Javier Sotomayor ( Cuba ) is the current men's record holder with a jump of 2. 45 metres set in 1993, the longest standing record in the history of the men's high jump.

The most plausible story is what his wife, Sharon, later told interviewers is that in 1967, while currently unemployed and recovering from his collapsed lung ailment, Holmes would attend a men's card playing club which was called the Poker Palace, located in Gardena, California, a few evenings a week to play cards with a few friends where a photographer, standing next to Holmes at a men's room urinal, saw his unusually large penis size and then gave him his business card with an offer to pose in still photographs.

New Olympic records were set in the majority of track and field events, with only the men's 200 metres, 10 km walk, standing high jump, standing broad jump, hop, step and jump, and the hurdle competitions failing to have new records set.

** Also on the short track, Steven Bradbury of Australia becomes the first Winter Olympic gold medalist from the Southern Hemisphere when a crash on the final corner of the men's 1000 m final leaves him the " last man standing ".

Meena and Beena, the Minx Twins-Two teenage chav girls who complain about unwanted male attention and shout out rude comments at the men who walk past them, with the camera then pulling back to reveal why the men are there ( e. g. in one sketch the girls are shown to have gone to a gay bar, in another they are standing outside a men's public toilet.

* A 2010 ad features various anchors standing in line to use the men's rest room when it's closed for repairs.

In 1958, the men's crew furthered their lore with a shocking win over Leningrad Trud's world champion rowers in Moscow, resulting in the first American sporting victory on Soviet soil, and certainly the first time a Russian crowd gave any American team a standing ovation during the Cold War.

Covering a bloody civil war on the Mediterranean island of Cyprete, he complained aloud while standing in the ruins of an ancient temple that the gods play with men's lives while leaving them defenseless against the forces of war and crime.

Perrin explained, " was in the men's room during a break, and he was complaining to the guy standing next to him, ' Geez, I wish we could find another writer or two to make life easier.

The men's standing high jump was a track & field athletics event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.

The men's standing long jump was a track & field athletics event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.

The men's standing triple jump was a track & field athletics event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Dick Button of the United States performed the first triple jump in international competition to claim his second consecutive men's figure skating Olympic title.

The men's triple jump competition has been ever-present at the modern Olympics, but it was not until 1993 that a women's version gained World Championship status and went on to have its first Olympic appearance three years later.

** Torstein Horgmo landed the first triple cork in competition, in men's snowboard big air.

Pál Joensen won triple gold in the 2008 European Junior Swimming Championships on short course in the men's 400 M, 800 M and 1500 M Freestyle.

* Viktor Saneyev — men's triple jump

* Viktor Saneyev — athletics, men's triple jump

The men's triple jump was a track & field athletics event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.

In the men's event, Ondrej Nepela, the figures winner, took the gold in spite of placing only 4th in the free skate after falling on his triple loop jump.

Athletic jump smashes, where players jump upwards for a steeper smash angle, are a common and spectacular element of elite men's doubles play.

Of these, four were making their Olympic debut – the men's 10 km walk, and the women's 200 metres, long jump and shot put.

The men's first boat has held the headship several times in the 1980s and 1990s ( for example in 1994 to 1996 ) while gaining the Mays headship in 1996, on each occasion recognising the tradition of " burning the boat " ( using an old wooden 8 oared boat ), while the rowers of the winning boat jump the flames.

The men's basketball program has produced a number of NBA players, most notably Jeff Martin, Popeye Jones, and Joe Fulks, who is a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and has been credited with being one of the pioneers of the jump shot.

The athletics competition at the first Olympics featured a men's long jump competition and a women's competition was introduced at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

The men's high jump was included in the 1896 Olympics and a women's competition soon followed in 1928.

** Isaki no Sao-tobi-A water festival in every August which tests men's courage to jump into the lake from the Isaki Temple.

33 athletics events were contested at the Olympic Games in London, including debuts for the men's 10 km walk ; and the women's 200 metres, long jump and shot put.

The event is best-remembered for the men's long jump competition, when Carl Lewis made the best six-jump series in history, only to be beaten by Mike Powell, whose 8. 95 m jump broke Bob Beamon's long-standing world record from the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Jonathan Chimier set a national record and qualified 2nd overall in the men's high jump, but could not repeat this performance in the final, where he finished 10th.

Mark Boswell ( born July 28, 1977 in Mandeville, Jamaica ) and grew up in Brampton, Ontario is a Canadian high jumper, who won a total number of six national titles in the men's high jump event.

None of the Sri Lankan athletes advanced to a final, and the highest placement was a 20th in the men's high jump.

He played 23 games for the basketball team in the 1987-88 season, outside hitter for the men's volleyball team in the 1991 season, and took first place in the high jump three times.

The BWF organizes several international competitions, including the Thomas Cup, the premier men's international team event first held in 1948 – 1949, and the Uber Cup, the women's equivalent first held in 1956 – 1957.

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

Former heavyweight rower Dominic Seiterle is a member of the Canadian national rowing team and won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's 8 + event.

The discus, the object to be thrown, is a heavy lenticular disc with a weight of and diameter of for the men's event, and a weight of and diameter of for the women's event.

A women's tournament was added in 1996 ; in contrast to the men's event, full international sides without age restrictions play the women's Olympic tournament.

The four disciplines of men's singles, ladies ' singles, pair skating and ice dancing will also appear as part of a team event for the first time at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

The EuroFloorball Cup ( formerly European Cup ) is an IFF-organised club event for both men's and women's teams.

Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon.

The men's event is competed over a distance of 16 laps, 4 km, by a team of 4 riders.

The Women's version of the event is held over 500 m. Other than the race distance this is the same as the men's Kilo event, with the fastest rider over the distance declared the winner.

Keirin has been a UCI men's World Championship event since 1980 and a UCI women's World Championship event since 2002.

Men's four man bobsleigh appeared in the first ever Winter Olympic Games in 1924, and men's two man bobsleigh event was added in 1932.

This is the first time the Americans have swept a Winter Olympic event since the men's figure skaters did in 1956.

A group of 15 competitive female ski jumpers filed a suit against the Vancouver Organizing Committee ( VANOC ) claiming that conducting a men's ski jumping event without a women's event in the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 would be in direct violation of Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

* Georg Hackl, first Winter Olympics competitor to win five consecutive medals with consecutively two silver and three gold medals in the men's single luge event

* Hans Plenk, Olympic bronze-medalist in the men's single luge event

The men's 20 kilometres race walk was added to the Olympic athletics schedule in 1956 and the women's event was first held in 1992.

The men's facial covering originates from the belief that such action wards off evil spirits, but most probably relates to protection against the harsh desert sands as well ; in any event, it is a firmly established tradition.

This barbecue also serves as an opportunity for the men's rugby club to play a match against the alumni who return for the event.

The Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, a men's ATP Tour event, is held every year in early July, the week following Wimbledon.

By the second year, the event added a men's great legs contest and a bikini contest that attracted contestants from all over California.