1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Long jump | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 52 athletes from 38 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Centennial Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | July 28, 1996 (qualifying) July 29, 1996 (final) |
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The men's long jump at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 28 and 29, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 52 athletes took part.
The American Carl Lewis became Olympic champion . He won ahead of Jamaican James Beckford and Joe Greene , also USA.
Georg Ackermann and Hans-Peter Lott started for Germany . Both were eliminated in qualifying. Lott hadn't made a valid attempt.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion 1992 |
Carl Lewis ( USA )
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8.67 m | Barcelona 1992 |
| World Champion 1995 |
Iván Pedroso ( Cuba )
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8.70 m | Gothenburg 1995 |
| European Champion 1994 |
Iwajlo Mladenow ( Bulgaria )
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8.09 m | Helsinki 1994 |
| Pan American champion 1995 |
Iván Pedroso ( Cuba )
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8.50 m | Mar del Plata 1995 |
| Central America and Caribbean champions 1995 | Elmer Williams ( Puerto Rico )
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7.67 m | Guatemala City 1995 |
| South American Champion 1995 | Douglas de Souza ( Brazil )
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8.05 m | Manaus 1995 |
| Asian champion 1995 | Huang Geng ( People's Republic of China )
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8.26 m | Jakarta 1995 |
| African champion 1996 | Anise Gallali ( Tunisia )
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7.81 m | Yaoundé 1996 |
| Oceania Champion 1994 | Aaron Langdon ( New Zealand )
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7.62 m | Auckland 1994 |
Existing records
| World record | 8.95 m |
Mike Powell ( USA )
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Tokyo , Japan | August 30, 1991 |
| Olympic record | 8.90 m |
Bob Beamon ( USA )
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Mexico City Final , Mexico | October 18, 1968 |
Remarks:
- All times are local Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 ).
- All widths are given in meters (m).
qualification
July 28, 1996, from 5:15 p.m.
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 8.05 m. Since only nine jumpers reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best jumpers from both groups to exceptionally thirteen participants (highlighted in light green). As a rule, the addition would have been made to twelve athletes. But two jumpers could claim this last place in the final, both of whom had achieved exactly 8.00 m, so that there were thirteen finalists.
Group A
Group B
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final
July 29, 1996, 7:10 p.m.
Thirteen athletes had qualified for the final, nine over the required qualifying distance and four others as lucky losers over their distance. Two athletes on rank twelve jumped the same distance. Thirteen participants competed in the final. Three Americans and two Russians met one participant each from Belgium, China, France, Jamaica, Cuba, Sweden, Slovenia and Belarus.
The favorites field consisted of five athletes. These were the three US athletes Carl Lewis, who had already won three long jump Olympic victories from 1984 to 1992 , the world record holder Mike Powell as world champion from 1991 and 1993 , and Joe Greene, who had great distances in the Olympic year, the Cuban world champion from 1995 Iván Pedroso and the 1995 vice world champion James Beckford from Jamaica.
The Frenchman Emmanuel Bangué initially took the lead with a good 8.19 m in the first attempt. In the second lap Powell improved to second with 8.17 m. In the third round, Lewis replaced the French in the lead with 8.5 m, Greene jumped into second place with 8.24 m. There was no change in the following two series of tests. It was only with his last jump that James Beckford reached 8.29 m, with which he won silver and displaced Joe Greene to bronze. Carl Lewis stayed at the top safely until the end and became Olympic champion again. Emmanuel Bangué dropped out of the medal ranks, but remained in fourth place ahead of Mike Powell. The Slovenian Gregor Cankar came in sixth.
Carl Lewis won the Olympic long jump for the fourth time in a row. Together with his compatriot, discus thrower Al Oerter , he is the only athlete who has won an individual discipline four times in a row. Lewis won the ninth gold medal of his career here. He was the second most successful athlete at the Olympic Games. In front of him was only the Finn Paavo Nurmi , who is also a nine-time Olympic champion, but also won three silver medals. Lewis has a silver medal on his success account.
In the 23rd Olympic final, Carl Lewis jumped to the 20th victory of a US athlete.
James Beckford was the first Jamaican medalist in the long jump.
| space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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| 1 | Carl Lewis |
United States
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x | 8.14 | 8.50 | - | 8.06 | x | 8.50 | |
| 2 | James Beckford |
 Jamaica
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x | 8.02 | 8.13 | x | x | 8.29 | 8.29 | |
| 3 | Joe Greene |
United States
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7.80 | 7.79 | 8.24 | x | x | x | 8.24 | |
| 4th | Emmanuel Bangué |
 France
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8.19 | 8.10 | x | 7.88 | 6.46 | 6.87 | 8.19 | |
| 5 | Mike Powell |
United States
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7.89 | 8.17 | 7.99 | x | x | x | 8.17 | |
| 6th | Gregor Cankar |
 Slovenia
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x | x | 8.11 | x | x | 5.33 | 8.11 | |
| 7th | Aljaksandr Hlawazki |
.svg){kind=small} Belarus
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8.07 | x | 8.07 | x | x | x | 8.07 | |
| 8th | Mattias Sunneborn |
 Sweden
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7.89 | 7.97 | 8.06 | 8.04 | 8.03 | 7.75 | 8.06 | |
| 9 | Huang Geng |
People's Republic of China
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7.99 | 7.87 | 7.89 | not in the final of the eight best jumpers |
7.99 | |||
| 10 | Yuri Naumkin |
 Russia
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7.96 | 7.88 | 7; 95 | 7.96 | ||||
| 11 | Andrei Ignatov |
Russia
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x | 7.83 | 7.58 | 7.83 | ||||
| 12 | Iván Pedroso |
Cuba
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x | 7.57 | 7.75 | 7.75 | ||||
| 13 | Erik Nys |
 Belgium
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7.59 | x | 7.72 | 7.72 | ||||
literature
- Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 37
Web links
- SportsReference Long Jump , accessed March 3, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 90, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 3, 2018
Video
- Carl Lewis Wins Dramatic Long Jump - Atlanta 1996 Olympics , published March 1, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed March 3, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 677 , accessed on March 3, 2018
- ↑ a b Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 90, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 3, 2018
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