Long Jump Revolution has arrived to improve brands and reduce null

Since the last century, a block of plasticine has been shaping the edges of the null jump indicator table at length and triple jump. Plasticine decides: if it’s a brand, it’s void. Almost a third of the jumps in great competitions of recent years are void. And the athletics of the world, as Sebastian COE leads it, sponsor commissions and studies to make it more visual, nimble, relentless, relentlessly and attract the unconditional sport. Therefore, it has been known since last year that one of his projects is to ‘shake the tree’ in horizontal jumps. Not only for the concerned amount of null, but also for the disruption of brands.

The length of the man has only lived two world records in 57 years: the 8.90 of Bob Beamon in 1968 and Mike Powell’s 8.95, which is still being forced since 1991. In Triple, Jonathan Edwards has maintained records since 1995 . For all of this, wa works on a violent change in measuring jumps so that there is less null and improved marks. The new formula bend the length of the hitting area, called the ‘Takeoff Zone’, from 20 to 40 centimeters, and introduces sensors that give -up to measure the jump at its true distance, from the footprint Up to the footprint of the shoe, from taking away in the fall in the pit. On paper, it makes fewer limits to achieve better brands by removing the distance between the whipping footprint and the table line that always marks the onset of measurement, and should reduce the amount of Null jumps.

The idea was to prove the invention at select meetings and make it an officer from 2026. And the first test came last week at the Düsseldorf covered track meeting. German Malaika Mihanho, Olympic champion in Tokyo and Runner -up in Paris 2024, has the honor to be the first winner under new rules, with a jump of 6.87 meters. There is no rare, even less if one is considered just days before, along with the traditional whipping table and the ‘fear’ to walk in plasticine, it comes 20 centimeters yet, 7.07, in Karlsruhe. In Düsseldorf, a camera device helped electronically measure each jump from the take -off point of the athletes and not from the beginning of the table. The debate is served, with fans, technicians and jumpers discussing the fact that it has lost, along with the new rule, most technical merit of adjustment in the hit line.

Today, many athletes are uncomfortable to lose a major technical work factor such as a whipped career. “Length is one of the most difficult trials by adjusting the iron. You have to run like a sprinter and fix the whipped. After that, the jump is almost at least, the easiest,” Greek Miltiadis Tentoglou warned, Olympic champion, who is uncomfortable with the ‘invention’ that comes to qualify as “a dog shit.” In conjunction with both lines, a legend that Carl Lewis, declares himself completely contrary to change: ” I have always said that the length of the jump is the most difficult trial of the athletes and this proposal will eliminate the most difficult test capabilities.

In Düsseldorf, just in case, two brands are measured with each jump: that’s the new ‘takeoff zone’ and another from a virtual plasticine line, to the former way.