1908 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
place	White City Stadium
Attendees	31 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	July 22, 1908
Medalist
gold	Frank Irons ( USA )
silver	Daniel Kelly ( USA )
bronze	Calvin Bricker ( CAN )

The men's long jump at the 1908 London Olympics was decided on July 22, 1908 at the White City Stadium . In the morning of the same day, a qualification took place, from which three jumpers qualified for the final with three more jumps.

There was a US double victory. Frank Irons won the gold medal, silver went to Daniel Kelly . The Canadian Calvin Bricker won bronze.

Records

The world records in athletics were still unofficial at the time.

World record	7.61 m	Ireland	Peter O'Connor	Dublin ( Ireland ), 5th August 1901
Olympic record	7.34 m	United States	Meyer Prinstein	St. Louis Finale ( USA ), September 1, 1904

The following records were broken or set at the Olympic Games:

OR	7.44 m	United States	Frank Irons	qualification
	7.48 m			Final battle

Results

qualification

The qualification was held in five staggered groups. The results of these groups were combined. Only the best three jumpers in the qualification - highlighted in green - were able to contest the final competition. The results achieved in the preliminary fight were included in the overall ranking. In both the qualification and the final, the participants had three attempts each.

Group A

athlete	country	Width (m)
Edward Cook	United States	6.97
Samuel Bellah	United States	6.64
Ödön Holits	Hungary	6.54
Wilfred Bleaden	Great Britain	6.13

Group B

athlete	country	Width (m)
Daniel Kelly	United States	7.09
John Brennan	United States	6.86
Albert Weinstein	Germany	6.77
Tim Ahearne	Great Britain	6.72
Alfred Bellerby	Great Britain	6.44
George Barber	Canada	6.41
Carl Silfverstrand	Sweden	6.34

Group C

athlete	country	Width (m)
Frank Irons	United States	7.44 OR
Frank Mount Pleasant	United States	6.82
Charles Williams	Great Britain	6.65
Bram Evers	Netherlands	k. A.
John O'Connell	United States

Group D

athlete	country	Width (m)
Denis Murray	Great Britain	6.71
Frank Lukeman	Canada	6.59
William Watt	Great Britain	6.42
Jacobus Hoogveld	Netherlands	k. A.
Hugo Wieslander	Sweden
Hermann von Boenninghausen	Germany

Group E

athlete	country	Width (m)
Calvin Bricker	Canada	7.08
Gunnar Roenström	Sweden	6.67
Arthur Hoffmann	Germany	6.50
Henri Gutierrez	France	k. A.
Lionel Cornish	Great Britain
Géza Kövesdi	Hungary
Garfield MacDonald	Canada
Arvid ring beach	Sweden
Henry Olsen	Norway

Final and final result of the best twelve

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Frank Irons	United States	7.48 OR
2	Daniel Kelly	United States	7.09
3	Calvin Bricker	Canada	7.08
4th	Edward Cook	United States	6.97
5	John Brennan	United States	6.86
6th	Frank Mount Pleasant	United States	6.82
7th	Albert Weinstein	Germany	6.77
8th	Tim Ahearne	Great Britain	6.72
9	Denis Murray	Great Britain	6.71
10	Gunnar Roenström	Sweden	6.67
11	Charles Williams	Great Britain	6.65
12	Samuel Bellah	United States	6.64

In the three finals, only Iron was able to improve slightly. With his new Olympic record , he moved up to third place on the world's best list at the time. For Daniel Kelly and Calvin Bricker it was the performances from the qualification. Bricker won the silver medal in this discipline in 1912 . Fourth was Olympic pole vault champion Edward Cook. The Irishman Timothy Ahearne, who started for Great Britain, took a disappointing eighth place. Two weeks later he reached a distance of 7.57 m. But three days after the long jump competition , he won the Olympic triple jump .

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  Olympic Champion Frank Irons, USA

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  The Olympic runner-up Daniel Kelly from the United States

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  The Olympic third Calvin Bricker, Canada

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  The American Olympic champion in the pole vault Edward Cook finished fourth

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  Frank Mount Pleasant, USA, finished sixth in the Olympics

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  The Swedish Olympic champion of the 1912 decathlon Hugo Wieslander - here in 1912 - did not make it into the top twelve in the London long jump

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  The American Samuel Bellah, who was sixth in the pole vault, finished twelfth

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 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Long Jump , accessed August 30, 2018
• Olympic Games London 1908, Athletics , IOC page on athletics at the 1908 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed 30 August 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. 86