Greg Rutherford

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford could opt to skip the London Anniversary Games in July because of a controversial new Diamond League rule

The 29-year-old Brit Greg Rutherford, also the reigning world and European champion, posted a season best of 8.31metres in the second round to dominate the event.

Greg Rutherford has withdrawn from the Great Britain team for the World Indoor Championships in the USA next week, striking a blow to domestic medal hopes.

Lewis also believes that athletics are a dying sport and that the standard of long jump has reached a new low. He accused long jumpers of being lazy in comparison to him and Mike Powell.

German Rehm, who had his right leg amputated below the knee aged 14 after a boating accident, leapt 8.40metres to win gold at the International Paralympic Committee World Championships.

Jessica Ennis-Hill and Greg Rutherford have been named sportswoman and sportsman of the year by the Sports Journalists' Association (SJA).

Greg Rutherford and Tyson Fury have become embroiled in an explosive public row after the long jump champion told the BBC that he did not want to share a stage with the controversial boxer.

Greg Rutherford continues to add to his ever-growing trophy cabinet after being named the men's European Athlete of the Year in Lausanne.

Greg Rutherford ended a memorable summer on a high as he won the Diamond Race to go with his world long jump title. Rutherford leapt out to 8.32metres to win the Weltklasse Zurich meeting.

Dina Asher-Smith laid down the gauntlet in the 200 metres heats, with Britain's fastest ever woman setting a new personal best at the World Championships.

Greg Rutherford secured long jump gold, becoming just the fifth British athlete to hold Olympic, Commonwealth, European and world titles at the same time. Here, we look at some of the reacion.

First Mo Farah, then Jessica Ennis-Hill backed up the gold medals they won at London 2012 with a World Championship title in Beijing three years later. Greg Rutherford was well aware of this.

Greg Rutherford took another swipe at UK Athletics after booking his place in the long jump final at the World Championships in Beijing.

Greg Rutherford demanded critics lay off Katarina Johnson-Thompson after her long jump collapse cost her a heptathlon medal at the World Championships in Beijing.

Olympic champion Greg Rutherford has defended his criticism of the new Great Britain team kits, claiming the lack of a Union Jack on them diminishes his reason for competing.

London Olympics hero Greg Rutherford has branded the Great Britain team kit for next week’s World Championships ‘ridiculous and wrong’.

Great Britain's Greg Rutherford extended his lead in the Diamond League long jump standings with victory in Stockholm. The 2012 Olympic gold medallist leapt 8.34 metres.

Britain's golden Olympic trio of Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford have been backed for glory at next month’s World Championships in Beijing.

Greg Rutherford is confident of completing the ‘quadruple’ in Beijing despite registering three no jumps on his return to the Olympic Stadium sand pit. The London 2012 gold medallist finished third.

CHARLES SALE: Four of Britain’s best athletes are joining a new track and field division set up by talent management agency M&C Saatchi Merlin in a bid to clean up the sport's image.

Greg Rutherford has won Olympic, Commonwealth and European gold medals, now he has set his sights on breaking records in his own back garden — literally.

Olympic champion Greg Rutherford and Laura Muir were both victorious Britons at Thursday's Diamond League meeting in Oslo. Rutherford leapt 8.25m to beat Michael Hartfield by 21cm.

London will be treated to an appearance from three Olympic gold medallists this summer when Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford take part in the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games.

Greg Rutherford has pulled out of the European Indoor Championships in Prague next weekend to focus on preparing for the World Championships in August.

Greg Rutherford is a surprise inclusion in the Great Britain team selected to compete at the European Indoor Championships in Prague next week.

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford will lead a 39-strong Great Britain team into the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Prague next month.

Greg Rutherford is a man who seemingly has everything, but the long jumper admits he won't be content until he has his hands on the world title – something he hopes to rectify this summer.

Greg Rutherford has revealed how he tried to rescue an injured deer he found.The 28-year-old discovered the young animal, which he later christened Doris, near his home in Milton Keynes.

The long jumper, 28, discovered the young animal, which he later named Doris, near his home in Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

Weeks after announcing the arrival of his son Milo, Olympic gold medallist Greg Rutherford is now showing off his proudest achievement for all to see. 

Greg shared a picture of the tot's tiny hand alongside his and Susie's fingers and wrote: 'Happiest day of my life.'

Olympic and Commonwealth gold medallist Greg Rutherford can now add European long jump champion to his impressive list of honours.

There are few summer Olympic champions who would buy a £500 pair of camera goggles to try to reach speeds of 62mph hurtling down a ski slope during the off-season. 

He might have been ‘held together by tape’, but that did not stop Greg Rutherford adding the Commonwealth title to his Olympic long jump gold last night.

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford has expressed frustration over 'ignorant athletes' making noise in the Commonwealth Games athletes' village.

