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)
Medalist William Petersson ( SWE )   Carl Johnson ( USA )   Erik Abrahamsson ( SWE )

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.

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	William Petersson	Sweden	6.94 m
2	Erik Abrahamsson	Sweden	6.86 m
3	Carl Johnson	United States	6.82 m
4th	Rolf Franksson	Sweden	6.73 m
5	Dink Templeton	United States	6.67 m
6th	Erling Aastad	Norway	6.62 m
7th	Sol butler	United States	6.60 m
8th	Einar Ræder	Norway	6.59 m
9	Gosta Bladin	Sweden	6.57 m	21 feet 6 4/5 inches (equivalent to 6.570 m)
10	Johan Johannesen	Norway	6.57 m	21 feet 6 3/4 inches (6.565 m)
11	Jack Merchant	United States	6.50 m
11	Eugène Coulon	France	6.50 m
13	William Hunter	Great Britain	6.42 m
14th	Marcel Orfidan	France	6.39 m
15th	Hans Kindler	Switzerland	6.34 m
16	Eero Lehtonen	Finland	6.29 m
17th	Charles Courtin	France	6.23 m
18th	Gustave de Bruyne	Belgium	6.20 m
19th	Hugo Lahtinen	Finland	6.19 m
20th	Harold Abrahams	Great Britain	6.05 m
21st	Edmond Médécin	Monaco	6.04 m
22nd	Charles Lively	Great Britain	5.87 m
23	Henri Pleger	Luxembourg	5.82 m
24	Jean Lefèvre	Belgium	5.79 m
25th	Julien Lehouck	Belgium	5.76 m
26th	František Šretr	Czechoslovakia	5.55 m
27	Charles Guézille	France	5.49 m
28	Paul Hammer	Luxembourg	5.45 m
29	Nicolas Kanivé	Luxembourg	5.42 m

final

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
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

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  Olympic Champion William Petersson (SWE)

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  Carl Johnson (USA), silver medal winner (1919 photo)

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  Passport photo of Sol Butler (USA), who had to give up injured

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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Official report, page 114 (French) ( Memento of October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)