1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Long jump | ||||||||
gender | men | ||||||||
Attendees | 35 athletes from 22 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estadio Olímpico Universitario | ||||||||
Competition phase | October 17, 1968 (qualification) October 18, 1968 (final) |
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The men's long jump at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City was held on October 17 and 18, 1968 at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario . 35 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the American Bob Beamon . He won with a new world record of 8.90 m ahead of Klaus Beer from the GDR and Ralph Boston from the USA.
The record jump of the winner Beamon was probably the most famous athletics performance of the Mexico City Games . Beamon surpassed the previous world record by 55 centimeters. It was the greatest improvement on the world record in the history of the long jump. This record lasted 23 years before the American Mike Powell jumped five centimeters further at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo on August 30, 1991 . Beamon 8.90 m have the Olympic record still inventory - as of August 2021, the width is the oldest existing Olympic record.
Reinhold Boschert started for the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - who qualified for the final and finished twelfth.
The GDR - officially East Germany - was represented by the silver medalist Klaus Beer.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 8.35 m | Ralph Boston ( USA ) | Modesto , USA | May 29, 1965 |
Igor Ter-Owanesjan ( Soviet Union ) | Mexico City , Mexico | October 19, 1967 | ||
Olympic record | 8.12 m | Ralph Boston ( USA ) | Final of Rome , Italy | 2nd September 1960 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a qualifying round on October 17, which was completed in two groups. The twelve best starters qualified for the final. With a width of 7.65 m they qualified directly for the final on October 18th. In the final, each participant initially had three attempts. For the first time at the Olympic Games, the eight best - and not only the six best - athletes were allowed three more attempts.
Time schedule
October 17, 10:30 a.m .: Qualification
October 18, 3:30 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are Mexico City local time ( UTC −6)
The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
qualification
Date: October 17, 1968, from 10.30 a.m.
Group A
place | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Ralph Boston | United States | 8.27 m OR | - | - | 8.27 m | OR |
2 | Bob Beamon | United States | x | x | 8.19 m | 8.19 m | |
3 | Tõnu Lepik | Soviet Union | 7.91 m | - | - | 7.91 m | |
Jack Pani | France | ||||||
5 | Michael Ahey | Ghana | 7.18 m | 7.77 m | - | 7.77 m | |
6th | Victor Brooks | Jamaica | x | 7.54 m | 7.72 m | 7.72 m | |
7th | Andrzej Stalmach | Poland | 7.60 m | 7.48 m | 7.70 m | 7.70 m | |
8th | Leonid Barkowskyj | Soviet Union | 7.25 m | 7.70 m | - | 7.70 m | |
9 | Hiroomi Yamada | Japan | 7.67 m | - | - | 7.67 m | |
10 | Alan Lerwill | Great Britain | 7.57 m | 7.62 m | 7.60 m | 7.62 m | |
11 | Shinji Ogura | Japan | 7.57 m | x | 7.28 m | 7.57 m | |
12th | Philippe Housiaux | Belgium | 7.30 m | 7.44 m | 7.40 m | 7.44 m | |
13 | Clement Sagna | Senegal | 7.26 m | 7.17 m | 7.31 m | 7.31 m | |
14th | Jerry Wisdom | Bahamas | x | x | 6.99 m | 6.99 m | |
15th | Chen Ming-chi | Taiwan | 6.62 m | x | 6.71 m | 6.71 m | |
16 | Owen Meighan | British Honduras | x | 6.06 m | 6.06 m | 6.06 m | |
ogV | Peter Reed | Great Britain | x | x | x | without space |
Group B
place | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Lynn Davies | Great Britain | x | x | 7.94 m | 7.94 m | |
2 | Charles Mays | United States | 7.85 m | - | - | 7.85 m | |
3 | Reinhold Boschert | BR Germany | x | 7.79 m | - | 7.79 m | |
4th | Klaus Beer | GDR | 7.77 m | - | - | 7.77 m | |
Lars-Olof Höök | Sweden | ||||||
6th | Gérard Ugolini | France | 7.75 m | - | - | 7.75 m | |
7th | Igor Ter-Owanesjan | Soviet Union | 7.74 m | - | - | 7.74 m | |
8th | Allen Crawley | Australia | x | 7.71 m | - | 7.71 m | |
9 | Pertti Pousi | Finland | 7.46 m | 7.63 m | x | 7.63 m | |
10 | Laurent Sarr | Senegal | 7.27 m | 7.50 m | 7.61 m | 7.61 m | |
11 | Galdino Flores | Mexico | 7.38 m | 7.59 m | x | 7.59 m | |
12th | Naoki Abe | Japan | 7.44 m | x | 7.58 m | 7.58 m | |
13 | Wellesley Clayton | Jamaica | 7.54 m | 7.57 m | x | 7.57 m | |
14th | Michel Charland | Canada | 7.15 m | 7.35 m | 7.35 m | 7.35 m | |
15th | Su Wen-ho | Taiwan | 7.30 m | x | 7.14 m | 7.30 m | |
16 | Anthony Chong | Malaysia | 7.09 m | x | 7.29 m | 7.29 m | |
17th | Donald Velez | Nicaragua | x | 6.63 m | x | 6.63 m | |
18th | Jean Cochard | France | 6.11 m | - | x | 6.11 m |
final
Date: October 18, 1968, 3:30 p.m.
