1908 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Standing Long Jump (Men)
 
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| sport | athletics |
| discipline | Stand long jump |
| gender | Men |
| place | White City Stadium |
| Attendees | 25 athletes from 11 countries |
| Competition phase | July 20, 1908 |
| Medalist | |
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 gold |
Ray Ewry ( USA )
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 silver |
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras ( GRE )
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 bronze |
Martin Sheridan ( USA )
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The men's standing long jump at the 1908 Olympic Games in London was decided on July 20, 1908 at the White City Stadium . There is no reliable information about the course of the qualification and the final.
Olympic champion was standing jump specialist Ray Ewry from the United States. The Greek Konstantinos Tsiklitiras won the silver medal, bronze went to the American Martin Sheridan .
Records
The world records were still unofficial back then.
| World record | 3.89 m |
 Ireland
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J. Chandler | |
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| Olympic record | 3.47 m |
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Ray Ewry | St. Louis Finale ( USA ), August 29, 1904 |
There were no record improvements or settings in the standing long jump at these games.
Results from qualification and final
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The process of qualification and the final remains unclear. There is a general overview of the result, which is listed above. The seventh Olympic victory was here for the standing jump specialist Raymond Ewry, who had won all Olympic standing jumping competitions up to then. An eighth gold medal came for him at the end of his Olympic career three days later in the standing vault . As in the standing vault, the Greek Konstantinos Tsiklitiras later won the silver medal. He came from Pylos , had seen Ewry two years earlier at the interludes in Athens in 1906 and had thus come to the sport. Four years later, in Stockholm , Tsiklitiras was to win this competition. Third place went to the US double Olympic gold medalist in the discus throw of 1904 and 1908, Martin Sheridan. John Biller from the United States, together with Tsiklitiras second in the standing vault, took fourth place. The Swede Ragnar Ekberg was fifth ahead of Platt Adams, USA, the Olympic fifth in the standing vault and the 1912 Olympic champion in the standing vault. A number of participants, whose placement and distance is not known, also took part in other disciplines of these games, including the Irish triple jump Olympic champion Timothy Ahearne, here for Great Britain.
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
Olympic champion Raymond Ewry, USA, won his seventh gold medal in this competition and later his eighth gold medal in the standing vault
The double Olympic champion in the discus throw Martin Sheridan won bronze
The US Olympic sixth Platt Adams, also fifth in standing vault and standing vault Olympic champion in 1912
The French participant Henri Jardin
The American long jump Olympic champion Frank Irons also took part in the standing long jump competition
Web links
- Sports-Reference, Athletics at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's 100 Standing Long Jump , accessed August 31, 2018
- Olympic Games London 1908, Athletics, long jump standing men , IOC page on athletics at the 1908 Olympic Games from olympic.org, English, accessed 31 August 2018
Hints
- ↑ a b Kluge leads all knights in one square. Sports-Reference gives qualification results for a few jumpers, at the Megede all athletes from sixth place and below are listed as participants who did not reach the final.
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