Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump

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Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics
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These are the official results of the men's long jump athletics event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There were a total of 54 competitors, with one non-starter.

Carl Lewis was on the edge of making history, to equal the unique accomplishment of Al Oerter by winning four Olympic championships in the same event. However, now 35 years old, he was comparatively quite old for a sprinter-long jumper. Lewis barely made it to the Olympics, only finishing third at the 1996 Olympic Trials behind world record holder Mike Powell (at 33, also five years beyond his peak) and 29-year-old Joe Greene. These same three American jumpers had swept the event four years earlier.

While Lewis was ranked number one from the qualifying round, it took him three jumps to make the automatic qualifier. Lewis gained some notoriety by winning the 1984 Olympics on his single, first attempt. Powell, Greene and Iván Pedroso made their automatic qualifier (8.05 m) on their first attempt.

In the first round Emmanuel Bangué took the lead with 8.19 m. Powell moved into second place in the second round at 8.17 m, with Lewis jumping 8.10 m to move into third. Greene moved into the lead in the third round with a 8.24 m, until Lewis made his 8.50 jump. Lewis' jump equalled former rival Larry Myricks' still standing Masters M35 World Record.

While Pedroso was the reigning world champion and had jumped significantly better just a year earlier, he didn't get into the final eight to get three remaining jumps. No other jumper improved in his final jumps except James Beckford, whose final-round 8.29 m lifted him into the silver medal, pushing Greene to bronze.

Medalists

Gold	Carl Lewis United States
Silver	James Beckford Jamaica
Bronze	Joe Greene United States

Abbreviations

All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
OR	olympic record
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics
World Record	Mike Powell (USA)	8.95 m	August 30, 1991	Tokyo, Japan
Olympic Record	Bob Beamon (USA)	8.90 m	October 18, 1968	Mexico City, Mexico

Non-qualifiers

RANK	NON-QUALIFIERS	DISTANCE
14	Spyridon Vasdekis (GRE)	7.98m
15	Bogdan Ţărus (ROU)	7.96m
16	Andrew Owusu (GHA)	7.91m
17	Nai Hui-Fang (TPE)	7.91m
18	Cheikh Tidiane Touré (SEN)	7.91m
19	Bogdan Tudor (ROU)	7.88m
20	Milan Gombala (CZE)	7.88m
21	Georg Ackermann (GER)	7.86m
22	János Uzsoki (HUN)	7.82m
22	Kostas Koukodimos (GRE)	7.82m
24	Carlos Calado (POR)	7.81m
25	Simone Bianchi (ITA)	7.79m
26	Vitaliy Kyrylenko (UKR)	7.77m
27	Nelson Ferreira (BRA)	7.76m
28	Robert Emmiyan (ARM)	7.76m
29	Chen Jing (CHN)	7.70m
30	Chao Chih-Kuo (TPE)	7.67m
31	Jaime Jefferson (CUB)	7.65m
32	Jesús Oliván (ESP)	7.64m
33	Douglas de Souza (BRA)	7.61m
34	Richard Duncan (CAN)	7.61m
35	Aleksey Petrukhnov (RUS)	7.50m
36	Nobuharu Asahara (JPN)	7.46m
37	Remmy Limo (KEN)	7.46m
38	Francois Fouche (RSA)	7.44m
39	Kenny Lewis (GRN)	7.41m
40	Keita Cline (IVB)	7.26m
41	Andreja Marinković (YUG)	7.17m
42	Marcio da Cruz (BRA)	7.12m
43	Victor Shabangu (SWZ)	5.79m
—	Siniša Ergotić (CRO)	NM
—	Benny Fernando (SRI)	NM
—	Hans-Peter Lott (GER)	NM
—	Sung Hee-Jun (KOR)	NM
—	Franck Zio (BUR)	NM
—	Vladimir Malyavin (TKM)	NM
—	Ellsworth Manuel (AHO)	NM
—	Ivaylo Mladenov (BUL)	NM
—	Ousman Sallah (GAM)	NM
—	Craig Hepburn (BAH)	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
	Carl Lewis (USA)	8.50	x	8.14	8.50	-	8.06	x	SB
	James Beckford (JAM)	8.29	x	8.02	8.13	x	x	8.29
	Joe Greene (USA)	8.24	7.80	7.79	8.24	x	x	x	SB
4	Emmanuel Bangué (FRA)	8.19	8.19	8.10	x	7.88	6.46	6.87
5	Mike Powell (USA)	8.17	7.89	8.17	7.99	x	x	x	SB
6	Gregor Cankar (SLO)	8.11	x	x	8.11	x	x	5.33
7	Aleksandr Glovatskiy (BLR)	8.07	8.07	x	8.07	x	x	x
8	Mattias Sunneborn (SWE)	8.06	7.89	7.97	8.06	8.04	8.03	7.75
9	Huang Geng (CHN)	7.99	7.99	7.87	7.89
10	Yuriy Naumkin (RUS)	7.96	7.96	7.88	7.95
11	Andrey Ignatov (RUS)	7.83	x	7.83	7.58
12	Iván Pedroso (CUB)	7.75	x	7.57	7.75
13	Erik Nys (BEL)	7.72	7.59	x	7.72

References

Long jump at the Olympic Games

Summary

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Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

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