Roderick Townsend of the United States has capped winning the men's high jump T47 title by breaking the world record. The American high jumper went ...

Paralympics silver medalist Samson Ojuka has set his sights on smashing the world record for the long jump, this year.Ojuka says the record has been on his mind for a while and is determined to ...

Thelma Hopkins set a new women's high jump world record in Belfast in May 1956 and won Olympic Games silver six months later in Melbourne 1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins ...

1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins, who won Empire Games gold for Northern Ireland and also held the world record, has died at the age of 88. Hopkins lived in Canada for many ...

India's Praveen Kumar won the gold medal in the men's high jump T64 event at the 2024 Paris Paralympics on Friday. He cleared 2.08 meters to secure his second consecutive Paralympic medal ...

Promising USA star Ezra Frech won men's high jump T63 final with new Paralympic record, while fellow sprinter Jaydin Blackwell got his second Paralympic gold with another world record show in men's ...

The USA’s John Thomas came arrived in Rome as the overwhelming favourite to win the men’s high jump. He hadn't lost a contest for two years and had jumped ... The three men on the podium had all ...

Hopkins broke the high jump world record on May 5 in 1956 with 1.74m at the Cherryvale Playing Fields in Belfast and six months later won Olympic silver in Melbourne, sharing the runner-up ...