2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 22 countries
Competition location	Estádio Nilton Santos
Competition phase	August 12, 2016 (qualification) August 13, 2016 (final)
Medalist Jeff Henderson ( USA )   Luvo Manyonga ( RSA )   Greg Rutherford ( GBR )

The men's long jump at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 12 and 13, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 32 athletes took part.

The American Jeff Henderson became Olympic champion . Silver went to the South African Luvo Manyonga. Bronze went to Greg Rutherford from Britain .

Alyn Camara and Fabian Heinle started for Germany . Both failed in qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Greg Rutherford ( Great Britain )	8.31 m	London 2012
World Champion		8.41 m	Beijing 2015
European champion		8.25 m	Amsterdam 2016
North / Central America / Caribbean champions	Cameron Burrell ( USA )	8.06 m	San José 2015
South America champion	Emiliano Lasa ( Uruguay )	8.09 m	Lima 2015
Asian champion	Gao Xinglong ( People's Republic of China )	7.96 m	Wuhan 2015
African champions	Ruswahl Samaai ( South Africa )	8.40 m	Durban 2016
Oceania Champion	Waisale Dausoko ( Fiji )	7.51 m	Cairns 2015

Existing records

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

Remarks:

• All times are based on local time in Rio ( UTC-3 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

August 12, 2016, 9:20 p.m.

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 8.15 m. Since only two jumpers exceeded this distance - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best jumpers from both groups - highlighted in light green - to a total of twelve participants. In the end, 7.85 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

Tyrone Smith from Bermuda was eliminated with a jump of 7.81 m

The German Fabian Heinle's 7.79 m was not enough to advance

The Swedish vice European champion Michel Tornéus surprisingly retired with 7.65 m

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)	annotation
1	Jeff Henderson	United States	8.20	-	-	8.20
2	Emiliano Lasa	Uruguay	8.14	8.02	-	8.14
3	Luvo Manyonga	South Africa	x	8.12	8.10	8.12
4th	Rushwal Samaai	South Africa	8.03	7.96	7.82	8.03
5	Henry Frayne	Australia	7.96	7.97	8.01	8.01
6th	Huang Changzhou	People's Republic of China	7.59	7.57	7.95	7.95
7th	Greg Rutherford	Great Britain	x	x	7.90	7.90
8th	Kafétien Gomis	France	7.81	7.67	7.89	7.89
9	Kim Deok-hyeon	South Korea	7.42	7.76	7.82	7.82
10	Tyrone Smith	Bermuda	7.78	7.81	7.67	7.81
11	Fabian Heinle	Germany	7.64	x	7.79	7.79
12	Izmir Smajlaj	Albania	7.72	7.61	x	7.61
13	Michel Tornéus	Sweden	x	7.65	7.63	7.65
14th	Miltiadis Tendoglou	Greece	x	7.64	7.57	7.64
ogV	Aubrey Smith	Jamaica	x	x	x	-	without space
	Gao Xinglong	People's Republic of China	x	x	x

Group B

The Cuban Maykel Massó did not reach the final with his 7.81 m

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)	annotation
1	Wang Jianan	People's Republic of China	8.24	-	-	8.24
2	Jarrion Lawson	United States	7.99	7.62	7.96	7.99
3	Fabrice Lapierre	Australia	x	7.96	7.73	7.96
4th	Damar Forbes	Jamaica	7.85	7.68	7.62	7.85
5	Radek Juška	Czech Republic	7.64	7.84	7.83	7.84
6th	Maykel Massó	Cuba	7.79	7.73	7.81	7.81
7th	Chan Ming Tai	Hong Kong	7.79	7.76	7.42	7.79
8th	Batschana Chorawa	Georgia	7.72	7.77	x	7.77
9	Jean Marie Okutu	Spain	7.75	7.72	7.53	7.75
10	Stefan Brits	South Africa	7.46	7.71	x	7.71
11	Konstantin Baryschewski	Belarus	7.39	x	7.67	7.67
	Ankit Sharma	India	x	x	7.67
13	Michael Hartfield	United States	7.66	x	7.66	7.66
14th	Higor Alves	Brazil	7.59	x	x	7.59
15th	Mohammad Arzandeh	Iran	7.29	7.23	7.31	7.31
16	Alyn Camara	Germany	5.16	x	x	5.16

final

August 13, 2016, 8:53 p.m.

