1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	34 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 27, 1980 (qualification) July 28, 1980 (final)
Medalist Lutz Dombrowski ( GDR )   Frank Paschek ( GDR )   Valery Pidluschnyj ( URS )

The men's long jump at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 27 and 28, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 34 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Lutz Dombrowski from the GDR. He won ahead of his compatriot Frank Paschek and Valerij Pidluschnyj from the Soviet Union.

Third participant from the GDR was Peter Rieger, who failed in the qualification.
The Austrian William Rea did not survive the qualification either. The Swiss Rolf Bernhard, on the other hand, qualified for the final and finished ninth there.
Jumpers from Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

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 27th. The qualifying distance for reaching the final on July 28th was 7.90 m. Since fewer than twelve participants jumped this distance with nine athletes, the final field was filled to twelve athletes according to the next best distance.

Time schedule

Olympic champion Lutz Dombrowski, GDR

July 24, 10:30 a.m .: Qualification
July 25, 5:50 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )

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

qualification

Date: July 24, 1980, from 10.30 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Frank Paschek	GDR	8.17 m	-	-	8.17 m
	Lutz Dombrowski	GDR
3	Stanisław Jaskułka	Poland	7.46 m	8.07 m	-	8.07 m
4th	Valery Pidluschnyj	Soviet Union	8.02 m	-	-	8.02 m
5	Wiktar Belski	Soviet Union	x	7.64 m	8.01 m	8.01 m
6th	Antonio Corgos	Spain	7.46 m	7.76 m	7.96 m	7.96 m
7th	László Szalma	Hungary	7.86 m	7.72 m	7.91 m	7.91 m
8th	Philippe Deroche	France	7.90 m	-	-	7.90 m
9	Jordan Janew	Bulgaria	7.63 m	7.68 m	7.84 m	7.84 m
10	João Carlos de Oliveira	Brazil	x	7.78 m	x	7.78 m
11	Andrzej Klimaszewski	Poland	7.76 m	x	6.56 m	7.76 m
12	Dimitrios Delifotis	Greece	7.74 m	7.63 m	7.14 m	7.74 m
13	Alberto Solanas	Spain	7.36 m	7.73 m	7.71 m	7.73 m
14th	Peter Rieger	GDR	x	7.59 m	-	7.59 m
15th	David Giralt	Cuba	x	7.54 m	7.57 m	7.57 m
16	Ivan Tuparov	Bulgaria	7.46 m	x	x	7.46 m
17th	Nenad Stekic	Yugoslavia	5.75 m	-	-	5.75 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Rolf Bernhard	Switzerland	7.98 m	-	-	7.98 m
2	Kayode Elegbede	Nigeria	7.76 m	7.82 m	7.50 m	7.82 m
3	Joshua Kio	Nigeria	7.77 m	7.67 m	7.45 m	7.77 m
4th	William Rea	Austria	7.60 m	7.71 m	7.74 m	7.74 m
5	Jan Leitner	Czechoslovakia	7.68 m	7.63 m	7.57 m	7.68 m
6th	Amadou N'Diaye	Senegal	7.49 m	x	7.66 m	7.66 m
7th	Gary Honey	Australia	x	7.44 m	x	7.44 m
8th	Yusuf Alli	Nigeria	7.43 m	7.40 m	x	7.43 m
9	Béla Bakosi	Hungary	7.29 m	x	x	7.29 m
10	Théophile Hounou	Benin	7.07 m	7.01 m	7.03 m	7.07 m
11	Stelio Craveirinha	Mozambique	6.78 m	6.94 m	x	6.94 m
12	Ronald Raborg	Peru	x	6.85 m	x	6.85 m
13	Abebe Gessese	Ethiopia	6.66 m	6.64 m	6.46 m	6.66 m
ogV	Essa Abbas	Kuwait	x	x	x		without space
	Fidelis Ndyabagye	Uganda	x	-	-
DNS	Bogger Mushanga	Zambia
	Olli Pousi	Finland

final

Date: July 25, 1980, 5:50 p.m.

Due to the Olympic boycott, the US jumpers were missing. Larry Myricks and the young Carl Lewis were especially valued. The GDR athlete Lutz Dombrowski remained the favorite. His greatest competitor, the Yugoslav Nenad Stekić, had to give up injured in the qualification.

Dombrowski took the lead in the first run with 8.15 m. Two centimeters behind him, the Hungarian László Szalma was first in second place. Dombrowski showed his quality in the next attempt when he reached 8.32 m. His compatriot Frank Paschek convinced in this lap with 8.22 m and took second place ahead of Szalma. In the fourth attempt, the Soviet jumper Valerij Pidluschnyj achieved 8.18 m and displaced Szalma from the bronze rank. In the next round, Lutz Dombrowski with his 8.54 m finally ensured clear conditions and won the gold medal safely ahead of Frank Paschek. The Pole Stanisław Jaskułka drew level with László Szalma with his last jump of 8.13 m. The Hungarian stayed in fourth place ahead of Jaskułka due to his second best distance. Nothing more changed for Valery Pidluschnyj either. He won the bronze medal. Dombrowski's 8.54 m was the second-best long jump in the history of athletics in 1980. Even today - as of December 2017 - Dombrowski ranks seventeenth on the world's best list with this width.

Lutz Dombrowski jumped to the first German Olympic victory in the men's long jump .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Lutz Dombrowski	GDR	8.15 m	8.32 m	-	8.21 m	8.54 m	8.34 m	8.54 m
2	Frank Paschek	GDR	7.81 m	8.22 m	x	x	7.85 m	7.94 m	8.22 m
3	Valery Pidluschnyj	Soviet Union	8.07 m	8.08 m	7.97 m	8.18 m	x	7.82 m	8.18 m
4th	László Szalma	Hungary	8.13 m	7.99 m	x	7.95 m	x	x	8.13 m
5	Stanisław Jaskułka	Poland	7.73 m	7.76 m	7.97 m	7.87 m	7.97 m	8.13 m	8.13 m
6th	Wiktar Belski	Soviet Union	7.79 m	7.15 m	8.10 m	7.76 m	7.74 m	x	8.10 m
7th	Antonio Corgos	Spain	8.02 m	8.09 m	x	-	x	7.97 m	8.09 m
8th	Jordan Janew	Bulgaria	7.91 m	x	7.88 m	x	8.02 m	x	8.02 m
9	Rolf Bernhard	Switzerland	7.88 m	x	7.71 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			7.88 m
10	Philippe Deroche	France	7.63 m	7.65 m	7.77 m				7.77 m
11	Kayode Elegbede	Nigeria	x	x	7.49 m				7.49 m
DNS	João Carlos de Oliveira	Brazil

Video

• 1980 Olympics Moscow, Men, Long Jump - 1980 Olympics long jump , published July 20, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed December 30, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed December 30, 2017
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 54f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 30, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 556 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 30 December 2017
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 30, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 55, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 30, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 30, 2017
5. ↑ IAAF Records, Long Jump Men , accessed December 30, 2017