long jump

They reached a wider audience earlier this summer when NBC cameras captured Hunter offering effusive motivational phrases and cheers for his wife, Tara Davis-Woodhall, who won a gold medal in the long jump.

Breen, a three-time Paralympian, won long jump bronze in Tokyo three years ago and had looked set to match that after setting her best jump with her first attempt in Paris.

With each long jump attempt, Lex Gillette launches himself down the runway, sprinting more than 100 feet toward the sound of his guide clapping and chanting, “Fly, fly, fly.”

The man known as the Blade Jumper is an overwhelming favourite to win a fourth Paralympic long jump title in Paris.

Sixty years ago in Tokyo, Rand won long jump gold, pentathlon silver and 4x100m relay bronze, 36 years after swimmer Joyce Cooper took three medals home from the 1928 Games in Amsterdam.