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Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics - Men's long jump

Men's Long jump
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
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VenueEstadi Olímpic de Montjuïc
Dates5 August (qualifying)
6 August (final)
Competitors50 from 37 nations
Winning distance8.67
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Carl Lewis
United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mike Powell
United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Joe Greene
United States

Themen's long jump was an event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were 50 participating athletes from 37 nations, with two qualifying groups.[1] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Carl Lewis of the United States, the nation's third consecutive and 19th overall gold medal in the men's long jump. Lewis became the second man to win three medals in the event (after Ralph Boston) and the first to win three golds. Mike Powell repeated his silver-medal performance from 1988, becoming the eighth two-medal winner in the event. Joe Greene took bronze, completing the United States' second consecutive and fourth overall (1896, 1904, 1988) medal sweep in the men's long jump.

Background

This was the 22nd appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1988 Games were two-time gold medalist Carl Lewis and silver medalist Mike Powell of the United States, fourth-place finisher (and 1984 bronze medalist) Giovanni Evangelisti of Italy, sixth-place finisher László Szalma of Hungary, and twelfth-place finisher Mark Forsythe of Great Britain. Lewis was looking for a third gold, but Powell had beaten him at the 1991 world championships (finally breaking Bob Beamon's 1968 world record of 8.90 metres with an 8.95 metre jump, as well as snapping Lewis's streak of 65 straight victories in the long jump) and the U.S. Olympic trials.[2]

Burkina Faso, the Cayman Islands, El Salvador, Grenada, Guinea, the Seychelles, Slovenia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe each made their first appearance in the event; some former Soviet republics appeared as the Unified Team. The United States appeared for the 21st time, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Competition format

The 1992 competition used the two-round format with divided final introduced in 1952. The qualifying round gave each competitor three jumps to achieve a distance of 8.05 metres; if fewer than 12 men did so, the top 12 (including all those tied) would advance. The final provided each jumper with three jumps; the top eight jumpers received an additional three jumps for a total of six, with the best to count (qualifying round jumps were not considered for the final).[2][3]

Records

The standing world and Olympic records prior to the event were as follows.

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

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date Time Round
Wednesday, 5 August 1992 Qualifying
Thursday, 6 August 1992 18:50 Final

Results

Qualifying

Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 Distance Notes
1 Carl Lewis United States 8.68 8.68 Q
2 Geng Huang China 7.90 8.22 8.22 Q
3 Konstantinos Koukodimos Greece 8.22 8.22 Q
4 Mike Powell United States 8.14 8.14 Q
5 Jaime Jefferson Cuba 7.96 7.97 8.09 8.09 Q
6 Dmitriy Bagryanov Unified Team 7.95 8.09 8.09 Q
7 Iván Pedroso Cuba 7.83 8.07 8.07 Q
8 Bogdan Tudor Romania 7.51 7.60 8.07 8.07 Q
9 David Culbert Australia 8.00 7.59 X 8.00 q
10 Borut Bilač Slovenia X 8.00 X 8.00 q
11 Chen Zunrong China 7.93 X 7.90 7.93 q
12 Joe Greene United States 7.69 X 7.90 7.90 q
13 Craig Hepburn Bahamas X 7.89 7.81 7.89
14 Dietmar Haaf Germany X 7.74 7.85 7.85
15 Mark Mason Guyana 7.42 7.83 X 7.83
16 Spyridon Vasdekis Greece 7.67 7.82 7.71 7.82
17 Masaki Morinaga Japan 7.74 7.78 7.79 7.79
18 Jesus Olivan Spain X 7.78 X 7.78
19 Galin Georgiev Bulgaria 7.37 X 7.75 7.75
20 Ian James Canada X 7.74 X 7.74
21 Franck Lestage France 7.72 7.65 7.66 7.72
22 Mark Forsythe Great Britain 7.71 X X 7.71
23 Elmer Williams Puerto Rico 7.63 7.56 7.70 7.70
24 Franck Zio Burkina Faso 7.47 7.63 7.70 7.70
25 Milan Gombala Czechoslovakia 7.54 X 7.69 7.69
26 Csaba Almási Hungary X X 7.69 7.69
27 Thomas Ganda Sierra Leone 7.67 7.40 7.43 7.67
28 Edrick Floreal Canada 7.62 7.54 7.62 7.62
29 Roman Golanowski Poland X X 7.61 7.61
30 Eugene Licorish Grenada 7.57 7.60 7.54 7.60
31 Serge Helan France 7.60 X 7.48 7.60
32 Konstantin Krause Germany X X 7.54 7.54
33 James Sabulei Kenya 7.50 7.37 7.38 7.50
34 László Szalma Hungary 7.47 7.40 7.36 7.47
35 Michael Francis Puerto Rico X X 7.46 7.46
36 Benjamin Koech Kenya 7.43 7.44 7.32 7.44
37 Danny Beauchamp Seychelles X X 7.44 7.44
38 Kareem Streete-Thompson Cayman Islands 7.39 X X 7.39
39 Angelo Iannuzzelli El Salvador X 7.31 X 7.31
40 Abdullah Mohamed Al-Sheib Qatar X 7.27 X 7.27
41 Gabrieli Qoro Fiji 7.22 X 5.19 7.22
41 Khaled Ahmed Musa Sudan 7.03 7.02 6.54 7.03
43 Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa Zimbabwe 6.96 6.95 6.96 6.96
44 Elston Shaw Belize 6.29 6.38 6.57 6.57
45 Vadim Ivanov Unified Team X X 5.97 5.97
46 Abdelkader Klouchi Algeria 5.33 X X 5.33
Giovanni Evangelisti Italy X X X No mark
Ángel Hernández Spain X X X No mark
Sydney Mdluli Swaziland X X X No mark
Soryba Diakite Guinea X No mark
Musabeh Al-Hadhrami United Arab Emirates DNS
Afonso Ferraz Angola DNS
Badara Mbengue Senegal DNS

Final

Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distance
1st place, gold medalist(s) Carl Lewis United States 8.67 8.33 X X 8.50 8.50 8.67
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mike Powell United States 7.95 8.22 8.33 X 8.53 8.64 8.64
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Joe Greene United States X X 7.88 8.34 8.14 X 8.34
4 Iván Pedroso Cuba 7.79 8.11 8.01 7.98 8.11 7.51 8.11
5 Jaime Jefferson Cuba 7.30 7.69 8.08 7.93 8.00 X 8.08
6 Konstantinos Koukodimos Greece 7.30 7.99 7.92 8.04 7.88 7.50 8.04
7 Dmitriy Bagryanov Unified Team 7.79 5.74 X 7.98 7.88 7.84 7.98
8 Geng Huang China 7.33 7.58 7.87 7.79 7.55 7.65 7.87
9 Borut Bilač Slovenia X 7.60 7.76 Did not advance 7.76
10 Chen Zunrong China 7.71 7.47 7.75 Did not advance 7.75
11 David Culbert Australia 7.36 7.30 7.73 Did not advance 7.73
12 Bogdan Tudor Romania 7.26 7.37 7.61 Did not advance 7.61

See also

References

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's Long Jump". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Long Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, vol. 5, p. 49.

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