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John Alun Adolphus Herbert is an English former sportsperson, who represented Great Britain as both a triple jumper and a bobsledder. Competing in athletics, he won the gold medal for England in the triple jump at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. He represented Great Britain at the 1984 Summer Olympics and 1988 Summer Olympics. He competed in the four-man bobsleigh event at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Edrick Bertholan Floréal is a track and field coach for the Texas Longhorns men's track and field and women's track and field program and retired long and triple jumper from Canada.
Oluwatosin Bamidele “Tosin” Oke is a Nigerian track and field athlete, who competes in the triple jump. Born a dual national, he initially competed for Great Britain. He set the current UK junior indoor record and was 1 cm shy of the outdoor junior record. He was the 1999 European Athletics Junior Championships Champion, and came 5th at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. After multiple indoor and outdoor UK titles, he later switched to compete for Nigeria. Since competing for Nigeria he has won back-to-back African Championships in Athletics titles and the Commonwealth Games championship and is the current All-Africa Games Champion. At the 2012 Summer Olympics Oke finished seventh in the triple jump final, the best Nigerian result of the Games.
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Dong Bin is a Chinese track and field athlete who specialises in the triple jump. He is a two-time gold medallist at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships and has a personal best of 17.58 metres, which he set winning the bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics. In 2016 he won the World Indoor Championship.
Henry Frayne is an Australian track and field athlete who competes in triple jump and long jump. He qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and finished 14th in qualifying with a distance of 7.93m, and did not qualify for the final.
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John David Howell is a former British long jumper.
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Keith Henderson Forsythe was a New Zealand field athlete who represented his country in the long jump and triple jump at the 1950 British Empire Games.
Michelle Hastick is a Canadian athletics competitor. In 2001, she competed in the women's triple jump event at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics held in Edmonton, Canada. She did not qualify to compete in the final.
Carl Morgan is a Caymanian long jumper.
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- ↑ "Sabahs first Olympian". AdrianSprints.com. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
