1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Long jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 27 athletes from 19 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Helsinki Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 21, 1952 | ||||||||
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The men's long jump at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki was held on July 21, 1952. 27 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the American Jerome Biffle . He won ahead of his compatriot Meredith Gourdine and the Hungarian Ödön Földessy .
Existing records
World record | 8.13 m |
Jesse Owens ( USA )
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Ann Arbor , USA | May 25, 1935 |
Olympic record | 8.06 m | Berlin , Germany | 4th August 1936 |
Note: The Olympic record was officially set at 8.06 m and Jesse Owens was the record holder, despite an irregular tailwind when he jumped.
Conducting the competition
The participants competed in two groups for a qualifying round on July 21, the qualifying distance was 7.20 meters. Should fewer than twelve athletes manage the required distance, the final starter field would be filled to twelve jumpers according to the best distance achieved. The results achieved in the qualification were not counted for the final.
In the final, all participants initially had three attempts. The six best athletes were then allowed to make three more attempts.
Note: The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, those who qualified over the next best distance are highlighted in light green.
Time schedule
July 21, 10 a.m .: Qualification
July 21, 4.10 p.m .: Final
qualification
Date: July 21, 1952, 10 a.m. The order of the test series is unknown.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Meredith Gourdine |
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7.41 m | |
2 | Jerome Biffle |
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7.40 m | |
3 | George Brown |
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7.32 m | |
4th | Ödön Földessy |
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7.25 m | |
5 | Ary de Sá |
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7.24 m | |
6th | Paul Faucher |
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7.10 m | |
7th | Leonid Grigoryev |
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7.09 m | |
8th | Anton Breder |
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6.88 m | |
9 | Brígido Iriarte |
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6.82 m | |
10 | Henryk Grabowski |
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6.77 m | |
11 | Nikolai Anriushchenko |
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6.74 m | |
ogV | Avni Akgun |
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without space |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Neville Price |
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7.36 m | |
2 | Henk Visser |
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7.21 m | |
3 | Masaji Tajima |
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7.13 m | |
4th | Karl-Erik Israelsson |
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7.10 m | |
5 | Pentti Snellman |
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7.09 m | |
5 | Jorma Valtonen |
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7.09 m | |
7th | Carlos Vera |
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7.07 m | |
8th | Felix Würth |
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6.99 m | |
9 | Sylvanus Williams |
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6.98 m | |
10 | Jorma Valkama |
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6.97 m | |
11 | Karim Olowu |
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6.96 m | |
12 | Geraldo de Oliveira |
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6.71 m | |
13 | Patrick Leane |
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6.40 m | |
14th | Kamtorn Sanidwong |
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5.31 m | |
ogV | Baldadaş Mədətov |
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without space |
Finale and final result
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Jerome Biffle |
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7.21 m | x | 7.57 m | 7.49 m | 7.36 m | 7.51 m | 7.57 m | |
2 | Meredith Gourdine |
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7.38 m | 6.58 m | 7.53 m | x | x | x | 7.53 m | |
3 | Ödön Földessy |
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7.04 m | 7.23 m | x | 7.17 m | 7.30 m | 7.12 m | 7.30 m | |
4th | Ary de Sá |
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7.15 m | 6.77 m | 7.06 m | 7.22 m | 7.20 m | 7.23 m | 7.23 m | |
5 | Jorma Valtonen |
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x | 7.06 m | 7.16 m | x | x | 6.97 m | 7.16 m | |
6th | Leonid Grigoryev |
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x | 7.14 m | 6.92 m | 5.55 m | x | 6.67 m | 7.14 m | |
7th | Karl-Erik Israelsson |
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x | x | 7.10 m | not in the final of the six best jumpers |
7.10 m | |||
8th | Paul Faucher |
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x | 6.96 m | 7.02 m | 7.02 m | ||||
9 | Pentti Snellman |
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x | 6.88 m | 7.02 m | 7.02 m | ||||
10 | Masaji Tajima |
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x | 7.00 m | x | 7.00 m | ||||
11 | Neville Price |
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6.40 m | x | x | 6.40 m | ||||
ogV | George Brown |
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x | x | x | without space | ||||
Henk Visser |
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Date: July 21, 1952, 4:10 p.m.
The US jumper George Brown was the top favorite. In the final, however, he had three failed attempts and was eliminated. The best three jumpers in the qualification in the morning were Meredith Gourdine and Jerome Biffle from the USA and the South African Neville Price. However, Price had injured himself in qualifying and reached only 6.40 m in this final and came eleventh. Biffle - 7.57 m - and Gourdine - 7.53 m - each achieved their bests in the third attempt. They were only four centimeters apart, but with these not necessarily outstanding results they were still significantly better than the rest of the field. The Hungarian Ödön Földessy won the bronze medal with just 7.30 m.
Despite the good jumping ability, the level of this competition fell significantly compared to most other competitions.
In the twelfth Olympic final, Jerome Biffle won the eleventh gold medal for the USA. Biffle and Meredith Gourdine achieved the USA's seventh double victory in this discipline.
Ödön Földessy won the first medal for Hungary in the long jump.
Note: The respective best size is printed in bold.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 91f
Web links
- SportsReference Long Jump , accessed September 27, 2017
- Official report p. 312f, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 27, 2017
- Jerome Biffle 1952 Olympics , published July 4, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed September 27, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 207
- ↑ a b c Official report p. 266, engl. (PDF)
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)