1994 Event Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m 1994 Event Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m 1994 Event Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77m 1994 Event Inna Lassovskaja jumps ladies world record (14.78m) 1993 Event Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high 1993 Event Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m) 1992 Event Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m) 1989 Event Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m) 1989 Event Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43 1988 Event Louise Ritter, U.S., jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal 1988 Event Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43 m (7' 11 ") 1988 Event Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m) 1988 Event Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m) 1987 Event Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta 1987 Event Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m 1987 Event Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m) 1986 Event Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record) 1986 Event Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of North Carolina State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself 1984 Event Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m) 1984 Event Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8.675 m) 1982 Event Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship 1981 Event Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m 1977 Event Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris 1977 Event Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt) 1973 Death Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73 1971 Event "Dan Cooper" jumps with $200,000 out of plane over Washington 1967 Event Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles 1967 Event Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet 1965 Event Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates 1956 Event U.S.S.R. single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, and loses his medal, it sinks 1920 Event Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window 1910 Event 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
