Mike Powell - World Long Jump Record 1991
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- Опубликовано: 20 апр 2013
- At the 1991 World Championships in Athletics (Tokyo), he broke Bob Beamon's almost 23-year-old long jump world record by 5 cm (2 inches), leaping 8.95 m (29 ft 4¼ in). The world record still stands, making Powell the fourth person since 1900 to hold the record for over 20 years. His feat earned him the James E. Sullivan Award and BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award in 1991
Footage from BBC 
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That ain't jumping it's flying
so truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
That ain't flying it's falling with style
Mi Chacho he went to infinity and beyond.
man, I was gonna comment that
Technically it's orbiting. That close.
it wouldve been funny if people that night kept breaking the record over and over again
Powell has actually said, "I didn't think my record was going to last 20 minutes, let alone 25 years. I honestly thought Lewis was going to jump next and beat it".
+TheEschwank02 Also if the record kept going way up. Like one guy jumps 9.50m, the next jumps 10.00m, and so on.
Life isn't funny. That's why so many people been killing theyself recently
Fr lol
@@jeffw1267 its physically impossible by that point unless they genetically modify or mutate
1991 : Guy jumped 8.91 and didnt won the Gold
2016 : We got winner 8.03 what and amazing score !
Dami it’s not everyday 8.8 or 8.9m you know
..........steroids..........just sayin
@@octavius8562 Ok then. Sorry for my mediocre English. But you have to be fucking stupid if you think athletes didn't use supplements to enhance themselves...I mean look at the difference between then and now! Idiot...
@@neustrasen1980 No shit they use steroids, they always have and always will. Does it matter? You could be taking double their doses and wont get anywhere close to their scores.
@@richardlucky1280 You don't know me so please don't judge.
All I got to say is that 90s track and field was dope.
Heaps of dope .
@@twomindz79 true lol
Ben Johnson was dope.
Yeah, without a doubt the most spectacular period for steroid fanatics
@@hristo5689 unlike today with world records dropping like flies
these dudes could dunk 3 pointers :P
Easy
lmao
Brandon McGowan nah they probably could get close on a 10 foot rim
Maybe cuz the diagonal line is around 25.77 feet
nah once they reach the rim they would be too low
Carl: jumps world record
Mike: "hold my beer"
Marlo Stanfield hold my rake*
@@clebbo1880 hold my shoes
hold my legs
Hold my gravity
No. Not a world record.. unaided 8.90 still beats wind aided 8.91.
It's amazing because Bob Beamon's record seemed like it was etched in stone and never to be broken forever, and now Powell's record has stood for 31 years.
Mind you, Bob Beamon is still the Olympic record holder, after 54 years. So the result is etched in stone, only different one.
What’s crazy is no one is within 22 inches of beamon for third place. So Powell and Beamon are wayyyy ahead everyone else
@@willcarroll9762 Carl Lewis and Robert Emmiyan both jumped within 10 cm of Powell's record
@@Grzegorz1006 Might be, but he didn't jump as far.
What Beamon did is still more amazing IMO. Beating the previous record by like 2 feet is absolutely mutant level 😂
2 Athletes at their jumping peak on the same night, Occasionally sport gives us moments of sheer magnificence. :>)
Like Secretariat and Sham!
Sheer doping magnificence
There is a shot put record like this too where someone set it then someone broke it
Was this a world record for the shortest world record?
8.91 didn't count as a world record due to wind.
Damn D:
Purplegaze lol
Shortest lived championship record perhaps.
@@MeatballSubFromDominos he's too arrogant to feel bad for :D
What has happened to The Long Jump, if in 1991 guys were hitting 8.91 and 8.95.....and now people get golds at the Olympics for 8.3.....over 20 years later the sport has regressed?
Yeah good point, I think its the fact that no one these days is even getting close to 8.95 that is weird. Powell must look at todays long jumpers and have a giggle to himself. I wonder if 9 meters will ever be jumped? Not by todays athletes but in the future.
Does anyone know if Lewis or Powell used performance enhancing drugs? Legit question.
thats because they were all doping
Yes it was indeed doping. The Americans & Soviets traded steroid soldiers.
Yes,but drug testing in 1991 was not even close to today standards,back then you could beat the drug test if you used drugs.If your coach was the "guru" of drugs he could give you stuff that test would not detect.
It shows a lot of guts when a legend throws a world record at you and you respond with a legit world record. Respect !
"Beamon's figures have disappeared off the record books forever!"
What an absolutely perverse way to put it.
Lmfao
An excellent piece of commentating throughout, I thought, including this line. A dramatic and emphatic line, but perverse, I don't see it that way at all.
