1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Long jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 33 athletes from 25 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Montreal Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 28, 1976 (qualifying) July 29, 1976 (final) |
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The men's long jump at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 28 and 29, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 33 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the American Arnie Robinson . He won ahead of his compatriot Randy Williams and Frank Wartenberg from the GDR.
Hans Baumgartner and Hans-Jürgen Berger started for the Federal Republic of Germany . Berger failed in the qualification. Baumgartner qualified for the finals and finished eighth there.
The Swiss Rolf Bernhard also qualified for the final. He finished ninth.
Jumpers from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 8.90 m | Bob Beamon ( USA ) | Mexico City , Mexico | October 18, 1968 |
Olympic record | Mexico City Final , Mexico |
Conducting the competition
The jumpers competed in two groups for a qualifying round on July 28th. The qualifying distance for reaching the final on July 29th was 7.80 m. Since only nine jumpers reached this distance, the final field was filled to twelve athletes according to the next best distance.
Time schedule
July 28, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
July 29, 3 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the following athletes in light green.
qualification
Date: July 28, 1976, from 10 a.m.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Randy Williams | United States | 7.68 m | 7.97 m | - | 7.97 m | |
2 | Arnie Robinson | United States | x | 7.95 m | - | 7.95 m | |
3 | Larry Myricks | United States | 7.55 m | 7.67 m | 7.92 m | 7.92 m | |
4th | Valery Pidluschnyj | Soviet Union | 7.71 m | 7.90 m | - | 7.90 m | |
5 | Frank Wartenberg | GDR | 7.89 m | - | - | 7.89 m | |
6th | João Carlos de Oliveira | Brazil | 7.87 m | - | - | 7.87 m | |
7th | Nenad Stekic | Yugoslavia | 7.68 m | 7.56 m | 7.82 m | 7.82 m | |
8th | Jacques Rousseau | France | 7.82 m | - | - | 7.82 m | |
9 | Hans Baumgartner | BR Germany | 7.81 m | - | - | 7.81 m | |
10 | Alexei Pereversev | Soviet Union | 7.78 m | x | 7.75 m | 7.78 m | |
11 | Grzegorz Cybulski | Poland | 7.60 m | 7.71 m | 7.66 m | 7.71 m | |
12 | Hans-Jürgen Berger | BR Germany | 7.53 m | 7.46 m | 7.70 m | 7.70 m | |
13 | Milán Matos | Cuba | 7.23 m | 7.56 m | 7.57 m | 7.57 m | |
14th | Tõnu Lepik | Soviet Union | 7.41 m | 7.49 m | x | 7.49 m | |
15th | George Swanston | Trinidad and Tobago | 7.31 m | 7.40 m | 7.29 m | 7.40 m | |
16 | Philippe Deroche | France | 7.31 m | 7.38 m | 7.31 m | 7.38 m | |
17th | Rafael Blanquer | Spain | x | x | 6.19 m | 6.19 m |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | annotation | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rolf Bernhard | Switzerland | 7.58 m | 7.79 m | 7.75 m | 7.79 m | |
2 | Fletcher Lewis | Bahamas | 5.99 m | 7.66 m | 7.73 m | 7.73 m | |
3 | Roy Mitchell | Great Britain | 7.46 m | 7.64 m | 7.69 m | 7.69 m | |
4th | TC Yohannan | India | 7.62 m | x | 7.67 m | 7.67 m | |
5 | Ronald Desruelles | Belgium | 7.60 m | 7.11 m | x | 7.60 m | |
6th | Richard Rock | Canada | 7.44 m | 7.24 m | 7.57 m | 7.57 m | |
7th | Jim Buchanan | Canada | 5.61 m | 7.49 m | x | 7.49 m | |
8th | Jim McAndrew | Canada | 7.45 m | 7.45 m | 7.48 m | 7.48 m | |
9 | Roberto Veglia | Italy | 7.12 m | 7.48 m | 7.41 m | 7.48 m | |
10 | Chris Commons | Australia | 7.46 m | x | x | 7.46 m | |
11 | Panagiotis Khatzistathis | Greece | 6.83 m | 7.10 m | 7.33 m | 7.33 m | |
12 | Brou Kouakou | Ivory Coast | 7.12 m | 7.20 m | 5.61 m | 7.20 m | |
13 | Calvin Greenaway | Antigua and Barbuda | 6.96 m | 6.76 m | 6.92 m | 6.96 m | |
14th | Papa Ibrahima Ba | Senegal | 6.96 m | 5.21 m | x | 6.96 m | |
15th | Tony Moore | Fiji | x | 6.81 m | x | 6.81 m | |
ogV | Ghassan Faddoul | Lebanon | x | x | x | without space |
final
Date: July 29, 1976, 3 p.m.
