Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump

Men's long jump
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
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VenueAthens Olympic Stadium
Dates24–26 August
Competitors40 from 30 nations
Winning distance8.59
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dwight Phillips
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) John Moffitt
 United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Joan Lino Martínez
 Spain
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The men's long jump competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 24–26 August.[1] Forty athletes from 30 nations competed.[2] The event was won by Dwight Phillips of the United States, the nation's 21st gold medal in the men's long jump.

Background

This was the 25th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 2000 Games were the defending champion Iván Pedroso of Cuba, fourth-place finisher Olexiy Lukashevych of Ukraine, eighth-place finisher Dwight Phillips of the United States, ninth-place finisher Bogdan Tarus of Romania, and eleventh-place finisher Petar Dachev of Bulgaria. Then, Pedroso was at his peak and Phillips had not yet reached his; now, Phillips was at his peak and Pedroso was past his. Pedroso's string of four straight world championships ended in 2003, when Phillips took over.[2]

Botswana and Panama each made their first appearance in the event. The United States appeared for the 24th time, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

The qualification period for Athletics was 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For the men's long jump, each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had jumped 8.19 metres or further during the qualification period. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had jumped 8.05 metres or further could be entered.[3]

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete jumped three times (stopping early if they made the qualifying distance). At least the top twelve athletes moved on to the final; if more than twelve reached the qualifying distance of 8.10 metres, all who did so advanced. Distances were reset for the final round. Finalists jumped three times, after which the eight best jumped three more times (with the best distance of the six jumps counted).[4]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and Olympic records 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. The following national records were set during the competition:

Nation Athlete Round Distance
 Mauritius Jonathan Chimier Qualifying 8.28

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Date Time Round
Tuesday, 24 August 2004 19:45 Qualifying
Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:00 Final

Results

Qualifying

Rule: Qualifying standard 8.10 (Q) or at least 12 best qualified (q).

Rank Group Athlete Nation 1 2 3 Distance Notes
1 A Dwight Phillips  United States 8.31 — — 8.31 Q
2 B Jonathan Chimier  Mauritius 8.28 — — 8.28 Q, NR
3 B Chris Tomlinson  Great Britain 7.76 8.23 — 8.23 Q, SB
4 B James Beckford  Jamaica 8.20 — — 8.20 Q
5 A John Moffitt  United States 7.80 8.17 — 8.17 Q
6 A Joan Lino Martínez  Spain 8.10 — — 8.10 Q
7 B Vitaliy Shkurlatov  Russia 8.09 X X 8.09 q
8 A Bogdan Ţăruş  Romania 7.95 8.08 — 8.08 q
9 B Salim Sdiri  France 8.08 X X 8.08 q
10 B Yago Lamela  Spain 7.95 8.06 8.06 8.06 q, =SB
11 A Iván Pedroso  Cuba 8.05 X 8.04 8.05 q
12 A Ignisious Gaisah  Ghana X 7.84 8.05 8.05 q
13 B Petar Dachev  Bulgaria 8.05 X 7.83 8.05
14 A Kafétien Gomis  France X 7.99 X 7.99
15 B Víctor Castillo  Venezuela 7.70 7.62 7.98 7.98
16 A Kirill Sosunov  Russia X 7.94 7.76 7.94
17 A Nikolay Atanasov  Bulgaria X 7.88 7.90 7.90
18 A Volodymyr Zyuskov  Ukraine X 7.88 X 7.88
19 A Nicola Trentin  Italy 7.86 X x 7.86
20 B Kareem Streete-Thompson  Cayman Islands X 7.85 7.68 7.85
21 B Osbourne Moxey  Bahamas 7.81 7.80 7.66 7.81
22 B Louis Tsatoumas  Greece 6.99 7.81 X 7.81
23 B Walter Davis  United States 7.37 7.70 7.80 7.80
24 B Tarik Bouguetaïb  Morocco 7.79 7.63 X 7.79
25 A Gable Garenamotse  Botswana 7.78 7.16 7.45 7.78
26 A Siniša Ergotić  Croatia 7.77 7.73 X 7.77
27 A Ndiss Kaba Badji  Senegal 7.47 7.65 7.74 7.74
28 B Yann Domenech  France 7.56 7.73 X 7.73
29 A Shinichi Terano  Japan 7.57 7.58 7.70 7.70
30 A Yahya Berrabah  Morocco 7.53 7.62 7.19 7.62
31 B Nils Winter  Germany 7.51 7.41 X 7.51
32 B Jadel Gregório  Brazil 7.50 X X 7.50
33 B Gaspar Araújo  Portugal X 7.27 7.49 7.49
34 A Zhou Can  China 7.36 7.47 X 7.47
35 A Dimitrios Filindras  Greece X 7.45 7.42 7.45
36 B Irving Saladino  Panama X 7.28 7.42 7.42
37 B Abdul Rahman Al-Nubi  Qatar X 7.41 7.26 7.41
38 A Tamás Margl  Hungary 7.38 7.22 X 7.38
39 A Gregor Cankar  Slovenia 5.04 X 7.32 7.32
— A Dimítrios Serélis  Greece X X X No mark
— B Oleksiy Lukashevych  Ukraine DNS

Final

Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distance
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dwight Phillips  United States 8.59 X X — — 8.35 8.59
2nd place, silver medalist(s) John Moffitt  United States 8.10 8.28 7.85 8.19 8.47 PB 8.24 8.47
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Joan Lino Martínez  Spain 7.79 8.32 PB 8.02 8.06 8.06 X 8.32
4 James Beckford  Jamaica 8.15 8.15 8.31 =SB 8.12 X X 8.31
5 Chris Tomlinson  Great Britain 8.25 8.04 8.11 8.09 8.05 7.92 8.25
6 Ignisious Gaisah  Ghana 8.01 8.06 8.24 8.12 8.09 X 8.24
7 Iván Pedroso  Cuba X 8.19 X 8.09 X 8.23 SB 8.23
8 Bogdan Ţăruş  Romania 8.21 X 8.08 X X 8.16 8.21
9 Vitaliy Shkurlatov  Russia 7.88 8.04 X Did not advance 8.04
10 Jonathan Chimier  Mauritius 8.03 7.79 6.78 Did not advance 8.03
11 Yago Lamela  Spain 7.98 X X Did not advance 7.98
12 Salim Sdiri  France 7.94 X X Did not advance 7.94

References

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics". Athens 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Long Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  3. ^ "2004 OLYMPIC GAMES - ATHLETICS QUALIFYING STANDARDS". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Athletics at the 2004 Athens Summer Games: Men's Long Jump". Athens 2004. Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2015.

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