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Standing broad jump percentile

Your standing broad jump ranked against all adults of your age and sex — and against NCAA Division I athletes. Two-foot takeoff from a line, arm swing allowed, stick the landing. Measure from the line to the back of the rearmost heel. Alternative to the vertical jump — only your better one counts.

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Standing broad jump standards by age — men

Result needed to beat the given share of all men in each age group.

Age10th25th50th75th90th95th99th
18-295′ 10″6′ 4″6′ 11″7′ 7″8′ 1″8′ 5″9′ 0″
30-395′ 6″6′ 0″6′ 7″7′ 2″7′ 9″8′ 1″8′ 8″
40-495′ 1″5′ 7″6′ 3″6′ 10″7′ 4″7′ 8″8′ 3″
50-594′ 8″5′ 3″5′ 10″6′ 5″6′ 11″7′ 3″7′ 11″
60-694′ 4″4′ 10″5′ 6″6′ 1″6′ 7″6′ 11″7′ 6″

Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat as an informed estimate. Modeled from Japan's national fitness survey (the only large adult broad-jump dataset), scaled down 6% for a heavier Western population.

Standing broad jump standards by age — women

Result needed to beat the given share of all women in each age group.

Age10th25th50th75th90th95th99th
18-294′ 1″4′ 7″5′ 1″5′ 8″6′ 2″6′ 6″7′ 0″
30-393′ 9″4′ 3″4′ 10″5′ 5″5′ 11″6′ 2″6′ 9″
40-493′ 7″4′ 1″4′ 7″5′ 2″5′ 8″6′ 0″6′ 6″
50-593′ 3″3′ 9″4′ 4″4′ 11″5′ 5″5′ 8″6′ 3″
60-693′ 0″3′ 6″4′ 1″4′ 7″5′ 1″5′ 5″5′ 11″

Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat as an informed estimate. Modeled from Japan's national fitness survey (the only large adult broad-jump dataset), scaled down 6% for a heavier Western population.

Standing broad jump — NCAA Division I athletes

Pooled across sports with published testing data, weighted by the number of D1 athletes in each sport.

10th25th50th75th90th95th99th
Men7′ 4″7′ 10″8′ 6″9′ 2″9′ 9″10′ 0″10′ 7″
Women5′ 7″6′ 0″6′ 5″6′ 10″7′ 4″7′ 7″8′ 2″

Men: Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat as an informed estimate. Football is bracketed by junior-college and NFL Combine data; baseball, soccer and tennis come from D1 team studies.

Women: Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat as an informed estimate. Pooled from small D1 team studies (soccer, volleyball, basketball) with lower-division samples as labeled proxies.

Standing broad jump questions

What is a good standing broad jump for a 30-year-old man?

For a 30-year-old man of median US size (179 lb), 6′ 9″ beats half of them, 7′ 4″ reaches the 75th percentile, and 7′ 11″ reaches the 90th of all men that age. The calculator adjusts these for your own bodyweight where the evidence supports it.

What is a good standing broad jump for a 30-year-old woman?

For a 30-year-old woman of median US size (153 lb), 5′ 0″ beats half of them, 5′ 6″ reaches the 75th percentile, and 6′ 0″ reaches the 90th of all women that age. The calculator adjusts these for your own bodyweight where the evidence supports it.

How does that compare with D1 athletes?

Division I is a different population: our estimated median NCAA Division I man is at 8′ 6″, which would be the 96th percentile among all men aged 18-29; and our estimated median NCAA Division I woman is at 6′ 5″, which would be the 94th percentile among all women aged 18-29. The D1 comparison is raw — no age or size adjustment — so it is you against the athletes as they are.

How accurate are these standing broad jump percentiles?

Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat every number here as an informed estimate, not a measurement. Modeled from Japan's national fitness survey (the only large adult broad-jump dataset), scaled down 6% for a heavier Western population. Modeled percentiles have no validated error margin. Results past the 99th percentile are shown as 99+ because the data cannot support more precision.

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