Best 10 Performances in the Long and Triple Jump Since 2010

28 Sep. 2016 – People in Lebanon often say that any Long Jumper can easily do the Triple Jump, but they are two different events which include different techniques and abilities.

In Lebanon, we have great Long Jumpers, but our level in the Triple Jump is very low in both the women and men. Most Triple Jumpers don’t jump the “Step” which is the second jump of the Triple “Hope, Step, and Jump”.

The four tables below are a true example of the situation of these two events in Lebanon. In the men’s Long Jump, Marc Habib (Blue Stars) dominated the event forever with his still standing National record of 7.43m. He was guided by Gaby Issa-El-Khoury, who held the record before him.

An amazing talent emerged when Marc Habib was about to retire, Mohamad Treiji from the Lebanese Army, who jumped several times over 7m, but was never consistent in his jumps.

In the women’s I will speak about myself in this article, I remember when I first jumped over 5m in 2007, I had only one competitor, Rania Samrout. The year after, I was jumping alone.

Throughout the years, I was competing against myself. Diala El Khazen who jumped 5.28m pushed me to break the Juniors and Youth records in 2012, but then she disappeared. When I broke the Senior record of Rania Estephan in 2013, the following year I switched the 100m Hurdles in preparation for the Heptathlon.

Without training for the Long Jump, I was still leading the field because of my experience of more than 10 years of long jump competitions, so I could manage to perform well in the big events despite the strong come back of Joy Abousleiman (CSJ) who became the third best ever Lebanese long jumper with 5.40m.

Today, we have very talented young athletes who are emerging in this event like Angy Saleh (Ansar) and Lynn Azar (Champville).

In the Triple Jump, it is another story. Our level is very low! In the men’s table, you will notice that the only two athletes who figure in the best 10 performances, one of them, Oussama Neddef, already retired from competition, and Patrick Hanna decided to compete for Canada. He jumped over 15m at only 20 years of age.

Therefore, the level of competition in the past two years was unacceptably low! No athlete was able to jump over 13m whereas the women should be now jumping over 13m! Talking about the women, even our National record is not over 12m which is not acceptable.

I’ve been fighting with Sabine Khoury in competitions just for the podium. When I look at the performances today, I realize that we were the only ones to jump over 11m! If only two can jump over this mark we will never be able to jump over 12m!

Something need to be done in this specific event! If we continue like this even other events and the level of athletics in general will be mediocre.

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