Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump

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Men's long jump
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Mens long jump podium - 2012 Summer Olympics.jpg
Podium
Venue Olympic Stadium
Date3–4 August
Competitors42 from 30 nations
Winning distance8.31
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Greg Rutherford Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain
Silver medal icon.svg Mitchell Watt Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Bronze medal icon.svg Will Claye Flag of the United States.svg  United States
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The men's long jump competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom was held at the Olympic Stadium on 3–4 August. [1] Forty-two athletes from 30 nations competed. [2] The event was won by 15 cm by Greg Rutherford of Great Britain, the nation's second gold medal in the men's long jump and first medal in the event since winning gold in 1964. Mitchell Watt won Australia's fourth silver in the event; Australia had never won gold. Will Claye returned the United States to the podium after a 2008 Games with no American finalists; it was still only the first time that the American team had failed to win the event in two consecutive Games.

Summary

Only two athletes achieved automatic qualifying marks, both of those by Marquise Goodwin and Mauro Vinicius da Silva just one centimeter over the minimum at 8.11. The tight field was spread over less than 20 cm. It took a better second jump at 7.92 to make the final, leaving Russian junior and co-world leader Sergey Morgunov on the outside. Defending champion Irving Saladino was unable to get a legal jump in, failing to advance.

In the final, none of the top 3 qualifiers were to play a factor. Christopher Tomlinson took the lead in the first round with an 8.06 with Will Claye in second. In the second round, Greg Rutherford took the lead with an 8.21, while Claye jumped a centimeter better than Tomlinson, to hold on to second. Claye's mark was equaled by Michel Tornéus in the third round. The fourth round was when all but two of the finalists hit their best mark, Claye with 8.12 and Rutherford extending his lead to 8.31. Languishing in seventh to that point, Mitchell Watt did Claye one centimeter better in the fifth round, then improving another three centimeters on his final jump to solidify his hold on the silver medal.

Rutherford's gold medal was the second of three gold medals in one evening for the host country, their most successful day in Olympic history. [3] Rutherford's winning jump of 8.31 was the shortest jump to win the Olympics men's long jump competition since the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Background

This was the 27th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 2008 Games were gold medalist Irving Saladino of Panama, silver medalist Khotso Mokoena of South Africa, fifth-place finisher Ndiss Kaba Badji of Senegal, sixth-place finisher Luis Felipe Méliz of Spain, seventh-place finisher Roman Novotný of the Czech Republic, eighth-place finisher Greg Rutherford of Great Britain, and Louis Tsatoumas of Greece, who had not made a legal mark in the final. Saladino had not had much success since Beijing, however. The two-time defending (and four-time overall) world champion, Dwight Phillips of the United States, had been injured in a car accident and did not compete. Mitchell Watt of Australia had come in second at the 2011 world championships, and in Phillips's absence Watt was a slight favorite over Rutherford. [2]

Georgia and Iran each made their first appearance in the event. The United States appeared for the 26th time, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified athletes in the men's long jump event if all athletes met the A standard, or 1 athlete if they met the B standard. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The qualifying distance standards could be obtained in various meets during the qualifying period that had the approval of the IAAF. Both outdoor and indoor meets were eligible. The A standard for the 2012 men's long jump was 8.20 metres; the B standard was 8.10 metres. The qualifying period for was from 1 May 2011 to 8 July 2012. NOCs could also have an athlete enter the long jump through a universality place. NOCs could enter one male athlete in an athletics event, regardless of time, if they had no male athletes meeting the qualifying A or B standards in any men's athletic event. [4] [5] [6]

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete jumped three times (stopping early if they made the qualifying distance of 8.10 metres). At least the top twelve athletes moved on to the final; if more than twelve reached the qualifying distance, 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). [7]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and Olympic records, and season leading time, were as follows.

