1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	50 athletes from 38 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	August 5, 1992 (qualification) August 6, 1992 (final)
Medalist Carl Lewis ( USA )   Mike Powell ( USA )   Joe Greene ( USA )

The men's long jump at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on August 5 and 6, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. Fifty athletes took part.

The US team celebrated a triple success. Olympic champion was Carl Lewis , who won ahead of his compatriots Mike Powell and Joe Greene .

Dietmar Haaf and Konstantin Krause started for Germany . Both failed in qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion in 1988	Carl Lewis ( USA )	8.72 m	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991	Mike Powell ( USA )	8.95 m	Tokyo 1991
European champion 1990	Dietmar Haaf ( Federal Republic of Germany )	8.25 m	Split 1990
Pan American champion 1991	Jaime Jefferson ( Cuba )	8.26 m	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991	Elmer Williams ( Puerto Rico )	7.94 m	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	Paulo de Oliveira ( Brazil )	7.93 m	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Chen Zunrong ( People's Republic of China )	8.10 m	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African Champion 1992	Ayodele Aladefa ( Nigeria )	7.95 m	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Simon Raynes ( New Zealand )	7.21 m	Suva 1990

Existing records

World record	8.95 m	Mike Powell ( USA )	Tokyo , Japan	August 30, 1991
Olympic record	8.90 m	Bob Beamon ( USA )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	October 18, 1968

qualification

Date: August 5, 1992

For the qualification, the jumpers were drawn into two groups. The width for the direct entry into the final was 8.05 m. Since only eight athletes jumped 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). In the end, 7.90 m was enough for participation in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Mike Powell	United States	8.14 m	-	-	8.14 m
2	Jaime Jefferson	Cuba	7.96 m	7.97 m	8.09 m	8.09 m
3	David Culbert	Australia	8.00 m	7.59 m	x	8.00 m
4th	Chen Zunrong	People's Republic of China	7.93 m	x	7.90 m	7.93 m
5	Joe Greene	United States	7.69 m	x	7.90 m	7.90 m
6th	Craig Hepburn	Bahamas	x	7.89 m	7.81 m	7.89 m
7th	Spyridon Vasdekis	Greece	7.67 m	7.82 m	7.71 m	7.82 m
8th	Masaki Morinaga	Japan	7.74 m	7.78 m	7.79 m	7.79 m
9	Galin Georgiev	Bulgaria	7.37 m	x	7.75 m	7.75 m
10	Ian James	Canada	x	7.74 m	x	7.74 m
11	Milan Gombala	Czechoslovakia	7.54 m	x	7.69 m	7.69 m
12	Thomas Ganda	Sierra Leone	7.67 m	7.40 m	7.43 m	7.67 m
13	Serge Hélan	France	7.60 m	x	7.48 m	7.60 m
	Eugene Licorish	Grenada	7.57 m	7.60 m	7.54 m	7.60 m
15th	Konstantin Krause	Germany	x	x	7.54 m	7.54 m
16	László Szalma	Hungary	7.47 m	7.40 m	7.36 m	7.47 m
17th	Michael Francis	Puerto Rico	x	x	7.46 m	7.46 m
18th	Benjamin Koech	Kenya	7.43 m	7.44 m	7.32 m	7.44 m
19th	Kareem Streete-Thompson	Cayman Islands	7.39 m	x	x	7.39 m
20th	Angelo Iannuzzelli	El Salvador	x	7.31 m	x	7.31 m
21st	Khalid Mosa	Sudan	7.03 m	7.02 m	6.54 m	7.03 m
22nd	Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa	Zimbabwe	6.96 m	6.95 m	6.96 m	6.96 m
23	Vadim Ivanov	EUN	x	x	5.97 m	5.97 m
ogV	Soryba Diakité	Guinea	x	-	-	without space
	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	x	x	x
	Ángel Hernández	Spain	x	x	x
DNS	Afonso Ferraz	Angola

Group B

The Cuban Iván Pedroso - here on a recording from 2010 - finished in the Olympics

