Frenchman Gomis hits 27 feet for M35 world indoor LJ record
Jumping with the French kiddies at their indoor nationals, M35 Kafetien Gomis became the oldest 8-meter long jumper indoors when he went 8.23 meters — exactly 27 feet. (See results here.) Thus he crushed the listed M35 WR of 7.98 (26-2 1/4) by Bogdan Tudor of Romania in 2005. The outdoor WR remains the 8.50 (27-10 3/4) by both Carl Lewis and Larry Myricks. Kafetien has a PR of 8.26 (27-1 1/4) from last summer. The listed American indoor record for M35, by contrast, is 7.07 (23-2½) by Gregory Foster at age 39 in 2001. Many thanks to Ventseslav “Ventsi” Ivanov for bringing this amazing mark to our attention. Here’s the jump of a guy almost 36:
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Interesting landing technique of stabbing both feet out in front and landing on your butt. Don’t try that if they haven’t deeply dug up the pit.
He had absolutely no forward rotation, meaning he hit the board just right. He got everything into that jump.
I agree with Rick. That was an excellent jump. Maybe his landing could have been a little better but looking at his flight pattern, I don’t know that he lost much distance as his legs were up and out at touchdown.
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