Bob Beamon got plenty of air under him on his ... I got a good sleep." On his record jump, Beamon got terrific speed on his approach, stretched out his last step to the board, and got his feet ...

“Bob Beamon!” And Beamon, who for nearly six decades has held the Olympic long jump record, starts slapping his palms across the congas. Bop-a-bop-a-bop. The beat builds fast, until it feels ...

Robert “Bob” Beamon is a former American Gold Medalist in the Long Jump at the ‘68 Mexico City Summer Olympic Games. He has remained an active philanthropist and activist in Black ...

Bob Beamon: historic leap - New York native Bob Beamon found perfection as he defied gravity with a record-smashing long jump at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. The leap shattered the previous ...

Bob Beamon’s long jump in the ’68 Olympics smashed records; a word was even coined in his honour. But as he accepted his gold, he questioned what to do with the rest of his life. Show more ...

And everyone cheered. In 1968, the legendary Bob Beamon shattered the long jump record at the Mexico City Olympics by 2 feet, a mark of 29 feet 2 1/2 inches which would win Olympic gold in every ...

That's all it took for Bob Beamon to leap into history ... yet it had climbed just 8½ inches. In one jump, Beamon stretched the record by an incredible one foot, 9¾ inches.