Beamon’s record will not disappear forever, of course. That was simply hyperbole in the thrill of the moment by the announcer. Beamon remains second all time after over 52 years on the wind legal long jump world record list. And he will never be forgotten for having bettered the previous world record by nearly 2 feet. That is comparable to someone beating Usain Bolt’s 100m world record of 9.58s with an 8.99. Records typically drop in tiny increments over the years. This record was bettered by over 6.5%, an unheard of improvement.
My high school track coach, who often was a long jump official at meets such as the US Olympic trials, was on the field and saw Beamon’s jump in Mexico City. He told me that was the most spectacular performance he had seen in his career, and he was not given to hyperbole, ever.
My thought was that perhaps Beamon's outrageous 55cm breaking of the WR in 1968 was tainted in the mind of the commentator by being at altitude (also at the very margin of wind with +2.0). That year in Mexico City, there were many world records set, including the first 200m run under 20 secs in a time of 19.83 (the famous Black Panther salute photo on the podium). Seems a little churlish, since Beamon's jump was such an incredible feat, but perhaps that was what he was thinking.
@@jonny_sparks Very true, though I suspect his comment was in reference to it as a world record, not an Olympic record since Powell was not at the Olympics at the time.
this silver medalist is stronger than any other gold medalist you would ever think of
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No one cares
@@j_bad1032 apparently you do cause you replied.
@@saulgoodman5494 so true
Z1nder dumbass. He cares about letting you dipshits know it’s an old joke, not about the actual comment
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What your greatest feat in life?
Carl Lewis: *i held the world record for the longest jump for 2 minutes*
His indoor long jump world record has stood since January 1984
Oh, I think Carl Lewis could come up with a few other items to answer that one.
His foul was.ober 9m
@@ccx806 Is that still a record? If so, wow.
@@56postoffice Yep. Still a WR 37 years later
My HS track coach recorded me jumping over 40 ft once. Just before he was gonna send the video to Guinness, a bird flew out the sky, grabbed the camera and flew off. So it doesn’t count
sorry about that bro
Man that's a shame
Too bad.
You could've easily jumped and caught the bird.
😂😂😂 you right!
Powell has held the record now for almost as long as Beamon did!
Rupert Finlay Longer, now.
Rupert Finlay Powell has held LJ WR longer than Beamon had, now. 6/26/2015. Now almost 24 years (since I assume this meet was held in August 1991).
2 years later...
But Beamon destroyed the record when he broke it by nearly 2 ft. That's what impresses me.
Powell has the longest record now--27 years! (to 2018)
I still remember Powell’s celebrations, like it happened yesterday!
In the era when there was no doping test, records need to be marked with a question mark........
Beamon still has the 2nd longest jump ever, so 53 yrs later that says a lot of how legendary his jump was!
Further, he still holds the Olympic Record 53 years later.
Beamon increased the long jump world record by 55 centimeters (21.7 inches); a 6.6% improvement. For comparison, a 6.6% improvement on Usain Bolt's 100M world record would result in a 8.95 second time.
@@markhooker8520 Profound comparison.
@@eddyf4426 Longest standing OR
@@markhooker8520 To make it crazier still, there has only ever been one jump (other than Powell and Lewis) that threatened the world record in 1988 by a Russian fella, forget his name. The next best by another athlete is 8.74 and that's even to this day
My Dad went to high school with Mike Powell. He also came to my high school and helped our coach with track and field after school. Great guy.
That's still the best competition I've witnessed in track and field...5 of the best jumps in history within a few minutes..
You're forgetting Ivan Pedroso.
Hold my beer...
+Putte MacGuff brb lol
2:01
alrighty I got it now jump !
watching Rio 2016, they're 2 feet short of this perfection
doping does not give you 2 feet
No drug enhancement
Hiding drug use is harder.
@@AlonsoRules gives you over 2 feet.
@@AlonsoRules two feet isn't that much. Also perhaps in this video they had strong wind assistance.
Remember seeing this competition live in a small flat in Athens, Greece with my brother (aged 15 and 13) while on a family holiday. We were going nuts and getting chastised by our parents.
The greatest head to head Athletic competition I've seen.
Lewis's jumps were: 8.68, X, 8.83w, 8.91w, 8.87, 8.84
Powell's Jumps: 7.85, 8.54, 8.29, X, 8.95, X
How do you jump 4 times over 8.80 & still don't win?? That is insane!!
Beamon's jump looked a lot more badass
***** That's cuz Beamon jumped so much higher. Powell just hit the board perfectly and kept going forward.
Yeah. Beamon'jump and landing was just so perfect.
Agoonga steroids.
+foxinho82 my thoughts exactly.
Beamon’s jump was incredible but it was at altitude. Mexico City is 2,200 metres higher than Tokyo. Massive help but remains an iconic leap.
I watched that live on TV.. honestly that was the most brilliant live TV sports sequence/moment I ever witnessed in my 52 years.
