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 ...

Italian Davide Ghiotto broke the world record in speed skating’s 10,000m after Casey Dawson shattered the American record in ...

Since the advent of the modern-day Olympics in ... shattering records along the way. The graph below shows the progression of gold medalists' distances for the long jump since 1896.

Jordan Stolz won a record 16th speed skating World Cup race in a row — a streak that dates back more than one year — by skating the fastest sea-level 1000m in history. Stolz, a 20-year-old from ...

she broke the world high jump record, took a silver medal at the Melbourne Olympics, and won titles and broke records in the long jump, pentathlon and 80 metres hurdles – as well as playing ...

Paralympics silver medalist Samson Ojuka has set his sights on smashing the world record for the long jump, this year.

Yared Nuguse won his second straight Men’s Wanamaker Mile with a time of 3:47.83, just missing the world record by 0.82 seconds. Plus, U.S. Olympic hopeful Christian ... three hours of the Millrose ...

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 ...