1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 5, 1984 (qualifying) August 6, 1984 (final)
Medalist Carl Lewis ( USA )   Gary Honey ( AUS )   Giovanni Evangelisti ( ITA )

The men's long jump at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 5 and 6, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 31 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the American Carl Lewis , who won ahead of the Australian Gary Honey . Bronze went to the Italian Giovanni Evangelisti .

Switzerland was represented by René Gloor , who was eliminated in qualification.

Jumpers from the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1980	Lutz Dombrowski ( GDR )	8.54 m	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Carl Lewis ( USA )	8.55 m	Helsinki 1983
European Champion 1982	Lutz Dombrowski ( GDR )	8.41 m	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	Jaime Jefferson ( Cuba )	8.03 m	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983	Juan Felipe Ortíz ( Cuba )	8.04 m	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Osvaldo Frigerio ( Argentina )	7.51 m	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Liu Yuhuang ( People's Republic of China )	7.97 m	Kuwait City 1983
African champions 1982	Doudou Ndiaye ( Senegal )	7.62 m	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	8.90 m	Bob Beamon ( USA )	Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1968
Olympic record			Mexico City Final , Mexico

qualification

Date: August 5, 1984

For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 7.90 m. Since only seven jumpers reached this distance, the final field was filled with the next best jumpers from both groups, the so-called lucky losers , to twelve participants. A width of 7.76 m was finally enough to participate in the final. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Carl Lewis	United States	8.30 m	-	-	8.30 m
2	Antonio Corgos	Spain	8.02 m	-	-	8.02 m
3	Gary Honey	Australia	7.93 m	-	-	7.93 m
4th	Joseph Wells	Bahamas	x	7.92 m	-	7.92 m
5	Michael McRae	United States	7.70 m	7.50 m	7.89 m	7.89 m
6th	Kim Jong-il	South Korea	x	7.67 m	7.86 m	7.86 m
7th	Liu Yuhuang	People's Republic of China	7.83 m	x	7.73 m	7.83 m
8th	Nenad Stekic	Yugoslavia	7.60 m	7.41 m	7.45 m	7.60 m
9	Moses Kiyai	Kenya	x	7.51 m	x	7.51 m
10	Wang Shijie	People's Republic of China	x	7.22 m	7.36 m	7.36 m
11	Lee Fu-An	Chinese Taipei	7.23 m	6.96 m	6.82 m	7.23 m
12	Kristján Harðarson	Iceland	x	7.09 m	6.93 m	7.09 m
13	Fidel Solórzano	Ecuador	6.93 m	6.84 m	6.90 m	6.93 m
14th	Abdoulaye Traoré	Mali	6.92 m	6.36 m	6.60 m	6.92 m
15th	Bilanday Bodjona	Togo	6.82 m	6.70 m	6.75 m	6.82 m
16	Ghabi Issa Khouri	Lebanon	6.25 m	x	6.80 m	6.80 m
DNS	Paul Emordi	Nigeria

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Larry Myricks	United States	7.80 m	8.02 m	-	8.02 m
2	Jun'ichi Usui	Japan	7.62 m	8.02 m	-	8.02 m
3	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	7.94 m	-	-	7.94 m
4th	Yusuf Alli	Nigeria	7.65 m	7.43 m	7.82 m	7.82 m
5	Judobaraye Kio	Nigeria	x	7.76 m	x	7.76 m
6th	René Gloor	Switzerland	7.57 m	7.71 m	7.58 m	7.71 m
7th	Lester Benjamin	Antigua and Barbuda	x	7.44 m	7.57 m	7.57 m
8th	Kémobé Djirmassal	Chad	7.01 m	7.11 m	7.51 m	7.51 m
9	Lyndon Sands	Bahamas	7.32 m	5.95 m	7.22 m	7.32 m
10	Stephen Hanna	Bahamas	6.97 m	2.36 m	7.10 m	7.10 m
11	Shahad Mubarak	United Arab Emirates	6.98 m	x	-	6.98 m
12	Oscar Diesel	Paraguay	6.45 m	6.78 m	6.73 m	6.78 m
13	Ernest Tché-Noubossie	Cameroon	6.76 m	6.57 m	6.52 m	6.76 m
14th	Dimitrios Araouzas	Cyprus	x	x	5.67 m	5.67 m
ogV	Steve Walsh	New Zealand	x	x	x		without space
DNS	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium
	Francis Dodoo	Ghana

