| Long jump at theOlympic Games | |
|---|---|
 Dawn Burrell in the 2000 Olympic long jump competition | |
| Overview | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Gender | Men and women |
| Years held | Men:1896–2024 Women:1948–2024 |
| Olympic record | |
| Men | 8.90 mBob Beamon (1968) |
| Women | 7.40 mJackie Joyner-Kersee (1988) |
| Reigning champion | |
| Men |  Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE) |
| Women |  Tara Davis-Woodhall (USA) |
Thelong jump at theSummer Olympics, is grouped among the fourtrack and field jumping events held at themulti-sport event. The men's long jump has been present on theOlympic athletics programme since the firstSummer Olympics in 1896. The women's long jump was introduced over fifty years later in1948, and was the second Olympic jumping event for women after thehigh jump, which was added in 1928.
TheOlympic records for the event are 8.90 m (29 ft2+1⁄4 in) for men, set byBob Beamon in 1968, and 7.40 m (24 ft3+1⁄4 in) for women, set byJackie Joyner-Kersee in 1988. Beamon's mark is the longest-standing Olympic athletics record by a margin of twelve years, which was the only time a man has set along jump world record at the competition. The women's world record has been broken on two occasions at the Olympics, with Mary Rand jumping 6.76 m (22 ft 2 in) in 1964 and Viorica Viscopoleanu clearing 6.82 m (22 ft4+1⁄2 in) in 1968. In 1956, Elżbieta Krzesińska jumped 6.35 m (20 ft 10 in) to equal her own world record.[1]
Ellery Clark andOlga Gyarmati were the first men's and women's Olympic long jump champions.Miltiadis Tentoglou andMalaika Mihambo are the reigning Olympic champions from 2020.Carl Lewis is the event's most successful athlete as he was Olympic champion four times consecutively from 1984 to 1996.Heike Drechsler is the only woman to win two Olympic long jump titles.Ralph Boston andJackie Joyner-Kersee are the only other two athletes to win three Olympic long jump medals in their careers. TheUnited States is the most successful nation in the event.
Astanding long jump variant of the event was contested from 1900 to 1912 and standing jumps specialistRay Ewry won all but one of the gold medals in its brief history.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  United States (USA) | 22 | 15 | 10 | 47 |
| 2 |  Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Greece (GRE) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 |  East Germany (GDR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 |  Cuba (CUB) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 |  Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 |  Panama (PAN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 |  Australia (AUS) | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 |  Germany (GER) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
 Jamaica (JAM) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
 South Africa (RSA) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 12 |  Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 |  Haiti (HAI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 |  Soviet Union (URS) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 15 |  Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
 Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 17 |  Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Norway (NOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Spain (ESP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (21 entries) | 30 | 30 | 30 | 90 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Olympics | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carl Lewis | United States (USA) | 1984–1996 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | Miltiadis Tentoglou | Greece (GRE) | 2020–2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Ralph Boston | United States (USA) | 1960–1968 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Myer Prinstein | United States (USA) | 1900–1904 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Randy Williams | United States (USA) | 1972–1976 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 6 | Arnie Robinson | United States (USA) | 1972–1976 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Greg Rutherford | Great Britain (GBR) | 2012–2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 8 | Mike Powell | United States (USA) | 1988–1992 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Calvin Bricker | Canada (CAN) | 1908–1912 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan | Soviet Union (URS) | 1960–1964 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Joe Greene | United States (USA) | 1992–1996 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States (USA) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| 2 | Germany (GER) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
