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Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump

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Men's long jump
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Ed Hamm in July 1928
VenueOlympic Stadium
DateJuly 31
Competitors41 from 23 nations
Winning distance7.73
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ed Hamm
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silvio Cator
 Haiti
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Al Bates
 United States
← 1924
1932 →

The men's long jump event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Tuesday, July 31, 1928. Forty-one long jumpers from 23 nations competed.[1] The maximum number of athletes per nation was 4.[2] The event was won by Ed Hamm of the United States, the nation's second consecutive and seventh overall victory in the event. Silvio Cator earned Haiti's first medal in the event by taking silver.

Background

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This was the eighth appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1924 Games were the defending champion, DeHart Hubbard of the United States, and fourth-place finisher Vilho Tuulos of Finland. Hubbard had an ankle injury, however. Ed Hamm had set the world record at the 1928 AAU championship and was the "heavy favorite."[3]

Chile, Denmark, Ireland, South Africa, and Spain each made their first appearance in the event. The United States appeared for the eighth time, the only nation to have long jumpers at each of the Games thus far.

Competition format

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The 1928 format continued to use the two-round format used in 1900 and since 1908, with the six-man finals introduced in 1920. Instead of having ties all advance (as in 1924), the next-best jump was used to break ties. Each jumper had three jumps in the qualifying round; finalists received an additional three jumps, with qualifying round jumps still counting if the final jumps were not better.[3]

Records

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These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics.

World record  Ed Hamm (USA) 7.90 Cambridge, United Kingdom 7 July 1928
Olympic record  Robert LeGendre (USA) 7.765(*) Paris, France 7 July 1924

(*) Robert LeGendre set the Olympic record in the 1924 pentathlon contest

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Tuesday, 21 July 1928 Qualifying
Final

Results

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The best six long jumpers qualified for the final. Two jumpers, Hannes de Boer and Ed Gordon, tied for sixth place, but only de Boer advanced to the final as his second best jump (6.96) was better than the second best jump of Gordon (6.57). The jumping order is not available and the jumping series are only available for the best six jumpers. The final was held on the same day and started at 2 p.m. No jumper was able to improve his qualification width.

Rank Group Athlete Nation Qualification Final
1 2 3 Result 4 5 6 Result
1st place, gold medalist(s) 1 Ed Hamm  United States ? 7.73 7.68 7.73 7.68 7.66 7.73
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1 Silvio Cator  Haiti X 7.50 7.58 7.58 7.20 7.22 X 7.58
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2 Al Bates  United States 7.40 X X 7.40 6.79 6.92 6.75 7.40
4 2 Willi Meier  Germany 7.35 7.39 7.05 7.39 X 7.27 7.23 7.39
5 1 Erich Köchermann  Germany 7.35 7.16 7.25 7.35 7.05 X 6.85 7.35
6 4 Hannes de Boer  Netherlands 7.32 / 6.96 7.32 X X X 7.32
7 3 Ed Gordon  United States 7.32 / 6.57 7.32 did not advance
8 3 Eric Svensson  Sweden ? ? ? 7.29 did not advance
9 4 Chūhei Nambu  Japan ? ? ? 7.25 did not advance
10 2 Olle Hallberg  Sweden ? ? ? 7.18 did not advance
11 4 DeHart Hubbard  United States ? ? ? 7.11 did not advance
3 Mikio Oda  Japan ? ? ? 7.11 did not advance
4 Ville Tuulos  Finland ? ? ? 7.11 did not advance
14 1 Erling Aastad  Norway ? ? ? 7.07 did not advance
15 3 Helmut Schlöske  Germany ? ? ? 6.99 did not advance
16 4 Alfonso de Gortari  Mexico ? ? ? 6.97 did not advance
17 1 Toon van Welsenes  Netherlands ? ? ? 6.96 did not advance
18 4 Rudi Dobermann  Germany ? ? ? 6.91 did not advance
2 Toimi Tulikoura  Finland ? ? ? 6.91 did not advance
20 3 Gijs Lamoree  Netherlands ? ? ? 6.87 did not advance
21 1 Paddy Anglim  Ireland ? ? ? 6.81 did not advance
22 4 Adolf Meier  Switzerland ? ? ? 6.80 did not advance
23 3 Lajos Balogh  Hungary ? ? ? 6.79 did not advance
24 2 Imre Fekete  Hungary ? ? ? 6.77 did not advance
25 2 Virgilio Tommasi  Italy ? ? ? 6.76 did not advance
3 Enrico Torre  Italy ? ? ? 6.76 did not advance
27 4 Charles Alzieu  France ? ? ? 6.70 did not advance
28 1 Jacques Flouret  France ? ? ? 6.64 did not advance
29 3 Konstantinos Petridis  Greece ? ? ? 6.63 did not advance
30 4 Hermann Brügmann  Denmark ? ? ? 6.62 did not advance
31 4 Arild Lenth  Norway ? ? ? 6.60 did not advance
32 3 Reg Revans  Great Britain ? ? ? 6.58 did not advance
33 2 Zdzisław Nowak  Poland ? ? ? 6.57 did not advance
34 1 Óscar Alvarado  Chile ? ? ? 6.51 did not advance
1 Gaston Médécin  Monaco ? ? ? 6.51 did not advance
36 1 Tibor Püspöki  Hungary ? ? ? 6.45 did not advance
37 2 Dalip Singh  India ? ? ? 6.45 did not advance
38 3 Johannes Viljoen  South Africa ? ? ? 6.44 did not advance
39 2 James Cohen  Great Britain ? ? ? 6.39 did not advance
40 1 Alfred Sutter  Switzerland ? ? ? 6.23 did not advance
41 4 Fernando Labourdette-Liaresq  Spain ? ? ? 6.16 did not advance
Sid Atkinson  South Africa DNS
Stelios Benardis  Greece DNS
Pierre Dinard  France DNS
Walter Harrison  Australia DNS
Akilles Järvinen  Finland DNS
Kalle Järvinen  Finland DNS
Robert Loiseau  France DNS
Elemér Somfay  Hungary DNS
Nick Winter  Australia DNS

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Men's Long Jump". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 374.
  3. ^ a b "Long Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
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