2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	39 athletes from 32 countries
Competition phase	16./18. August 2008
Medalist
gold	Irving Saladino ( PAN )
silver	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena ( RSA )
bronze	Ibrahim Camejo ( CUB )

The long jump at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was held on August 16 and 18, 2008. 39 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Irving Saladino from Panama. The silver medal went to the South African Godfrey Khotso Mokoena . Bronze went to the Cuban Ibrahim Camejo .

Current title holders

Olympic champion 2004	Dwight Phillips ( USA )	8.59 m	Athens 2004
World Champion 2007	Irving Saladino ( Panama )	8.57 m	Osaka 2007
European champion 2006	Andrew Howe ( Italy )	8.20 m	Gothenburg 2006
Pan American Champion 2007	Irving Saladino ( Panama )	8.28 m	Rio de Janeiro 2007
Central America and Caribbean champions 2008	Wilfredo Martínez ( Cuba )	8.31 m	Cali 2008
South America Champion 2007	Rogério Bispo ( Brazil )	7.94 m	São Paulo 2007
Asian champion 2007	Mohamed Salman Al-Khuwalidi ( Saudi Arabia )	8.16 m	Amman 2007
Africa Champion 2008	Yahya Berrabah ( Morocco )	8.04 m	Addis Ababa 2008
Oceania Champion 2008	Frederic Erin ( New Caledonia )	7.59 m	Saipan 2008

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

August 16, 2008, 8:00 p.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 8.15 m. Since only three athletes 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). In the end, 7.94 m had to be achieved to take part.

Group A

Sebastian Bayer from Germany does not survive the qualification with 7.77 m

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Louis Tsatoumas	Greece	8.27 m	-	-	8.27 m
2	Ibrahim Camejo	Cuba	8.23 m	-	-	8.23 m
3	Greg Rutherford	Great Britain	8.16 m	-	-	8.16 m
4th	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena	South Africa	8.03 m	x	8.14 m	8.14 m
5	Hussein Al-Sabee	Saudi Arabia	5.47 m	8.04 m	x	8.04 m
6th	Luis Felipe Méliz	Spain	x	7.77 m	7.95 m	7.95 m
7th	Gable Garenamotse	Botswana	7.58 m	x	7.95 m	7.95 m
8th	Stephan Louw	Namibia	7.73 m	x	7.93 m	7.93 m
9	Yahya Berrabah	Morocco	7.88 m	x	x	7.88 m
10	Tommi Evilä	Finland	x	x	7.88 m	7.88 m
11	Salim Sdiri	France	x	x	7.81 m	7.81 m
12	Sebastian Bayer	Germany	x	7.43 m	7.77 m	7.77 m
13	Hugo Chila	Ecuador	7.77 m	x	x	7.77 m
14th	Mauro Vinícius da Silva	Brazil	x	7.75 m	x	7.75 m
15th	Li Runrun	People's Republic of China	7.70 m	x	7.53 m	7.70 m
16	Morten Jensen	Denmark	x	7.58 m	7.63 m	7.63 m
17th	Marcin Starzak	Poland	x	x	7.62 m	7.62 m
18th	Henry Dagmil	Philippines	7.58 m	x	x	7.58 m
19th	Nikolay Atanasov	Bulgaria	x	x	7.54 m	7.54 m
20th	Vladimir Malyavin	Russia	7.32 m	7.35 m	x	7.35 m
DNS	Issam Nima	Algeria

Group B

The Italian vice world champion Andrew Howe is eliminated with 7.81 m

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Ngonidzashe Makusha	Zimbabwe	8.14 m	7.94 m	-	8.14 m
2	Wilfredo Martínez	Cuba	7.92 m	7.80 m	8.07 m	8.07 m
3	Ndiss Kaba Badji	Senegal	7.65 m	7.79 m	8.07 m	8.07 m
4th	Irving Saladino	Panama	x	x	8.01 m	8.01 m
5	Roman Novotný	Czech Republic	7.75 m	7.81 m	7.94 m	7.94 m
6th	Mohammed Salman Al Khuwalidi	Saudi Arabia	x	x	7.93 m	7.93 m
7th	Tyrone Smith	Bermuda	6.95 m	7.63 m	7.91 m	7.91 m
8th	Fabrice Lapierre	Australia	7.90 m	x	x	7.90 m
9	Trevell Quinley	United States	x	x	7.87 m	7.87 m
10	Andrew Howe	Italy	7.73 m	7.81 m	x	7.81 m
11	Brian Johnson	United States	x	7.79 m	x	7.79 m
12	Andrii Makarchev	Ukraine	7.77 m	x	x	7.77 m
13	Christopher Tomlinson	Great Britain	7.52 m	7.62 m	7.70 m	7.70 m
14th	Tarik Bouguetaïb	Morocco	7.69 m	x	x	7.69 m
15th	Herbert McGregor	Jamaica	7.64 m	7.46 m	7.36 m	7.64 m
16	Louis Tristán	Peru	7.58 m	7.62 m	x	7.62 m
17th	Julien Fivaz	Switzerland	7.53 m	x	x	7.53 m
18th	Miguel Godfather	United States	x	7.34 m	x	7.34 m
ogV	Zhou Can	People's Republic of China	x	x	x		without space
DNS	Arnaud Casquette	Mauritius

final

August 18, 2008, 8:10 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, three of them by qualifying distance and another nine by their placements. Two Cubans and one participant each from Botswana, Greece, Great Britain, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Spain, South Africa and the Czech Republic were represented.

