“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...