Lords Leaping: Olympic Long Jump Winners Quiz

Answer: Great Britain

Greg was born in Milton Keynes, Bucks in 1986. His winning leap at the Olympics was 8.31 meters, second was Mitchell Watt from Australia with 8.16m and third was Will Claye from USA with 8.12m. Greg's personal best of 8.51m was a British record. Apart from Olympic gold, he won at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2015 World Athletic Championships and 2016 European Athletics Championships.

Answer: Cuba

Ivan Perdoso's winning leap was 8.55 meters leaving Australian Jai Taurima in second with 8.49m and Ukrainian Roman Schurenko in third with 8.31m. Pedroso was born in Havana, Cuba in 1972. He won four gold medals at the World Championships in 1995, 1997, 199 and 2001. He also won five gold medals in the World Indoor Championships in 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2001.

Answer: Panama

Irving Saladino's winning leap was 8.34 meters, second was South African Godfrey Khotso Mokoena with 8.24m and third was Ibrahim Camejo from Cuba with 8.20m. Saladino was born in Colon, Panama in 1983. He won gold at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka and at the Pan American Games in the same year in Rio de Janeiro.

Answer: USA

Jeff Henderson won gold with a leap of 8.38 meters, with Luvo Manyonga of South Africa in second with 8.37m and Greg Rutherford of Great Britain in third with 8.29.m Henderson was born in North Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1989. He won gold in the 2015 Pan American Games at Toronto.

Answer: USA

Dwight Phillips won with a leap of 8.59 meters leaving in second place fellow American John Moffitt with 8.47 and Spaniard Joan Lino Martinez in third with 8.32. Phillips was born in Decatur, Georgia in 1977. He won gold at the World Championships on four occasions (2003, 2005, 2009 and 2011), won at the 2003 World Indoor Championships and at the 2010 Continental Cup.

Answer: USA

His winning leap was measured at 8.54 meters, well ahead of second placed Gary Honey from Australia whose best jump was 8.24m which was the same as Italian's Giovanni Evangelisti who came in third. Carl Lewis was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1961 and won gold at the same event in the next two Olympic Games (1988 and 1992). Lewis won a total of nine Olympic gold medals, eight gold medals at the World Championships and two gold medals at the Pan American Games.

He is considered as one of the best athletes the World has ever seen.

Answer: Great Britain

Lynn Davies edged into first place with a leap of 8.07 meters, leaving American Ralph Boston in second with 8.03m and Soviet Igor Ter-Ovanesyan in third with 7.99m. Lynn Davies was born in 1942 in Nantymoel in Wales. He won gold at the World Championships in 1966 and twice at the Commonwealth Games in 1966 and 1970.

Answer: Sweden

Petersson was the first non-USA athlete to win the gold medal at this event. His winning leap of 7.15 meters beat into second place the American Carl Johnson whose best was 7.095m, whilst fellow Swede Erik Abrahamsson finished third with 7.08m. Petersson was born in Sandby, Sweden in 1895 and died in Kalmar, Sweden in 1965.

He also won a bronze medal at the same Olympics in the 4 x 100m relay.

Answer: USA

Frank Irons finished in gold position with a leap of 7.44 meters which was well ahead of fellow American Frank Mount Pleasant who could only manage 6.82m. Charles Harold Williams of Great Britain won the bronze with a leap of 6.65m. Irons was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1886 and died in Palatine, Illinois in 1942.

In the 1908 London Olympics he participated in the standing high jump and in the triple jump finishing in eighth and sixteenth place respectively.

Answer: USA

William Samuel Steele came in first with a leap of 7.825 meters, with Austrian Thomas Bruce in second with 7.555 and American Herbert Douglas in third with 7.545 meters. Steele was born in El Centro, California in 1923 and died in Oakland in 1989. It is worth noting that Steele only made two jumps, due to an ankle injury, in winning the Olympic gold.