2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Long jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 53 athletes from 38 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadium Australia | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 25, 2000 (qualification) September 28, 2000 (final) |
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The men's long jump at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 25 and 28, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 53 athletes took part.
The Cuban Iván Pedroso was the Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Australian Jai Taurima and the Ukrainian Roman Shchurenko .
With Kofi Amoah Prah there was a German. He reached the final and finished fifth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1996 | Carl Lewis ( USA ) | 8.50 m | Atlanta 1996 |
World Champion 1999 | Iván Pedroso ( Cuba ) | 8.56 m | Seville 1999 |
European champion 1998 | Kirill Sossunow ( Russia ) | 8.28 m | Budapest 1998 |
Pan American Champion 1999 | Iván Pedroso ( Cuba ) | 8.52 m | Winnipeg 1999 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999 | Craig Hepburn ( Barbados ) | 7.75 m | Bridgetown 1999 |
South American Champion 1999 | Lewis Asprilla ( Chile ) | 7.96 m | Bogotá 1999 |
Asian champion 2000 | Hussein Taher Al-Sabee ( Saudi Arabia ) | 8.33 m | Jakarta 2000 |
African Champion 2000 | Younès Moudrik ( Morocco ) | 8.34 m | Algiers 2000 |
Oceania Champion 2000 | David Lane ( New Zealand ) | 7.10 m | Adelaide 2000 |
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 |
Remarks:
- All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
- All widths are given in meters (m).
qualification
September 25, 2000, 10:45 a.m.
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 8.15 m. Only two jumpers exceeded this value (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). A width of exactly eight meters was sufficient for participation.
Group A
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Luis Felipe Méliz | Cuba | 7.87 | 8.21 | - | 8.21 | |
2 | Dwight Phillips | United States | 7.84 | 7.83 | 8.13 | 8.13 | |
3 | Peter Burge | Australia | 7.62 | 7.96 | 8.06 | 8.06 | |
4th | Carlos Calado | Portugal | 8.04 | 7.98 | 7.96 | 8.04 | |
5 | Vladimir Malyavin | Russia | x | 7.96 | 8.03 | 8.03 | |
6th | Petar Datschew | Bulgaria | 8.03 | x | 7.85 | 8.03 | |
7th | Roman Shchurenko | Ukraine | 8.01 | x | x | 8.01 | |
8th | Bogdan Țăruş | Romania | 7.60 | 8.00 | x | 8.00 | |
9 | James Beckford | Jamaica | 7.87 | 7.87 | 7.98 | 7.98 | |
10 | Kirill Sossunov | Russia | 7.97 | x | 7.93 | 7.97 | |
11 | Hussein Taher Al-Sabee | Saudi Arabia | x | 5.92 | 7.94 | 7.94 | |
12 | Yago Lamela | Spain | 7.68 | 7.74 | 7.89 | 7.89 | |
13 | Danijal Jahic | Yugoslavia | 7.85 | 7.70 | x | 7.85 | |
14th | Ronald Servius | France | x | x | 7.66 | 7.66 | |
15th | Mattias Sunneborn | Sweden | 7.45 | 7.58 | 7.63 | 7.63 | |
16 | El-Mehdi El-Ghazouani | Morocco | 7.49 | 7.60 | 7.58 | 7.60 | |
17th | Mark Anthony Awere | Ghana | 7.16 | 7.36 | 7.57 | 7.57 | |
18th | Arnaud Casquette | Mauritius | x | 7.21 | 7.57 | 7.57 | |
19th | Siniša Ergotić | Croatia | 7.34 | x | 7.53 | 7.53 | |
20th | Ian Lowe | Canada | 7.51 | 7.48 | 7.36 | 7.51 | |
21st | Konstandinos Koukodimos | Greece | x | 7.44 | x | 7.44 | |
22nd | Lao Jianfeng | People's Republic of China | 7.26 | 7.41 | 7.33 | 7.41 | |
23 | Téko Folligan | Togo | x | 7.40 | x | 7.40 | |
24 | Mesut Yavaş | Turkey | 7.34 | 7.35 | 6.03 | 7.35 | |
25th | Nélson Carlos Ferreira | Brazil | 5.81 | x | 7.32 | 7.32 | |
26th | Shirak Poghosjan | Armenia | 7.24 | 7.10 | x | 7.24 | |
ogV | Daisuke Watanabe | Japan | x | x | x | without space |
final
September 28, 2000, 6:45 p.m.
