1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Long jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 32 athletes from 23 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Tokyo Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | October 18, 1964 | ||||||||
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The men's long jump at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was held on October 18, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 32 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Briton Lynn Davies . He won ahead of the Americans Ralph Boston and Igor Ter-Owanessjan from the Soviet Union.
While jumpers from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part, three Germans started. Klaus Beer and Hans-Helmut Trense failed due to the qualification distance. Wolfgang Klein reached the final and was tenth there.
Existing records
World record | 8.34 m | Ralph Boston ( USA ) | Los Angeles , USA | September 12, 1964 |
Olympic record | 8.12 m | Final of Rome , Italy | 2nd September 1960 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes entered a qualifying round on October 18, in which each jumper had three attempts. The qualifying distance with which the athletes directly reached the final on the afternoon of the same day was 7.60 m. Since fewer than twelve starters achieve this standard, the starting field was filled with the next best jumpers up to twelve participants. In the final, each participant initially had three attempts. The six best athletes were then allowed three more attempts.
Time schedule
October 18, 10:30 a.m .: Qualification
October 18, 3 p.m .: Final Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)
Best widths are printed in bold.
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.
qualification
Date: October 18, 1964, 10:30 a.m.
Weather conditions: rain, approx. 14 ° C, approx. 95% humidity
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ralph Boston | United States | 8.03 m | - | - | 8.03 m | |
2 | Lynn Davies | Great Britain | 7.39 m | x | 7.78 m | 7.78 m | |
3 | Igor Ter-Ovansyan | Soviet Union | 7.78 m | - | - | 7.78 m | |
4th | Gayle Hopkins | United States | 7.67 m | - | - | 7.67 m | |
5 | Wariboko West | Nigeria | 7.62 m | - | - | 7.62 m | |
6th | Wolfgang Klein | Germany | 7.59 m | x | 7.54 m | 7.59 m | |
7th | John Morbey | Great Britain | x | x | 7.56 m | 7.56 m | |
8th | Mike Ahey | Ghana | 7.21 m | 7.26 m | 7.52 m | 7.52 m | |
9 | Jean Cochard | France | 6.96 m | x | 7.52 m | 7.52 m | |
10 | Luis Felipe Areta Sampériz | Spain | 7.31 m | 7.46 m | 7.34 m | 7.46 m | |
11 | Andrzej Stalmach | Poland | 7.27 m | 7.46 m | x | 7.46 m | |
12 | Hiroomi Yamada | Japan | x | 7.46 m | x | 7.46 m | |
13 | Pentti Eskola | Finland | 7.43 m | 7.35 m | x | 7.43 m | |
14th | Antanas Vaupšas | Soviet Union | x | x | 7.43 m | 7.43 m | |
15th | Leonid Barkowskyj | Soviet Union | 7.30 m | 7.39 m | x | 7.39 m | |
16 | Sungay Akpata | Nigeria | x | x | 7.34 m | 7.34 m | |
17th | Raitscho Stoitschew | Bulgaria | x | 7.33 m | 7.29 m | 7.33 m | |
18th | Hans-Helmut Snaffle | Germany | 7.09 m | 7.20 m | 7.30 m | 7.30 m | |
19th | Wellesley Clayton | Jamaica | 6.75 m | x | 7.28 m | 7.28 m | |
20th | Koro Kawazu | Japan | 7.28 m | x | x | 7.28 m | |
21st | Klaus Beer | Germany | x | 7.25 m | 7.27 m | 7.27 m | |
22nd | Fred Alsop | Great Britain | 7.26 m | x | x | 7.26 m | |
Phil Shinnick | United States | ||||||
24 | Alain Lefèvre | France | 6.77 m | x | 7.24 m | 7.24 m | |
25th | Dimos Manglaras | Greece | 7.06 m | 7.11 m | 7.21 m | 7.21 m | |
26th | Satoshi Takayanagi | Japan | 7.15 m | x | x | 7.15 m | |
27 | Ian Tomlinson | Australia | 7.07 m | x | x | 7.07 m | |
28 | Henrik Kalocsai | Hungary | 6.94 m | 6.99 m | x | 6.99 m | |
29 | BV Satyanarayan | India | x | 6.76 m | x | 6.76 m | |
30th | Samuel Cruz | Puerto Rico | x | 6.74 m | 6.72 m | 6.74 m | |
31 | Chu Ming | Hong Kong | 6.41 m | x | 4.91 m | 6.41 m | |
ogV | Iftikhar Shah | Pakistan | x | x | x | without space |
final
Date: October 18, 1964, 3 p.m.