Mike Powell holds the record, and Bob Beamon's record is still the more legendary one because at the time it smashed the record by a couple of feet, but I think Carl Lewis has to go down as the greatest long jumper ever. Four gold medals, man... Nobody else has even two golds. In fact, nobody else even has four medals of any level.
If you nearly get the record and you consistently win for longer than a decade, you're the GOAT.
Does the name Paavo Nurmi ring a bell about LEGENDARY OLYMPIANS? Google it! Lewis is only the most RECENT best in his events! Nurmi did his from 1920 to 1928. Here is the bio: Between 1920 and 1928 he won a record nine Olympic gold medals (seven individual; two team) and three individual silver medals. His medals came in a wide range of events......Lewis got his 1988 100 meter Gold (he actually came in 2nd!) because of a DQ by Ben Johnson. So he really did NOT WIN IT! So Lewis is NOT in the same elite category as Paavo Nurmi! He is 2nd best.
@@williedaniels3882 why would his medals in other events matter for his status as the best long jumper ever
@@williedaniels3882 this is such a weird tangent you went on
That was pretty amazing. Never knew that Carl broke Beamon's then Powell broke Carl's moments later at the same meet. Back then, the press was all about Powell. Don't think I ever read about Carl's great leap just before Powell's. Nevertheless, Bob Beamon's leap will always be the most mind boggling.
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Because Carls jump was not legal, it could not be counted as a world record as it was wind assisted.
thing is, Carl was using illegal drugs so Powell actually showed him whos boss
Carl Never broke Beamons record. It was a longer jump by one centimeter but it was wind aided so Carl's jump still remains third best despite being one centimeter longer.
Carl Lewis 8.91 didn't counted bcz it was was wind aided
Carl Lewis was such a champion. To beat him you needed a world beating score. And Powell just did that. Insane competition. Real physical specimens both of them.
This dude now is amazing, I go to an Olympic camp every summer and he shares this story and it's amazing.
Crazy it has been beaten since 91 and yet two records were set that evening ... what a great night of rivalry and excellence of sports
Carl: 'Beats 23 year world record'.
Mike: 'Hold my tape measure'.
I watched this live, I watched that whole legendary and beautiful 1991 Tokyo championship.
I’m 60 years old now. It amazes me that in the first 8 1/2 years of my life, three different men held 7 different world records in the long jump, but in the last 51 1/2 years only 2 men have held the record. I think that Powell’s record is now the longest-standing record in the history of track and field.
I remember this at the time, Carl Lewis was getting more and more excited; he thought It was all about him and the record. Mike Powell was considered a solid top four contender but no serious challenge to Lewis or the record.
Not true...Powell had come really close to beating Lewis 2 months earlier at the U.S. championship. Carl had to make a clutch final jump to win by half an inch. That's why you see Powell so distraught-looking when Lewis is getting ready to take his final jump in Tokyo.
For the advance in nutrition, training and overall fitness regimes in the last 30 years we have to put in perspective the magnitude of that incredible jump by Beamon, now 52 years ago.
31 years later, the record still stands
Best field event ever. Amazing series
"And Beamon's figures are off the record books"...
Not exactly dude. It's still an Olympic Record. Beamon shattered the record by nearly 22 inches. Powell by about 2 inches. Yeah, it's a remarkable feat, but nothing will erase Bob Beamon's jump.
Beamons was a one hit wonder by altitude, Powell is the greatest jumper ever unlike Lewis who is a sprinter who jumps
@@mezstah how is Beamon a one hit wonder and Powell the best jumper ever? Carl was constantly jumping massive jumps! His average is superior to Powell's!
And Beamons jump was the best jump ever. Not the farthest but the best.
Carl Lewis' expression is PRICELESS!
You'd expect him to embody the Olympic spirit and be happy for his countryman.
Yes...Lewis seems very ungenerous in terms of spirit.
That's not funny
Lol he's like "so he's really going to steal my shine instantly smh." 😂
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It's crazy to think about Powell having held that now for 30 years... phenomenal achievement.
The closest anyone has every come since is 8.74 as well
The average long jump in the olympics final has progressed to 7.8m from what was at the time 7.5 or so, but it is still unlikely we will see it broken until we see a new superhuman athlete on the same kind of level as Bolt
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that was an epic battle.
I actually searched for this. Woooow. And still the world record!!
STILL incredible ... Powell's body type was eerily similar to Bob Beamon's. Long, lean and very solid top end speed.
I know for a fact this video will get recommended to everyone soon so I decided to comment this before it does.
You look at Powell's face before he makes that jump...just look. He's been trying to jump as far as Beamon his entire career, and now he's got to jump FARTHER than Beamon just to win this event, and one-up America's best known name in track and field history to boot. THAT'S pressure!! You can almost read his mind as he tells himself "This is my WHOLE LIFE right here!! I am going to put every ounce of fight, every fiber of my will, and every shred of emotion I have into this RIGHT NOW!!!!" WHAT an inspiring thing to witness!
this record will never be broken
2060....new record!
