1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	42 athletes from 31 countries
Competition location	Seoul Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 25, 1988 (qualifying) September 26, 1988 (final)
Medalist Carl Lewis ( USA )   Mike Powell ( USA )   Larry Myricks ( USA )

The men's long jump at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was held on September 25 and 26, 1988 in two rounds at the Seoul Olympic Stadium. 42 athletes took part.

Olympic gold medalist was the 1984 US gold medalist Carl Lewis . He won ahead of fellow countrymen Mike Powell and Larry Myricks .

Andreas Steiner and Theodor Steinmayr started for Austria . Both were eliminated in qualifying.
Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany, the GDR, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1984	Carl Lewis ( USA )	8.54 m	Los Angeles 1984
World Champion 1987		8.67 m	Rome 1987
European champion 1986	Robert Emmijan ( Soviet Union )	8.41 m	Stuttgart 1986
Pan American champion 1987	Carl Lewis ( USA )	8.75 m	Indianapolis 1987
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987	Ray Quiñones ( Puerto Rico )	8.01 m	Caracas 1987
South America Champion 1987	Paulo de Oliveira ( Brazil )	7.65 m	São Paulo 1987
Asian champion 1987	Kim Won-jin ( South Korea )	8.00 m	Singapore 1987
African Champion 1988	Yusuf Alli ( Nigeria )	7.78 m	Annaba 1988

Existing records

The Dutchman Emiel Mellaard reached the final and was Olympic eleven

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

qualification

Date: September 25, 1988

For the qualification the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 8.00 m. Since only five jumpers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best jumpers from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 7.77 m was enough for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Larry Myricks	United States	8.19 m	-	-	8.19 m
2	Norbert Brige	France	x	8.05 m	-	8.05 m
3	Emiel Mellaard	Netherlands	7.84 m	8.02 m	-	8.02 m
4th	László Szalma	Hungary	7.92 m	7.89 m	x	7.92 m
5	Antonio Corgos	Spain	7.91 m	7.88 m	-	7.91 m
6th	Stewart Faulkner	Great Britain	7.72 m	7.74 m	7.74 m	7.74 m
7th	Bruny Surin	Canada	7.69 m	7.73 m	7.39 m	7.73 m
8th	James Browne	Antigua and Barbuda	7.06 m	7.67 m	7.33 m	7.67 m
9	David Culbert	Australia	x	x	7.64 m	7.64 m
10	Andreas Steiner	Austria	7.40 m	7.61 m	7.48 m	7.61 m
11	Glenroy Gilbert	Canada	7.46 m	7.61 m	7.27 m	7.61 m
12	John King	Great Britain	7.57 m	x	x	7.57 m
13	Ian James	Canada	x	x	7.52 m	7.52 m
14th	Hui-Fang Nai	Chinese Taipei	7.45 m	x	7.16 m	7.45 m
15th	José Luis Leitão	Portugal	x	6.99 m	6.81 m	6.99 m
16	Ricardo Valiente	Peru	6.91 m	x	6.92 m	6.92 m
ogV	Abdullah Mohamed Al-Sheib	Qatar	x	-	-		without space
	Orde Ballantyne	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	x	x	-
	Shahanuddin Choudhury	Bangladesh	x	x	x
	Sizwe Mdluli	Swaziland	x	x	x
	David Lamai	Kenya	x	x	x
DNS	Gary Honey	Australia

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Mike Powell	United States	7.83 m	x	8.34 m	8.34 m
2	Carl Lewis	United States	8.08 m	-	-	8.08 m
3	Jarmo Kärnä	Finland	7.71 m	7.89 m	7.90 m	7.90 m
4th	Leonid Voloshin	Soviet Union	x	x	7.89 m	7.89 m
5	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	x	7.81 m	7.60 m	7.81 m
6th	Pang Yan	People's Republic of China	7.64 m	x	7.79 m	7.79 m
7th	Mark Forsythe	Great Britain	7.77 m	7.77 m	7.45 m	7.77 m
8th	James Browne	Antigua and Barbuda	7.06 m	7.67 m	7.33 m	7.67 m
9	Yusuf Alli	Nigeria	7.72 m	7.73 m	7.67 m	7.73 m
10	Kim Jong-il	South Korea	7.36 m	7.68 m	7.70 m	7.70 m
11	Chen Zunrong	People's Republic of China	x	7.61 m	7.66 m	7.66 m
12	Frédéric Ebong-Salle	Cameroon	7.34 m	7.65 m	x	7.65 m
13	Stephen Hanna	Bahamas	7.54 m	x	x	7.54 m
14th	Hiroyuki Shibata	Japan	x	7.48 m	x	7.48 m
15th	Theodor Steinmayr	Austria	x	7.31 m	7.36 m
16	Lotfi Khaida	Algeria	7.10 m	x	x	7.10 m
17th	Muhammad Urfaq	Pakistan	x	x	7.09 m	7.09 m
18th	Francis Keita	Sierra Leone	6.52 m	6.87 m	6.14 m	6.87 m
ogV	Robert Emmijan	Soviet Union	-	-	-		without space
	Ray Quiñones	Puerto Rico	x	x	x
	Junichi Usui	Japan	x	x	x
DNS	Vladimir Otschkan	Soviet Union