The favorites for this competition were the reigning world champion Irving Saladino from Panama and the Italian vice world champion and European champion Andrew Howe. Other medal candidates were Vice European Champion Greg Rutherford from Great Britain, the South African World Cup fifth Godfrey Khotso Mokoena and possibly also the Spanish bronze medalist from 2004 and World Cup fourth from 2005 Joan Lino Martínez. After his strong 8.27 m as the best of the qualification, the Greek Louis Tsatoumas was also to be considered. However, Howe was already eliminated in the qualification.

In the final, there was no outstanding athlete, as had been the case in the past with the American Carl Lewis or the Cuban Iván Pedroso . The distances achieved were also well below the achievements that had already been made at earlier Olympic Games or World Championships. But this competition was exciting until the last jump.

In the first round there were only two attempts beyond eight meters. Ngonidzashe Makusha from Zimbabwe was in the lead with 8.19 m ahead of Ndiss Kaba Badji from Senegal with 8.03 m. In lap two Saladino took second place with 8.17 m, the Cuban Ibrahim Camejo was now third with 8.09 m ahead of Badji. Fifth place went to Mokoena, who reached 8.02 m. With his third jump of 8.21 m, world champion Saladino took the lead, the Spaniard Luis Felipe Méliz and Mokoena achieved 8.02 m, the first six places were very close.

When the last three rounds went into the final of the best eight, Tsatoumas, best of the qualification, was eliminated without a valid attempt. Saladino improved to 8.34 m. Mokoena reached 8.24 m, with which he was now second. Behind them, Makusha was still third with his 8.19 m, ahead of Badji, who now jumped 8.16 m. That was also the status before the final round six. There Camejo scored 8.20 m and was thus one centimeter better than the previously third-placed Makusha. Cuban Wilfredo Martínez jumped 8.19 m - the same distance that Makusha had to book.

Olympic champion was Irving Saladino with 8.34 m ahead of Godfrey Khotso Mokoena with 8.24 m. The next places were very close: Godfrey Khotso Mokoena won bronze with 8.20 m, fourth place went to Ngonidzashe Makusha, and Wilfredo Martínez came fifth. Both had reached 8.19 meters, but Makusha had another second best jump. Ndiss Kaba Badji came in sixth place with his 8.16 m from round four.

With his Olympic victory, Irving Saladino also won the first gold medal in athletics for Panama.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Irving Saladino	Panama	x	8.17 m	8.24 m	8.34 m	x	x	8.34 m
2	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena	South Africa	7.86 m	x	8.02 m	8.24 m	x	x	8.24 m
3	Ibrahim Camejo	Cuba	7.94 m	8.09 m	8.08 m	7.88 m	7.93 m	8.20 m	8.20 m
4th	Ngonidzashe Makusha	Zimbabwe	8.19 m	8.06 m	8.05 m	8.10 m	8.05 m	6.48 m	8.19 m
5	Wilfredo Martínez	Cuba	7.60 m	7.90 m	x	8.04 m	x	8.19 m	8.19 m
6th	Ndiss Kaba Badji	Senegal	8.03 m	x	8.02 m	8.16 m	8.03 m	7.92 m	8.16 m
7th	Luis Felipe Méliz	Spain	x	8.02 m	x	x	7.96 m	8.07 m	8.07 m
8th	Roman Novotný	Czech Republic	7.87 m	7.75 m	8.00 m	x	7.82 m	7.94 m	8.00 m
9	Gable Garenamotse	Botswana	x	7.85 m	-	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			7.85 m
10	Greg Rutherford	Great Britain	x	5.20 m	7.84 m				7.84 m
11	Hussein Al-Sabee	Saudi Arabia	7.80 m	x	x				7.80 m
12	Louis Tsatoumas	Greece	x	x	x					without space

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  Olympic champion Irving Saladino from Panama

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  Silver medalist Godfrey Khotso Mokoena, South Africa

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  The Spaniard Luis Felipe Méliz finished seventh in the final

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  Greg Rutherford from Great Britain finished tenth

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  The Olympic eleventh Hussein Al-Sabee from Saudi Arabia

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed June 8, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed June 8, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 8, 2018

Video

• Athletics - Men's Long Jump Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 18, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 8, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 8, 2018
2. ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 8, 2018
3. ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 8, 2018 
4. ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 8, 2018
5. ↑ IAAF world records, long jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 8, 2018