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Men    Women 100 y 100 m 200 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 1 Mile 5000 m 10000 m Marathon 110 m Hurdles 400 m Hurdles 3000 m Steeplechase 4 x 100 m Relay 4 x 400 m Relay 10 km Track Walk 20 km Road Walk 50 km Road Walk 35 km Road Walk High Jump Pole Vault Long Jump Triple Jump Shot Put Discus Throw Hammer Throw Javelin Throw Decathlon 4 x 400 m Mixed

Men, Long Jump World    World Indoor    Europe    Olympic    World Champ.    Europe Champ. All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated     5.94 Edward Bourke GBR Cambridge Mar 17, 1857   5.94* Henry Powell GBR Oxford Mar 10, 1859   6.38 Charles Buller GBR Harrow Apr 15, 1862   6.40 G.B. Worthington GBR Manchester Aug 27, 1864   6.50 Alick Tosswill GBR Oxford Mar 14, 1868   6.75 Alick Tosswill GBR Oxford Feb 27, 1869   6.88 Jenner Davies GBR London Mar 27, 1872   6.97 Jenner Davies GBR London Mar 27, 1874   7.05 John Lane IRL Dublin Jun 11, 1874   7.06 Patrick Davin IRL Monasterevan Aug 30, 1883   7.06* Patrick Davin IRL Portarlington Sep 13, 1883   7.085* John Purcell IRL Monasterevan Aug 26, 1886   7.17* Charles Fry GBR Oxford Mar 05, 1893   7.21 John Mooney IRL Mitchelstown Sep 05, 1894   7.25 William Newburn IRL Dublin Jun 18, 1898   7.33 William Newburn IRL Dublin Jul 16, 1898   7.48? William Newburn IRL Mullingate Jul 19, 1898   7.51 Peter O'Connor IRL New Ross Aug 29, 1900   7.54 Peter O'Connor IRL Dublin May 27, 1901   7.60 Peter O'Connor IRL Dublin Jul 15, 1901   7.605 Peter O'Connor IRL Dublin Jul 28, 1901 • 7.61 Peter O'Connor GBR Dublin Aug 05, 1901   7.64 Rudolf Dobermann GER Jena Jun 10, 1928   7.64* Erich Köchermann GER Hamburg Sep 16, 1928   7.65 Lutz Long GER Köln Aug 12, 1933   7.69 Wilhelm Leichum GER Darmstadt Jul 14, 1935   7.73 Wilhelm Leichum GER Berlin Aug 03, 1935   7.76 Wilhelm Leichum GER Jena Jun 07, 1936   7.81 Lutz Long GER Leipzig Jun 14, 1936 • 7.82 Lutz Long GER Berlin Jul 11, 1936 • 7.90 Lutz Long GER Berlin Aug 01, 1937 • 7.98 Henk Visser NED Bucurest Sep 17, 1956 • 8.01 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS Moscow May 16, 1959 • 8.04 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS Rome Sep 02, 1960 • 8.17 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS Kharkiv Jun 11, 1961 • 8.19 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS Moscow Jun 17, 1961 • 8.31 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS Erevan Jun 10, 1962 • 8.33 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS Mexico City Oct 19, 1967 • 8.35* Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS Mexico City Oct 19, 1967 • 8.35* Josef Schwarz FRG Stuttgart Jul 15, 1970 • 8.45 Nenad Stekic YUG Montreal Jul 25, 1975 • 8.45* Lutz Dombrowski GDR Dresden Jul 05, 1980 • 8.54 Lutz Dombrowski GDR Moscow Jul 28, 1980 • 8.61 Robert Emmiyan URS Moscow Jul 06, 1986 • 8.86 Robert Emmiyan URS Tsakhkadzor May 22, 1987