Weather conditions: rain, 12–13 ° C, 95–97% humidity
The American Ralph Boston, 1960 Olympic champion and world record holder , was the big favorite. The greatest challenger was the Soviet jumper Igor Ter-Owanessjan, European champion from 1958 and 1962 and bronze medalist from Rome .
The extremely uncomfortable external conditions for the athletes should play a decisive role in the final. It was raining all the time, the inrun and the jump pit were wet, the temperatures so cool that the athletes literally froze between their jumps. This weather was very difficult, especially for Boston, which was used to jumping in their own country in optimal conditions.
In the first round of the final, Ter-Owanesjan took the lead with 7.78 m, but Boston overtook him in the second attempt with 7.85 m. In the fifth round, Briton Lynn Davies was the first to surpass the 8-meter mark with 8.07 m. He started here as an outsider, in his last attempt in qualifying he had to put everything on one card to even reach this final. But he succeeded best in adjusting to these circumstances, which were not entirely unfamiliar to him. In his fifth attempt, Igor Ter-Owanessjan improved to second again with 7.99 m before Ralph Boston reached 8.03 m in the last round, a distance that was 'only' enough for silver.
Lynn Davies won the first British gold medal in the long jump . It was the first victory of a long jumper who did not come from the USA since 1920 .
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lynn Davies | Great Britain | 7.45 m | x | 7.59 m | 7.78 m | 8.07 m | 7.74 m | 8.07 m | |
2 | Ralph Boston | United States | 7.76 m | 7.85 m | 7.62 m | 7.88 m | x | 8.03 m | 8.03 m | |
3 | Igor Ter-Ovansyan | Soviet Union | 7.78 m | x | 7.64 m | 7.80 m | 7.99 m | 7.81 m | 7.99 m | |
4th | Wariboko West | Nigeria | 7.56 m | 7.51 m | 7.50 m | 7.40 m | 7.60 m | x | 7.60 m | |
5 | Jean Cochard | France | x | x | 7.44 m | 7.43 m | 7.26 m | 7.10 m | 7.44 m | |
6th | Luis Felipe Areta Sampériz | Spain | 7.20 m | 7.31 m | 7.34 m | 5.16 m | x | 6.99 m | 7.34 m | |
7th | Mike Ahey | Ghana | 6.99 m | 7.00 m | 7.30 m | not in the final of the six best jumpers |
7.30 m | |||
8th | Andrzej Stalmach | Poland | 7.26 m | 7.10 m | x | 7.26 m | ||||
9 | Hiroomi Yamada | Japan | 6.94 m | x | 7.16 m | 7.16 m | ||||
10 | Wolfgang Klein | Germany | 7.06 m | 7.13 m | 7.15 m | 7.15 m | ||||
11 | John Morbey | Great Britain | 7.09 m | 6.91 m | 6.77 m | 7.09 m | ||||
ogV | Gayle Hopkins | United States | x | x | x | without space |
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 276–278
Video
- The Tokyo 1964 Olympics Part 3 | Olympic History , range 11:13 min - 13:16 min, published on October 17, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on October 28, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference Long Jump , accessed October 28, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 47f engl. (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 556 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) retrieved on October 28, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. P. 47 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. P. 48 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017
- ↑ Sport Reference (Engl.) ( Memento of 30 December 2008 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 28 October 2017