European Athletics Championships 1938 / men's long jump

2. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of men
city	Paris
Stadion	Stade Olympique
Attendees	13 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	September 3
Medalist
gold	Wilhelm Leichum ( GER )
silver	Arturo Maffei ( ITA )
bronze	Luz Long ( GER )

Olympic Stadium in Paris 1924

The men's long jump at the 1938 European Athletics Championships was held on September 3, 1938 in the Stade Olympique in the French capital, Paris .

With gold and bronze, Germany won two medals in this competition. European champion was defending champion Wilhelm Leichum . Second place went to the Italian Arturo Maffei . Luz Long won bronze.

Records

Existing records

World record	8.13 m	Jesse Owens	Ann Arbor , USA	May 25, 1935
Championship record	7.45 m	Wilhelm Leichum	EM Turin , Italy	September 8, 1934

Record improvement

 Wilhelm Leichum improved his own EM record by twenty centimeters to 7.65 meters.

execution

On the IAAF website there is only one list of results for all technical disciplines with the final result for all participants. A qualification is not listed there for any jumping, pushing or throwing competition. Accordingly, all thirteen long jumpers started together in a group for the final. It is not clear how many attempts were available to the athletes and whether after the third round, as was common at the Olympic Games at the time, for example, the best six jumpers went into a final with three more rounds.

At the Olympic Games during this time, it was common practice in the technical disciplines to first conduct a qualifying round on the morning of the competition day if the number of participants was not too small. This preliminary round was held in two groups. The final with the qualified athletes usually took place in the afternoon of the same day.

final

Wilhelm Leichum repeated his success from 1934 and set
a new European Championship record with 7.65 m

September 5, 1938, 3:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Wilhelm Leichum	German Empire	7.65 CR
2	Arturo Maffei	Italy	7.61 PB
3	Luz Long	German Empire	7.56 SB
4th	István Gyuricza	Hungary	7.27 PB
5	Ruudi Toomsalu	Estonia	7.27 SB
6th	William Breach	Great Britain	7.16 PB
7th	Jean Studer	Switzerland	7.14 PB
8th	Jean Baudry	France	7.11 PB
9	François Mersch	Luxembourg	7.05 PB
10	Robert Joanblancq	France	7.04 PB
11	Åke Stenqvist	Sweden	7.01 SB
12	Grigorios Lambrakis	Greece	6.94 PB
13	Vilmos Vermes	Hungary	6.82 PB

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  Vice European Champion Arturo Maffei

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  After silver at the Olympic Games in 1936 - on the photo at the 1936 award ceremony - now bronze for Luz Long

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  Åke Stenqvist finished eleventh

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Paris 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 11, 2019
• Men Long Jump European Championships 1938 Paris (FRA) on todor66.com, accessed March 11, 2019
• II European Championship, Paris 1938 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 11, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1938, long jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on March 11, 2019
• 2nd European Men's Athletics Championships 1938 in Paris, France from ifosta.de, accessed on March 11, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump men , accessed March 11, 2019
2. ^ European Athletics Championships - Paris 1938 , accessed March 11, 2019