1924 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	34 athletes from 22 countries
Competition location	Stade de Colombes
Competition phase	July 8, 1924
Medalist DeHart Hubbard ( USA )   Edward Gourdin ( USA )   Sverre Hansen ( NOR )

The men's long jump at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris was held on July 8, 1924. 34 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the American William DeHart Hubbard ahead of his compatriot Edward Gourdin . The bronze medal went to the Norwegian Sverre Hansen .

Existing records

• World record : 7.70 m - Edward Gourdin ( USA ), Cambridge , July 23, 1921
• Olympic record : 7.60 m - Albert Gutterson ( USA ), preliminary round of the Stockholm Olympic long jump competition , July 12, 1912

The Olympic pentathlon took place one day before the long jump competition . In the long jump there , the US athlete Robert LeGendre , who had not been able to qualify for the individual long jump, set a new world record with 7.765 m .

Conducting the competition

The athletes had to jump a qualifying round in four groups on July 8th. The six best jumpers from the four groups qualified for the final, which took place on the same day.

Note: The qualified jumpers are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 8, 1924

Group 1

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	William DeHart Hubbard	United States	7.12 m
2	Pauli Sandström	Finland	6.83 m
3	Richard Honner	Australia	6.64 m
3	Dalip Singh	British India	6.64 m
5	Alois Sobotka	Czechoslovakia	6.59 m
6th	Valter Ever	Estonia	6.59 m
7th	Louis-Henri Albinet	France	6.55 m
8th	Gaston Médécin	Monaco	6.51 m
9	Kiril Petrunov	Bulgaria	6.00 m
10	Konstantinos Pantelidis	Greece	5.94 m
11	Francisco Contreras	Mexico	5.74 m
12	Stanislaw Sośnicki	Poland	5.67 m

Group 2

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Sverre Hansen	Norway	7.26 m
2	Vilho Tuulos	Finland	7.07 m
3	Chris Mackintosh	Great Britain	6.88 m
4th	Albert Rose	United States	6.86 m
5	Paul Couillaud	France	6.22 m
6th	Josef Macháň	Czechoslovakia	6.09 m
7th	Alberto Jurado	Ecuador	5.68 m
8th	Alfonso Stoopen	Mexico	5.48 m

Group 3

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Louis Wilhelme	France	6.99 m
2	Jaap Boot	Netherlands	6.86 m
3	Oda Mikio	Japan	6.83 m
4th	Erling Aastad	Norway	6.72 m
5	Adolf Meier	Switzerland	6.61 m
6th	Väinö Rainio	Finland	6.54 m
7th	Joseph Hilger	Luxembourg	5.68 m
ogV	William Comins	United States

Group 4

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Edward Gourdin	United States	7.19 m
2	Virgilio Tommasi	Italy	6.88 m
3	Silvio Cator	Haiti	6.81 m
4th	Marcel Guillouet	France	6.62 m
5	Paul Hammer	Luxembourg	6.24 m
ogV	Hannes de Boer	Netherlands

final

space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	Final width	result	annotation
1	William DeHart Hubbard	United States	7.12 m	7.445 m	7.445 m
2	Edward Gourdin	United States	7.19 m	7.275 m	7.275 m
3	Sverre Hansen	Norway	7.26 m	no improvement in the final	7,260 m
4th	Vilho Tuulos	Finland	7.07 m	no improvement in the final	7,070 m
5	Louis Wilhelme	France	6.99 m	no improvement in the final	6,990 m
6th	Chris Mackintosh	Great Britain	6.88 m	6.92 m	6,920 m
7th	Virgilio Tommasi	Italy	6.88 m	6.89 m	6.890 m
8th	Jaap Boot	Netherlands	6.86 m	not in the final	6.860 m

Date: July 8, 1924

Seven jumpers, had made the qualification. Only six finalists were planned, but since the Briton Chris MacKintosh from group two and the Italian Tommasi from group four were sixth with 6.88 m each, both athletes were able to compete in the final.
William DeHart Hubbard was Olympic champion with 7.445 m. With DeHart Hubbard, one of the world's best long jumpers of his time won. He was American champion from 1922 to 1927 and replaced LeGendre in 1925 with 7.89 m as the world record holder. Second and third place went to Edward Gourdin and Sverre Hansen.

DeHart Hubbard jumped to the sixth US victory in the seventh Olympic long jump final. At the same time it was the fifth double victory of US athletes in the long jump.
Sverre Hansen won the first Norwegian medal in the long jump.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic Champion DeHart Hubbard (USA)

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  The Norwegian Sverre Hansen won the bronze medal

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  Oda Mikio (JPN) failed in the qualification

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  Silvio Cator from Haiti also dropped out

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 168f

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed September 9, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 169
2. ↑ Official report, pp. 134–135 (fr.) ( Memento of the original of April 10, 2008 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.