World Athletics Championships 1987 / men's long jump

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	38 athletes from 29 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 4th (qualification) September 5th (final)
Medalist Carl Lewis ( USA )   Robert Emmijan ( URS )   Larry Myricks ( USA )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The men's long jump at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on September 4th and 5th, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

The long jumpers from the United States won two gold and bronze medals in this competition. World champion was the defending champion and four-time Olympic champion in 1984 ( 100 meters / 200 meters / 4 × 100 m / long jump ) Carl Lewis . At these world championships, Lewis also defended his two world championship titles with the US sprint relay and over 100 meters. Second place went to the reigning European champion and European record holder Robert Emmijan from the Soviet Union . Bronze went to Larry Myricks .

Attempted manipulation by judges

The Italians Giovanni Evangelisti killed himself with his last - m at 8.38 measured - jump first to the bronze medal, relegating the Americans Larry Myricks , who previously meters with 8.33 behind Carl Lewis and Robert Emmiyan had occupied third place . Evangelisti was therefore initially awarded the bronze medal.

Computer evaluations, including by the German Helmar Hommel , showed in retrospect that Evangelisti's last jump could have been a maximum of 7.80 m, so that the judges made a conscious wrong decision in favor of their compatriot Evangelisti. Evangelisti, who was probably not involved, was subsequently ranked fourth with his real best jump of 8.19 m, while Myricks received the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	8.90 m	Bob Beamon	OS 1968 in Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1968
World championship record	8.55 m	Carl Lewis	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 10, 1983

Record improvement

World champion Carl Lewis improved his own world championship record in the final on September 5 by twelve centimeters to 8.67 m.

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the best 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:

x	invalid
No	not rated

qualification

4th September 1987

38 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualifying distance for direct entry into the final was 7.75 m and was probably set a little too low, because seventeen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), making the final field significantly larger than the usual number of twelve jumpers.

Group A

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  With his 7.78 m, Frans Maas did not reach the final

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  Bruny Surin, later very successful as a sprinter and later a career as a politician, failed to make a valid attempt

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind
1	Robert Emmijan	Soviet Union	8.19 / +0.8
2	Paul Emordi	Nigeria	8.14 / +1.8
3	Vladimir Bobilev	Soviet Union	8.08 / +0.3
4th	Jarmo Karna	Finland	8.06 / +1.8
5	Jun'ichi Usui	Japan	8.02 / +1.4
6th	Jaime Jefferson	Cuba	8.00 / +1.1
7th	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	7.99 / -0.4
8th	Norbert Brige	France	7.98 / -0.3
9	Frans Maas	Netherlands	7.78 / +0.7
10	Róbert Széli	Czechoslovakia	7.59 / -0.3
11	Dietmar Haaf	BR Germany	7.51 / +0.7
12	Ray Quinones	Puerto Rico	7.41 / -0.2
13	Jeffrey Neptune	Grenada	7.11 / +2.2
14th	Marcus Barros	Brazil	6.94 / +1.9
15th	Devon Hyde	Belize	6.61 / +1.2
NM	Antonio Santos	Angola	ogV
	Stanislaw Jaskulka	Poland
	Lester Benjamin	Antigua and Barbuda
	Bruny Surin	Canada
	Dimitrios Hadzopoulos	Greece

Group B

With his 7.93 m, Emiel Mellaard was only two centimeters short of participating in the final

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind
1	Carl Lewis	United States	8.36 / +0.5
2	Larry Myricks	United States	8.20 / +0.4
3	Jens Hirschberg	GDR	8.10 / +0.7
4th	Yusuf Alli	Nigeria	8.07 / +0.9
5	Vladimir Amidschinov	Bulgaria	8.05 / +0.7
6th	Heiko Reski	BR Germany	8.03 / +1.2
7th	Sergei Lajewski	Soviet Union	7.98 / +1.4
8th	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	7.97 / +0.3
9	Ivo Krsek	Czechoslovakia	7.96 / +0.5
10	Emiel Mellaard	Netherlands	7.93 / +1.1
11	Cheng Zunrong	People's Republic of China	7.90 / +0.9
12	Andreas Steiner	Austria	7.87 / +1.3
13	Fred Salle	Cameroon	7.60 / +1.1
14th	Antonio Corgos	Spain	7.60 / +1.3
15th	Ian James	Canada	7.54 / +1.2
16	Badara Mbengue	Senegal	7.23 / -0.4
17th	Carlos Casar	Mexico	7.21 / +0.8
18th	Wilbert Lee	Northern Mariana Islands	6.61 / +1.3
DNS	Kim Won-Jin	South Korea
	Jeroen Fischer	Belgium

final

5th September 1987

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Carl Lewis	United States	8.67 CR / +0.4	8.67	8.65	8.67	8.43	x	8.60
2	Robert Emmijan	Soviet Union	8.53 / -0.2	8.30	x	x	8.53	x	x
3	Larry Myricks	United States	8.33 / -0.9	x	8.04	8.23	8.13	8.33	8.20
4th	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	8.19 / +0.3	x	8.09	8.19	7.59	x	No
5	Jens Hirschberg	GDR	8.16 / -0.6	8.16	8.04	7.97	7.85	x	7.95
6th	Jaime Jefferson	Cuba	8.14 / +0.2	7.78	7.85	8.09	8.04	7.84	8.14
7th	Vladimir Amidschinov	Bulgaria	8.11 / -0.3	8.11	7.80	8.05	7.86	7.99	8.01
8th	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	8.10 / +0.5	x	8.10	x	x	x	x
9	Sergei Lajewski	Soviet Union	8.08 / -0.5
10	Heiko Reski	BR Germany	8.03 / +0.4
11	Yusuf Alli	Nigeria	8.00 / -1.9
12	Jun'ichi Usui	Japan	8.00 / +2.0
13	Vladimir Bobilev	Soviet Union	7.90 / +2.6
14th	Jarmo Karna	Finland	7.83 / +0.5
15th	Norbert Brige	France	7.82 / -0.4
16	Paul Emordi	Nigeria	7.80 / -0.1
17th	Ivo Krsek	Czechoslovakia	7.72 / -1.1

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  The four-time Olympic champion in 1984 Carl Lewis defended all three of his titles at these world championships

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  Vice World Champion Robert Emmijan (here in  2006)

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  Jens Hirschberg finished fifth

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  Mike Conley Sr., Olympic runner-up in the 1984 triple jump and also a silver medalist, came in eighth

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 27, 2020
• Men Long Jump Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 27, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Long Jump, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 171), English, accessed on March 27, 2020

Video

• Carl Lewis Long Jump Gold: 8.67m. Rome, 1987 World Championships on youtube.com, accessed March 27, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ Michael Reinsch, The giant sentence from Turin , article on faz.net, March 11, 2009, accessed on March 27, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 27, 2020