2020 was the first year since 2001 in which a British male athlete failed to break the 8m barrier - what has the last 20 years of 🇬🇧 elite male long jumping looked like?
Thread #1 - 2001-2010
2001 - The first year of the new millennium saw @Birchfield1877 athlete Jonathan Moore jump 7.98 in a 🇬🇧 v 🇫🇷 international match across the channel, breaking the British U20 Record in the process.

Top 3⃣:
Moore - 7.98
Morgan - 7.97
Tomlinson - 7.87
The Aston Moore-coached athlete furthered his record in May of 2002, jumping 8.03 as the first 🇬🇧 U20 over the 8-metre barrier.
2002 - After breaking both wrists in a freak accident in January of 2002, @LongJumpChris punctuated his fairly recent arrival in the senior ranks with a leap of 8.27, a 40cm PB and new 🇬🇧 record.

Top 3⃣:
Tomlinson - 8.27
Morgan - 8.06
Moore - 8.03
Previous holder of the record was Lynn Davies, Olympic LJ gold medallist when the Games last travelled to 🇯🇵, Tokyo 1964. Davies' record of 8.27 was set at a 🇬🇧 v 🇨🇭 international in May of 1968, with a perfect +2.0 m/s tailwind.
2003 - Nathan Morgan leapfrogged Chris Tomlinson to top the rankings he had dominated for a four year stretch 1997-2000. His leap of 8.26, one centimetre shy of the 🇬🇧 Record, was the longest of his career.

Top 3⃣:
Morgan - 8.26
Tomlinson - 8.16
Ritchie - 7.90
Scotsman and @SaleHarriers athlete Ritchie also had a windy 8.08, set at a meeting in Glasgow. The +6.2 following wind was the largest of any 8m+ wind illegal jumps by a Brit since 2001.
2004 - Chris Tomlinson produced Britain's best performance at the Olympics since Lynn Davies secured 1964 gold in 🇯🇵, jumping 8.25 for fifth place in Athens, 🇬🇷.

Top 3⃣:
Tomlinson - 8.25
Morgan - 8.04
Ritchie - 8.01
2004 was one of four post-2000 years where the legal UK lead was bettered by a windy mark.

2001 - Tomlinson 8.19w > Moore 7.98
2004 - Tomlinson 8.28w > Tomlinson 8.25
2016 - Rutherford 8.36w > Rutherford 8.31
2018 - Duckworth 8.19w > Bramble 8.15
2005 - @GregJRutherford topped the 🇬🇧 lists for the first time in his final year as an U20, breaking Jonathan Moore's 🇬🇧 U20 record of 8.03 by over ten centimetres. His 8.14, set in winning European Juniors, still stands.

Top 3⃣:
Rutherford - 8.14
Morgan - 8.00
Tomlinson - 7.95i
After three gold medals at the @EuroAthletics U20s in the 1990s, Rutherford's gold was the sole medal for 🇬🇧 in the 2000s.

Since the Marshall Milton Keynes athlete's medal-winning leap, the 2010s saw Elliot Safo win 2013 🥇, and Jacob Fincham-Dukes win 2015 🥈.
2006 - Rutherford's first year in the senior ranks saw him go joint 2nd 🇬🇧 all time alongside Nathan Morgan, just a single centimetre behind Chris Tomlinson.

Top 3⃣:
Rutherford - 8.26
Tomlinson - 8.09
Morgan - 8.05i
2006 was one of only two years where the UK leading jump occurred at the 🇬🇧 Championships/AAAs, both times by Rutherford.

2006 - 8.26
2008 - 8.20
2007 - A 2cm PB for @LongJumpChris was also another 🇬🇧 record, extending his 2002 mark to 8.29. Jonathan Moore was unlucky not to break 8m legally for the first time since '02, with 8.04w (+2.6) recorded in Salamanca, 🇪🇸.

Top 3⃣:
Tomlinson - 8.29
Morgan - 8.00
Rutherford - 7.96
. @BeaglesAC & @Birchfield1877 ruled 🇬🇧 LJ in '07, occupying 8 of the UK top 10.

'01-'20, Birchfield had 4 different athletes in the top 3.

4 - Birchfield
3 - NEB
2 - B'mouth, @SaleHarriers
1 - Leeds C, @LivHarriersAC, M'boro (Mand), MMK, @SBHarriers, @sheffdearneac, Texas A&M
2008 - Greg Rutherford was the only man to break 8m on a windy day at the British Championships, taking the title with 8.20 from @BeaglesAC's Chris Kirk. That distance was the year's UK leading mark.

Top 3⃣:
Rutherford - 8.20
Tomlinson - 8.18i
Moore - 8.00
2008 saw the 🇬🇧 #50 mark at its shortest since the advent of the Power of 10 in 2005.

Lowest 3⃣:
6.96* - 2020
7.00 - 2008
7.01 - 2005

Highest 3⃣:
7.15 - 2014, 2017
7.14 - 2011
2009 - There was no post-Olympics lull for Greg Rutherford, as he topped his Worlds qualifying pool with 8.30. The distance was a new 🇬🇧 record, the first time the Marshall Milton Keynes athlete had held the senior record.

Top 3⃣:
Rutherford - 8.30
Tomlinson - 8.23
Morgan - 7.77
🇬🇧 Champs '09 saw Tomlinson's 3rd win. @BeaglesAC's Andre Fernandez was 2nd with 7.55w, his only time on the podium at the champs.

Podiums at 🇬🇧 Champs '01-'20:
8 - Tomlinson
7 - Bramble
6 - Jegede
5 - Rutherford, Morgan
4 - Ritchie
3 - 2 athletes
2 - 3 athletes
1 - 13 athletes
2010 - Chris Tomlinson jumped 8.23 for a second year in a row, the result placing him 3rd at the Euros. The competition was the highlight of a season that saw him fail to record a mark in the Commonwealth final.

Top 3⃣:
Tomlinson - 8.23
Rutherford - 8.22
Jegede - 7.84
Chris Tomlinson was a fixture at major outdoor championships for over a decade, rarely failing to make the final. However, his career ended with a single major medal, his 2010 Euro 🥉.

He was at his closest at the Olympics, but failed to add the extra distance needed to medal.
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