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

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 three since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by 3 cm 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. His winning margin of 3 cm would prove to be his narrowest of his four Olympic titles. 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.

Men's Long jump
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Pictogram for Athletics
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
← 1988
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Official Video Highlights
@ 7:32

Background

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Qualifying

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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

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Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distance
  Carl Lewis   United States 8.67 8.33 X X 8.50 8.50 8.67
  Mike Powell   United States 7.95 8.22 8.33 X 8.53 8.64 8.64
  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

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References

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  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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