European Athletics Championships 2018 / Men's Long Jump

discipline	Long jump of men
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Attendees	30 athletes from 21 countries
Competition phase	August 7, 2018 (qualification) August 8, 2018 (final)
Medalist
gold	Miltiadis Tendoglou ( GRE )
silver	Fabian Heinle ( GER )
bronze	Serhiy Nykyforow ( UKR )

Berlin Olympic Stadium

The men's long jump at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 7th and 8th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

The Greek Miltiadis Tendoglou became European champion. German Fabian Heinle came in second . Serhiy Nykyforov from Ukraine won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	Mike Powell	8.95 m	World Cup in Tokyo , Japan	August 30, 1991
European record	Robert Emmijan	8.86 m	Tsaghkadzor , Armenia	May 22, 1987
Championship record	Christian Reif	8.47 m	EM in Barcelona , Spain	August 1, 2010

qualification

The Spaniard Jean Marie Okutu retired with 7.66 m in the preliminary fight

The Finn Kristian Bäck did not reach the final with his 7.61 m

His 7.64 m was not enough for the German Julian Howard to reach the final

The French Yann Randrianasolo did not qualify for the final with 7.33 m

August 6, 2018, 4:35 p.m. CEST

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 8.00 m. Since only two jumpers exceeded this distance - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best jumpers from both groups - highlighted in light green - to a total of twelve participants. In the end, 7.71 m had to be achieved for participation in the finals.

Group A

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Dan Bramble	Great Britain	x	7.57	7.89	7.89
2	Tomasz Jaszczuk	Poland	7.77	7.78	7.88	7.88
3	Radek Juška	Czech Republic	7.69	7.87	x	7.87
4th	Serhiy Nykyforov	Ukraine	7.69	x	7.86	7.86
5	Thobias Montler	Sweden	7.77	7.67	7.78	7.78
6th	Kafétien Gomis	France	7.59	7.67	7.75	7.75
7th	Izmir Smajlaj	Albania	7.71	x	7.60	7.71
8th	Strahinja Jovančević	Serbia	7.40	7.60	7.69	7.69
9	Jean Marie Okutu	Spain	7.66	7.52	7.59	7.66
10	Kristian Back	Finland	7.60	7.60	7.61	7.61
11	Alper Kulaksız	Turkey	7.51	7.58	x	7.58
12	Cristian Staicu	Romania	7.48	7.52	7.51	7.52
13	Maximilian Entholzner	Germany	7.18	7.46	7.45	7.46
14th	Corentin Campener	Belgium	7.41	x	7.40	7.41
NM	Christopher Ullmann	Switzerland	x	x	x	without space

Group B

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Miltiadis Tendoglou	Greece	8.15	-	-	8.15
2	Fabian Heinle	Germany	x	8.02	-	8.02
3	Michel Tornéus	Sweden	7.91	-	-	7.91 SB
4th	Kevin Ojiaku	Italy	7.59	7.74	7.90	7.90
5	Guillaume Victorin	France	7.76	x	x	7.76
6th	Wladyslaw Masur	Ukraine	7.33	7.70	7.38	7.70
7th	Feron Sayers	Great Britain	7.68	x	7.67	7.68
8th	Kristian sweater	Finland	7.36	7.50	7.68	7.68
9	Benjamin Gföhler	Switzerland	7.52	x	7.65	7.65
10	Julian Howard	Germany	x	x	7.64	7.64
11	Filip Pravdica	Croatia	x	7.47	7.52	7.52
12	Denis Eradiri	Bulgaria	7.49	7.50	x	7.50
13	Adam McMullen	Ireland	7.47	x	7.47	7.47
14th	Yann Randrianasolo	France	7.33	7.29	x	7.33
15th	Ian Paul Grech	Malta	7.04	x	x	7.04

final

August 8, 2018, 7:40 p.m. CEST

The strongest European long jumper in recent years Greg Rutherford from Great Britain did not start here. The field consisted mainly of athletes without previous great international successes. For the circle of favorites, the Swedish Vice European Champion from 2016 Michel Tornéus, the French European Championship third from 2016 Kafétien Gomis or the Czech Radek Juška as the European Championship fourth from 2016 came into question.

In lap one there was no athlete who could jump the eight-meter mark. In the second round, the German Fabian Heinle took the lead with 8.13 m. In the next round there were two more participants with jumps over eight meters. The Ukrainian Serhij Nykyforow equalized Heinle's width and the Greek Miltiadis Tendoglou succeeded in an attempt of exactly 8.00 m. Due to his better second-best jump, Nykyforow was now ahead of Heinle and Tendoglou. This was followed by the Pole Tomasz Jaszczuk with 7.92 m, the Briton Dan Bramble - 7.90 m, the Swede Thobias Nilsson Montler - 7.89 m - and Tornéus - 7.86 m.

In the fourth round Heinle jumped 8.02 m, which he exceeded Nykyforow's second best attempt and thus regained the lead. However, it was very close because the Ukrainian scored 8.00 m. With his fifth jump, Tendoglou, who had been third up until then, reached 8.25 m and was thus at the top. The last round brought no more shifts in the medal ranks. Miltiadis Tendoglou was the new European champion. Fabian Heinle won silver, Serhij Nykyforow bronze. Thobias Nilsson Montler reached 8.10 m with his last jump, with which he was fourth just five centimeters behind Heinle and Nykyforow. Tomasz Jaszczuk also exceeded eight meters with 8.08 m in fifth. Nothing changed in the next ranks. Dan Bramble was sixth ahead of Michel Tornéus and Frenchman Guillaume Victorin.

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Miltiadis Tendoglou	Greece	7.96	7.80	8.00	x	8.25	7.04	8.25 SB
	Fabian Heinle	Germany	7.90	8.13	x	8.02	7.62	8.13	8.13 SB
	Serhiy Nykyforov	Ukraine	7.80	7.97	8.13	8.00	x	7.90	8.13
4th	Thobias Montler	Sweden	7.80	7.89	7.80	7.86	x	8.10	8.10 NU23R
5	Tomasz Jaszczuk	Poland	7.92	7.90	7.83	7.60	x	8.08	8.08
6th	Dan Bramble	Great Britain	7.68	7.90	7.85	7.65	x	7.62	7.90
7th	Michel Tornéus	Sweden	x	7.82	7.86	x	x	x	7.86
8th	Guillaume Victorin	France	6.49	7.83	7.84	7.63	6.26	x	7.84
9	Kafétien Gomis	France	x	7.84	7.76	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			7.84
10	Izmir Smajlaj	Albania	x	7.83	7.73				7.83
11	Kevin Ojiaku	Italy	7.55	7.48	7.78				7.78
12	Radek Juška	Czech Republic	7.63	7.73	7.48				7.73

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  Vice European Champion Fabian Heinle, Germany

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  The Pole Tomasz Jaszczuk finished fifth

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  Sixth place for the British Dan Bramble

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  The Swede Michel Tornéus finished seventh

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  The Frenchman Guillaume Victorin - here at an award ceremony in 2011 - came in eighth

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  Kafétien Gomis, the second Frenchman in this final, came in ninth

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 7, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 7, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 7, 2019