1920 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Long jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 29 athletes from 11 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Antwerp Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 17, 1920 (qualification) August 21, 1920 (final) |
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The men's long jump at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp was held on August 17 and 18, 1920 in the Antwerp Olympic Stadium. 29 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Swede William Petersson ahead of the US jumper Carl Johnson , the Swede Erik Abrahamsson won bronze .
The Swiss Hans Kindler failed in the qualification. He was 15th with a width of 6.34 m. Athletes from Germany and Austria were excluded from participating in these games.
Existing records
World record | Peter O'Connor ( Great Britain ) | 7.61 m | Dublin | August 5, 1901 |
Olympic record | Albert Gutterson ( USA ) | 7.60 m | Stockholm | July 12, 1912 |
O'Connor's width was subsequently recognized as a world record by the World Athletics Federation .
Conducting the competition
All 29 jumpers had to jump a qualifying round on August 17th at 9:00 a.m. The best six athletes advanced to the final, which began on August 21 at 3:45 p.m.
Note: The qualified jumpers are highlighted in light blue.
qualification
Date: August 17, 1920, 9:00 a.m.
final
space | Surname | nation | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | William Petersson | Sweden | 7.150 m | |
2 | Carl Johnson | United States | 7,095 m | |
3 | Erik Abrahamsson | Sweden | 7,080 m | |
4th | Dink Templeton | United States | 6,950 m | |
5 | Erling Aastad | Norway | 6.885 m | |
6th | Rolf Franksson | Sweden | 6.730 m |
Date: August 21, 1920, 3:45 p.m.
Sol Butler had won the US Olympic elimination and achieved an excellent 7.52 m, so that he went to Antwerp as the favorite . But in qualifying he injured himself on his first jump and he was only seventh. In the case of an unreasonable boggy run-up, as with the high jump , the performance remained below value. William Petersson ensured a Swedish victory with 7.15 m. He later changed his name to William Björnemann. The other medals were won by the American Carl Johnson and Petersson's compatriot Erik Abrahamsson.
The Swede Petersson ended the US series in the long jump with his victory. In the previous five Olympic competitions - plus the competition at the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games - there had only been US victories. Of the 15 Olympic medals, eleven went to athletes from the USA - plus a gold and a bronze medal in 1906.
Picture gallery
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 145
Web links
- SportsReference Long Jump , accessed September 3, 2017
- Official report , French (PDF), accessed on September 3, 2017
Video
- William Petterson Wins Long Jump With Coin In His Shoe - Antwerp 1920 Olympics , published April 11, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 3, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Official report, page 114 (French) ( Memento of October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)