:eek: CHINA – 16 year-old long jumps 8.17m
April 22-23, Chongqing: 100 (a): (-0.3) Yang Yaozu 10.25; 200: (0.8) 1, Yang Yaozu 20.54 rec; 2, Hu Kai 20.57; 110H: (0.6) Shi Dongpeng 13.56; 400H: Ou Yongjian 50.76; HJ (a): 1, Wang Hao 2.24; 2, Zhang Shufeng 2.20; PV: 1, Yang Quan 5.45; 2, Liu Feiliang 5.45; LJ: 1, Zhang Xiaoyi (25.5.89) 8.17/0.5 Asian jnr rec; 2, Song Jian 7.91/-0.2; 3, Zhou Can 7.88/-0.3;
Same age as my little cousin, how it is possible to jump that far that young :eek:
incredible jump!
at 17 years old, our howe besozzi (italian) jumped long, very long but not as long as this performance!
of course, not even Carl Lewis!
fantastic
PS: sure, isn’t 1979? ehehehe
First thought: check the wind gauge.
second thought check the bullshit meter since it’s in china and they have no problem adding a third of a meter to everyone’s high jump results. people clear 2.20 in china and then can’t get 2m outside of china.
take the above results as confirmed…
still won’t break randy williams junior world record. usa usa usa.
GDR athletes always used to be the best at home, too - if you know what I mean. 
But we should not always try to talk great performances down - great achievement.
But on the other hand I am more and more surprised about the athletes reaching elite level getting younger and younger.
Some guys even look unbelievable. I’ve seen quite a lot of different people all around the world, but nobody ever looked a bit like J-Mee Samuels when he was 15 for example. Sorry, but sg. is definately wrong with guys like him and if it is only for reasons we do not discuss on this board.
In some cases the athletes parents (if there are any) maybe simply not sure about the date of birth.
If none of the mentioned they must at least be some freaks of nature like Flex Wheeler and his success does not only come from his nature either.
And some athletes seem to peak very young, but fail to build on that later (latest example Bolt: 16y: 20.13, 17y:19.93, after that no improvement…)
(Before a lot of people would have told you sub20 at 17 is impossible…)
And for the Chinese - I guess in 10 years we will see quite a lot of Chinese athletes at the top anyway.