Part 3, Mike Powell and Carl Lewis World Record Long Jump Competition

Fourth and fifth rounds including the two longest jumps in history, shown back to back, by two different athletes! This was probably the best field event competition in history. Mike Powell and Carl Lewis competed against each other in the long jump at the 1991 World Championships. Lewis had a winning streak of more than 60 meets over the previous 10 years going into the meet. Both were at their best on this night which saw four of the seven longest jumps in history! For those with short attention spans, go to the 3:40 mark to see the world record jump.

Comments

1. Imagine you jumped 29' and thought you had the gold and all your talk leading up to the competition, in a bag. Life's rough!
2. wow
3. Damn! 12 feet was my best.
4. wow he jumped maybe 20-30 pixels? It's hard to tell but it sure looks impressive.
5. Carl Lewis as great an athlete as
   he was,needed a moment of humility.
6. I'm studying this to get better at Long Jumping in QWOP on my phone.
7. Carl Lewis is on roids
8. LEGEND XXX
9. 3:30 for the big moment
10. i'm 2 and i can eat boogers.
11. how is that even possible..
12. This was the golden age for the U.S. in the long jump
13. Let me have one of those jumps!
14. I got that distance, only difference is that it was triple jump
15. Thanks for posting a great moment in long jumping history.
16. Were they all on drugs? It seems strange that no-one is breaking decades old records any more.
17. They just just through one side of my bedroom wall and out the other side.
18. Lewis and Powell jump 29 FT+. Incredible!!
19. the tournament of carl lewis is unreal he s beaten in only one jump but he deserved the title of long jumpers of all time 8.83 8.84 8.87 8.91 in the same tournament 0__0
20. Bob Beamon's long jump record may have been beaten, but I think it stands as the most amazing feat in track and field history. He broke the current record in the long jump by almost TWO feet. That is absurd. It took 22 years and lots of sport exercise technology and technique improvements to top that.