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JuVaughn Harrison in action in the high jump (© LSU Track & Field) When JuVaughn Harrison sprinted down the runway, launched into the air and broke the sand at 8.45m in round five of the long jump at the NCCA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, few would have understood the significance of the achievement. The 22-year-old Louisiana State University student had smashed his PB with a world-leading clearance. And, in little more than two hours, he had completed the rare high jump and long jump double, having earlier secured victory in the former event with a 2.30m clearance. But perhaps the most significant accomplishment was not only completing the best ever one-day long jump/high jump double in history but becoming the first person in history to jump an 8.40m+ long jump and 2.30m high jump.

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