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Carl Lewis	United States	8.68 m	-	-	8.68 m
2	Huang Geng	People's Republic of China	7.90 m	8.22 m	-	8.22 m
	Konstantinos Koukodimos	Greece	8.22 m	-	-	8.22 m
4th	Dmitri Bagryanov	EUN	7.95 m	8.09 m	-	8.09 m
5	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	7.83 m	8.07 m	-	8.07 m
	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	7.51 m	7.60 m	8.07 m	8.07 m
7th	Borut Bilač	Slovenia	x	8.00 m	x	8.00 m
8th	Dietmar Haaf	Germany	x	7.74 m	7.85 m	7.85 m
9	Mark Mason	Guyana	7.42 m	7.83 m	x	7.83 m
10	Jesús Oliván	Spain	x	7.78 m	x	7.78 m
11	Franck Lestage	France	7.72 m	7.65 m	7.66 m	7.72 m
12	Mark Forsythe	Great Britain	7.71 m	x	x	7.71 m
13	Elmer Williams	Puerto Rico	7.63 m	7.56 m	7.70 m	7.70 m
	Franck Zio	Burkina Faso	7.47 m	7.63 m	7.70 m	7.70 m
15th	Csaba Almási	Hungary	x	x	7.69 m	7.69 m
16	Edrick Floréal	Canada	7.62 m	7.54 m	7.62 m	7.62 m
17th	Roman Golanowski	Poland	x	x	7.61 m	7.61 m
18th	James Sabulei	Kenya	7.50 m	7.37 m	7.38 m	7.50 m
19th	Daniel Beauchamp	Seychelles	x	x	7.44 m	7.44 m
20th	Abdullah Mohamed Al-Sheib	Qatar	x	7.27 m	x	7.27 m
21st	Gabrieli Qoro	Fiji	7.22 m	x	5.19 m	7.22 m
22nd	Elston Shaw	Belize	6.29 m	6.38 m	6.57 m	6.57 m
23	Abdelkader Klouchi	Algeria	5.33 m	x	x	5.33 m
ogV	Sydney Mdluli	Swaziland	x	x	x		without space
DNS	Badara Mbengue	Senegal
	Mohamed Al-Hadhrami	United Arab Emirates

final

Olympic Champion Carl Lewis, USA

Date: August 6, 1992

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, eight of them by the required qualification distance, the other four by their placements. All three US athletes took part in the final, as well as two Chinese and Cubans as well as one participant each from Australia, Greece, Romania, Slovenia and the United Team.

A duel was expected between the two US long jump stars Carl Lewis, two-time Olympic champion in 1984 and 1988 , and Mike Powell, world champion and world record holder . The third US American Joe Greene, the German European Champion and World Cup fourth Dietmar Haaf started with good prospects for top positions . Haaf, however, had already failed in qualifying.

On his first attempt, Lewis took the lead with 8.67 m. No other jumper exceeded the 8-meter mark in round one. On lap two Powell jumped into second place with 8.22 m, Cuban Iván Pedroso followed with 8.11 m. Powell improved in the third round to 8.33 m, but was displaced in the following lap by his compatriot Joe Greene in third place. Greene had jumped an inch further at 8.34 m. Powell was able to counter on the fifth attempt. With 8.53 m he returned to second place in front of Greene and Pedroso. In the last lap, the world champion reached 8.64 m. That was not enough for victory, but he won the silver medal. As in 1988 in Seoul and 1984 in Los Angeles , Carl Lewis became Olympic champion. Bronze went to Joe Greene, Iván Pedroso came fourth ahead of his compatriot Jaime Jefferson and the Greek Konstantinos Koukodimos. Only these six athletes jumped more than eight meters.

Carl Lewis won the Olympic long jump for the third time in a row . This made him the fourth athlete who managed to achieve three Olympic victories in a row in the same discipline. Before him, the US hammer thrower John Flanagan - 1900 , 1904 and 1908 , the US discus thrower Al Oerter - 1956 , 1960 and 1964 , and the Soviet triple jumper Viktor Saneyev - 1968 , 1972 and 1976 - also did this. Carl Lewis won the eighth gold medal of his career here.
His victory in the 22nd Olympic final was the 19th victory of a US long jumper. It was also the fourth 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	8.67 m	8.33 m	x	x	8.50 m	8.50 m	8.67 m
2	Mike Powell	United States	7.95 m	8.22 m	8.33 m	x	8.53 m	8.64 m	8.64 m
3	Joe Greene	United States	x	x	7.88 m	8.34 m	8.14 m	x	8.34 m
4th	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	7.79 m	8.11 m	8.01 m	7.98 m	8.11 m	7.51 m	8.11 m
5	Jaime Jefferson	Cuba	7.30 m	7.69 m	8.08 m	7.93 m	8.00 m	x	8.08 m
6th	Konstantinos Koukodimos	Greece	7.30 m	7.99 m	7.92 m	8.04 m	7.88 m	7.50 m	8.04 m
7th	Dmitri Bagryanov	EUN	7.79 m	5.74 m	x	7.98 m	7.88 m	7.84 m	7.98 m
8th	Huang Geng	People's Republic of China	7.33 m	7.58 m	7.87 m	7.79 m	7.55 m	7.65 m	7.87 m
9	Borut Bilač	Slovenia	x	7.60 m	7.76 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			7.76 m
10	Chen Zunrong	People's Republic of China	7.71 m	7.47 m	7.75 m				7.75 m
11	David Culbert	Australia	7.36 m	7.30 m	7.73 m				7.73 m
12	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	7.26 m	7.37 m	7.61 m				7.61 m

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed February 11, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 49, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 11, 2018

Video

• Men's Long Jump Final Barcelona Olympics 1992 , published November 8, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 11, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 677 , accessed on February 11, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 49, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 11, 2018