Hiroomi Yamada

Hiroomi Yamada (4 March 1942 – 21 October 1981) was a Japanese long jumper who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Yamada was the first Asian to jump 8 metres, doing so with a leap 8.01 at Odawara in 1971 ^{[2] [3]}

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