The other giant leap for mankind: how this athlete set a world record that's still standing 20 years later
- Written by The Conversation

In the late evening Scandinavian sun at the 1995 World Athletics Championship, Jonathan Edwards, a British triple jumper, was the tenth t jump out of of 12 finalists. He took a minute to collect himself, then sped down the runway to jump 18.16m, breaking his own world record by 18 centimetres.
Edwards wandered around in...