1928 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	41 athletes from 23 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 31, 1928
Medalist Ed Hamm ( USA )   Silvio Cator ( HTI )   Al Bates ( USA )

The men's long jump at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam was held on July 31, 1928 in the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium. 41 athletes took part.

The US American Ed Hamm was Olympic champion ahead of Silvio Cator from Haiti. Bronze went to Al Bates (USA).

Existing records

• World record : 7.90 m - Ed Hamm ( USA ), Cambridge (Massachusetts) , July 7, 1928
• Olympic record : 7.765 m - Robert LeGendre ( USA ), Paris Olympic pentathlon , July 7, 1924

Conducting the competition

On July 31st there was a qualifying round in four groups. The six best jumpers from the four groups qualified for the final, which took place on the same day. The result of the qualification was included in the final result.

Note: The qualified jumpers are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Failed in group 3: Oda Mikio (JPN)

Defending champion DeHart Hubbard (USA) was eliminated in Group 4

Placed ahead of Hubbard, but was also eliminated: Nambu Chūhei (JPN)

Date: July 31, 1928

Group 1

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
1	Ed Hamm	United States	7.73 m
2	Silvio Cator	Haiti	7.58 m
3	Erich Kochermann	German Empire	7.35 m
4th	Erling Aastad	Norway	7.07 m
5	Toon van Welsenes	Netherlands	6.96 m
6th	Paddy Anglim	Irish Free State	6.81 m
7th	Jacques Flouret	France	6.64 m
8th	Óscar Alvarado	Chile	6.51 m
8th	Gaston Médécin	Monaco	6.51 m
10	Tibor Püspöki	Hungary	6.45 m
11	Alfred Sutter	Switzerland	6.23 m

Group 2

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
1	Al Bates	United States	7.40 m
2	Willi Meier	German Empire	7.39 m
3	Olle Hallberg	Sweden	7.18 m
4th	Toimi Tulikoura	Finland	6.91 m
5	Imre Fekete	Hungary	6.77 m
6th	Virgilio Tommasi	Italy	6.76 m
7th	Zdzisław Nowak	Poland	6.57 m
8th	Dalip Singh	British India	6.45 m
9	James Cohen	Great Britain	6.39 m

Group 3

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
1	Ed Gordon	United States	7.32 m
2	Eric Svensson	Sweden	7.29 m
3	Oda Mikio	Japan	7.11 m
4th	Helmut Schlöske	German Empire	6.99 m
5	Gijs Lamoree	Netherlands	6.87 m
6th	Lajos Balogh	Hungary	6.79 m
7th	Enrico Torre	Italy	6.76 m
8th	Konstantinos Petridis	Greece	6.63 m
9	Reginald Revans	Great Britain	6.58 m
10	Johannes Viljoen	South African Union	6.44 m

Group 4

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
1	Hannes de Boer	Netherlands	7.32 m
2	Nambu Chuhei	Japan	7.25 m
3	DeHart Hubbard	United States	7.11 m
3	Vilho Tuulos	Finland	7.11 m
5	Alfonso de Gortari	Mexico	6.97 m
6th	Rudolf Dobermann	German Empire	6.91 m
7th	Adolf Meier	Switzerland	6.80 m
8th	Charles Alzieu	France	6.70 m
9	Hermann Brügmann	Denmark	6.62 m
10	Arild Lenth	Norway	6.60 m
11	Fernando Labourdette-Liaresq	Spain	6.16 m

Hannes de Boer, who with 7.32 m had reached the same distance as Ed Gordon in group 3, was able to qualify for the final due to the better second attempt - 6.96 m compared to 6.57 m by Gordon.

William DeHart Hubbard, Olympic champion in Paris , failed to qualify due to an ankle injury.

final

				final
space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Ed Hamm	United States	7.73 m	7.68 m	7.66 m	-	7.73 m
2	Silvio Cator	Haiti	7.58 m	7.20 m	7.22 m	X	7.58 m
3	Al Bates	United States	7.40 m	6.79 m	6.92 m	6.75 m	7.40 m
4th	Willi Meier	German Empire	7.39 m	X	7.27 m	7.23 m	7.39 m
5	Erich Kochermann	German Empire	7.35 m	7.05 m	X	6.85 m	7.35 m
6th	Hannes de Boer	Netherlands	7.32 m	X	X	X	7.32 m
7th	Ed Gordon	United States	7.32 m	did not qualify for the finals			7.32 m
8th	Eric Svensson	Sweden	7.29 m				7.29 m

Date: July 31, 1928

The 1924 Olympic champion William DeHart Hubbard also competed in this competition, but was injured and barely survived qualification. His successor was Ed Hamm, who held the world record with 7.90 m and achieved 7.73 m here. Silvio Cator from Haiti came in second with 7.58 m, while US-American Alfred Bates came third. Only one and five centimeters behind, the two Germans Willi Meier and Erich Köchermann finished fourth and fifth.

Ed Hamm achieved the seventh US victory in the long jump in the eighth Olympic final.

The US jumpers won 16 of the 24 medals so far.

Silvio Cator won the second medal in Haiti's Olympic history. In 1924 a team of rifles won a bronze medal, making Cator the first individual athlete in Haiti to win a medal.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic Champion Ed Hamm (USA)

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  Silver medal for Silvio Cator (HTI)

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 204f

Video

• USA's Ed Hamm Wins Long Jump Gold - Amsterdam 1928 Olympics , published March 7, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 14, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed September 14, 2017
• Official report pp. 443–446, engl. (PDF). accessed on September 14, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Official report, pp. 443 - 446 (Eng.)
3. ↑ DeHart Hubbard on SportsReference (Eng.)