1904 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Standing Long Jump (Men)

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
Medalist Ray Ewry ( USA )   Charles King ( USA )   John Biller ( USA )

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	Ireland	J. Chandler
Olympic record	3.21 m	United States	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

United States

Ray Ewry

Standing jump specialist Ray Ewry, three-time Olympic champion from St. Louis

Results

space	athlete	country	Width at Kluge	Expand to SportReference	Width on the IOC side	Expand at the Megede
1	Ray Ewry	United States	3.47 m ( OR )	3.47 m ( OR )	3.47 m ( OR )	3.44 m ( OR )
2	Charles King	United States	3.27 m	3.27 m	3.28 m	3.27 m
3	John Biller	United States	3.25 m	3.25 m	3.26 m	3.26 m
4th	Henry Field	United States	3.18 m	3.18 m	3.19 m	3.19 m
5-7	Fred School	United States	k. A.	not listed as a participant
	Joseph Stadler	United States
	Lawson Robertson	United States

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.

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  Olympic champion Ray Ewry in the concentration phase before the jump

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  Lawson Robertson, bronze medalist in standing vault and probably also participant in standing long jump, over 100 meters in sixth place

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  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