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford has pulled out of Sunday's Sainsbury's Anniversary Games in central London as a precaution ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

For Greg Rutherford, the revelation was as surprising as it was inspiring. When the London 2012 gold medal-winning long jumper competes at Hampden in this weekend’s Diamond League and then the Commonwealth Games later this month, he will be following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather.

The men's sprint relay quartet gave the Great Britain team reason to cheer by claiming their only victory on the opening day of the European Team Championships in Braunschweig. Adam Gemili brought the 4x100m team home for a convincing win in 38.51 seconds to leave a developmental squad in fourth place after 21 of the 40 events.

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford has had a 26ft high statue erected in his honour in the middle of a Milton Keynes roundabout.

Greg Rutherford admitted he had not been so nervous since the 2012 Olympics after he beat British rival Chris Tomlinson at the BT Great City Games in Manchester.

LAURA WILLIAMSON: Chris Tomlinson has reignited his row with Greg Rutherford by claiming the Olympic champion’s new British best was an ‘illegitimate jump’

Greg Rutherford has admitted there were times last year when he questioned whether his body was still up to it, but the Olympic champion vowed to try and become one of the top 10 jumpers in history after smashing the British record.

Greg Rutherford jumped 8.51 metres on Thursday in San Diego to become the outright British record-holder, beating the record he held with Chris Tomlinson by 16cm.

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford will gear up for the Commonwealth Games by competing at the Sainsbury's Glasgow Grand Prix in July.

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford has promised to silence ‘sniping’ critics Denise Lewis and Jonathan Edwards by winning Commonwealth gold this summer.

The Olympic long jump champion has endured a series of setbacks culminating in failure to qualify for the World Championships final in Moscow.

Olympic champion Greg Rutherford's World Championships lasted less than an hour as he failed to make the long jump final, while team mate Chris Tomlinson has vented his fury at the decision to take the Olympic champion to Moscow based on 'media profile'.

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford believes he can challenge for honours at next month's World Championships after earning late selection for the British team for Moscow.

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford’s hopes of being fit for next month’s World Championships have suffered a setback after he was forced to pull out of next weekend’s Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games.

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford could only manage third place at the Diamond League meeting in Shanghai today, with China's Li Jinzhe winning the event.

Of the three British athletes who won gold on that unforgettable Super Saturday inside the Olympic Stadium back in August, no one’s life has changed quite so dramatically as that of long jumper Greg Rutherford.

Olympic gold medal hero Greg Rutherford has stripped off to nothing but a pair of Union Jack underpants. The Team GB gold medallist posed for a charity life art class.

Long-jumper Greg Rutherford, 25, suffers repeated hamstring tears, which nearly ended his career, and credits his Olympic success to a controversial oxygen treatment.

Olympic and Paralympic gold medallists Johnny Peacock and Greg Rutherford got their kit off and confessed all about love post-Olympics.

He has a shiny gold Olympic, but the Ginger Wizard admits he has sacrificed a lot to get it - most recently his relationship with his girlfriend of eight years, fashion PR Liz Rose.

There was a brief moment a few years ago when Greg Rutherford began to look for a job in sales.

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford is still waiting to learn on which side of the Atlantic he will prepare for the next phase of his career.

We Are Alongside You has been released in the build up to tonight's Paralympic opening ceremony and features Jessica Ennis (pictured), gymnast Louis Smith, weight-lifter Zoe Smith and long jumper Greg Rutherford.

Golden boy Greg Rutherford is considering competing in the 100metres at a major athletics meeting following his heroics at the London Olympics.

Mark the date: August 4, 2012. Athletics in Britain, a shadow of its glorious golden past in Beijing four years ago, was re-born this day.

Greg Rutherford admitted he is likely to shed a tear when he is presented with his gold medal on Sunday. Rutherford struck gold in the long jump on Saturday night on an incredible evening for Team GB.

It was Team GB’s 13th gold and was another highlight of a joyous night for the athletics team after Jessica Ennis had won heptathlon gold just minutes before.

Greg Rutherford took a surprise gold medal as he became the first British man to win the Olympic long jump since Lynn Davies famously made his leap of fame back in 1964.

It was not a great weekend for Britons who will be long jumping at the Olympic Games. Jessica Ennis had another poor outing at Loughborough.

Greg Rutherford equalled the British long jump record on Thursday at the OTC-Pre-Olympic Series II in San Diego. The 25-year-old jumped 8.35 metres, equalling the national mark set by Chris Tomlinson.

Greg Rutherford, British long jump former record holder, on cheesy karaoke and a very boring film.

Britain's Greg Rutherford has revealed he has been learning to copy the technique of the great Carl Lewis to boost his chances of Olympic glory this summer.