There were three favorites for this competition: the 1960 Olympic champion and world record holder Ralph Boston from the USA, the Soviet co-record holder Igor Ter-Owanesjan and the British 1964 Olympic champion Lynn Davies. While Boston jumped a new Olympic record in the first attempt in qualifying , Davies struggled and only made it to the final in the third and last attempt.
17 jumpers had reached the required qualification distance and were in the final. In the very first attempt, Bob Beamon, who is considered a great talent, managed the width of 8.90 m - 55 centimeters, which was considered impossible, more than the existing world record. In the qualification, Beamon had not been able to cope with the run-up and, like Davies, had only qualified with his last attempt. His 8.90 meter jump, however, was too far for the existing measuring devices. The correct result could only be determined with a steel tape measure. The wind support was in the just permissible range of 2.0 meters per second, so that the jump could be recognized as a world record. Beamon jumped only one more time and then left it at that - knowing that he would never succeed in such a distance a second time.
Beamon's opponents were paralyzed. Another surprise was the silver medal win by GDR jumper Klaus Beer, who reached 8.19 m in the second attempt and was even three cm ahead of Ralph Boston. Igor Ter-Owanesjan was fourth with 8.12 m.
We have recorded reactions from Davies and Ter-Owanesjan to Beamon's jump. The Soviet co-favorite said to Davies: Compared to this jump, we are children - German: Compared to this jump, we are children. - Davies accused Beamon: "You have destroyed this event." - German: You destroyed this competition.
place | Surname | nation | 1. V. | 2. V. | 3. V. | 4. V. | 5. V. | 6. V. | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Bob Beamon | United States | 8.90 m WR | 8.04 m | - | - | - | - | 8.90 m | WR |
2 | Klaus Beer | GDR | 7.97 m | 8.19 m | x | 7.62 m | x | x | 8.19 m | |
3 | Ralph Boston | United States | 8.16 m | 8.05 m | 7.91 m | x | x | 7.97 m | 8.16 m | |
4th | Igor Ter-Ovanessjan | URS | 8.12 m | 8.09 m | x | x | 8.10 m | 8.08 m | 8.12 m | |
5 | Tõnu Lepik | URS | 7.82 m | 8.09 m | 7.63 m | 7.36 m | 7.84 m | 7.75 m | 8.09 m | |
6th | Allen Crawley | THE END | x | 8.01 m | x | 7.80 m | x | 8.02 m | 8.02 m | |
7th | Jack Pani | FRA | 7.94 m | 7.97 m | 7.69 m | 7.58 m | 7.61 m | x | 7.97 m | |
8th | Andrzej Stalmach | POLE | 7.71 m | 7.94 m | 7.88 m | 7.75 m | 7.75 m | 7.84 m | 7.94 m | |
9 | Lynn Davies | GBR | 6.43 m | 7.94 m | x | not in the final of the eight best jumpers |
7.94 m | |||
10 | Hiroomi Yamada | JPN | x | 7.93 m | x | 7.93 m | ||||
11 | Leonid Barkowskyj | URS | 7.90 m | 7.82 m | x | 7.90 m | ||||
12th | Reinhold Boschert | FRG | x | 7.54 m | 7.89 m | 7.89 m | ||||
13 | Michael Ahey | GHA | 7.71 m | 7.57 m | 7.40 m | 7.71 m | ||||
14th | Lars-Olof Höök | SWE | 7.66 m | x | x | 7.66 m | ||||
15th | Victor Brooks | JAM | x | x | 7.51 m | 7.51 m | ||||
16 | Gérard Ugolini | FRA | 7.44 m | 7.02 m | x | 7.44 m | ||||
ogV | Charles Mays | 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. 360–363
Video
- Bob Beamon's World Record Long Jump - 1968 Olympics , published January 21, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed November 9, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference Long Jump , accessed November 9, 2017
- Official report - summary pp. 98–101, Eng / Frz. (PDF), accessed on November 9, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1968 p. 528, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 9, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de. Retrieved November 9, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from September 17, 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. 10, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 9, 2017
- ↑ a b Official Report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 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. 528, engl./frz. (PDF), accessed on November 9, 2017
- ↑ Article in the blog Weltrekordler.de ( Memento from November 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 9, 2017
- ↑ Article on ESPN , accessed on November 9, 2017