European Athletics Championships 2002 / men's long jump

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	25 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 9th (qualification) August 11th (final)
Medalist Oleksiy Lukashevytsch ( UKR )   Siniša Ergotić ( CRO )   Yago Lamela ( ESP )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The men's long jump at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 9th and 11th, 2002 in Munich's Olympic Stadium.

European champion was the Ukrainian Oleksij Lukaschewytsch . He won before the Croatian Siniša Ergotić . Bronze went to the Spanish vice world champion from 1999 Yago Lamela .

Existing records

World record	8.95 m	Mike Powell	World Cup Tokyo , Japan	August 30, 1991
European record	8.86 m	Robert Emmijan	Zaghkadzor , Soviet Union (now Armenia )	May 22, 1987
Championship record	8.41 m		EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 29, 1986

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the respective jumps are named. The permitted limit is two meters per second. With stronger wind support, the distance will be counted for the competition, but will not be included in the lists of records and the best.

qualification

August 9, 2002

25 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 7.95 m. Three athletes reached or exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next-placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 7.73 m had to be achieved for participation in the finals.

Group A

Schahriar Bigdeli was one centimeter short of being in the final

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Roman Shchurenko	Ukraine	7.89	-0.3
2	Raúl Fernández	Spain	7.87	+0.3
3	Thomas Mellin-Olsen	Norway	7.86	+0.3
4th	Salim Sdiri	France	7.85	+0.9
5	Siniša Ergotić	Croatia	7.83	+0.8
6th	Shahriar Bigdeli	Germany	7.72	k. A.
7th	Gregor Cankar	Slovenia	7.64	+0.4
8th	Andrejs Tolstiks	Latvia	7.57	± 0.0
9	Dmitri Mitrofanov	Russia	7.53	+0.2
10	Anastásios Makrinikólas	Greece	7.41	± 0.0
NM	Konstadínos Koukodímos	Greece
	Volodymyr Syuskov	Ukraine
	Niklas Rorarius	Finland

Group B

Peter Häggström - here as a journalist in 2013 - did not survive the qualification with his 7.53 m

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Yago Lamela	Spain	8.03	+0.3
2	Oleksiy Lukashevytsch	Ukraine	7.97	-0.1
3	Daniil Burkenja	Russia	7.95	-0.7
4th	Vladimir Malyavin	Russia	7.93	-0.3
5	Christopher Tomlinson	Great Britain	7.81	-0.8
6th	Yann Domenech	France	7.80	+1.7
7th	Andreas Pohle	Germany	7.73	-0.4
8th	Nicola Trentin	Italy	7.66	+0.5
9	Peter Häggström	Sweden	7.53	+0.6
10	John Steffen	Denmark	7.03	-0.2
NM	Petar Datschew	Bulgaria
	Rachid Chouhal	Malta
DNS	Louis Tsatoumas	Greece

final

August 11, 2002

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) wind (m / s)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	4th attempt (m) wind (m / s)	5th attempt (m) wind (m / s)	6th attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Oleksiy Lukashevytsch	Ukraine	8.08 / -0.2	x	7.95 / ± 0.0	8.08 / -0.2	x	x	7.68 / ± 0.0
2	Siniša Ergotić	Croatia	8.00 / +0.7	7.93 / +0.9	x	8.00 / +0.7	7.93 / +1.4	6.13 / +0.6	7.84 / +1.4
3	Yago Lamela	Spain	7.99 / +2.2	7.93 / +0.5	x	7.97 / +0.6	x	7.55 / -0.9	7.99 / +2.2
4th	Roman Shchurenko	Ukraine	7.96 / +1.1	7.84 / +0.1	7.80 / -0.6	7.74 / -0.4	7.96 / +1.1	x	x
5	Daniil Burkenja	Russia	7.90 / +1.2	7.14 / -0.3	7.83 / +1.4	x	7.81 / -0.3	7.68 / +0.8	7.90 / +1.2
6th	Christopher Tomlinson	Great Britain	7.78 / +0.4	7.78 / +0.4	7.27 / +1.0	7.70 / +0.6	7.38 / +0.4	7.59 / -0.9	7.74 / +0.3
7th	Salim Sdiri	France	7.78 / -1.1	7.62 / +0.9	7.78 / -1.1	x	7.55 / +0.4	7.61 / -0.1	7.65 / -0.9
8th	Vladimir Malyavin	Russia	7.73 / +1.2	7.43 / -0.8	x	7.73 / +1.2	7.36 / -1.0	x	7.20 / -2.0
9	Raúl Fernández	Spain	7.69 / -0.7	x	7.69 / -0.7	x	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Yann Domenech	France	7.68 / +0.7	6.63 / ± 0.0	7.68 / +0.7	x
11	Andreas Pohle	Germany	7.65 / +0.5	x	7.03 / k. A.	7.65 / +0.5
12	Thomas Mellin-Olsen	Norway	7.57 / +0.4	7.30 / -0.5	6.89 / -2.3	7.57 / +0.4

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  Yago Lamela, vice world champion in 1999 , won the bronze medal

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  Christopher Tomlinson reached number six

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  Salim Sdiri came in seventh place

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  Andreas Pohle came in eleventh

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• European Championship 2002 Munich, Men Long Jump on todor66.com, accessed October 29, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 29, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Long Jump European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 482f (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 29, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, long jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 29, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on October 29, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump , accessed October 29, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Long Jump Men , p. 25, Spanish / English (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 29, 2019