2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	40 athletes from 31 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 24, 2004 (qualification) August 26, 2004 (final)
Medalist Dwight Phillips ( USA )   John Moffitt ( USA )   Joan Lino Martínez ( ESP )

The men's long jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 24th and 26th, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. Forty athletes took part.

The American Dwight Phillips became Olympic champion . He won before his compatriot John Moffitt and the Spaniard Joan Lino Martínez .

With Nils Winter there was a German participant. He was eliminated in qualifying.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not start.

Current title holders

Olympic Champion 2000	Iván Pedroso ( Cuba )	8.55 m	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Dwight Phillips ( USA )	8.32 m	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Oleksiy Lukashevytsch ( Ukraine )	8.08 m	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Iván Pedroso ( Cuba )	8.23 m	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003	Kareem Streete-Thompson ( Cayman Islands )	8.12 m	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Víctor Castillo ( Venezuela )	7.78 m	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian champion 2003	Hussain Taher Al-Sabee ( Saudi Arabia )	8.23 m	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Jonathan Chimier ( Mauritius )	8.06 m	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Fagamanu Sofai ( New Zealand )	6.83 m	Christchurch 2002

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 Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

August 24, 2004, 7:45 p.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 8.10 m. Since only six jumpers reached this distance (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 8.05 m was necessary to participate.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Dwight Phillips	United States	8.31	-	-	8.31
2	John Moffitt	United States	7.80	8.17	-	8.17
3	Joan Lino Martínez	Spain	8.10	-	-	8.10
4th	Bogdan Țăruş	Romania	7.95	8.08	x	8.08
5	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	8.05	x	8.04	8.05
6th	Ignisious Gaisah	Ghana	x	7.84	8.05	8.05
7th	Kafétien Gomis	France	x	7.99	x	7.99
8th	Kiril Sossunov	Russia	x	7.99	7.76	7.94
9	Nikolay Atanasov	Bulgaria	x	7.88	7.94	7.90
10	Volodymyr Syuskov	Ukraine	x	7.88	x	7.88
11	Nicola Trentin	Italy	7.86	x	x	7.86
12	Gable Garenamotse	Botswana	7.78	7.16	7.45	7.78
13	Siniša Ergotić	Croatia	7.77	7.73	x	7.77
14th	Ndiss Kaba Badji	Senegal	7.47	7.65	7.75	7.75
15th	Shinichi Terano	Japan	7.57	7.58	7.70	7.70
16	Yahya Berrabah	Morocco	7.53	7.62	7.19	7.62
17th	Zhou Can	People's Republic of China	7.36	7.47	x	7.47
18th	Dimitrios Flindas	Greece	x	7.45	7.42	7.45
19th	Tamás Margl	Hungary	7.38	7.22	x	7.38
20th	Gregor Cankar	Slovenia	5.04	x	7.32	7.32
ogV	Dimitrios Serelis	Greece	x	x	x		without space

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Jonathan Chimier	Mauritius	8.28	-	-	8.28
2	Christopher Tomlinson	Great Britain	7.76	8.23	-	8.23
3	James Beckford	Jamaica	8.20	-	-	8.20
4th	Vitaly Shkurlatov	Russia	8.09	x	x	8.09
5	Salim Sdiri	France	8.08	x	x	8.08
6th	Yago Lamela	Spain	7.95	8.06	8.06	8.06
7th	Petar Datschew	Bulgaria	8.05	x	7.83	8.05
8th	Víctor Castillo	Venezuela	7.70	7.62	7.98	7.98
9	Kareem Streete-Thompson	Cayman Islands	x	7.85	7.68	7.85
10	Osbourne Moxey	Bahamas	7.81	7.80	7.66	7.81
11	Louis Tsatoumas	Greece	9.99	7.81	x	7.81
12	Walter Davis	United States	7.37	7.70	7.80	7.80
13	Tarik Bougtaib	Morocco	7.79	7.63	x	7.79
14th	Yann Domenech	France	7.56	7.73	x	7.73
15th	Nils Winter	Germany	7.51	7.41	x	7.51
16	Jadel Gregório	Brazil	7.50	x	x	7.50
17th	Gaspar Araújo	Portugal	x	7.27	7.49	7.49
18th	Irving Saladino	Panama	x	7.28	7.42	7.42
19th	Abdulrahman Faraj Al Nubi	Qatar	x	7.41	7.26	7.41
DNS	Oleksiy Lukashevytsch	Ukraine

