World Athletics Championships 1991 / men's long jump

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	men
Attendees	43 athletes from 33 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (qualification) August 30th (final)
Medalist Mike Powell ( USA )   Carl Lewis ( USA )   Larry Myricks ( USA )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's long jump at the World Athletics Championships in 1991 was held on August 29 and 30, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

In this competition, the US long jumpers recorded a triple success . World champion was the 1988 Olympic runner-up, Mike Powell . He won the last years before the clear favorite the world's best long jumper Carl Lewis , the two-time among other things, long jump Olympic champion ( 1984 / 1988 ) was and at two previous World Cup had won the long jump -Austragungen. Here in Tokyo, Lewis had already become world champion with a world record over 100 meters and later won the US sprint relay. Bronze went to the 1988 Olympic third party Larry Myricks .

Historical competition

This long jump competition went down in sports history as the "most exciting and high-quality long jump duel".

The two best jumpers of the day improved in previously unknown performance areas. Since 1968 , Bob Beamon's world record of 8.90 m had remained completely untouched. The world's best long jumper for many years, Carl Lewis , who had already run a world record over 100 meters at these world championships, now achieved the seemingly impossible here in Tokyo and exceeded Beamon's distance - albeit with too much wind support. But despite this feat, Lewis did not win this competition. With Mike Powell , a competitor jumped even further, set a new world record with 8.95 m and became world champion. However, that did not change the fact that Lewis, who was already twice long jump Olympic champion in 1984 and 1988 , also won the long jump gold medal at the two upcoming Olympic Games in 1992 and 1996, among other things, and was thus four times long jump Olympic champion.

Records / best performances

Existing records / best performances

World record	8.90 m	Bob Beamon	OS 1968 in Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1968
World championship record	8.67 m	Carl Lewis	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	5th September 1987
World annual best	8.67 m		New York City , USA	June 15, 1991

Record improvements

The existing World Cup record has been improved twice:

• 8.68 m - Carl Lewis ( USA ), final on August 30, 1st attempt
• 8.95 m - Mike Powell ( USA ), final on August 30, 5th attempt

Carl Lewis exceeded his distance from the first round with his attempts three (8.83 m) and four (8.91 m), but these jumps were not ready for the best of the best because of the strong wind support.

Mike Powell set a new world record with his victory jump.

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:

-	waived
x	invalid
w	Wind too strong for performance to be included in a list of records or the best

qualification

August 29, 1991, 4:10 p.m.

43 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualifying distance for direct entry into the final was 8.05 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five next-placed athletes to twelve jumpers. However, in twelfth place there were two athletes with the same result. Both were entitled to take part in the final, so that in addition to the seven directly qualified participants, even six long jumpers qualified for the final over their distance (highlighted in light green). To take part in the final, 8.01 m had to be achieved.

Group A

Frans Maas was eliminated from the qualification with 7.71 m

place	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind (m / s)
1	Carl Lewis	United States	8.56 / +0.8
2	Chen Zunrong	People's Republic of China	8.05 / +2.3
3	André Müller	Germany	8.04 / +2.4
4th	Jaime Jefferson	Cuba	8.04 / +1.7
5	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	8.03 / +1.5
6th	George Ogbeide	Nigeria	8.02 / +0.3
7th	Vladimir Otschkan	Soviet Union	8.01 / +0.4
8th	David Culbert	Australia	8.01 / k. A.
9	Edrick Floreal	Canada	7.95 / +0.5
10	Mark Forsythe	Great Britain	7.95 / -0.2
11	Jesús Oliván	Spain	7.94 / k. A.
12th	Milan Gombala	Czechoslovakia	7.89 / +0.2
13th	James Sabulei	Kenya	7.86 / +1.1
14th	Paulo de Oliveira	Brazil	7.78 / +1.2
15th	Badara Mbengue	Senegal	7.75 / +0.7
16	Ivan Stoyanov	Bulgaria	7.73 / +0.6
17th	Frans Maas	Netherlands	7.71 / +0.7
18th	Lotfi Khaida	Algeria	7.68 / +0.4
19th	Jonathan Moyle	New Zealand	7.52 / +0.1
20th	François Reteno	Gabon	7.15 / +1.5
21	Khalid Ahmed Mousa	Sudan	6.58 / +1.2
NM	Hitoshi Shimo	Japan	ogV

