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

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.

Men's long jump
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Pictogram for athletics
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
← 2000
2008 →

Background

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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

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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

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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

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Prior to the competition, the existing world record, Olympic record, and world leading jump 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
World Leading   Dwight Phillips (USA) 8.60 Linz, Austria 2 August 2004

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

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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

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Qualifying

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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

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Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distance
  Dwight Phillips   United States 8.59 X X 8.35 8.59
  John Moffitt   United States 8.10 8.28 7.85 8.19 8.47 PB 8.24 8.47
  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

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  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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