final

August 26, 2004, 8:20 pm

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, six of them by qualifying distance and another six by their placements. Two Americans, two Spaniards and one participant each from France, Ghana, Great Britain, Jamaica, Cuba, Mauritius, Romania and Russia faced each other.

The favorites for this competition were the US world champion from 2003 Dwight Phillips, the world champion from 2001 and Olympic champion from 2000 Iván Pedroso from Cuba, the runner-up world champion from 2003 James Beckford from Jamaica and the World Cup third from 2003 Yago Lamela from Spain. All of these co-favorite jumpers reached the final after qualifying.

In the final, the decision was made in the first round, which of course nobody could have known at the time. Phillips achieved the longest jump with his 8.59 m. However, the competition remained exciting and behind Phillips there were a number of postponements. In second place was the Briton Christopher Tomlinson with 8.25 m ahead of the Romanian Bogdan Țăruş, who jumped 8.21 m. In the second round, the Spaniard Joan Lino Martínez improved to 8.32 m and was thus in second place. The American John Moffitt pushed himself into third place with his 8.28 m. With his fourth jump Beckford came to 8.31 m and displaced Moffitt from the bronze place. But the American countered in the fifth round with 8.47 m. In the last lap there were no more changes in the placements.

Dwight Phillips became Olympic champion, John Moffitt won silver, Joan Lino Martínez bronze. Beaten by just one centimeter, James Beckford finished fourth ahead of Christopher Tomlinson and Ignisious Gaisah from Ghana. Iván Pedroso had to settle for seventh place this time.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Dwight Phillips	United States	8.59	x	x	-	-	8.35	8.59
2	John Moffitt	United States	8.10	8.28	7.85	8.19	8.47	8.24	8.47
3	Joan Lino Martínez	Spain	7.79	8.32	8.02	8.06	-	8.06	8.32
4th	James Beckford	Jamaica	8.15	8.15	x	8.31	x	8.12	8.31
5	Christopher Tomlinson	Great Britain	8.25	8.04	8.11	8.09	8.05	7.92	8.25
6th	Ignisious Gaisah	Ghana	8.01	8.06	x	8.24	8.12	8.09	8.24
7th	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	x	8.19	x	8.09	x	8.23	8.23
8th	Bogdan Țăruş	Romania	8.21	x	8.08	x	x	8.16	8.21
9	Vitaly Shkurlatov	Russia	x	7.88	8.04	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			8.04
10	Jonathan Chimier	Mauritius	8.03	7.79	6.78				8.03
11	Yago Lamela	Spain	x	x	7.98				7.98
12	Salim Sdiri	France	x	x	7.94				7.94

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  Olympic champion Dwight Phillips from the USA - on the photo in Osaka 2007

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  Olympic champion James Beckford, Jamaica <

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  Ignisious Gaisah from Ghana finished sixth in the final

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  The Cuban Olympic champion from 2000 Iván Pedroso came here in seventh place

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  The French Salim Sdiri - here in 2013 - was twelfth in the Olympic Games

Web links

• SportsReference Men's Long Jump , accessed April 27, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 27, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on April 28, 2018

Video

• 2004 Olympics Men's Long Jump - 1st - Dwight Phillips , published December 24, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed April 28, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pan American Games on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
2. ↑ Central American and Caribbean Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
3. ^ South American Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
4. ↑ Asian Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
5. ↑ African Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
6. ^ Oceania Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
7. ↑ IAAF world records long jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 28, 2018