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 ...

Day 10 at the Paris Olympics 2024 saw a humungous feat break as Sweden's Pole-Vault maestro Armand ‘Mundo’ Duplantis completed the highest jump in ... to break the World Record and etch ...

This time he's going after the world record for the longest ramp jump in a car ... place in the scenic resort of Tignes, France. The current record is 332 feet (101.19 meters) and was set on ...

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 ...

Even though it was only her second high jump event of the season, she felt in sufficiently good form to go for the world record set by the Soviet jumper Aleksandra Chudine in 1954. “When we ...

That's the lesson we've gotten from pro-skater and reality television star Rob Dyrdek, who recently set a world record for the longest jump off a ... With all high-speed action stunts, safety ...

But Skydive Chicago is working to have Guinness World Records certify Hoffner’s jump as a record, WLS-TV reported. Hoffner first skydived when she was 100. On Sunday, she left her walker behind ...