap. 29' 4.5.''

Congratulations, now you can work on improving yourself as a track and field fan.

How many cm did he lose when he rolled back after landing trying to stand?

I have been trying to figure that out... Seems like he might not have lost much distance as he did a really good job of falling to the side. If you slow-mo the video, you can see the depression he makes with his back is either level with the first mark he made in the sand, or even further away from the runway. That being said, if the pit had been longer, he certainly would've had a better landing and might've broken 8.90. This jump is probably intrinsically worth 8.80 with 2.0m/s wind, and around 8.70 with 0.0m/s wind.

His takeoff is still pretty mechanically terrible. His last step is way too long, and he plants his foot quite far ahead of his hips. Once he starts to get that foot more underneath him at takeoff, every aspect of his flight will improve. No doubt he flirts with, and potentially obliterates 9 meters. Doesn't seem like much of a question that he will get the world record soon.

inthepdx wrote:

How many cm did he lose when he rolled back after landing trying to stand?

None. There is a mark in the sand much further back where his elbow dragged as he landed.

In my opinion that early elbow landing mistake cost him an 8.90+ jump

ex-runner wrote:

inthepdx wrote:

How many cm did he lose when he rolled back after landing trying to stand?

None. There is a mark in the sand much further back where his elbow dragged as he landed.

In my opinion that early elbow landing mistake cost him an 8.90+ jump

Really hard to tell from the video tricky camera angles. But -------I think the mark you refer to ( the top one most distant from the camera) is from the touchdown point of his heel and his right elbow actually landed in that heel depression.

Also agree the rollback mark was further from the board .