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Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's standing long jump

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Men's standing long jump
at the Games of the V Olympiad
Tsiklitiras on the way to win the gold medal.
VenueStockholm Olympic Stadium
DateJuly 8
Competitors19 from 8 nations
Winning distance3.37
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Konstantinos Tsiklitiras
 Greece
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Platt Adams
 United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Benjamin Adams
 United States
← 1908

The men's standing long jump was a track and field athletics event held as part of the Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth and final appearance of the event. The competition was held on Monday, July 8, 1912. Nineteen long jumpers from eight nations competed. NOCs could enter up to 12 athletes.[1] Ray Ewry, who was the three-time defending champion in the event, did not compete in 1912. The silver medalist from 1908, Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, won the event. Platt Adams, the sixth-place finisher four years earlier, took second. Benjamin Adams finished third. Each of the three standing long jump medalists also medaled in the standing high jump, though in a different order.

The winning margin was 1 cm which was the only time the men's standing long jump was won by less than 9 cm at the Olympics.

Background

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This was the fourth and final appearance of the event, which was held four times from 1900 to 1912. Three of the top seven finishers (places behind that are not known) from the 1908 Games returned: silver medalist Konstantinos Tsiklitiras of Greece, fifth-place finisher Ragnar Ekberg of Sweden, and sixth-place finisher Platt Adams of the United States. The man who had won all three of the previous competitions (four if the 1906 Intercalated Games are counted), American Ray Ewry, did not compete.[2]

Hungary and Norway each made their debut in the event. The United States made its fourth appearance, the only nation to have competed in all three editions of the standing long jump to that point.

Competition format

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The competition was described as two rounds at the time, but was more similar to the modern divided final. All athletes received three jumps initially. The top three after that received an additional three jumps to improve their distance, but the initial jumps would still count if no improvement was made.[2][3]

Records

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These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1912 Summer Olympics.

World record  Ray Ewry (USA) 3.47 St. Louis, United States 3 September 1904
Olympic record  Ray Ewry (USA) 3.47 St. Louis, United States 3 September 1904

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Monday, 8 July 1912 10:30 Qualifying
Final

Results

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Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distance
1st place, gold medalist(s) Konstantinos Tsiklitiras  Greece 3.14 3.26 3.37 3.30 3.24 3.34 3.37
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Platt Adams  United States 3.23 3.18 3.32 3.36 3.34 3.24 3.36
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Benjamin Adams  United States 3.28 3.21 3.24 3.18 3.23 3.28 3.28
4 Gustaf Malmsten  Sweden 3.11 3.20 3.12 Did not advance 3.20
5 Leo Goehring  United States X 3.14 3.13 Did not advance 3.14
Edvard Möller  Sweden 3.13 3.14 3.09 Did not advance 3.14
7 András Baronyi  Hungary 3.12 3.13 3.02 Did not advance 3.13
8 Richard Byrd  United States 3.12 3.11 3.05 Did not advance 3.12
9 Forest Fletcher  United States 3.05 3.11 3.09 Did not advance 3.11
10 Alfred Motté  France 3.10 3.10 3.09 Did not advance 3.10
11 Gustaf Ljunggren  Sweden 3.01 3.04 3.09 Did not advance 3.09
12 Birger Brodtkorb  Norway 3.00 3.05 3.03 Did not advance 3.05
13 Ragnar Ekberg  Sweden 3.00 3.02 3.03 Did not advance 3.03
14 Géo André  France 3.02 2.96 X Did not advance 3.02
Henry Ashington  Great Britain 2.95 2.79 3.02 Did not advance 3.02
Douglas Melin  Sweden 3.02 3.01 2.99 Did not advance 3.02
17 Arthur Maranda  Canada 2.80 2.83 2.98 Did not advance 2.98
18 Karl Bergh  Sweden 2.86 2.95 2.91 Did not advance 2.95
19 Philip Kingsford  Great Britain 2.60 2.75 2.72 Did not advance 2.75
Platt Adams winning the silver medal.
Platt Adams in action.
Bronze medalist Benjamin Adams.
Gustaf Malmsten finishing fourth.

References

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  1. ^ Official report, p. 61.
  2. ^ a b "Standing Long Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 396.
  • sports-reference.com
  • Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.). (ed.). The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  • Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 4 January 2007.