The favorites were US jumpers Arnie Robinson, Randy Williams, who became Olympic champion four years ago, and Larry Myricks. They were right at the top of the world best list for the Olympic year. But the two Europeans Valerij Pidluschnyj, USSR, and Nenad Stekić from Yugoslavia, who had occupied the first two places at the last European Championships , were also among the other group of medal candidates . Myricks injured himself while jumping warm before the first round of the finals. He broke a bone in his foot and subsequently had to give up his participation.
In the first lap, Robinson jumped 8.35 m and Williams with 8.11 m their best distances. Behind them were French Jacques Rousseau and Brazilian João Carlos de Oliveira - each exactly 8.00 m. Frank Wartenberg from the GDR was fifth with 7.81 m at this point. In the fourth attempt this improved to third place with 8.02 m. So it was very close behind the two leading Americans. In the last two laps nothing changed in the classification. Arnie Robinson was Olympic champion ahead of Randy Williams. Frank Wartenberg won the bronze medal in the end. Only two centimeters separated him from fourth and fifth place, which Jacques Rousseau and João Carlos de Oliveira took with their widths from round one. Only these five jumpers reached or exceeded the 8-meter mark. Bob Beamon's Olympic record - 8.90 m from 1968 - remained untouched here. The winning distance of the last games in Munich was exceeded by eleven centimeters.
In the 18th Olympic final, Arnie Robinson jumped to the 16th US victory. At the same time, it was the eleventh double victory for the USA.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Arnie Robinson | United States | 8.35 m | 8.26 m | x | 8.04 m | 8.16 m | 7.91 m | 8.35 m | |
2 | Randy Williams | United States | 8.11 m | 7.91 m | x | x | x | 7.81 m | 8.11 m | |
3 | Frank Wartenberg | GDR | 7.81 m | - | x | 8.02 m | 7.84 m | x | 8.02 m | |
4th | Jacques Rousseau | France | 8.00 m | 7.82 m | 7.67 m | 7.91 m | x | 7.62 m | 8.00 m | |
5 | João Carlos de Oliveira | Brazil | 8.00 m | x | 7.76 m | - | - | 7.85 m | 8.00 m | |
6th | Nenad Stekic | Yugoslavia | 7.75 m | 7.81 m | 7.89 m | 7.80 m | x | 7.77 m | 7.89 m | |
7th | Valery Pidluschnyj | Soviet Union | 7.70 m | 7.88 m | 7.77 m | 7.84 m | x | 7.66 m | 7.88 m | |
8th | Hans Baumgartner | BR Germany | x | x | 7.84 m | x | x | x | 7.84 m | |
9 | Rolf Bernhard | Switzerland | 7.70 m | 7.71 m | 7.74 m | not in the final of the eight best jumpers |
7.74 m | |||
10 | Alexei Pereversev | Soviet Union | 7.55 m | 4.89 m | 7.66 m | 7.66 m | ||||
11 | Fletcher Lewis | Bahamas | 7.61 m | 7.31 m | x | 7.61 m | ||||
DNS | Larry Myricks | United States | injured |
literature
- Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 230
Video
- SYND 30 7 76 OLYMPIC MEN'S LONG JUMP MEN'S 1,500M HEAT 3 & LAST HEAT , Montreal 1976, range 0:00 min - 0:32 min, published July 24, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed December 16, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference Long Jump , accessed December 16, 2017
- Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , pp. 70f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 16, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 556 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 16 December 2017
- ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 16, 2017
- ↑ a b Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 71, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 16, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 16, 2017