final

Olympic champion Carl Lewis from the USA

Date: September 26, 1988

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, five of them had reached the required qualification distance. All three US athletes were in the final, plus one participant each from China, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Soviet Union, Spain, Hungary and Great Britain.

The top favorite was the 1984 Olympic champion Carl Lewis. The strongest competitors were his teammates Larry Myricks and Mike Powell as well as the Soviet runner-up world champion Robert Emmijan, who was also the reigning European champion . The World Cup fourth Giovanni Evangelisti was also one of the medal candidates. Emmijan injured himself in qualifying on his first jump, could no longer continue and was eliminated without a valid attempt.

Lewis took the lead with 8.41 meters on the first lap. Powell and Myricks lay behind him. The Spaniard Antonio Corgos was fourth with 8.03 m. In the second round, Myricks was able to slip past Powell with 8.27 m, while Lewis extended his lead with a jump to 8.56 m. The Italian Giovanni Evangelisti, bronze medalist from Los Angeles , improved to fourth with 8.08 m, Corgos was now fifth. On lap three Powell regained second place with 8.49 m.

As usual, the final was continued with only eight jumpers from round four. Lewis jumped 8.72 m. Of the 24 jumps made by all participants in the three final rounds, only seven attempts were valid. Apart from Lewis, no other jumper could improve his distance from the first three rounds. So nothing changed in the placements. Powell gave up his fifth attempt, Evangelisti no longer started. Carl Lewis became Olympic champion and won his second gold medal here in Seoul after the 100-meter run . Silver went to Mike Powell, bronze to Larry Myricks. The following places went to Giovanni Evangelisti, Antonio Corgos and the Hungarian László Szalma.

Only the first six athletes jumped over the eight-meter mark, a level that had been surpassed at the last world championships. The distances, especially of the first two Lewis and Powell, on the other hand, were at the top level - Bob Beamon's record jump of 1968 was on a different page anyway, it had been unmatched for a long time.

Carl Lewis was the first Olympic long jump champion to repeat his Olympic victory. He won the sixth gold medal of his career here.
His victory in the 21st Olympic final was the 18th victory of a US long jumper. It was also the third triple success for the USA in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Carl Lewis	United States	8.41 m	8.56 m	8.52 m	8.72 m	8.52 m	x	8.72 m
2	Mike Powell	United States	8.23 m	8.11 m	8.49 m	x	-	x	8.49 m
3	Larry Myricks	United States	8.14 m	8.27 m	x	8.17 m	x	x	8.27 m
4th	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	7.84 m	8.08 m	7.63 m	-	-	-	8.08 m
5	Antonio Corgos	Spain	8.03 m	x	x	7.86 m	x	7.99 m	8.03 m
6th	László Szalma	Hungary	x	x	8.00 m	x	x	x	8.00 m
7th	Norbert Brige	France	7.87 m	x	x	7.97 m	x	x	7.97 m
8th	Leonid Voloshin	Soviet Union	7.87 m	7.78 m	x	x	x	7.89 m	7.89 m
9	Pang Yan	People's Republic of China	x	7.72 m	7.86 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			7.86 m
10	Jarmo Kärnä	Finland	x	7.81 m	7.82 m				7.82 m
11	Emiel Mellaard	Netherlands	7.71 m	x	7.51 m				7.71 m
12	Mark Forsythe	Great Britain	x	x	7.54 m				7.54 m

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed January 28, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 242f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 28, 2018

Video

• Carl Lewis Wins Long Jump Gold - Seoul 1988 Olympics , published June 19, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed January 28, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 677 , accessed on January 28, 2018
2. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 242f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 28, 2018
3. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 243, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 28, 2018