World Athletics Championships 1991 / men's long jump
3rd World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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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) |
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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
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
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 |
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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
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
- ↑ Frank Bachner: And the king is in the shadow , in: tagesspiegel.de , August 13, 2009, accessed on April 25, 2020
- ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 25, 2020