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)
Medalist Arnie Robinson ( USA )   Randy Williams ( USA )   Frank Wartenberg ( GDR )

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

Frank Wartenberg, GDR, winner of the bronze medal

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

The Indian T. C. Yohannan dropped out as fourth in his qualification group

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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 556 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 16 December 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 16, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 71, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 16, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 16, 2017