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

Men's Long jump
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Men's Long jump; at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
	Pictogram for Athletics
Venue	Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc
Dates	5 August (qualifying); 6 August (final)
Competitors	50 from 37 nations
Winning distance	8.67
Medalists
	← 1988 1996 →

Official Video Highlights
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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 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.

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
	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

References

^ "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.
^ ^a ^b "Long Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
^ Official Report, vol. 5, p. 49.