About Chūhei Nambu
Chūhei Nambu was a Japanese track and field athlete. As of 2024, he is the only person to have held world records in both the long jump and the triple jump. His best performance came in the triple jump, where he placed fourth, while his countryman Mikio Oda won the gold. After improving his Japanese record a few times, he landed a long jump just two cm short of 8 m, a new world record. Jesse Owens broke the world record less than four years later but it stood as an Asian record until it was beaten by Hiroomi Yamada in 1970. His winning mark of 15.72 m set a new world record.
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