long jump record
Best distance leaped
The farthest distance achieved in the long jump, a track and field event where athletes sprint down a runway and leap into a sand pit.
Records are kept at various levels—school, national, world.
Bob Beamon's 1968 Olympic long jump record stood for twenty-three years.
She broke the state long jump record as a sophomore.
- leapSudden springing movement
- distanceSpace between two points
- sandFine rock particles
- pitFruit's hard seed
- runwayPaved path for planes
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