Long jump rules
The jumping pit was roughly 50 feet long and was filled with soft soil so that the athletes' footprints could be detected on it.  Philostratus mentions that if both footprints did not appear in the pit, the jump was considered to be invalid. On one side of the pit was a fixed point called the bater. The bater was the starting point from which all jumps were measured. The length of the jump was recorded with a wooden rod called a kanon.
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