Sentence examples for won with a leap of from inspiring English sources

He doubles up as a long-jumper, and at the same meet he won with a leap of 8.40m.

But this title went Aleksandr Menkov of Russia, who won with a leap of 8.56 meters, the best in the world in four years.

The I.A.A.F., citing the hundreds of drug tests the 32-year-old had passed during his career, cut Sotomayor's penalty in half on Aug. 2. Sotomayor returned to competition on Tuesday in a minor meet in Montauban, France, and won with a leap of 2.28 meters, the minimum established by the Cuban federation for Olympic selection.

Phillips Idowu, with his striking white hair and a red question mark shaved into the back of it, showed the standard of British triple jumping has never been higher as he won with a leap of 16.89 metres ahead of the16-year-old Jonathan Moore, whose 16.32 was a UK youth record.

But Saturday's most symbolic event was the men's long jump, which Dwight Phillips of the United States won with a leap of 8.54 meters (28- ¾) in the same stadium where his countryman Jesse Owens won four gold medals, including the long jump, at the 1936 Olympics.

The 33-year-old 2009 world champion won with a leap of 17.31m.

He recovered to compete in Boston in January 1960 and win with a leap of 7- ½.

Olympic silver medalist Phillips Idowu pulled out of the triple jump due to a hip problem, with Christian Taylor of the United States winning with a leap of 17.41 meters.

But here he crashed out of the competition with three failures at 2.27m, finishing dead last in a high quality field in which the 23-year-old Ukrainian Bohdan Bondarenko, who finished seventh behind Grabarz in London, recorded the highest jump since 1994 to win with a leap of 2.41m to the delight of the crowd.

And Yarisley Silva of Cube has won it with a leap of 4.83m.

He retained the title in 1979 in Montreal where, despite fouling three of his jumps, he won with a final round leap of 17.02 metres.