At the 1956 Olympic Games, a 26-year-old Bell jumped 7.83m in challenging conditions to win by 15cm ahead of his compatriot ...

1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma ... Hopkins' Northern Ireland long jump record of 6.11m set in 1956 was only finally bettered in 2013. The then 70-year-old athlete returned to ...

She also broke the all-comers long jump record, though that fell again to another jumper later in the day. One of the high jumpers she beat in Cherryvale Park was Mary Peters, the future Olympic ...

BLOOMINGTON — Greg Bell, a gold-medal long jumper at the 1956 Olympic Games and ... Bell’s 26-1 ½ jump at the 1957 Penn Relays also set an event record, which stood until broken by Carl ...

American long jump great Greg Bell, who had been the oldest living Olympic gold medallist in athletics ... USA in 1957 was just three centimetres off the world record that had been set by Jesse ...

Greek long jumper Miltiadis Tentoglou was named the Best Balkan Athlete of the Year for 2024 on Friday. The 26-year-old Tentoglou, who won Olympic gold in Paris last year, is also the reigning ...

Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins, who won Empire Games gold for Northern Ireland and held the world record, dies aged 88.

Thelma Hopkins set a new women's high jump world record in Belfast in May 1956 and won Olympic Games silver six ... 1951 when won both the high jump and long jump. Three years later, she clinched ...