European Athletics Championships 2010 / Men's Long Jump

20th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Barcelona
Competition location	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Competition phase	July 30th (qualification) August 1st (final)
Medalist Christian Reif ( GER )   Kafétien Gomis ( FRA )   Christopher Tomlinson ( GBR )

The Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona in 2007

The men's long jump at the European Athletics Championships 2010 was held on July 30 and August 1, 2010 in the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in the city of Barcelona .

German Christian Reif became European champion . Kafétien Gomis from France won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Briton Christopher Tomlinson .

Records

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

Record improvement

European champion Christian Reif improved the existing EM record in the final on July 30th by six centimeters to 8.47 m.  

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.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

July 30, 2010, 6:35 p.m.

32 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 8.00 m. Eleven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the next placed athlete to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 7.98 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Christian Reif	Germany	8.27	x	7.79 / +0.4	8.27 / +1.6
2	Loúis Tsátoumas	Greece	8.17	8.17 / +2.3	-	-
3	Luis Felipe Méliz	Spain	8.06	7.94 / ± 0.0	8.06 / +1.4	-
4th	Kafétien Gomis	France	8.04	x	8.04 / +0.7	-
5	Tommi Evilä	Finland	8.01	7.91 / +1.7	7.90 / +1.0	8.01 / +0.5
6th	Dimitri Plotnikov	Russia	7.92	x	7.92 / +0.1	7.37 / -0.3
7th	Emanuele Formichetti	Italy	7.91	x	7.91 / +1.1	7.80 / +0.8
8th	Otto Kilpi	Finland	7.90	7.81 / +2.8	7.90 / +2.0	7.78 / +0.4
9	Yochai Halevi	Israel	7.90	x	7.79 / +0.8	7.90 / +0.9
10	Gaspar Araújo	Portugal	7.87	x	7.83 / -0.3	7.87 / +1.7
11	Stefano Tremigliozzi	Italy	7.80	7.41 / -0.1	7.80 / +1.0	x
12	Joan Lino Martínez	Spain	7.63	7.62 / +1.2	7.63 / +0.7	x
13	Thorsteinn Ingvarsson	Iceland	7.59	7.44 / +0.5	x	7.59 / +0.3
14th	Tõnis Sahk	Estonia	7.46	7.46 / +0.9	7.41 / +1.9	7.34 / +0.8
NM	Morten Jensen	Denmark	ogV	x	x	x
	Admir Bregu	Albania		x	x	x

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  Otto Kilpi was only three centimeters short of the final with his 7.90 m

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  Yochai Halevi also reached 7.90 m in qualification and was eliminated

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  Stefano Tremigliozzi did not reach the final with 7.80 m

Group B

With 7.66 m, Oleksandr Soldatkin had no chance of participating in the final

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Eusebio Cáceres	Spain	8.27	7.73 / +0.3	7.90 / ± 0.0	8.27 / +1.7
2	Christopher Tomlinson	Great Britain	8.20	7.98 / +1.6	8.20 / +0.7	-
3	Andrew Howe	Italy	8.15	8.15 / -0.3	-	-
4th	Michel Tornéus	Sweden	8.12	8.12 / +1.2	-	-
5	Salim Sdiri	France	8.09	8.09 / +1.9	-	-
6th	Roman Novotný	Czech Republic	8.00	7.86 / +3.2	x	8.00 / +1.2
7th	Petteri Lax	Finland	7.98	7.48 / +0.9	7.98 / +1.5	x
8th	Povilas mycolaitis	Lithuania	7.94	x	7.85 / ± 0.0	7.94 / +1.0
9	Pavel Shalin	Russia	7.94	x	7.85 / ± 0.0	7.94 / +1.0
10	Jānis Leitis	Latvia	7.87	6.30 / +2.2	7.87 / ± 0.0	x
11	Oleksandr soldierkin	Ukraine	7.66	x	7.66 / + 1.6	7.32 / +0.4
12	Zacharias Arnos	Cyprus	7.61	x	7.37 / +1.1	7.61 / +3.5
13	Arsen Sargsyan	Armenia	7.60	7.60 / +0.9	x	7.59 / +1.2
14th	Mihaíl Mertzanídis-Despotéris	Greece	7.58	x	x	7.58 / +0.8
15th	Sávvas Diakonikólas	Greece	7.46	x	7.22 / +1.8	7.46 / +1.6
NM	Nikolay Atanasov	Bulgaria	ogV	x	x	x

final

August 1, 2010, 8:10 p.m.

The surprising winner was the German Christian Reif with a world best for the year of 8.47 m. After two failed attempts, he was even threatened with an early end. But Reif increased his personal best in the third jump by eight inches and won the gold medal. Kafétien Gomis from France won the silver medal with a new personal season best of 8.24 m. Briton Chris Tomlinson followed in third place just an inch behind.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	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	Christian Reif	Germany	8.47 CR	x	7.87 / +0.5	8.47 / / +1.6	-	-	8.00 / +0.9
2	Kafétien Gomis	France	8.24	8.00 / +0.9	x	x	x	x	8.24 / +1.0
3	Christopher Tomlinson	Great Britain	8.23	8.18 / -0.1	7.97 / +0.1	8.95 / +0.9	8.23 / +0.6	8.20 / +0.8	7.57 / +0.9
4th	Salim Sdiri	France	8.20	8.20 / +0.3	x	x	x	x	8.12 / +0.2
5	Andrew Howe	Italy	8.12	7.96 / +0.8	8.12 / -0.1	8.00 / -0.4	7.74 / +1.6	8.08 / -0.2	7.97 / +0.5
6th	Loúis Tsátoumas	Greece	8.09	x	8.09 / +0.3	x	7.66 / +0.2	x	x
7th	Petteri Lax	Finland	7.96	7.96 / +1.1	x	x	x	x	x
8th	Eusebio Cáceres	Spain	7.93	7.92 / +1.5	x	7.93 / -0.3	-	x	x
9	Michel Tornéus	Sweden	7.92	7.77 / ± 0.0	7.92 / +0.2	7.88 / -0.3	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Tommi Evilä	Finland	7.91	7.56 / +0.6	7.62 / +1.4	7.91 / +1.1
11	Luis Felipe Méliz	Spain	7.90	x	7.90 / +0.5	7.90 / +2.4
12	Roman Novotný	Czech Republic	7.65	x	7.65 / +0.4	x

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  European champion Christian Reif - he was under a lot of pressure both in the qualification and in the final at his third jump and then showed his best performances

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  Kafétien Gomis - Vice European Champion with the last jump

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  Bronze medalist Christopher Tomlinson

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  Salim Sdiri took fourth place

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  Defending champion Andrew Howe had to be satisfied with fifth place

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  Loúis Tsátoumas reached sixth place

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  Petteri Lax - surprising seventh

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  Eusebio Cáceres finished eighth

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  Michel Tornéus came in ninth place

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  Ten place for Tommi Evilä

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  Luis Felipe Méliz finished eleventh

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  Roman Novotný - twelfth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Barcelona 2010 at european-athletics.org, accessed December 20, 2019
• European Championship 2010 Barcelona, ​​Men Long Jump on todor66.com, accessed December 20, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2010 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on December 20, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Long Jump European Championship 2010 Barcelona, ​​p. 502f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on December 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2010, long jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on December 20, 2019
• 20th European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona, ​​Spain from ifosta.de, accessed on December 20, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump , accessed December 20, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Long Jump Men , p. 25, Spanish / English (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on December 20, 2019