Two athletes had qualified for the final, two of them directly via the qualifying distance, the others via their placements. Two Australians, Chinese, South Africans and Americans competed for the medals. as well as one athlete each from France, Great Britain, Jamaica and Uruguay.

Each participant initially had three attempts, the length of the qualifying round from the day before were not counted. The best eight jumpers then got three more attempts, the last four were eliminated.

The favorite was the British Olympic champion from 2012 , also reigning world and European champion Greg Rutherford. The Australian runner-up world champion Fabrice Lapierre, the Chinese world championship third Wang Jianan, the Swedish runner-up European champion Michel Tornéus and the US-American Jeff Henderson also entered the competition with a medal chance.

The two US athletes took the lead in the first round. Henderson was eight feet an inch ahead of teammate Jarrion Lawson. Rutherford followed with 8.18 m in front of the South African Luvo Manyonga, who achieved 8.16 m. In the second round, Wang moved into second place with 8.17 m. In lap three Lawson took the lead with 8.25 m, Rutherford improved to second with 8.22 m. In the fourth round, Manyonga took the lead with 8.28 m. Rutherford scored 8.26 m and displaced Lawson in third place. Manyonga extended his lead to 8.37 m in the fifth attempt. Henderson ousted him in the last round. The American jumped one centimeter further than the South African at 8.38 m. Then Lawson managed a supposedly better distance, but only 7.78 m were measured. After evaluating the video recordings, it was clear that Lawson had touched the sand with his left hand during the landing and thus visibly devalued his distance, which was actually clearly better, beyond the 8-meter mark. But according to the rules, the last print counted. Rutherford was able to improve his performance again by three centimeters to 8.29 m, but was thus in third place until the end. Manyonga's last jump was a failure.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)	annotation
1	Jeff Henderson	United States	8.20	7.94	8.10	7.96	8.22	8.38	8.38
2	Luvo Manyonga	South Africa	8.16	x	x	8.28	8.37	x	8.37
3	Greg Rutherford	Great Britain	8.18	8.11	8.22	8.26	8.09	8.29	8.29
4th	Jarrion Lawson	United States	8.19	8.15	8.25	x	x	7.78	8.25
5	Wang Jianan	People's Republic of China	7.76	8.17	7.89	8.05	8.13	7.88	8.17
6th	Emiliano Lasa	Uruguay	7.93	7.84	8.04	8.10	7.92	7.95	8.10
7th	Henry Frayne	Australia	7.83	8.06	x	8.03	7.83	7.83	8.06
8th	Kafétien Gomis	France	7.54	7.57	8.05	x	7.55	7.83	8.05
9	Ruswahl Samaai	South Africa	7.97	7.94	x	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			7.97
10	Fabrice Lapierre	Australia	x	7.87	x				7.87
11	Huang Changzhou	People's Republic of China	7.78	x	7.86				7.86
12	Damar Forbes	Jamaica	7.63	7.74	7.82				7.82

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  Silver medalist Luvo Manyogal from South Africa

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  Bronze medalist Greg Rutherford, Great Britain

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  Emiliano Lasa from Uruguay finished sixth in the final

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  The French Kafétien Gomis was Olympic eight

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  The Jamaican Damar Forbes came in twelfth place

Web links

• Results Book Rio 2016, official report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 7, 2018
• Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation, men (English), accessed on October 7, 2018
• Sports-Reference, result of the long jump men (English), accessed on October 7, 2018

Video

• Long Jump Final, Rio 2016 Replay on youtube.com, published August 21, 2016, accessed October 7, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 677 , accessed on October 7, 2018