Robert Emmijan

Robert Emmijan (2006)

Robert Emmijan ( Armenian Ռոբերտ Էմմիյան , English transcription Robert Emmiyan ; born February 16, 1965 in Leninakan , Armenian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Armenian long jumper who achieved his great successes in the Soviet Union team.

Robert Emmijan became European champion in 1986 and set European records in 1986 and 1987. His 8.86 meter jump (wind: 1.9 m / s) on May 22, 1987 in Zaghkadzor at an altitude of 1,800 meters is the European record that is still valid today. At this point it was the second longest jump of all time after Bob Beamon (8.90 meters). Emmijan now ranks fourth on the all-time world best list .

Career

At the age of 16, Emmijan was world best in his age group with 7.77 m. In 1983 he jumped the eight meter barrier for the first time. Also that year he was third at the Junior European Championships (7.83 m). In 1984 he won bronze at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg with 7.89 m, seven centimeters behind the winner Jan Leitner (Czechoslovakia).

In 1986 Emmijan won the European Indoor Championships in Madrid with 8.32 m gold in front of László Szalma (Hungary), who reached 8.24 m. As the winner of the Goodwill Games in Moscow in 1986, he set a new European record with 8.61 m and improved the best of Lutz Dombrowski (8.54 m) from the GDR. At the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart he won 8.41 m ahead of Sergei Lajewski (8.01 m), his Soviet team-mate and USSR champion from 1984 to 1987.

In 1987 Emmijan improved the championship record at the European Indoor Championships in Liévin to 8.49 m. He won ahead of Giovanni Evangelisti (Italy), who jumped 8.26 m. Two weeks later at the World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis in 1987 Larry Myricks (USA) won with 8.23 ​​m ahead of Paul Emordi (Nigeria) and Evangelisti, who both jumped 8.01 m. Emmijan was fourth with 8.00 m.

On May 22, 1987 in Zaghkadzor , 50 km north of Yerevan, Robert Emmijan jumped 1750 meters with a 8.86 m European record and the second best distance behind Bob Beamon's 8.90 meter set from 1968 , the one at the height of Mexico -City jumped. Apart from Beamon, only Mike Powell and Carl Lewis ever jumped further in Tokyo in 1991 . At the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Carl Lewis won with 8.67 m ahead of Emmijan with 8.53 m. Behind it were Myricks and Evangelists.

At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Emmijan was injured in the first round of qualification. At the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow in 1990, Emmijan won again bronze with 8.06 m, the German Dietmar Haaf won with 8.11 m.

Then Emmijan reached a grand finale. At the 1997 World Championships , he came in eleventh with 7.77 m. From 1993 Emmijan went to Armenia, so also at the 1996 Games in Atlanta, but with 7.76 m he finished only 28th in the qualification. 1995, 12 years after his first eight-meter jump, he succeeded in the French Athletics championships again a width of 8.00 m.

Robert Emmijan lives in France (as of 2007). With a height of 1.78 m, his competition weight was 73 kg.

Records

• European records:
  • 8.61 m, July 6, 1986, Goodwill Games in Moscow
  • 8.86 m, May 22, 1987, Zaghkadzor
• European championship record: 8.41 m, August 29, 1986, Stuttgart
• European indoor championship record: 8.49 m, February 21, 1987, Liévin

On March 8, 2009 the European indoor championship record was improved by the German Sebastian Bayer to 8.71 m. On August 1, 2010, the German Christian Reif improved the European championship record to 8.47 m. The European record is still valid today (as of August 1, 2014).

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 1992. Windsor 1992, ISBN 1-873057-11-3
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )

Web links

• Robert Emmiyan in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ As of May 14, 2020