1904 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	10 athletes from 3 countries
Competition location	Francis Field
Competition phase	September 1, 1904
Medalist Meyer Prinstein ( USA )   Daniel Frank ( USA )   Robert Stangland ( USA )

The men's long jump at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis was held on September 1, 1904 at Francis Field .

In this discipline, too, there was a triple success for the almost unrivaled Americans. Olympic champion was Meyer Prinstein ahead of Daniel Frank , Robert Stangland won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	7.61 m	Ireland	Peter O'Connor	Dublin ( IRL ), August 5, 1901
Olympic record	7.185 m	United States	Alvin Kraenzlein	Paris finals ( FRA ), July 15, 1900

The following records were broken or set in this discipline at the 1904 Olympic Games:

OR

7.34 m

United States

Meyer Prinstein

The US Olympic champion Meyer Prinstein, also successful in the  triple jump

Results

space	athlete	country	Expand to Kluge and IOC pages	Deviations
				SportsReference	to the Megede
1	Meyer Prinstein	United States	7.34 m ( OR )	no deviations
2	Daniel Frank	United States	6.89 m
3	Robert Stangland	United States	6.88 m
4th	Fred Englehardt	United States	6.63 m
5	George Van Cleaf	United States	k. A.
6th	John Hagerman	United States
WEI tere partial remov- mer	John Oxley	United States		no deviations	Participants not listed
	Béla Mező	Hungary
	Corrie Gardner	Australia
	Leslie McPherson	Australia		TN not listed

Meyer Prinstein had already convinced at the 1900 Games and won silver in the long jump with a distance of more than seven meters. At that time, his result from the pre-match was counted because the final took place on a Sunday on which Prinstein had renounced for religious reasons. Here in St. Louis the competition clearly dominated, improved several times and reached the winning distance in the last round. There was no competitor like Alvin Kraenzlein had been in Paris four years earlier . The Irish world record holder Peter O'Connor was not at the start either, apart from one Hungarian and two Australians, all three of whom did not have the level to keep up, as in numerous other competitions, the Americans made the decision among themselves.

On the same day, Meyer Prinstein also won the triple jump . There are two different variants of his name spelling, Meyer and Myer.

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  Gold medalist Meyer Prinstein in the long jump , he also became an Olympic champion in the  triple jump

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  The Australian long jump competitor Corrie Gardner, also active as a footballer

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 Long Jump , accessed August 2, 2018
• Olympic Games St. Louis 1904, Athletics, long jump men , IOC page on athletics at the 1904 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed August 2, 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. 58