1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	12 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	14./15. July 1900
Medalist
gold	Alvin Kraenzlein ( USA )
silver	Meyer Prinstein ( USA )
bronze	Patrick Leahy ( GBR )

The men's long jump at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris was held on July 14th and 15th, 1900 in the Croix Catelan . First there was a qualifying competition, the final was held on the following day. As a gesture of goodwill towards the best of the qualification, Prinstein, who did not take part in the finals held on a Sunday out of religious conviction, the distances achieved in the qualification were counted for the overall result, provided they were not exceeded in the final.

The American Alvin Kraenzlein was Olympic champion . His compatriot Meyer Prinstein won the silver medal ahead of the Irish Patrick Leahy , who started for Great Britain .

Records

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

World record	7.50 m	United States	Meyer Prinstein	Philadelphia ( USA ), April 28, 1900
Olympic record	6.35 m	United States	Ellery Clark	Athens ( Greece ), April 7, 1896

The following records were broken or set in this discipline at the 1900 Olympic Games:

OR	7.175 m	United States	Meyer Prinstein	Qualifying, July 14th
	7.185 m	United States	Alvin Kraenzlein	Final, July 15th

Results

qualification

From the qualification, the five best jumpers (highlighted in color) acquired the right to participate in the final. As a gesture of goodwill towards the best of the qualification, Prinstein, who did not take part in the finals held on a Sunday out of religious conviction, the distances achieved in the qualification were counted for the overall result, provided they were not exceeded in the final.

Sat July 14, 1900

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
01	Meyer Prinstein	United States	7.175 ( OR )
02	Alvin Kraenzlein	United States	6,930
03	Albert Delannoy	France	6.755
04th	William Remington	United States	6.725
05	Patrick Leahy	Great Britain	6.710
06th	John McLean	United States	6.655
07th	Thaddeus McClain	United States	6.435
08th	Waldemar Steffen	Germany	6,300
09	Ernő Schubert	Hungary	6.050
10	Gyula Strausz	Hungary	6.010
11	Tore Blom	Sweden	5.770
12	Eric Lemming	Sweden	5,500

Result after qualification and final battle

Finale: Sun July 15, 1900

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
01	Alvin Kraenzlein	United States	7.185 ( OR )
02	Meyer Prinstein	United States	7.175
03	Patrick Leahy	Great Britain	6,950
04th	William Remington	United States	6.825
05	Albert Delannoy	France	6.755
06th	John McLean	United States	6.655
07th	Thaddeus McClain	United States	6.435
08th	Waldemar Steffen	Germany	6,300
09	Ernő Schubert	Hungary	6.050
10	Gyula Strausz	Hungary	6.010
11	Tore Blom	Sweden	5.770
12	Eric Lemming	Sweden	5,500

For religious reasons, Meyer Prinstein decided not to start in the final, which took place on a Sunday, and had to sit and watch as Alvin Kraenzlein surpassed the record that Prinstein himself had achieved the day before by one centimeter. It is reported that there was later a physical argument between the two jumpers because Kraenzlein did not keep to the agreement not to start on Sunday either. Leahy and Remington exceeded their widths from qualifying, which moved Leahy to third and Remington defended fourth. The Irish Patrick Leahy, who starts for Great Britain, won the silver medal in the high jump on the same day. The French Delannoy couldn't improve in the final, so he dropped to 5th place.

Alvin Kraenzlein had become Olympic champion in the 110-meter hurdles the day before , won the 60-meter run on the day of the long jump decision and won his fourth gold medal at the Paris Games the next day in the 200-meter hurdles .

The information in various sources is completely consistent up to and including rank five. For the sixth-placed McLean, the Megede indicates the width that is otherwise listed for Thaddeus McClain in seventh place. In contrast to all other sources, zur Megede also mentions Steffen, Blom and Lemming, only three other participants who were eliminated in the preliminary battle.

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  The four-time Olympic champion Alvin Kraenzlein, USA, here in the  long jump

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  The American Meyer Prinstein, winner in the triple jump and second in the long jump

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  The Olympic fifth Albert Delannoy - here at the French championships in 1898

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  The Hungarian Ernő Schubert takes ninth place

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  Sweden's Olympic team in Paris with the long jump, Tore Blom ( top row, middle ) and Eric Lemming ( bottom right ), who was later particularly successful in javelin throwing - here in the long jump in twelfth place

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 Long Jump , accessed July 25, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, long jump men , IOC website on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed on 25 July 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 38