What 10 guys have ever jumped 28-feet and lost?

[gh]

Check out the list on the front page.

[Daisy]

Re: What 10 guys have ever jumped 28-feet and lost?

Nit pick, not ten guys but ten performances.

[gh]

Nice. Really makes one want to go to the effort to craft these things.

[SQUACKEE]

Or this conversation, How did it go today? I jumped over 29 feet and lost! Well you should have jumped 30 feet , you loser.

[Novianv2]

Nice list.

It's so easy to forget how epic that '91 battle was. Man, 8.91m and 8.84m and you lose?!

It's also sort of fitting that Lewis tops this list...after all he broke the hearts of Myricks, Powell and Emmiyan on multiple occasions.

I still remember that 8.76m vs. 8.74m competition. I thought there was no possible way Lewis could win. Man was I wrong.

I'm giddy with excitement. :lol:

[gh]

Clarification by the way: the list doesn't include the many occasions of windy 28-footers (other than the Lewis 29, which had a legal in the series)

[ndamix]

Clarification by the way: the list doesn't include the many occasions of windy 28-footers (other than the Lewis 29, which had a legal in the series)

In that case, you say the person who beat me had to set a World Record to do it...

[26mi235]

Lewis AVERAGED 8.83+ (about 29) and lost. I am not sure when there will be a LJ competition to match this, but I might be a pretty old guy by then (and the comp is already in its 18th year).

[Daisy]

Nice. Really makes one want to go to the effort to craft these things.

:?:

I looked at it and really enjoyed it. Thanks.

Re: 10 vs 7, It was just an observation. Actually, I wondered if getting the next three guys in the series (longest losing jumps) was going to be one of your quizzes.

[Dave]

Nice. Really makes one want to go to the effort to craft these things.

GH, thanks for taking the time to craft this list. This is part of why we come back so often.

[26mi235]

Nice. Really makes one want to go to the effort to craft these things.

GH, thanks for taking the time to craft this list. This is part of why we come back so often.

What he said.

[mike renfro]

I did a little poking on the windy 8.53 losers, but I need to go back to older ATFS annuals, cause it takes 8.65 to make the performance list (30 deep), so there could be missing stuff. What I came up with for sure:

Lewis 8.72A (2) Sestriere 31Jul 94
Joe Greene 8.66A (2) 21 Jul 92
Kareem Street-Thompson 8.64 (2) NCAA 18 Jun 94
Conley 8.63 (2) TAC 20 Jun 86

There are probably others.

[Dave]

Unless you are Carl Lewis, you are probably thrilled beyond belief that you jumped over 28'. If you are Carl Lewis, you either think, "Damn I made him work for it" or "damn, damn, damn". Still, that would be astonishing to average 29' and lose the competition.

[fez]

Err.... Yago Lamela '91?

[tandfman]

I did a little poking on the windy 8.53 losers, but I need to go back to older ATFS annuals, cause it takes 8.65 to make the performance list (30 deep), so there could be missing stuff.

Wouldn't pela's site have that stuff?