Group B

• 

  Robert Emmijan, 1986 European Champion, was only one centimeter short of the final with his 8.00 meters

• 

  Mattias Sunneborn's 7.61 m were not enough to make it into the final

place	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind (m / s)
1	Dietmar Haaf	Germany	8.21 / +0.8
2	Larry Myricks	United States	8.20 / k. A.
3	Mike Powell	United States	8.19 / +0.1
4th	Konstandinos Koukodimos	Greece	8.12 / +0.7
5	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	8.05 / +0.5
6th	Robert Emmijan	Soviet Union	8.00 / +0.8
7th	Ian James	Canada	7.94 / +1.0
8th	Fausto Frigerio	Italy	7.88 / +0.9
9	Jarmo Karna	Finland	7.79 / +0.6
10	Ángel Hernández	Spain	7.75 / -0.3
11	Huang Geng	People's Republic of China	7.69 / -0.2
12th	Krassimir Minchev	Bulgaria	7.62 / +1.2
13th	Csaba Almási	Hungary	7.62 / +0.4
14th	Mattias Sunneborn	Sweden	7.61 / +0.8
15th	Murat Ayaydin	Turkey	7.57 / +0.5
16	Franck Zio	Burkina Faso	7.50 / +0.3
17th	Saeed Musabbah Ali	United Arab Emirates	7.05 / +0.3
18th	Kareem Streete-Thompson	Cayman Islands	6.99 / +0.3
NM	Dmitri Bagryanov	Soviet Union	ogV
	Borut Bilač	Yugoslavia
	Craig Hepburn	Bahamas

final

August 30, 1991, 5:30 p.m.

rank	Surname	nation	Result (m) wind (m / s)	Experiment 1 (m)	2. Experimental (m)	Experiment 3 (m)	Experiment 4 (m)	5th attempt (m)	Experiment 6 (m)
1	Mike Powell	United States	8.95 / +0.3 WR	7.85	8.54	8.29	-	8.95 WR	-
2	Carl Lewis	United States	8.91 / +2.9	8.68 CR	-	8.83w	8.91 w	8.87	8.84
3	Larry Myricks	United States	8.42 / +0.8	-	8.20	-	8.41	8.42	-
4th	Dietmar Haaf	Germany	8.22 / +3.3	8.01	-	8.22 w	8.05w	-	-
5	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	8.06 / +2.7	7.85	8.00	-	-	8.06	-
6th	David Culbert	Australia	8.02 / +1.9	-	7.53	8.02	7.57	-	7.60
7th	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	8.01 / +0.7	7.97	7.96	-	-	8.01	7.99
8th	Vladimir Otschkan	Soviet Union	7.99 / +2.1	7.99 w	-	-	-	5.89	-
9	Jaime Jefferson	Cuba	7.94 / -0.5	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	André Müller	Germany	7.94 / +3.1
11	Chen Zunrong	People's Republic of China	7.92 / +0.5
12th	Konstandinos Koukodimos	Greece	7.92 / −1.5
13th	George Ogbeide	Nigeria	7.78 / +0.8

• 

  Mike Powell, second in the 1988 Olympics, made sports history here as the new world champion with a world record

• 

  For Carl Lewis, the favorite and world's best long jumper of the past - and also the coming - years, this time, despite a great performance, only second place remained

Video links

• Mike Powell vs. Carl Lewis - Long Jump - World Record , video posted March 20, 2006 on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020
• Mike Powell - World Long Jump Record 1991 , published April 21, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020

literature

• Mark Butler (Ed.): IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015. Statistics Handbook. Monaco 2015, IAAF Media & Public Relations Department, p. 153 (online: Beijing-2015-Statistics-Handbook at iaaf-ebooks.s3.amazonaws.com)

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 25, 2020
• Men Long Jump Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed April 25, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Long Jump, Tokyo 1991, p. 171 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on April 25, 2020
• Athletics World Cup: 8.95 meters - a long jump for eternity , Die Presse August 29, 2007 at diepresse.com, accessed on April 25, 2020
• Nick Zaccardi: The jump for the ages , July 11, 2014 at nbcsports.com, accessed April 25, 2020

Individual references and comments

1. ↑ Frank Bachner: And the king is in the shadow , in: tagesspiegel.de , August 13, 2009, accessed on April 25, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 25, 2020