1912 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Standing Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Stand long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	19 athletes from 8 countries
Competition location	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 8, 1912
Medalist Konstantinos Tsiklitiras ( GRE )   Platt Adams ( USA )   Ben Adams ( USA )

The men's long jump at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 was held on July 8, 1912 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. 19 athletes took part. It was the last time that this discipline, like standing vault, was represented at the Olympic Games.

Olympic champion was the Greek Konstantinos Tsiklitiras . Platt Adams from the USA won the silver medal, bronze went to his younger brother Benjamin Adams .

Existing records

• There were no world records in this discipline.
• Olympic record : 3.47 m - Ray Ewry ( USA ), St. Louis final , August 29, 1904

Conducting the competition

All 19 jumpers had three attempts. The best three jumpers then completed another three jumps to determine the medal ranks, taking into account the jumps of the first round.

Note: The best widths are shown in bold.

Result

space	Surname	nation	result	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt
1	Konstantinos Tsiklitiras	Greece	3.37 m	3.14	3.26	3.37	3.30	3.24	3.34
2	Platt Adams	United States	3.36 m	3.23	3.18	3.32	3.36	3.34	3.24
3	Ben adams	United States	3.28 m	3.28	3.21	3.24	3.18	3.23	3.28
4th	Gustaf Malmsten	Sweden	3.20 m	3.11	3.20	3.12
5	Leo Goehring	United States	3.14 m	-	3.14	3.13
	Edvard Möller	Sweden		3.13	3.14	3.09
7th	András Baronyi	Hungary	3.13 m	3.12	3.13	3.02
8th	Richard Byrd	United States	3.12 m	3.12	3.11	3.05
9	Forest Fletcher	United States	3.11 m	3.05	3.11	3.09
10	Alfred Motté	France	3.10 m	3.10	3.10	3.09
11	Gustaf Ljunggren	Sweden	3.09 m	3.01	3.04	3.09
12	Birger bread basket	Norway	3.05 m	3.00	3.05	3.03
13	Ragnar Ekberg	Sweden	3.03 m	3.00	3.02	3.03
14th	Géo André	France	3.02 m	3.02	2.96	-
	Henry Ashington	Great Britain		2.95	2.79	3.02
	Douglas Melin	Sweden		3.02	3.01	2.99
17th	Arthur Maranda	Canada	2.98 m	2.80	2.83	2.98
18th	Karl Bergh	Sweden	2.95 m	2.86	2.95	2.91
19th	Philip Kingsford	Great Britain	2.75 m	2.60	2.75	2.72

Date: July 8, 1912

Ray Ewry , who had dominated the standing jump competitions in the previous games , had retired from active competitive sports. His Olympic record was not reached here.

After the first attempt, Ben Adams was ahead of his brother Platt and the Greek Konstantinos Tsiklitiras. The second round brought no change. In the last attempt of the pre-match, the Greek took the lead and Platt Adams took second place in front of his brother Ben. In the final only Platt Adams could improve his distance. However, he only came within an inch of Tsklitiras, so that the ranking was no longer changed.

Konstantinos Tsiklitiras won the only athletics medal in Greece at these games.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Konstantinos Tsiklitiras (GRE)
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  Platt Adams (USA), silver medal winner
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  Ben Adams (USA), bronze medal winner

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  Gustaf Malmsten (SWE) jumps to 4th place
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  Richard Byrd (USA), 8th in the standing long jump, wins silver in the discus throw
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  Géo André (FRA), 14th place

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 119

Video

• Olympics 1912 Standing long jump on YouTube , accessed February 18, 2019.

Web links

• SportsReference stand long jump , accessed on August 31, 2017
• Official report , engl. (PDF), accessed on August 31, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Description in the official report ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 397, engl. (PDF)