# Long Jump and Triple Jump: Meters to Feet Chart

> 6.50 m is 21' 3.75" and 21' 4" is 6.50 m. Long jump and triple jump conversion charts that round the way NFHS, NCAA and World Athletics rules require.

September 1, 2026 · 7 min read

**A 6.50 m long jump is 21' 3.75" on a high school results sheet, and a 21' 4" jump measured with a tape is recorded as 6.50 m in college. Both conversions round down, never up, because that is what the rule books say to do.** The charts below apply those rules rather than a calculator's rounding.

## Why the two numbers never quite match

A foot is 0.3048 m by definition, so 6.50 m is 21 feet and 3.9 inches. What gets written down depends on who is running the meet.

High school meets under NFHS rules record horizontal jumps to the **next lowest quarter inch**, which turns 21' 3.9" into 21' 3.75". College meets under NCAA rules, USATF meets and World Athletics meets record to the **next lowest full centimeter**: World Athletics Technical Rule 29.8 says a horizontal jump is recorded to the 0.01 m below the measured distance whenever the distance is not a whole centimeter. A jump measured at 21' 4", which is 6.5024 m, is recorded as 6.50 m.

Run the mark back the other way and it shrinks. 6.50 m becomes 21' 3.75", and 21' 3.75" is 6.4960 m, which records as 6.49 m. A mark can lose up to a centimeter crossing between the two systems and can never gain one. That is not an error on anyone's part; it is two rounding rules that both point the same direction.

The recruiting ranges on the [long jump standards](https://trackreels.io/standards/long-jump/M) and [triple jump standards](https://trackreels.io/standards/triple-jump/M) pages are in meters because college records in meters, and [good long jump distances](https://trackreels.io/blog/good-long-jump-distances) reads those ranges by grade. When a coach reads a high school mark written in feet, the honest conversion is the downward one in the charts below. A results sheet that shows NM next to a jumper's name is a different problem, covered in [track meet abbreviations](https://trackreels.io/blog/track-meet-abbreviations).

## Long jump, meters to feet and inches

| Long jump (m) | Feet-inches |
| --- | --- |
| 4.00 | 13' 1.25" |
| 4.10 | 13' 5.25" |
| 4.20 | 13' 9.25" |
| 4.30 | 14' 1.25" |
| 4.40 | 14' 5" |
| 4.50 | 14' 9" |
| 4.60 | 15' 1" |
| 4.70 | 15' 5" |
| 4.80 | 15' 8.75" |
| 4.90 | 16' 0.75" |
| 5.00 | 16' 4.75" |
| 5.10 | 16' 8.75" |
| 5.20 | 17' 0.5" |
| 5.30 | 17' 4.5" |
| 5.40 | 17' 8.5" |
| 5.50 | 18' 0.5" |
| 5.60 | 18' 4.25" |
| 5.70 | 18' 8.25" |
| 5.80 | 19' 0.25" |
| 5.90 | 19' 4.25" |
| 6.00 | 19' 8" |
| 6.10 | 20' 0" |
| 6.20 | 20' 4" |
| 6.30 | 20' 8" |
| 6.40 | 20' 11.75" |
| 6.50 | 21' 3.75" |
| 6.60 | 21' 7.75" |
| 6.70 | 21' 11.75" |
| 6.80 | 22' 3.5" |
| 6.90 | 22' 7.5" |
| 7.00 | 22' 11.5" |
| 7.10 | 23' 3.5" |
| 7.20 | 23' 7.25" |
| 7.30 | 23' 11.25" |
| 7.40 | 24' 3.25" |
| 7.50 | 24' 7.25" |
| 7.60 | 24' 11" |
| 7.70 | 25' 3" |
| 7.80 | 25' 7" |
| 7.90 | 25' 11" |
| 8.00 | 26' 2.75" |
| 8.10 | 26' 6.75" |
| 8.20 | 26' 10.75" |
| 8.30 | 27' 2.75" |
| 8.40 | 27' 6.5" |
| 8.50 | 27' 10.5" |

## Long jump, feet and inches to meters

| Long jump (ft-in) | Meters |
| --- | --- |
| 13' 0" | 3.96 |
| 13' 6" | 4.11 |
| 14' 0" | 4.26 |
| 14' 6" | 4.41 |
| 15' 0" | 4.57 |
| 15' 6" | 4.72 |
| 16' 0" | 4.87 |
| 16' 6" | 5.02 |
| 17' 0" | 5.18 |
| 17' 6" | 5.33 |
| 18' 0" | 5.48 |
| 18' 6" | 5.63 |
| 19' 0" | 5.79 |
| 19' 6" | 5.94 |
| 20' 0" | 6.09 |
| 20' 6" | 6.24 |
| 21' 0" | 6.40 |
| 21' 6" | 6.55 |
| 22' 0" | 6.70 |
| 22' 6" | 6.85 |
| 23' 0" | 7.01 |
| 23' 6" | 7.16 |
| 24' 0" | 7.31 |
| 24' 6" | 7.46 |
| 25' 0" | 7.62 |
| 25' 6" | 7.77 |
| 26' 0" | 7.92 |
| 26' 6" | 8.07 |
| 27' 0" | 8.22 |

