running broad jump

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Chief star: R. M. N. Tisdall, rangy Irishman, who won the shot put, running broad jump, 20-yard high hurdles, quarter-mile.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you can beat me nearly a foot and a half at the running broad jump, you ought to be able to beat me at the high jump.

From Frank Merriwell's Chums by Standish, Burt L.

Foster had already won the running broad jump and was in a fair way to win the shot-put as well.

From Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College by Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth

Alden was second in the shot put and Winthrop second in the running high jump while neither scored in throwing the hammer nor in the running broad jump.

From Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College by Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth

"Mr. Hartley is the proud possessor of the English championship belt for running broad jump, having cleared something over 45 feet."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various