1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	12 athletes from 9 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 2, 1932
Medalist Ed Gordon ( USA )   Lambert Redd ( USA )   Nambu Chūhei ( JPN )

The men's long jump at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 2, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . Twelve athletes took part.

The American Ed Gordon was Olympic champion ahead of his compatriot Lambert Redd . The Japanese Nambu Chūhei won the bronze medal.

Existing records

• World record : 7.98 m - Nambu Chūhei ( Japan ), Tokyo , October 27, 1931
• Olympic record : 7.765 m - Robert LeGendre ( USA ), as part of the Olympic pentathlon in Paris , July 7, 1924

Conducting the competition

The athletes started their competition on August 2nd. Each jumper initially had three attempts in a qualification. The best four jumpers jumped three more attempts in a final 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

Nambu Chūhei (JPN) won the bronze medal

The test series are only known from the best four jumpers, from the other athletes only the final results are known.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	Ed Gordon	United States	7.64 m	7.00 m	7.43 m	7.64 m
2	Lambert Redd	United States	X	7.60 m	X	7.60 m
3	Nambu Chuhei	Japan	7.45 m	X	X	7.45 m
4th	Eric Svensson	Sweden	7.27 m	7.24 m	7.41 m	7.41 m
5	Dick Barber	United States	Trial series not known			7.39 m
6th	Tajima Naoto	Japan				7.15 m
7th	Héctor Berra	Argentina				6.66 m
8th	Clóvis Raposo	Brazil				6.43 m
9	Silvio Cator	Haiti				5.93 m
10	Esteban Crespo	Mexico				5.83 m
11	Erich Kochermann	German Empire				5.75 m
ogV	Len Hutton	Canada	X	Injury on the 1st attempt

Bottom line

				final
space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Ed Gordon	United States	7.64 m	X	X	X	7.64 m
2	Lambert Redd	United States	7.60 m	7.39 m	X	7.49 m	7.60 m
3	Nambu Chuhei	Japan	7.45 m	7.32 m	7.39 m	X	7.45 m
4th	Eric Svensson	Sweden	7.41 m	7.06 m	waived		7.41 m
5	Dick Barber	United States	7.41 m	not in the final			7.39 m
6th	Tajima Naoto	Japan	7.15 m				7.15 m
7th	Héctor Berra	Argentina	6.66 m				6.66 m
8th	Clóvis Raposo	Brazil	6.43 m				6.43 m

Date: August 1, 1932

In contrast to most other competitions, the long jump was a little lacking in class. The Japanese Nambu Chūhei held the world record with almost eight meters - exactly 7.98 m. But he had to be content with 7.45 m, which was enough for a bronze medal. Two US jumpers lay in front of him. Ed Gordon became Olympic champion with a rather meager 7,64 m. In second place came four centimeters behind Lambert Redd. Robert LeGendre's Olympic record , which he had set in 1924 as part of his pentathlon with 7.765 m, was not in danger.

Nambu Chūhei won the first Japanese long jump medal.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 239f

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed September 18, 2017
• Official report pp. 445–446, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 18, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )