JuVaughn Harrison arrived at LSU in the fall of 2017 as an 18-year-old high-jump specialist. More than most track and field events, the high jump can become stifling. “It’s an event where you can bang ...

Zheng made athletics history in Beijing in November 1957 when, aged 20, she cleared 1.77m to set a world high jump record. The performance added one centimetre to the 1.76m record shared by USA’s 1956 ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — Since he was a kid growing up in Abbeville, Miss., Shelby McEwen always loved to jump. “Jumping off trampolines, jumping off hay, flipping all the time,” McEwen said. His love of ...

The men’s high jump at the Olympics came down to sudden death. After New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr and American Shelby McEwen each cleared 2.36 meters, the two athletes went to a jump-off for gold, ...

JuVaughn Harrison is set to make history at Tokyo 2020, becoming the first American man since Jim Thorpe in 1912 to compete in both the high jump and the long jump. Harrison should be a contender in ...

Sport can be savage. Sport can be brutal. But sometimes sport also throws up moments that reinvigorate your faith in humanity. On Sunday the high jump event at the Tokyo Olympics provided a moment ...

(Editor's note: This story was published before the 2022-23 NBA season as part of The Sporting News' 6 for No. 6 series.) Bill Russell's legendary NBA career firmly puts him among the greatest to have ...

17-year-old Breyton Poole is just 5'7" but wowed a packed stadium over the weekend as he cleared a 2.24-meter (7' 4¼") high jump mark at the IAAF U18 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya. Germany's Chima ...

Key Quote: “The high jump is a very fun, complex event. It takes not on physical strength but mental strength to be the best you can be.” The standards: what the bar rests on when the competitors jump ...