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Mixed feedback on jumps take-off zone from athletes and fans
The Straits Times
|February 23, 2025
Early testing of take-off zones for measuring in long jump and triple jump has received positive feedback from many athletes and fans, World Athletics said on Feb 21.
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The global federation announced in 2024 that it planned to trial a take-off zone, with jumps measured from where the front foot takes off to where it lands in the pit, rather than the traditional board, to reduce the amount of foul jumps.
The innovation was part of the competition programme at the ISTAF Indoor Dusseldorf meet on Feb 9 and the ISTAF Indoor 2025 meet in Berlin five days later.
Two-time women's world long jump champion Malaika Mihambo, who won in Dusseldorf with a leap of 6.87 metres, said she "was pleasantly surprised to find that the difference wasn't as significant as I had expected".
"This experience reinforced my understanding that long jump is about much more than just hitting the board," the German added in a World Athletics statement.
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