American long jump great Greg Bell, who had been the oldest living Olympic gold medallist in athletics, has died at the age of 94.

• Bell breathed his last on January 25, according to World Athletics which paid tribute to the 1956 Olympic long jump gold medallist.
• Bell was the world's leading men's long jumper of the 1950s. As well as winning the Olympic title in Melbourne, his personal best of 8.10m he produced in Austin, USA in 1957 was just three centimetres off the world record that had been set by Jesse Owens in 1935.
• He also jumped 8.09m in 1956 and 8.10m again in 1959.
• Bell was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, in the USA on November 7, 1930 and he attended Garfield High School.