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, two of them by qualifying distance, the other ten by their placements. Two Australians, two Cubans and two Ukrainians competed against one participant each from Bulgaria, Germany, Portugal, Romania, Russia and the USA.
The clear favorite was the reigning world champion Iván Pedroso from Cuba. There were a number of athletes with prospects for top places. This included the Spanish vice world champion Yago Lamela. European champion Kirill Sossunow from Russia, the Slovenian World Cup third Gregor Cankar and here in his home country the Australian World Cup fourth Jai Taurima. The African champion Younès Moudrik from Morocco and the Asian champion Hussein Taher Al-Sabee from Saudi Arabia were certainly not to be underestimated. However, Lamela, Sossunow, Cankar, Moudrik and also Al-Sabee were eliminated in the qualification. There was a final in Sydney with a very open outcome.
After an invalid jump by Pedrosos in the first round, Ukrainian Oleksij Lukaschewytsch took the lead with 8.08 m. But his lead did not last long, as Pedroso reached 8.34 m in the second lap. Local hero Jai Taurima jumped just as far in the third attempt and was even ahead of the Cuban with the better second jump. The German Kofi Amoah Prah moved up to third place with 8.19 m, ahead of the Ukrainian Roman Schchurenko, who improved to 8.14 m. In the fourth round, Pedroso took the lead again with 8.41 m. Taurima improved to 8.40 m, so it remained very tight. Prah was pushed out of third place by Lukashevytsch with 8.22 m. In the fifth attempt Lukashevytsch put on another four centimeters and jumped 8.26 m. Taurima was actually able to counter again on this penultimate lap. With 8.49 m he took the lead again. In the last attempt, the Ukrainian Roman Schchurenko achieved 8.31 m and ousted his compatriot Lukashevytsch from bronze. Iván Pedroso finally managed to jump 8.55 m, which secured him the Olympic victory. Jai Taurima won silver, Roman Schurenko bronze. Oleksij Lukaschewytsch was fourth ahead of Kofi Amoah Prah and the Australian Peter Burge.
Iván Pedroso was Cuba's first medalist and Olympic champion in this discipline.
For the first time with the exception of 1980 , when the Olympic Games in Moscow a . a, had been boycotted by the United States, no US athlete could win a medal 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 | Iván Pedroso | Cuba | x | 8.34 | x | 8.41 | x | 8.55 | 8.55 | |
2 | Jai Taurima | Australia | x | 8.18 | 8.34 | 8.40 | 8.49 | 8.28 | 8.49 | OZ |
3 | Roman Shchurenko | Ukraine | 7.76 | x | 8.14 | x | x | 8.31 | 8.31 | |
4th | Oleksiy Lukashevytsch | Ukraine | 8.08 | x | x | 8.22 | 8.26 | x | 8.26 | |
5 | Kofi Amoah Prah | Germany | 7.84 | x | 8.19 | 7.95 | x | 7.86 | 8.19 | |
6th | Peter Burge | Australia | 7.80 | 8.06 | 7.93 | 7.96 | 8.15 | 8.11 | 8.15 | |
7th | Luis Felipe Méliz | Cuba | 7.97 | 7.94 | 8.08 | x | 7.82 | x | 8.08 | |
8th | Dwight Phillips | United States | x | 7.90 | 8.06 | x | x | x | 8.06 | |
9 | Bogdan Țăruş | Romania | 8.00 | 7.93 | x | not in the final of the eight best jumpers |
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10 | Carlos Calado | Portugal | 7.94 | 7.85 | 7.77 | 7.94 | ||||
11 | Petar Datschew | Bulgaria | 7.80 | x | 7.70 | 7.80 | ||||
12 | Vladimir Malyavin | Russia | x | x | 7.67 | 7.67 |
Web links
- SportsReference long jump , accessed April 1, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 1, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 1, 2018
Video
- 2000 Olympics long jump , published June 15, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed April 1, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 677 , accessed on April 1, 2018