Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump

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Men's long jump
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Athletics pictogram.svg
Pictogram for athletics
Venue Stadium Australia
Dates25 September 2000 (qualifying)
28 September 2000 (final)
Competitors53 from 38 nations
Winning distance8.55
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Iván Pedroso Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Silver medal icon.svg Jai Taurima Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Bronze medal icon.svg Roman Shchurenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
  1996
2004  

The men's long jump event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on Monday, 25 September, and Thursday, 28 September 2000, in Sydney, Australia. [1] Fifty-three athletes from 38 nations competed. [2] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Iván Pedroso of Cuba, the nation's first medal and title in the men's long jump; it snapped a four-Games streak of American (and, specifically, Carl Lewis) victories. Jai Taurima took silver, Australia's third silver in the event (1948 and 1984). Roman Shchurenko earned Ukraine's first medal in the men's long jump with his bronze. It was the first time the United States had competed in the event and not won at least a silver medal; the Americans had previously failed to place in the top two only at the boycotted 1980 Games.

Background

This was the 24th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1996 Games were silver medalist James Beckford of Jamaica, sixth-place finisher Gregor Cankar of Slovenia, eighth-place finisher Mattias Sunneborn of Sweden, and twelfth-place finisher Iván Pedroso of Cuba. Pedroso had been the best long jumper in the world since 1995, winning the 1995, 1997, and 1999 world championships (he would later win again in 2001); he had struggled with a hamstring injury in 1996, hampering his Olympic medal hopes in Atlanta. The American team of Carl Lewis, Mike Powell, and Joe Greene which had competed together the last two Games, sweeping the 1992 medals and taking gold, bronze, and 5th in 1996, had completely turned over. The United States had no particularly strong replacements; the nation's top jumper, Dwight Phillips, would later be dominant in the event but was not there yet in 2000. Jai Taurima, of the host Australia, was Pedroso's strongest challenger. [2]

Lithuania, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, and Uzbekistan each made their first appearance in the event. The United States appeared for the 23rd time, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had jumped 8.05 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 7.95 metres or further could be entered. [3]

Competition format

The 2000 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 8.15 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] [4]

Records

The standing world and Olympic records prior to the event were as follows.

World recordFlag of the United States.svg  Mike Powell  (USA)8.95 Tokyo, Japan 30 August 1991
Olympic recordFlag of the United States.svg  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 Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

DateTimeRound
Monday, 25 September 200010:45Qualifying
Thursday, 28 September 200018:45Final

Results

Qualifying

The qualifying round was held on 25 September 2000. The qualifying distance was 8.15m. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the longest jumps until a total of 12 qualifiers.

RankAthleteNationGroup123DistanceNotes
1 Iván Pedroso Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba A7.707.998.328.32Q
2 Luis Méliz Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba B7.878.218.21Q
3 Dwight Phillips Flag of the United States.svg  United States B7.847.838.138.13q
4 Jai Taurima Flag of Australia.svg  Australia A7.997.778.098.09q
5 Peter Burge Flag of Australia.svg  Australia B7.627.968.068.06q
6 Carlos Calado Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal B8.047.987.968.04q
7 Vladimir Malyavin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia BX7.968.038.03q
8 Petar Dachev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria B8.03X7.858.03q
9 Kofi Amoah Prah Flag of Germany.svg  Germany A7.867.928.018.01q
10 Olexiy Lukashevych Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine A7.86X8.018.01q
11 Roman Shchurenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine B8.01XX8.01q
12 Bogdan Tarus Flag of Romania.svg  Romania B7.608.00X8.00q
13 Kareem Streete-Thompson Flag of the Cayman Islands (pre-1999).svg  Cayman Islands A7.997.76X7.99
14 James Beckford Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica B7.877.877.987.98
15 Gregor Cankar Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia A7.715.967.987.98
16 Kirill Sosunov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia B7.97X7.937.97
17 Younés Moudrik Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco A7.957.83X7.95
18 Hussein Taher Al-Sabee Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia BX5.927.947.94
19 Yago Lamela Flag of Spain.svg  Spain B7.687.747.897.89
20 Cheikh Tidiane Touré Flag of France.svg  France B7.87XX7.87
21 Danijal Jahić Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg  FR Yugoslavia B7.857.70X7.85
22 Savante Stringfellow Flag of the United States.svg  United States A7.327.707.847.84
23 Masaki Morinaga Flag of Japan.svg  Japan AX7.84X7.84
24 Peter Häggström Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden AX7.807.837.83
25 Melvin Lister Flag of the United States.svg  United States A7.577.827.767.82
26 Danil Burkenya Flag of Russia.svg  Russia A7.757.79X7.79
27 Tomas Bardauskas Flag of Lithuania (1988-2004).svg  Lithuania A7.187.706.957.70
28 Ronald Servius Flag of France.svg  France BXX7.667.66
29 Mattias Sunneborn Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden B7.457.587.637.63
30 Nikolay Atanasov Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria AXX7.627.62
31 El Mehdi El Rhazouani Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco B7.497.607.587.60
32 Richard Duncan Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada A7.33X7.607.60
33 Hatem Mersal Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt A7.59XX7.59
34 Mark Anthony Awere Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana B7.167.367.577.57
35 Arnaud Casquette Flag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius BX7.217.577.57
36 Siniša Ergotic Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia B7.34X7.537.53
37 Erik Nijs Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium A7.337.52X7.52
38 Ian Lowe Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada B7.517.487.367.51
39 Konstantinos Koukodimos Flag of Greece.svg  Greece BX7.44X7.44
40 Lao Jianfeng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China B7.267.417.337.41
41 Georges Téko Folligan Flag of Togo.svg  Togo BX7.40X7.40
42 Mesut Yavas Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey B7.347.356.037.35
43 Nélson Carlos Ferreira Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil B5.81X7.327.32
44 Shirak Poghosyan Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia B7.247.10X7.24
45 Rustam Khusnutdinov Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Uzbekistan A7.24XX7.24
46 Wendell Williams Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago AXX7.227.22
Rai Sanjay Khumar Flag of India.svg  India AXNo mark
Daisuke Watanabe Flag of Japan.svg  Japan BXXXNo mark
Sung Hee-Jun Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea AXXXNo mark
Abdul Rahman Al-Nubi Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar AXXXNo mark
Stephan Louw Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia AXXXNo mark
Dimítrios Serélis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece AXXXNo mark
Liu Honglin Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China AXXXNo mark

Final

The final was held on 28 September 2000.

RankAthleteNation123456Distance
Gold medal icon.svg Iván Pedroso Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba X8.34X8.41X8.558.55
Silver medal icon.svg Jai Taurima Flag of Australia.svg  Australia X8.188.348.408.49AR8.288.49
Bronze medal icon.svg Roman Shchurenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 7.76X8.14XX8.318.31
4 Olexiy Lukashevych Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 8.08XX8.228.26X8.26
5 Kofi Amoah Prah Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 7.84X8.197.95X7.868.19
6 Peter Burge Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 7.808.067.937.968.158.118.15
7 Luis Méliz Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 7.977.948.08X7.82X8.08
8 Dwight Phillips Flag of the United States.svg  United States X7.908.06XXX8.06
9 Bogdan Tarus Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 8.007.93XDid not advance8.00
10 Carlos Calado Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 7.947.857.77Did not advance7.94
11 Petar Dachev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 7.80X7.70Did not advance7.80
12 Vladimir Malyavin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia XX7.67Did not advance7.67

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