final

Olympic Champion Carl Lewis, USA

Date: August 5, 1984

Twelve jumpers had qualified for the final, seven of which had reached the qualification range. In addition to all three US athletes, two Nigerians were also in the final. There was also a jumper from the Bahamas and one participant each from Italy, Spain, China, Japan, Australia and South Korea. Each jumper initially had three attempts. The best eight athletes were then able to complete three more jumps.

The top favorite for the gold medal was Carl Lewis. His great goal was in Los Angeles four gold medals ( 100m , 200m , long jump and 4 x 100 m relay ) to win and so his model Jesse Owens emulate that this at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin had managed . Lewis had taken the first step with his victory 100 meters, now it went on with the long jump. His biggest challenger was teammate Larry Myricks. Lutz Dombrowski from the GDR was particularly absent from the group of nations that boycotted the games that year . He was Olympic champion in 1980 and European champion in 1982 .

Lewis reached 8.54 m in the first attempt. He was ahead of the Italian Giovanni Evangelisti and Myricks with exactly the same distance with which Dombrowski had become Olympic champion four years earlier. After a failed attempt, Lewis did not take part in the following four jumps, but instead watched the action in order to spare himself for the quarter-finals in the 200-meter run that took place later. It was clear to him that his distance would not be exceeded in this competition. The audience, however, resented his behavior, especially since Lewis was capable of greater distances, and booed him in the following years.

The Australian Gary Honey jumped 8.18 m in the third round and moved past Evangelisti and Myricks, who had been placed in front of him, to second place. In the fifth round, Myricks reached 8.16 m and had thus initially regained a medal rank. But the last attempt brought another turning point. Honey and Evangelisti both jumped 8.24 m, so Myricks fell back to fourth place. Honey won the silver medal because of his better second best distance - 8.18 m versus 8.09 m for Evangelisti.

Carl Lewis won his second gold medal in Los Angeles. It was the 17th US victory in the 20th Olympic final.
Giovanni Evangelisti won the first Italian medal in the long jump.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Carl Lewis	United States	8.54 m	x	-	-	-	-	8.54 m
2	Gary Honey	Australia	7.97 m	7.92 m	8.18 m	7.92 m	x	8.24 m	8.24 m
3	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	8.09 m	7.94 m	7.90 m	x	x	8.24 m	8.24 m
4th	Larry Myricks	United States	8.06 m	7.99 m	x	8.00 m	8.16 m	6.28 m	8.16 m
5	Liu Yuhuang	People's Republic of China	x	7.66 m	7.89 m	7.65 m	7.60 m	7.99 m	7.99 m
6th	Joseph Wells	Bahamas	7.97 m	x	x	-	-	-	7.97 m
7th	Jun'ichi Usui	Japan	7.63 m	7.82 m	7.87 m	7.72 m	7.09 m	-	7.87 m
8th	Kim Jong-il	South Korea	7.76 m	7.81 m	7.77 m	x	7.59 m	x	7.81 m
9	Yusuf Alli	Nigeria	7.67 m	7.78 m	7.72 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			7.78 m
10	Antonio Corgos	Spain	7.44 m	7.50 m	7.69 m				7.69 m
11	Michael McRae	United States	x	7.63 m	7.45 m				7.63 m
12	Jubobaraye Kio	Nigeria	x	7.57 m	x				7.57 m

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 30f

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed January 12, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , pp. 286f, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 12, 2018

Video

• 1984 Olympic Games Men's Long Jump , published August 18, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 12, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 677 , accessed on January 12, 2018
2. ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 286, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 12, 2018
3. ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , pp. 286f, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 12, 2018
4. ↑ SportsReference Long Jump , accessed January 12, 2018