Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump

Men's long jump

at the Games of the XIV Olympiad

Dates

July 31 (qualifying and final)

Medalists

Video on YouTube Official Video
@ 19:25

Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
10 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's long jump event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on July 31, 1948. The final was won by American Willie Steele.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Jesse Owens (USA)	8.13 m	Ann Arbor, United States	25 May 1935
Olympic record	Jesse Owens (USA)	8.06 m	Berlin, Germany	4 August 1936

Date	Time	Round
Friday, 31 July 1948	11:00	Qualifications
Friday, 31 July 1948	16:45	Finals

Qual. rule: qualification standard 7.20m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	B	Willie Steele	United States	7.780	–	–	7.780	Q
2	B	Lorenzo Wright	United States	7.530	–	–	7.530	Q
3	A	Herb Douglas	United States	7.240	–	–	7.240	Q
4	A	Theo Bruce	Australia	7.200	–	–	7.200	Q
5	A	Enrique Kistenmacher	Argentina	7.180	0.00 !x	7.100	7.180	q
6	A	Harry Askew	Great Britain	7.140	6.810	7.070	7.140	q
7	A	Adegboyega Folaranmi Adedoyin	Great Britain	7.130	7.030	6.960	7.130	q
8	B	Felix Würth	Austria	7.080	6.980	6.950	7.080	q
9	A	Edward Adamczyk	Poland	5.070	7.030	7.030	7.030	q
10	B	Harry Whittle	Great Britain	6.560	7.030	6.930	7.030	q
11	B	Baldev Singh	India	0.00 !x	7.000	6.780	7.000	q
12	A	Georges Damitio	France	6.980	6.770	6.610	6.980	q
13	B	Jean Studer	Switzerland	6.820	6.880	6.940	6.940
14	B	Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson	Iceland	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	6.860	6.860
15	A	Jaroslav Fikejz	Czechoslovakia	6.560	6.860	6.790	6.860
16	B	Álvaro Dias	Portugal	6.460	6.780	6.860	6.860
17	A	Kyros Marinis	Greece	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	6.750	6.750
18	A	Kim Won-kwon	South Korea	6.710	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	6.710
19	B	Charles Thompson	British Guiana	6.580	0.00 !–	0.00 !–	6.580
20	A	Jorge Aguirre	Mexico	5.910	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	5.910
21 !–	B	G. D. Peiris	Ceylon	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	0.00 !NM

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
01 !	Willie Steele	United States	7.825
02 !	Theo Bruce	Australia	7.555
03 !	Herb Douglas	United States	7.545
4	Lorenzo Wright	United States	7.450
5	Adegboyega Folaranmi Adedoyin	Great Britain	7.270
6	Georges Damitio	France	7.070
7	Harry Whittle	Great Britain	7.030
8	Felix Würth	Austria	7.000
9	Harry Askew	Great Britain	6.935
10	Enrique Kistenmacher	Argentina	6.800
11	Edward Adamczyk	Poland	6.735

Long jump at the Olympic Games

Summary

Men	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

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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