1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Standing Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Stand long jump
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	4 athletes from 2 countries
Competition phase	July 16, 1900
Medalist
gold	Ray Ewry ( USA )
silver	Irving Baxter ( USA )
bronze	Émile Torchebœuf ( FRA )

The men's standing long jump at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris was decided on July 16, 1900 in the Croix Catelan . The rule stipulated that jumping could only be started once. If the foot, which was completely lifted from the ground, was put back on before the jump was completed, this was considered a failed attempt. The standing jumps were on the program for the first time at the Olympic Games and remained Olympic up to and including 1912 .

The two US firsts in the standing high jump were also ahead in the standing long jump. Standing jump specialist Raymond Ewry was Olympic champion ahead of double gold medalist in high and pole vault Irving Baxter . Third place went to Frenchman Émile Torchebœuf .

Records

The world records that existed at the time were still unofficial.

World record	3.30 m	United States	A. Swan	1892

Since the discipline was first held at the Olympic Games, there was still no Olympic record .

The following records were broken or set in the long jump from a standing start at these Olympic Games:

OR

3.21 m

United States

Ray Ewry

Results

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ray Ewry	United States	3.210 ( OR )
2	Irving Baxter	United States	3.135
3	Émile Torchebœuf	France	3.030
4th	Lewis Sheldon	United States	3.020

Standing jumps were often carried out without any binding rules, except that one foot was only allowed to leave the ground once. It was measured in half a centimeter. Individual sources name the width of the winner at 3.30 m or 3.35 m, which would have meant a new world record and is therefore rather unlikely.

All three jumping disciplines took place on the same day. So Ewry became three times Olympic champion in one day, an unmatched record.

Here, too, the sources used agree well, but Ekkehard zur Megede does not mention the fourth place.

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  Standing jump specialist Ray Ewry also wins the long jump from standing

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  The Olympic runner-up Irving Baxter, also Olympic champion in high and  pole vault

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  The French Olympic third-party Émile Torchebœuf - here in a photo from 1896

literature

• Volker Kluge , Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle I, Berlin 1997 ( ISBN 3-328-00715-6 )
• Ekkehard zur Megede , The history of Olympic athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970

Web links

• SportsReference, Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's Standing Long Jump , accessed July 25, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, long jump standing men , IOC website on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed on 25 July 2018