1912 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 12, 1912 (qualification / final)
Medalist Albert Gutterson ( USA )   Calvin Bricker ( CAN )   Georg Åberg ( SWE )

The men's long jump at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm was held on July 12, 1912 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. 30 athletes took part.

The US athlete Albert Gutterson became Olympic champion . Calvin Bricker from Canada won the silver medal, while the bronze went to Georg Åberg from Sweden .

Existing records

World record	Peter O'Connor ( Great Britain )	7.61 m	Dublin	August 5, 1901
Olympic record	Frank Irons ( USA )	7.48 m	London	July 22, 1908

O'Connor's world record was retrospectively recognized after the founding of the IAAF World Athletics Federation in 1912. Born Irish O'Connor started for the United Kingdom, which was also part of Ireland.

Conducting the competition

All 30 jumpers had three attempts, which were completed in three different groups. The best three jumpers then completed another three jumps, taking into account the widths of the first three rounds.

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	Albert Gutterson	United States	7.60 m OR	7.60	7.48	7.25	7.18	7.09	7.09
2	Calvin Bricker	Canada	7.21 m	6.92	7.07	7.21	7.04	6.85	-
3	Georg Åberg	Sweden	7.18 m	7.04	6.70	6.99	6.98	7.18	6.63
4th	Harry Worthington	United States	7.03 m	7.03	6.96	6.65
5	Eugene Mercer	United States	6.97 m	6.97	6.84	6.84
6th	Fred Allen	United States	6.94 m	-	6.94	6.91
7th	Jim Thorpe	United States	6.89 m	6.89	6.89	6.62
8th	Robert Pasemann	German Empire	6.82 m	6.82	6.80	6.54
9	Frank Irons	United States	6.80 m	-	6.80	6.72
10	Henry Ashington	Great Britain	6.78 m	6.61	6.78	-
11	Ferdinand Bie	Norway	6.75 m	6.75	6.70	6.36
12	Sidney Abrahams	Great Britain	6.74 m	6.74	6.54	6.52
13	Edward Farrell	United States	6.71 m	6.71	6.36	6.46
	Nils Fixdal	Norway		6.71	-	6.65
15th	Philip Kingsford	Great Britain	6.65 m	6.52	6.65	6.33
16	André Campana	France	6.64 m	6.64	6.55
17th	Charles Lomberg	Sweden	6.62 m	6.44	6.52	6.62
18th	Viktor Franzl	Austria	6.57 m	6.57	6.53	6.50
19th	Angelo Tonini	Italy	6.44 m	6.25	6.44	-
20th	Patrik Ohlsson	Sweden	6.28 m	6.28	6.28	-
21st	Gustav Betzén	Sweden	6.24 m	6.24	-	-
22nd	Aleksandr Schultz	Russia	6.15 m	5.80	5.97	6.15
23	Philipp Ehrenreich	Austria	6.14 m	5.95	6.10	6.14
24	Emil Kukko	Grand Duchy of Finland	6.11 m	6.11	5.92	5.98
25th	Pál Szalay	Hungary	5.98 m	5.98	-	-
26th	Nándor Kovács	Hungary	5.96 m	-	-	5.96
27	Alfredo Pagani	Italy	5.95 m	5.89	5.95	-
28	Arthur Maranda	Canada	5.87 m	5.87	5.72	5.86
29	Manlio's legacy	Italy	5.50 m	-	5.50	-
ogV	Paul Fournelle	Luxembourg	-	-	-	-

Date: July 12, 1912

Nine of the 15 best placed jumpers jumped their best distance in the first attempt. In the second attempt, the Canadian Calvin Bricker, previously in fifth place, made it into the final with 7.07 meters. In the third attempt he improved to 7.21 meters. Albert Gutterson managed 7.60 meters in the first attempt. This width, only one centimeter below the world record, meant a new Olympic record.

The seventh place in the long jump Jim Thorpe was disqualified by the IOC as in the 1913 decathlon for violating the amateur rules at a baseball game. This disqualification was annulled by the IOC in 1982 and Thorpe's results were recognized.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic Champion Albert Gutterson (USA)

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  Calvin Bricker (CAN), silver medal winner

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  Georg Åberg (SWE), bronze medal winner

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  Eugene Mercer (USA), 5th place

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  Jim Thorpe (USA), winner of the pentathlon and decathlon, finished seventh in the long jump

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  Defending champion Frank Irons (USA) came in 9th

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  Ferdinand Bie (NOR), 11th place

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 117f

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed August 27, 2017
• Official report , engl. (PDF), accessed on August 27, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Description of the preliminary round in the official report ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pp. 395-396, engl. (PDF)