I always found Lewis to be extremely arrogant, so I was delighted when Powell got the record.
The medalists always push and inspire each other to do best.
If Powell had beaten Beamon's record by 21" you would see how incredible Bob's feat was in 1968.
This sequence is one of the most dramatic events in the history of sports…
Carl Lewis may have missed out in the outdoor record, but his indoor Long Jump WR has stood since 1984
What’s more impressive is this was done at sea level where as Bob Beamon was at Altitude in Mexico
This record will never be broken
Watching the replay of Beamon's record, it seems that Beamon had more vertical in his jump then these two attempts by Lewis and Powell. They seemed to utilize track speed more. Can't remember ever seeing anyone get comparable vertical to Beamon's record jump.
correct! massive verticle....mexico city 8000 meters high, only 50% of the air and 25% of the resistance
I don't know about Beamon's being of the record books forever. Beamon held that record for a very long time.
pafalzon But Powell has now held it for longer. 24 years versus 23 years.
He's still a legend, just will never hold the record again.
Extraordinary talents in one place competing each other that night
The greatest track and field contest ever.
Carl Lewis will always be the best long jumper in history! To still perform this way well into his prime is phenomenal. He also broke the world record in the 100 meter run during this meet.
Dopado hasta los ojos
Greatest head-to-head in sporting history. I wonder when we’ll see 9m ?
I wonder if Echevarría will do it at some point, I think he out of anyone today can.
My dad Darren Smith almost made the team to go there (Tokyo world championship) but he was still in college in 1991 at Iowa
Phone Drop test cool
Amazing piece of history.
What a legend that record still stands today
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Now in 2023 there is still nobody up of mike powell
In my heart, Beamon will always hold the record.
He still holds the olympic record
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No he doesn’t, it’s Powell.
@@kozmeetorez Nope, olympic record (which means the longest jump at Olympics) still belongs to Beamon.
Credit where it is due, mike jumped the longest ever
well this was useful for my P.E homework thanks
can't believe it still hasn't been beaten.. INSANE.
They really should hold long jump and sprinting indoors. It will save the hassle of taking wind speed into consideration.
Miltos Tentoglou is capable of corresponding jumps!
poetry in motion I thought Beamons record would never be broken!
It hurts me that the world record long jumper Mike Powell will never get nearly as much attention and appreciation as Usain Bolt. The long jump is just as exciting as sprint races, in my opinion.
Os cara simplesmente pula 9 metros caramba isso é incrível demais
Commentator: 8.91 the wind is not legal so it won't stand as a world record. But I guarantee it's unbeaten!!!!!
Mike: *calm tone of voice*
"hold my beer"
Commentator: 8.95 a new world record !!!!!
I counted off 29 ft. Out on the sidewalk. It's amazing someone could jump that far.
I watched this live, it was quite a moment.
Go back and do your Homework guys!
That man had a world record for under 5 minutes
I think that's a world record for the fewest time ever to hold a WR.
I remember watching this the duel between Michael Powell and Carl Lewis, Michael Powell Also dunked a basketball or about 2 and a 1/2 to 3' behind the foul line.
Beamon will never be forgotten...
0:16 "FLINT LAHKWOOD!"
Beamon won’t disappear, he’s still #2 60 years after his jump!
Straight up AMAZING. Wow.
It will NEVER happend! It will stand forever. Mike Powell is the King of Long Jump!
I can barely jump over a puddle ;_;
Hector:: The only jumping i do is in bed with my woman.
@@christopher6969 relax kid
Hello 2019
Holy cow, wasn't expecting This Mortal Coil's music at the end of a track video.
Remember this well, just seemed like happier times back then
Someone’s gonna clear then sand one day...
Carl was mad
Yeah, he always had a chip on his shoulder! He thought his shit didn't stink! But it SURE DID!
I remember watching this live. I was nearly 13, and asked my father, "Has anyone jumped out of the pit yet?" His response: "Not yet but some guy nearly did in the late 60s". Five minutes later...
Love the post punk outro. :D
I just came here in case an alien species ask me "you humans, how long can you jump?" and I am able to answer.
Who is that girl in the end of the video?
who gives a fuck
Katrin Krabbe
Don't bother Googling, she has hairy armpits.
My man Carl held the record for not even a minute. Damn it Carl!
Back to back wolrd record jumps wow you don't see that everyday 🤯
long jumpers today barely jump 8m
Long jumpers today are a hell of a lot cleaner nowadays.
You say that but Bob Beamons record was nearly 9m in 1968....
Carl Lewis needa call the cops..
Cuz he just got robbed
Carl Lewis was one of my heroes and I hated that Mike Powell beat him when this happened. It has taken years to truly appreciate it.
One of the greatest final in the history of this sport