1906 Olympic Intermediate Games / Athletics - Long Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
place	Panathinaic Stadium
Attendees	27 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	April 27, 1906

The men's long jump at the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens was decided on April 7, 1906. The participants had three attempts each, the three best then another three jumps.

Records

World record	7.61 m	Ireland	Peter O'Connor	1901
Olympic record	7.34 m	United States	Meyer Prinstein	1904

Results

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Meyer Prinstein	United States	7.20
2	Peter O'Connor	Great Britain	7.025
3	Hugo Friend	United States	6.96
4th	Hjalmar Mellander	Sweden	6,585
5	Sidney Abrahams	Great Britain	6.21
6th	Thomas Cronan	United States	6.185
7th	Gunnar Roenström	Sweden	6.15
8th	István Somodi	Hungary	6.045
9	Vasilios Stournaras	Greece	6.03
10	Pál Vargha	Hungary	5.97
11	Julius Wagner	Germany	5.95
12	Johannes Runge	Germany	5.90
13	Nikolaos Andreadakis	Greece	5.90
14th	Martin Brustmann	Germany	5.85
15th	Otto Bock	Denmark	5.77
16	Paul Weinstein	Germany	5.725
17th	Gaspare Torretta	Italy	5.65
18th	Gustav Krojer	Austria	5.65
19th	L. Leon	Greece	5,585
20th	Otto Hahnel-Kohout	Bohemia	5.575
21st	Aage Petersen	Denmark	5.555
22nd	Niels Løw	Denmark	5.625
23	Karl Lampelmayer	Austria	5.385
24	Arthur Mallwitz	Germany	5.38
25th	Francis Connolly	United States	5.28
26th	A. Priftis	Greece	5.235
27	James Connolly	United States	ogV

Prinstein achieved the winning distance in the first round. He injured himself in the process and could no longer jump with full force in the further rounds. The runner-up made several allegations against the jury. So Prinstein jumped earlier than the starting order stipulated and therefore found better conditions on the inrun. In addition, several jumps by himself - Peter O'Connor - were wrongly assessed as invalid. However, these decisions were probably in accordance with the applicable rules. The competition was also unhappy for the Swede Mellander, who jumped almost half a meter in front of the board in his best jump. O'Connor and Friend achieved their bests in the last of the three additional rounds.

literature

• Volker Kluge , Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle I, Berlin 1997 ( ISBN 3-328-00715-6 )
• Ekkehard zur Megede , The history of Olympic athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970

Web links

• Sports Reference

Remarks

1. ↑ The former Olympic champion in the triple jump remained without a valid attempt