Jonathan Edwards for 30 years
It’s been only 30 years since Jonathan Edwards stole, walked 18.29 meters to set a world record at the World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. The post he broke was his own 18.16 meters, twenty minutes in advance. He also had another event, 18.43 m illegally (2.4) winds were registered. In the context, Jordan Diz won the 2024 Olympic Games 17.86 million, and the exhausting Fabris Zango at the 17.64 m World Championships. This year, US champions won 17.15 m away, and in Jonathan’s father’s country, the winning distance between GB champions in 2025 was 15.79 m.
Christian Taylor (18.21 m) is one of the eight athletes, as Edwards exceeded 18m, Jordan Diaz has been the only one in the last five years, as the Edmer has twice a day. Christian looked like a man could break the world record, but he later explained to me why it would be so difficult. “I can’t be enough for stress. It’s so long when he stands, it’s a phenomenal distance. I can’t talk about it without talking about the respect of man and distance. “
Jonathan’s own view of why the post lasts so long. (Sunday times, August 92025).
Jonathan then told me that he could not explain what happened in Garenburg. “I was running faster about my potential. years. So there’s a whole tape in your mind. Here’s what triple flights do. They jump 17 meters. Then it passes 18 meters. While watching the event, there is a whole paradigm shift. It doesn’t help either. That’s totally unbelievable. And all different prizes associated with it. I just surpassed what I ever dreamed. “
What Edwards achieved, in response to this month’s newspaper, in response to the reader in response to “those jumps in Garenburg.” (James Vary, August 10, 2025).
Not his career was always flat. He was 23 years oldlived In the 1988 Olympics and 35t. 1992 (Final not only). He went to the 1996 Olympics as a clear favorite and came the second. He was a world champion in 1995 and 2001, but not in 1993, 1999, 1999, 1999. I haven’t even reached 16 meters, although 17 meters are reasonably consistently jumping throughout the season. It was probably the worst period of my life. I was absolutely destroyed. “
I knew Jonathan when he competed and had several conversations with him. He was always a thought-out athlete, as he asked him a lot of questions about how he had his life. Before becoming a full-time athlete, he worked in the hospital laboratory. He sometimes wrestled with a “valuable” profession for a minor thing. “You jump in the sand pit, they measure, and you suddenly known,” he said. He felt that he was ridiculous to tell people. “I live to live in a pit of the sand.”
At the same time, he realized that he was special. “I am in a very unusual position. Very few people in any field of life can say that they are the best, the best, the best, the best, even if you are the best, it’s all very insignificant. “
Another important aspect of Jonathan’s complex history refers to faith. He had a strong Christian faith, while he was athlete, and for several years he never competed on Sundays. He later changed his opinion and competed on Sundays, but he still struggled with what a Christian athlete wanted to be. He spoke about the selfishness required to compete at a high level, being “the antisony of the Christian life that is selfless and giving other people.” But he was convinced that being athlete was what God had planned for him. He took teeth sardines to the 2000 Olympic Games to remind him that Jesus used five bread and two small fish to feed 5,000 people, Jonathan’s ability for God’s glory.
After retiring in 2003, he began to interrogate his faith, describing himself in an interview as “probably agnostic, but in practice.” He detailed. He said he rejected his faith in his childhood, he felt “inner happier than at any time of my life.” At the same time, he admitted that his athlete was successful in his Christian faith. BootyTimes:June 27, 2007)
Only after retiring, he managed to separate faith and sports.
Whatever you think about his faith or lack of it, Jonathan Edwards is the best triple jumper who has ever lived. Its world record stands for 30 years, and there is no sign that it will break at any time soon.
