1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	36 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	September 8, 1972 (qualification) September 9, 1972 (final)
Medalist Randy Williams ( USA )   Hans Baumgartner ( FRG )   Arnie Robinson ( USA )

The men's long jump at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 8th and 9th, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 36 athletes took part.

The American Randy Williams became Olympic champion . The silver medal went to Hans Baumgartner from the Federal Republic of Germany, while the bronze went to Arnie Robinson from the United States .

In addition to the silver medalist, Josef Schwarz and Andreas Gloerfeld also competed for the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany . Both were eliminated in qualifying.
The GDR was represented by Max Klauss , who finished sixth in the final.
Rolf Bernhard and Linus Rebmann started for Switzerland. Both failed in qualification.
Jumpers from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	8.90 m	Bob Beamon ( United States )	Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1958
Olympic record			Mexico City Final , Mexico

Conducting the competition

The jumpers competed in two groups for a qualifying round on September 8th. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 7.80 m. Since fewer than twelve athletes managed this distance, the final field was filled up to twelve participants according to the next best distance.
In the final, which took place in the afternoon of the same day, each athlete initially had three attempts. The best eight participants then had another three jumps.

Time schedule

September 8, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
September 9, 3:20 p.m .: Final

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the following athletes in light green.

qualification

Date: September 8, 1972, from 10 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Randy Williams	United States	8.34 m	-	-	8.34 m
2	Grzegorz Cybulski	Poland	7.61 m	8.01 m	-	8.01 m
3	Leonid Barkowskyj	Soviet Union	7.66 m	7.98 m	-	7.98 m
4th	Hans Baumgartner	BR Germany	7.98 m	-	-	7.98 m
5	Valery Pidluschnyj	Soviet Union	7.91 m	-	-	7.91 m
6th	Ari Väänänen	Finland	7.67 m	7.90 m	-	7.90 m
7th	Jacques Rousseau	France	7.77 m	7.79 m	7.51 m	7.79 m
8th	Jaroslav Brož	Czechoslovakia	7.76 m	x	7.74 m	7.76 m
9	Bruce Field	Australia	x	7.59 m	7.76 m	7.76 m
10	Rolf Bernhard	Switzerland	7.30 m	7.68 m	7.61 m	7.68 m
11	Gábor Katona	Hungary	x	7.68 m	x	7.68 m
12	Lynn Davies	United Kingdom	7.64 m	7.53 m	x	7.64 m
13	Jerzy Homziuk	Poland	7.63 m	x	x	7.63 m
14th	Finn Bendixen	Norway	7.46 m	7.45 m	7.61 m	7.61 m
15th	Carol Corbu	Romania	7.54 m	7.52 m	7.46 m	7.54 m
16	Henry Jackson	Jamaica	7.11 m	7.24 m	7.50 m	7.50 m
17th	Michael Ahey	Ghana	x	7.39 m	x	7.39 m
18th	Mohinder Singh Gill	India	x	x	7.30 m	7.30 m
19th	Lionel Caero	Bolivia	6.77 m	6.60 m	6.52 m	6.77 m
20th	Bilal Said Al-Azma	Saudi Arabia	6.32 m	6.15 m	6.15 m	6.32 m
DNS	Mansour slide	Senegal
	Patrick Onyango	Kenya
	Jack Pani	France
	Hyon Jong-gu	North Korea

