Mike Powell
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Michael Anthony "Mike" Powell (born November 10 1963) is an American Track and Field athlete.
Mike Powell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the 1991 World Championships in Athletics (Tokyo) he broke Bob Beamon's 23-year-old long jump world record by 5 cm (2 inches) leaping 8.95 m (29 ft 4.5 in). He won the James E. Sullivan Award in 1991. He won long jump silver medals at both the 1988 Olympics and 1992 Olympics; in 1993 he was again world champion.
After the 1996 Olympics, Powell retired, but he returned in 2001 with a goal of competing in the 2004 Olympics.
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