1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	43 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Olympiastadion Berlin
Competition phase	4th August 1936
Medalist Jesse Owens ( USA ) Luz Long ( GER ) Tajima Naoto ( JPN )
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The men's long jump at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 4, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. 43 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Jesse Owens (USA) ahead of the German Luz Long . The bronze medal went to the Japanese Tajima Naoto .

Existing records

• World record : 8.13 m - Jesse Owens ( USA ), Ann Arbor , May 25, 1935 - first eight-meter jump in athletics history. This world record lasted 25 years.
• Olympic record : 7.765 m - Robert LeGendre ( USA ), as part of the Olympic pentathlon in Paris , July 7, 1924

Conducting the competition

The athletes began with a qualifying round. To qualify for the semi-finals, the jumpers had to create at least 7.15 m. In the semifinals, each participant had three attempts. The best six athletes made it to the final. The result of the preliminary decision was included in the final result. All three partial competitions took place on August 4th.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The order and width of the trial series in the qualifying round are not known.

qualification

4th August 1936, 10.30 a.m.
Weather conditions: slightly overcast, 18 ° C, wind speed approx. 3.3 m / s, tail wind.

Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
Jesse Owens	United States	7.64 m
Gianni Caldana	Italy	7.26 m
Arthur Baumle	German Empire	k. A.
Otto Berg	Norway
John Brooks	United States
Bob Clark	United States
Wilhelm Leichum	German Empire
Luz Long	German Empire
Arturo Maffei	Italy
Tajima Naoto	Japan
Márcio de Oliveira	Brazil
Robert Paul	France
Sam Richardson	Canada
Åke Stenqvist	Sweden
Togami Kenshi	Japan
Josef Vosolsobě	Czechoslovakia
Claude Heim	France	7.10 m
André Prébolin	France	7.07 m
Ruudi Toomsalu	Estonia	7.00 m
Willy Rasmussen	Denmark	6.92 m
Max Berendson	Peru	k. A.
Emile Binet	Belgium
Edward Boyce	Great Britain
Ivo Buratović	Yugoslavia
Hoh Chunde	China
Carlos de la Guerra	Peru
Situ Guong	China
Pascual Gutiérrez	Mexico
Chia G Wechsang	China
Jiří Hoffmann	Czechoslovakia
Bondoc Ionescu-Crum	Romania
Mohammad Khan	Afghanistan
Marten Klasema	Netherlands
Henrik Koltai	Hungary
Grigorios Lambrakis	Greece
Harada Masao	Japan
François Mersch	Luxembourg
Rudolf Polame	Czechoslovakia
Onni Rajasaari	Finland
Niño Ramírez	Philippines
Martti Tolamo	Finland
George Traynor	Great Britain
Jean Studer	Switzerland	ogV

Semifinals

August 4, 1936, 4.30 p.m.
Weather conditions: slightly overcast, 18.5 ° C, wind speed 3.5–3.7 m / s, tail wind Note: The best widths
are printed in bold.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	Jesse Owens	United States	7.74 m	7.87 m	7.75 m	7.87 m	no recognition as OR due to strong tailwind
2	Luz Long	German Empire	7.54 m	7.74 m	7.84 m	7.84 m
3	Tajima Naoto	Japan	7.65 m	x	7.74 m	7.74 m
4th	Arturo Maffei	Italy	7.50 m	7.47 m	7.73 m	7.73 m
5	Bob Clark	United States	x	7.60 m	7.54 m	7.60 m
6th	Wilhelm Leichum	German Empire	x	x	7.52 m	7.52 m
7th	John Brooks	United States	7.34 m	7.41 m	7.19 m	7.41 m
8th	Robert Paul	France	7.34 m	6.93 m	7.08 m	7.34 m
9	Arthur Baumle	German Empire	7.32 m	7.21 m	7.13 m	7.32 m
10	Otto Berg	Norway	7.30 m	x	6.95 m	7.30 m
10	Åke Stenqvist	Sweden	7.30 m	7.13 m	6.68 m	7.30 m
12	Gianni Caldana	Italy	7.26 m	7.16 m	7.26 m	7.26 m
13	Josef Vosolsobě	Czechoslovakia	x	7.03 m	7.18 m	7.18 m
14th	Sam Richardson	Canada	7.13 m	x	x	7.13 m
15th	Márcio de Oliveira	Brazil	x	6.81 m	7.05 m	7.05 m
16	Kenshi Togami	Japan	6.18 m	x	x	6.18 m

