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
Medalist Lynn Davies ( GBR )   Ralph Boston ( USA )   Igor Ter-Owanessjan ( URS )

Award ceremony in the men's long jump: gold for Lynn Davies, silver for Ralph Boston, bronze for Igor Ter-Owanessjan

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

Olympic Champion Lynn Davies from Great Britain

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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 556 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) retrieved on October 28, 2017
2. ↑ 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 
3. ↑ 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 
4. ↑ 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 
5. ↑ Sport Reference (Engl.) ( Memento of 30 December 2008 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 28 October 2017