Global Champions Clash in the Long Jump in Oslo

Published by IAAF on June 2, 2015

Five men who have won gold medals at the Olympics or IAAF World Championships will line up in the long jump at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games in Oslo on 11 June, the sixth leg of the 2015 IAAF Diamond League.

Olympic champion Greg Rutherford will be competing in the Norwegian capital for just the second time, four years after his first appearance. He is coming off the back of one of his best years to date in which he not only won the European and Commonwealth titles but also set a British record of 8.51m.

Christian Taylor’s Olympic title may be in the triple jump, but he is also an accomplished long jumper and finished third in this event in last year’s Diamond Race. The US all-rounder has started 2015 in incredible form, leaping a triple jump PB of 18.04m in Doha and jumping a season’s best of 8.18m in the long jump, just one centimetre away from his PB.