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

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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
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Athletics at the
1992 Summer Olympics
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The men'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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Qualifying[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

References[edit]

  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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