| 4 |  Romania (ROU) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 |  Russia (RUS) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | East Germany (GDR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 |  Poland (POL) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 |  Nigeria (NGR) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 |  Brazil (BRA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 New Zealand (NZL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 13 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 |  Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 17 |  Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Jamaica (JAM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Serbia (SRB) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (20 entries) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 60 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Olympics | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heike Drechsler | Germany (GER) East Germany (GDR) | 1988–2000 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Brittney Reese | United States (USA) | 2012–2020 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Elżbieta Krzesińska | Poland (POL) | 1956–1960 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Malaika Mihambo | Germany (GER) | 2020–2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 5 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | United States (USA) | 1988–1996 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Fiona May | Italy (ITA) | 1996–2000 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Tatyana Kotova | Russia (RUS) | 2000–2004 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Standing long jump at theOlympic Games | |
|---|---|
 Kostas Tsiklitiras in the 1912 standing long jump competition | |
| Overview | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Gender | Men |
| Years held | Men:1900–1912 |
| Olympic record | |
| Men | 3.47 mRay Ewry (1904) |
From 1900 to 1912 a variation of the event was contested at the Olympics where athletes had tolong jump from a standing position. This was one of three standing jumps to have featured on the Olympic programme, alongside thestanding high jump (present for the same period) and thestanding triple jump (1900 and 1904 only).[2]
The standing jump competitions were dominated byRay Ewry, who won the Olympic standing long jump titles in 1900, 1904 and 1908. His clearance of 3.47 m (11 ft4+1⁄2 in) at the 1904 Olympics remained as theOlympic record for the event until its discontinuation in 1912. Ewry took Olympic three gold medals in standing jumps in both 1900 and 1904, then won the standing high and long jumps at the 1908 Olympics, as well as the 1906 Intercalated Games.[3] After Ewry's retirement,Kostas Tsiklitiras became the winner of the final Olympic standing long jump competition in 1912.[4]
Thestanding long jump—and standing jump events in general—had been a relatively common type ofathletics event at the end of the 19th century, but became increasingly rare at top level national and international competitions as the 20th century progressed.[3] The Olympic event remains the only major international competition to have featured the event, except for the first three editions of theWomen's World Games in the 1920s, as well as the 1919 and 1920 editions of theSouth American Championships in Athletics.[5][6] The standing long jump retained some popularity as a championship event inScandinavia in the second half of the century.[7][8]
The1906 Intercalated Games were held inAthens and at the time were officially recognised as part of theOlympic Games series, with the intention being to hold a games in Greece in two-year intervals between the internationally held Olympics. However, this plan never came to fruition and theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) later decided not to recognise these games as part of the official Olympic series. Some sports historians continue to treat the results of these games as part of the Olympic canon.[9]
Continuing its presence since the first Olympics, a men's long jump event was contested at the 1906 Games. The two protagonists wereMyer Prinstein (the 1904 champion) andPeter O'Connor (the world record holder). Prinstein won with his opening jump of 7.20 m (23 ft7+1⁄4 in). O'Connor was runner-up in 7.02 m (23 ft1⁄4 in) but protested the measuring of Prinstein's mark and the judgement of no-jump rulings against him.Hugo Friend was a comfortable third in 6.96 m (22 ft 10 in).[10]
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 Athens details |  Myer Prinstein (USA) |  Peter O'Connor (GBR) | Hugo Friend (USA) |
The standing long jump variant was also contested at theIntercalated Games.Ray Ewry, who entered as the undefeated Olympic champion in the event, won a further gold medal with his mark of 3.30 m (10 ft9+3⁄4 in). It was an American podium sweep withMartin Sheridan andLawson Robertson taking second and third place.[11]
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 Athens details | Ray Ewry (USA) | Martin Sheridan (USA) | Lawson Robertson (USA) |
In addition to the main1900 Olympic men's long jump, ahandicap competition was held four days later.Pál Koppán of Hungary won with a mark of 7.895 m (1.60 m handicap) andJohn McLean of the United States came second with 7.72 m (85 cm handicap). Sources differ as to whether the third-place finisherWilliam Percy Remington (who was fourth in the main Olympic event) orThaddeus McClain (seventh in the Olympic long jump).[12][13]
Twoprofessionals-only contests were held in 1900. Mike Sweeney of the United States won with 5.995 m. Another American,Otto Bruno Schoenfeld, was second in 5.60 m, while FrenchmanJules Bouchoux came third in 5.55 m. A handicap professional contest was also held but the results have not been located.[12][14]
The handicap event returned at the1904 Summer Olympics and the three Olympic finalists who failed to win medals comprised the top three – all of them American.Fred Englehardt won with 6.82 m,Gilbert Van Cleve was runner-up with a mark of 6.53 m, andJohn Hagerman took third, recording 6.53 m. The corresponding handicaps are not known.[12]
These events are no longer considered part of the official Olympic history of the long jump or the athletics programme in general. Consequently, medals from these competitions have not been assigned to nations on theall-time medal tables.[12]
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