## Triple jump, meters to feet and inches

| Triple jump (m) | Feet-inches |
| --- | --- |
| 9.00 | 29' 6.25" |
| 9.25 | 30' 4" |
| 9.50 | 31' 2" |
| 9.75 | 31' 11.75" |
| 10.00 | 32' 9.5" |
| 10.25 | 33' 7.5" |
| 10.50 | 34' 5.25" |
| 10.75 | 35' 3" |
| 11.00 | 36' 1" |
| 11.25 | 36' 10.75" |
| 11.50 | 37' 8.75" |
| 11.75 | 38' 6.5" |
| 12.00 | 39' 4.25" |
| 12.25 | 40' 2.25" |
| 12.50 | 41' 0" |
| 12.75 | 41' 9.75" |
| 13.00 | 42' 7.75" |
| 13.25 | 43' 5.5" |
| 13.50 | 44' 3.25" |
| 13.75 | 45' 1.25" |
| 14.00 | 45' 11" |
| 14.25 | 46' 9" |
| 14.50 | 47' 6.75" |
| 14.75 | 48' 4.5" |
| 15.00 | 49' 2.5" |
| 15.25 | 50' 0.25" |
| 15.50 | 50' 10" |
| 15.75 | 51' 8" |
| 16.00 | 52' 5.75" |
| 16.25 | 53' 3.75" |
| 16.50 | 54' 1.5" |
| 16.75 | 54' 11.25" |
| 17.00 | 55' 9.25" |
| 17.25 | 56' 7" |
| 17.50 | 57' 4.75" |

## Triple jump, feet and inches to meters

| Triple jump (ft-in) | Meters |
| --- | --- |
| 30' 0" | 9.14 |
| 31' 0" | 9.44 |
| 32' 0" | 9.75 |
| 33' 0" | 10.05 |
| 34' 0" | 10.36 |
| 35' 0" | 10.66 |
| 36' 0" | 10.97 |
| 37' 0" | 11.27 |
| 38' 0" | 11.58 |
| 39' 0" | 11.88 |
| 40' 0" | 12.19 |
| 41' 0" | 12.49 |
| 42' 0" | 12.80 |
| 43' 0" | 13.10 |
| 44' 0" | 13.41 |
| 45' 0" | 13.71 |
| 46' 0" | 14.02 |
| 47' 0" | 14.32 |
| 48' 0" | 14.63 |
| 49' 0" | 14.93 |
| 50' 0" | 15.24 |
| 51' 0" | 15.54 |
| 52' 0" | 15.84 |
| 53' 0" | 16.15 |
| 54' 0" | 16.45 |
| 55' 0" | 16.76 |
| 56' 0" | 17.06 |

## A mark that is not on the chart

The [meters to feet and inches converter](https://trackreels.io/convert/meters-to-feet-inches) and the [feet and inches to meters converter](https://trackreels.io/convert/feet-inches-to-meters) take any mark. Girls' marks use the same charts; the [girls' long jump standards](https://trackreels.io/standards/long-jump/F) and [girls' triple jump standards](https://trackreels.io/standards/triple-jump/F) sit in a different range on the same scale.

Two things the chart does not do. It does not convert between a legal and a wind-aided jump; a tailwind over +2.0 m/s voids a long jump or triple jump for record and ranking purposes whatever the units, and the [wind calculator](https://trackreels.io/convert/wind-calculator) covers that. And it does not turn a jump from a high school runway into a college one: the takeoff board, the pit and the measuring rule are the same, so a 6.50 m jump is a 6.50 m jump at every level.

## Sources

- [World Athletics Technical Rules, Book C2.1](https://worldathletics.org/download/download?filename=febae412-b673-4523-8321-e1ed092421dc.pdf&urlslug=C2.1), Rule 29.8 (horizontal jumps recorded to the 0.01 m below the measured distance).
- [2025-2026 Track and Field Rule Codes Comparison](https://a-us.storyblok.com/f/1022696/x/2cdac1988d/2025-2026-track-and-field-rule-codes-comparison-final.pdf), horizontal jumps table, "Recording distance": next lowest full centimeter under World Athletics, NCAA and USATF, next lowest quarter inch under NFHS (NFHS column revised September 2023).

I transcribed the two recording rules from those documents and generated the charts from them with 1 foot = 0.3048 m exactly. Every metric-to-imperial cell is the true value taken down to the quarter inch, and every imperial-to-metric cell is the true value taken down to the centimeter, so the table matches what a results sheet under each code would print.

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