1904 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Standing Long Jump (Men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Stand long jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 4 or 7 athletes from 1 country | ||||||||
Competition location | Francis Field | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 29, 1904 | ||||||||
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The men's standing long jump at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis was held on August 29, 1904 at Francis Field .
Olympic champion in a purely US field of participants was standing jump specialist Ray Ewry . He won ahead of Charles King and John Biller .
Records
The world records that existed at the time were still unofficial.
World record | 3.89 m |
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J. Chandler | |
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Olympic record | 3.21 m |
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Ray Ewry | Paris finals ( FRA ), July 16, 1900 |
The following records were broken or set in the standing long jump at the 1904 Olympic Games:
OR | 3.47 m |
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Ray Ewry |
Results
space | athlete | country | Width at Kluge | Expand to SportReference | Width on the IOC side | Expand at the Megede |
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1 | Ray Ewry |
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3.47 m ( OR ) | 3.47 m ( OR ) | 3.47 m ( OR ) | 3.44 m ( OR ) |
2 | Charles King |
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3.27 m | 3.27 m | 3.28 m | 3.27 m |
3 | John Biller |
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3.25 m | 3.25 m | 3.26 m | 3.26 m |
4th | Henry Field |
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3.18 m | 3.18 m | 3.19 m | 3.19 m |
5-7 | Fred School |
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k. A. |
not listed as a participant |
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Joseph Stadler |
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Lawson Robertson |
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Top favorite Ray Ewry, who had won all three standing jumping competitions in Paris four years earlier , was not seriously challenged by the competition. He won with a new Olympic record . Charles King came second eight inches behind him. His name is sometimes also Con King , it is clearly the same person. John Biller was narrowly beaten in third place and two days later in the standing vault.
With regard to the results, there are differences in the various sources used here. These are shown in the table above.
Lawson Robertson, bronze medalist in standing vault and probably also participant in standing long jump, over 100 meters in sixth place
Frederick Schule, Olympic champion over 110 meter hurdles , is also listed in a source as a participant in the long jump from a standing start
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
- Sports-Reference, Athletics at the 1904 St. Louis Summer Games: Men's 200 Standing Long Jump , accessed August 3, 2018
- Olympic Games St. Louis 1904, Athletics, long jump standing men , IOC page on athletics at the 1904 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed on August 3, 2018