When Edwards arrived at the Gothenburg stadium Ullevi, no one never jumped over 18 meters in “legal” wind conditions.
In the first two rounds of the competition, he succeeded twice.
It landed beyond the measuring board with a jump from the opening of 18.16 m, then added 13 cm in one of the biggest appearances of British athletics about 20 minutes later.
That year, he was an athlete of the event that came to Sweden as a world record holder after jumping 17.98 to defeat the former American Willie Banks by one inch and recorded the longest jump in 18.43 m.
He always described himself as a sprinter, but not as a jumper, with the stages of jumping with land step, with the help of the ground with the ground, he compared the contact with the pebbles that recorded the water, and at 71kg it was also lighter than many other athletes.
He changed his technique this season and accepted a double action – instead of a replacement arm movement – which he said was “so well balanced” throughout its stages.
However, he was far from confident, he admitted that he bought sunglasses at the Gothenburg airport to hide his eyes as he warmed up so that his competitors would “not see” him who had him “.
What his rivals saw was very different.
“In our training, we studied videos of Edwards day by day,” said Jerome Romain, who took a bronze medal in Gthenburg. “It was just the extraordinary things he did.”
Silver medal Brian Wellman believes Edward has set a record because he was “the most effective triple jumper there.”