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Preston Carrington	United States	x	x	8.22 m	8.22 m
2	Arnie Robinson	United States	7.99 m	-	-	7.99 m
3	Max Klauss	German Democratic Republic	7.93 m	-	-	7.93 m
	Joshua Owusu	Ghana
5	Alan Lerwill	United Kingdom	7.86 m	-	-	7.86 m
6th	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	Soviet Union	x	7.77 m	x	7.77 m
7th	Josef Schwarz	BR Germany	7.63 m	x	7.62 m	7.63 m
8th	Andreas Gloerfeld	BR Germany	x	7.60 m	x	7.60 m
9	Wilfredo Maisonave	Puerto Rico	7.35 m	7.58 m	x	7.58 m
10	Christian Tourret	France	7.54 m	7.53 m	7.55 m	7.55 m
11	Milán Matos	Cuba	7.42 m	7.46 m	7.47 m	7.47 m
12	Takayoshi Kawagoe	Japan	7.45 m	7.47 m	6.72 m	7.47 m
13	Martin Adouna	Togo	7.21 m	7.25 m	7.10 m	7.25 m
14th	Linus Rebmann	Switzerland	x	7.25 m	5.69 m	7.25 m
15th	Chen Chin-long	Taiwan	6.79 m	x	x	6.79 m
ogV	Jesper Tørring	Denmark	x	x	x		without space
DNS	Bjambajawyn Enchbaatar	Mongolia
	Dennis Freeman	Liberia
	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy
	Samuel Igun	Nigeria
	Jan Kobuszewski	Poland
	Luiz Carlos de Souza	Brazil
	Milan Spasojevic	Yugoslavia
	Samuela Yavala	Fiji

final

Date: September 9, 1972, 3:20 p.m.

The favorites were US jumpers Arnie Robinson and Randy Williams, who had jumped a junior world record in qualifying. The two-time bronze medalist Igor Ter-Owanessjan from the USSR, who competed in the Olympic Games for the fifth time, could not qualify for the final. The 1964 Olympic champion , Briton Lynn Davies, also failed to qualify.
In the final, Williams jumped his best distance with 8.24 m in the first attempt, but remained ten centimeters below his mark from the qualification. Hans Baumgartner from the Federal Republic of Germany came within six centimeters of the leader in the third attempt. Arnie Robinson jumped 8.03 m in the fifth attempt, which meant third place in the end. The order at the front didn't change anymore. Randy Williams became Olympic champion, Hans Baumgartner won the silver medal.

In the 17th Olympic final, Randy Williams jumped to the 15th US victory.

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  Max Klauß, GDR, came in sixth

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  Igor Ter-Owanessjan, USSR, retired from the qualification

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  The Briton Lynn Davies failed in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Randy Williams	United States	8.24 m	7.32 m	7.72 m	7.80 m	7.77 m	-	8.24 m
2	Hans Baumgartner	BR Germany	x	7.99 m	8.18 m	x	7.83 m	8.05 m	8.18 m
3	Arnie Robinson	United States	x	7.89 m	7.95 m	x	8.03 m	x	8.03 m
4th	Joshua Owusu	Ghana	7.71 m	7.77 m	7.88 m	7.70 m	7.98 m	8.01 m	8.01 m
5	Preston Carrington	United States	7.99 m	x	x	7.95 m	7.63 m	7.69 m	7.99 m
6th	Max Klauss	German Democratic Republic	7.51 m	7.94 m	7.96 m	7.86 m	6.13 m	7.88 m	7.96 m
7th	Alan Lerwill	United Kingdom	x	7.91 m	7.69 m	x	7.78 m	7.85 m	7.91 m
8th	Leonid Barkowskyj	Soviet Union	7.56 m	7.53 m	7.75 m	7.61 m	7.56 m	x	7.75 m
9	Valery Pidluschnyj	Soviet Union	x	7.56 m	7.72 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			7.72 m
10	Jacques Rousseau	France	7.65 m	7.37 m	7.52 m				7.65 m
11	Ari Väänänen	Finland	7.62 m	7.57 m	7.60 m				7.62 m
12	Grzegorz Cybulski	Poland	7.44 m	7.58 m	7.53 m				7.58 m

literature

• Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 42f

Video

• Randy Williams Long Jump 8.34m Olympics 1972 , published October 31, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed November 29, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference long jump ,
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , pp. 60f, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 29, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 556 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 29, 2017
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 29, 2017 
3. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 60, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 29, 2017 
4. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 61, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 29, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 29, 2017