World recordFlag of the United States.svg  Mike Powell  (USA)8.95 Tokyo, Japan30 August 1991
Olympic recordFlag of the United States.svg  Bob Beamon  (USA)8.90 Mexico City, Mexico18 October 1968
2012 World leadingFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Greg Rutherford  (GBR)8.35 Chula Vista, United States 3 May 2012
Flag of Russia.svg  Sergey Morgunov  (RUS) Cheboksary, Russia 20 June 2012

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

DateTimeRound
Friday, 3 August 201219:50Qualifying
Saturday, 4 August 201219:55Final

Results

Qualifying

Qual. rule: qualification standard 8.10m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q). [8]

RankGroupAthleteNation123DistanceNotes
1B Mauro Vinicius da Silva Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 8.078.118.11 Q
2A Marquise Goodwin Flag of the United States.svg  United States 8.118.11 Q
3A Aleksandr Menkov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 7.87X8.098.09 q
4A Greg Rutherford Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 8.088.068.08 q
5B Christopher Tomlinson Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 7.628.068.06 q
6A Michel Tornéus Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 8.037.498.03 q
7A Godfrey Khotso Mokoena Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa X7.818.028.02 q
8A Will Claye Flag of the United States.svg  United States 7.99X7.867.99 q
9B Mitchell Watt Flag of Australia.svg  Australia X7.997.99 q
10A Tyrone Smith Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda 7.737.757.977.97 q, SB
11A Henry Frayne Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 7.82X7.957.95 q
12B Sebastian Bayer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 7.927.883.967.92 q
13A Christian Reif Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 7.81X7.927.92
14A Eusebio Cáceres Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 7.257.926.957.92
15B Aleksandr Petrov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 7.677.577.897.89
16B Sergey Morgunov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia X7.87x7.87
17A Mohammad Arzandeh Flag of Iran.svg  Iran 7.777.757.847.84
18B Ignisious Gaisah Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana 7.727.797.507.79
19A Damar Forbes Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 7.79X7.487.79
20B Li Jinzhe Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 7.597.677.777.77
21B Raymond Higgs Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas X7.76X7.76
22A Alyn Camara Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 7.72X7.697.72
23A Salim Sdiri Flag of France.svg  France 7.717.585.757.71
24B Ndiss Kaba Badji Flag of Senegal.svg  Senegal 7.66X7.647.66
25B Arsen Sargsyan Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia 7.387.627.607.62
26B Povilas Mykolaitis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania XX7.617.61
27B Stanley Gbagbeke Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria X5.717.597.59
28B Marcos Chuva Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal X7.557.067.55
29A Loúis Tsátoumas Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 7.537.48X7.53
30A Štepán Wagner Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 7.397.507.477.50
31B Viktor Kuznyetsov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 7.43X7.507.50
32B Luis Rivera Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 7.42X7.297.42
33A Lin Ching-hsuan Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 7.387.35X7.38
A Supanara Sukhasvasti Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 7.38X7.35
35A Boleslav Skhirtladze Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 7.266.956.907.26
36A Zhang Xiaoyi Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 7.25XX7.25
37B Mohamed Fathalla Difallah Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt X7.08X7.08
38B Roman Novotný Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic X6.96X6.96
39B George Kitchens Flag of the United States.svg  United States XX6.846.84
40A Vardan Pahlevanyan Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia X6.55X6.55
B Luis Felipe Méliz Flag of Spain.svg  Spain XNo mark
B Irving Saladino Flag of Panama.svg  Panama XXXNo mark

Final

Greg Rutherford's distance after his gold-medal-winning jump (crop).jpg
RankAthleteNation123456Distance
Gold medal icon.svg Greg Rutherford Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 6.288.218.148.31X6.338.31
Silver medal icon.svg Mitchell Watt Flag of Australia.svg  Australia X7.97Xx8.138.168.16
Bronze medal icon.svg Will Claye Flag of the United States.svg  United States 7.988.077.938.127.96X8.12
4 Michel Tornéus Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 7.637.808.078.118.077.988.11
5 Sebastian Bayer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 7.87X7.968.107.967.988.10
6 Christopher Tomlinson Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 8.067.877.838.077.747.768.07
7 Mauro Vinicius da Silva Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil Xx7.968.01XX8.01
8 Godfrey Khotso Mokoena Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 7.93X7.62XXX7.93
9 Henry Frayne Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 7.85X7.63Did not advance7.85
10 Marquise Goodwin Flag of the United States.svg  United States X7.807.76Did not advance7.80
11 Aleksandr Menkov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia XX7.78Did not advance7.78
12 Tyrone Smith Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda 7.70XXDid not advance7.70

References

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