final

The award ceremony in the long jump (from left to right) Tajima Naoto, Jesse Owens, Luz Long. To the left of Naoto is the chairman of the OK Theodor Lewald

August 4, 1936, 5.45 p.m.
Weather conditions: slightly overcast, 18.5 ° C, tail wind at approx. 3.5–3.7 m / s.

The long jump was one of the outstanding competitions in these games. World record holder Jesse Owens was the top favorite for the Olympic victory. The reigning European champion Luz Long competed for the first time against the 8-meter jumper Owens. The two Germans Luz Long and European Champion Wilhelm Leichum had qualified for the semifinals with their first jump, while the big favorite Jesse Owens supposedly only had one try left. Long is said to have encouraged him and Owens is said to have made it effortlessly. This is where a sports friendship allegedly began, which, however , is said to have had obstacles under the auspices of National Socialism in Germany. This story was later refuted and revealed as a legend founded by Owens himself. In fact, he also qualified with the first jump. The semi-finals and finals in the afternoon turned out to be absolutely high-class. World record holder Owens immediately took the lead with 7.74 m, Tajima Naoto was second just behind, followed by Long, who drew level with Owens in the next attempt. But the American improved to 7.87 m. Naoto also managed 7.74 m in the third attempt and was on par with Long. Rounds five and six brought the decision. Long, like Owens, reached 7.87 m, but he managed the only eight-meter jump of this competition in round six with 8.06 m. All these distances were extremely high class, but could not be officially included in the leaderboards due to strong tail winds. An exchange between Long and Owens is said to have taken place again and again during the competition, which is said to have brought the German bitter criticism of the National Socialist regime in Germany. However, this was also later refuted, by Owens himself.

Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal, making it the most successful participant in the 1936 Games.
Owens' win was the ninth US win in the tenth Olympic final.
Of the thirty long jump medals awarded so far, US athletes alone have won nineteen.
Note: The best sizes are printed in bold.

				final
space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Jesse Owens	United States	7.87 m	x	7.94 m	8.06 m	8.06 m	no recognition as OR due to strong tailwind
2	Luz Long	German Empire	7.74 m	7.73 m	7.87 m	x	7.87 m
3	Tajima Naoto	Japan	7.74 m	7.52 m	7.60 m	x	7.74 m
4th	Wilhelm Leichum	German Empire	7.52 m	7.38 m	7.25 m	7.73 m	7.73 m
	Arturo Maffei	Italy	7.73 m	7.22 m	7.42 m	7.39 m
6th	Bob Clark	United States	7.60 m	7.60 m	7.67 m	7.57 m	7.67 m
7th	John Brooks	United States	7.41 m	not in the final			7.41 m
8th	Robert Paul	France	7.34 m				7.34 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp 290-292

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed September 21, 2017
• Official report pp. 668–670, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 21, 2017
• Owens v Long jump , published March 21, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed September 21, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Official report p. 668, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official report p. 669, engl. (PDF)
4. ^ ^{A b} Egg: Contemporary history: Jesse's fairy tales . In: Spiegel Online . tape 1 , December 29, 2014 ( spiegel.de [accessed August 18, 2019]).
5. ↑ Luz Long and Jesse Owens. How a friendship drove Hitler to white heat , Focus, July 29, 2016, accessed on August 10, 2017
6. ↑ “Never hug a negro again!” Die Welt / N24, May 1, 2013, accessed on August 10, 2017