Erick Walder is an American long jump

Long jump

The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

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His personal best was 8.74 meters, achieved in April 1994 in El Paso.

Collegiate career

Walder competed collegiately for the long jump/triple jump juggernaut University of Arkansas

Arkansas Razorbacks

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 where he won 10 NCAA long jump and triple jump

Triple jump

The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

 titles, indoor and outdoor. He still holds the collegiate outdoor long jump record with a leap of 28 feet 8.25 inches (8.74 meters). Walder was inducted into The University of Arkansas Hall of Fame in 2010.

Walder claimed the NCAA outdoor and indoor long jumps and the indoor triple jump titles in 1992, 1993 and 1994, and added the outdoor triple jump win to sweep the 1994 NCAA meets:

Event	Years won
NCAA Indoor Triple Jump	1992, 1993, 1994
NCAA Indoor Long Jump	1992, 1993, 1994
NCAA Outdoor Triple Jump	1994
NCAA Outdoor Long Jump	1992, 1993, 1994

Walder finished 3rd in the triple jump at the 1993 NCAA Outdoor Championships.

Achievements

Representing the
1990	World Junior Championships 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics The 3rd World Junior Championships in Athletics was the 1990 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.-Men:-Women:-Medals table:-External links:* at GBRathletics.com...	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	15th	Triple jump
1993	World Championships 1993 World Championships in Athletics - Men's Long Jump These are the official results of the Men's Long Jump event at the 1993 IAAF World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. There were a total of 45 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Friday August 20, 1993.-Medalists:...	Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... , Germany	4th	Long jump
1994	Goodwill Games Goodwill Games The Goodwill Games was an international sports competition, created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s...	St. Petersburg, Russia	2nd	Long jump
1995	World Indoor Championships 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 5th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain from 10 March to 12 March 1995. There were a total number of 602 participating athletes from 130 countries.-Men:-Women:-Medal table:...	Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of... , Spain	3rd	Long jump
1997	World Indoor Championships 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 6th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France from March 7 to March 9, 1997. It was the first athletic championships to introduce women's pole vault...	Paris, France	4th	Long jump
	World Championships 1997 World Championships in Athletics The 6th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece between August 1 and August 10, 1997. In this event participated 1882 athletes from 198 participant nations...	Athens Athens Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state... , Greece	2nd	Long jump
	IAAF Grand Prix Final 1997 IAAF Grand Prix Final The 13th IAAF Grand Prix Final was held at the Hakata-no-mori Stadium in Fukuoka, Japan on September 13, 1997.-Men:- Women :-External links:*...	Fukuoka, Japan	3rd	Long jump
1998	Goodwill Games Goodwill Games The Goodwill Games was an international sports competition, created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s...	Uniondale Uniondale, New York Uniondale is a hamlet as well as a suburb of New York City in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island, in the Town of Hempstead. The population was 24,759 at the 2010 United States Census.-Geography:... , United States	2nd	Long jump
1999	World Indoor Championships 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 7th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in the Green Dome Maebashi stadium in Maebashi, Japan from March 5 to March 7, 1999. It was the first time the Championships were staged outside Europe or North America. Primo Nebiolo, president of the IAAF, characterized the...	Maebashi Maebashi, Gunma is the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, Japan.The city was founded on April 1, 1892, by the samurai Makuba Kawai.On December 5, 2004 the town of Ōgo, and the villages of Kasukawa and Miyagi, all from Seta District, were merged into Maebashi.... , Japan	3rd	Long jump

Rankings

Walder was ranked in the top ten long jumpers in the world by Track and Field News for eight consecutive years and as the best long jumper in the US three times.

Year	LJ world rank	LJ US rank	TJ US rank
1992	6th	4th	-
1993	3rd	2nd	5th
1994	3rd	3rd	3rd
1995	8th	6th	-
1996	6th	4th	6th
1997	3rd	1st	-
1998	2nd	1st	-
1999	4th	1st	-
2000	-	6th	-

Drug issues

In 2004, Walder was found guilty of amphetamine

Amphetamine

Amphetamine or amfetamine is a psychostimulant drug of the phenethylamine class which produces increased wakefulness and focus in association with decreased fatigue and appetite.Brand names of medications that contain, or metabolize into, amphetamine include Adderall, Dexedrine, Dextrostat,...

 and methamphetamine

Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs...

 doping. The sample was delivered on June 5, 2004 at the IAAF Adidas Oregon Track Classic. He received an IAAF suspension from October 2004 to October 2006. Walder was reinstated in 2007. He competed professionally for two years before his retirement in 2010. In November 2006, Walder pled guilty to possession with intent to deliver in Benton County, Arkansas. He received three years probation.

See also

• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences