Paralympic champion Markus Rehm has improved his own world record in the long jump.
The prosthetic jumper jumped 8.66 m at the Golden Roof Challenge in Innsbruck city center and increased his record, set almost exactly a year ago, by four centimeters.
He is only 29 centimeters short of the world record set by Mike Powell’s Olympic athletes.
Rehm had won his fourth gold medal at the Paralympics last year with a jump of 8.18 m. This year, after the postponement of the World Championships in Kobe/Japan, a real highlight is missing from the track and field athletes’ calendar.