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Long Jump Test Results

The Standing long jump, also called the Broad Jump, is a common and easy to administer test of explosive leg power. An excellent result is greater than 2.50 meters for men (8' 2.5") and 2.00 meters for women (6' 6.75"). The World Record for the standing long jump is held by Norwegian Arne Tvervaag, who jumped 3.71 meters (12' 2.1") (from Wikipedia). See more long jumping records. Below are some of the test scores that have been found for a variety of sports, with not all of them being confirmed. If you know of any that should be here, let me know.

Football (NFL, Gridiron)

J. Jones had the best result at the 2011 NFL Combine, with a 11' 3" (3.43 m) broad jump.
At the 2010 NFL Combine, Chris Cook achieved 11 feet (3.35m) to be the best in the broad jump.
The best ever result from the NFL Scout Combine is 11' 5" (3.48m) by Justin Fargas (2003) and Scott Starks (2005) (more NFL combine results).

Rugby

Average of Newcastle Knights squad (n=81) was 2.73cm (range 2.36 to 3.11) (personal communication, Lee Clark). There are more fitness test results from the Newcastle Knights).

Ice Hockey

The best score at the 2011 NHL scouting combine for standing long jump was 119.3 inches (3.03 m) by defenseman Jonathan Racine of the Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL) (see 2011 NHL combine results)
The average standing long jump recorded at the NHL entry draft scouting combine over the last few years has been 103.3 inches / 262.4 cm (2009), 102.8 inches / 261.1 cm (2010) and 103.8 inches / 263.7 cm (2011). (see NHL combine results summary)
Cody Sylvester of the Calgary Hitmen reached 272 cm in fitness testing. (from the Calgary Herald online, Sep 2010).

Seniors

Andy Pitas sent in his US record result from October 2009 in the m65-69 age group: 2.64 m (8'8").
The best results for the Track & Field Standing Long Jump at the 2008 World Senior Games was
by Donald Watson, Walnut Creek, CA, 9 foot and 10.5 inches (mens age 50-54), a new world record for that age group. In the women's event (age 50-54) the winner was Pam Stuart, Kitchener, ON, Canada, with 6 foot 9 inches. Linda Cohn, Northridge, CA also achieved the same result in the 55-59 age group. (retrieved from www.seniorgames.net in June 2009).

Olympics

The standing long jump was an event at the Olympic Games between 1900-1912. The best athlete of this era was Ray Ewry. He set a world record for the standing long jump of 3.47m (11' 4.6") in 1904. The winning jump at each Olympics was Ray Ewry 3.21m/10' 6.4" (1900), Ray Ewry 3.47m/11' 4.6" (1904), Ray Ewry 3.33m/10' 11.1" (1908), and the Greek Konstantinos Tsiklitiras 3.37m/11' 0.7" (1912).

Comments

At age 12, i jumped 8ft 11in in boys standing broad jump in 8th grade. This was a san Joaquin valley record. This was in 1957 in Delano, ca. (from marcellas cotright, Jan 2012)
that sucks i'm 14 i got 210 cm and thought i was awesom (from grendel, Sept 2011)
I'm 13 and i can jump 2m 43cm and there is a 14 year old in my class who can jump 2m 82cm so 6 cm is actually pretty bad for a 2 year span :P (from Tm, June 2011)
well i'm 16 years old and today i got 2 meters and 88cm, i am 5"11 and i have been training in parkour for several years... is that good? do i deserve a place :D (from Dale Mass, May 2011)

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