Giovanni Evangelisti

Giovanni Evangelisti
nation	Italy
birthday
size	179 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump

Giovanni Evangelisti (born September 11, 1961 in Rimini ) is a former Italian long jumper .

Sporting successes

Evangelisti participated in three Olympic Games ( 1984 in Los Angeles , 1988 in Seoul and 1992 in Barcelona ), three outdoor world championships ( 1983 in Helsinki , 1987 in Rome and 1991 in Tokyo ) and four outdoor European championships ( 1982 in Athens , 1986 in Stuttgart , 1990 in Split and 1994 in Helsinki).

His greatest achievement was winning the bronze medal with 8.24 m at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . Evangelisti only had to admit defeat to Carl Lewis and Gary Honey .

Evangelisti's best outdoor performance of 8.43 m, set on May 16, 1987 in San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy, meant a national record that was only improved in 2007 by Andrew Howe at the World Championships in Osaka .

Evangelisti ranks 46th on the all-time world best list with his best performance. (As of November 29, 2016)

With a height of 1.79 m, his competition weight was 70 kg.

controversy

At the World Championships in Rome Evangelisti ousted the American Larry Myricks with his last jump of 8.38 m , who had previously been third behind Carl Lewis and Robert Emmijan with 8.33 m . Evangelisti was therefore awarded the bronze medal. In retrospect, it turned out through computer evaluations, among others by the German Helmar Hommel , that Evangelisti's last jump could have been a maximum of 7.80 meters, so that the judges made a deliberate wrong decision in favor of their compatriot Evangelisti. The evangelist, who was probably not involved, was subsequently rated fourth with his real best jump, while Myricks received the bronze medal.

Persistent rumors that the then - Italian - President Primo Nebiolo of the IAAF World Athletics Federation was involved in the affair could not be confirmed.

Results at international championships

year	competition	place	Result	comment
1982	European Indoor Championships	Milan , Italy	3
	European championships	Athens , Greece	6th
1984	Olympic games	Los Angeles , USA	3
1985	Indoor world games	Paris , France
1986	European championships	Stuttgart , Germany	3
1987	Indoor world championships	Indianapolis , USA	3
	European Indoor Championships	Liévin , France	2
1987	World championships	Rome , Italy	4 1
1988	European Indoor Championships	Budapest , Hungary	3
	Olympic games	Seoul , South Korea	4th
1990	European championships	Split , Yugoslavia	7th
1991	Indoor world championships	Seville , Spain	3
	World championships	Tokyo , Japan	7th

¹ Wrong measurement controversy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official record statistics of the IAAF for the men's long jump outdoors
2. ↑ Giovanni Evangelisti in the database of World Athletics (English)
3. ↑ Michael Reinsch: The giant sentence from Turin. In: FAZ Online . March 11, 2009, accessed May 10, 2014 . 

Web links

• Giovanni Evangelisti in the database of World Athletics (English)