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

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.

Men's long jump
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Pictogram for athletics
VenueStadium Australia
Dates25 September 2000 (qualifying)
28 September 2000 (final)
Competitors53 from 38 nations
Winning distance8.55
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Iván Pedroso  Cuba
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jai Taurima  Australia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Roman Shchurenko  Ukraine
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Background

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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

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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

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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

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

World record   Mike Powell (USA) 8.95 Tokyo, Japan 30 August 1991
Olympic record   Bob Beamon (USA) 8.90 Mexico City, Mexico 18 October 1968

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

Schedule

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All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Date Time Round
Monday, 25 September 2000 10:45 Qualifying
Thursday, 28 September 2000 18:45 Final

Results

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Qualifying

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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.

Rank Athlete Nation Group 1 2 3 Distance Notes
1 Iván Pedroso   Cuba A 7.70 7.99 8.32 8.32 Q
2 Luis Méliz   Cuba B 7.87 8.21 8.21 Q
3 Dwight Phillips   United States B 7.84 7.83 8.13 8.13 q
4 Jai Taurima   Australia A 7.99 7.77 8.09 8.09 q
5 Peter Burge   Australia B 7.62 7.96 8.06 8.06 q
6 Carlos Calado   Portugal B 8.04 7.98 7.96 8.04 q
7 Vladimir Malyavin   Russia B X 7.96 8.03 8.03 q
8 Petar Dachev   Bulgaria B 8.03 X 7.85 8.03 q
9 Kofi Amoah Prah   Germany A 7.86 7.92 8.01 8.01 q
10 Olexiy Lukashevych   Ukraine A 7.86 X 8.01 8.01 q
11 Roman Shchurenko   Ukraine B 8.01 X X 8.01 q
12 Bogdan Tarus   Romania B 7.60 8.00 X 8.00 q
13 Kareem Streete-Thompson   Cayman Islands A 7.99 7.76 X 7.99
14 James Beckford   Jamaica B 7.87 7.87 7.98 7.98
15 Gregor Cankar   Slovenia A 7.71 5.96 7.98 7.98
16 Kirill Sosunov   Russia B 7.97 X 7.93 7.97
17 Younés Moudrik   Morocco A 7.95 7.83 X 7.95
18 Hussein Taher Al-Sabee   Saudi Arabia B X 5.92 7.94 7.94
19 Yago Lamela   Spain B 7.68 7.74 7.89 7.89
20 Cheikh Tidiane Touré   France B 7.87 X X 7.87
21 Danijal Jahić   FR Yugoslavia B 7.85 7.70 X 7.85
22 Savante Stringfellow   United States A 7.32 7.70 7.84 7.84
23 Masaki Morinaga   Japan A X 7.84 X 7.84
24 Peter Häggström   Sweden A X 7.80 7.83 7.83
25 Melvin Lister   United States A 7.57 7.82 7.76 7.82
26 Danil Burkenya   Russia A 7.75 7.79 X 7.79
27 Tomas Bardauskas   Lithuania A 7.18 7.70 6.95 7.70
28 Ronald Servius   France B X X 7.66 7.66
29 Mattias Sunneborn   Sweden B 7.45 7.58 7.63 7.63
30 Nikolay Atanasov   Bulgaria A X X 7.62 7.62
31 El Mehdi El Rhazouani   Morocco B 7.49 7.60 7.58 7.60
32 Richard Duncan   Canada A 7.33 X 7.60 7.60
33 Hatem Mersal   Egypt A 7.59 X X 7.59
34 Mark Anthony Awere   Ghana B 7.16 7.36 7.57 7.57
35 Arnaud Casquette   Mauritius B X 7.21 7.57 7.57
36 Siniša Ergotic   Croatia B 7.34 X 7.53 7.53
37 Erik Nijs   Belgium A 7.33 7.52 X 7.52
38 Ian Lowe   Canada B 7.51 7.48 7.36 7.51
39 Konstantinos Koukodimos   Greece B X 7.44 X 7.44
40 Lao Jianfeng   China B 7.26 7.41 7.33 7.41
41 Georges Téko Folligan   Togo B X 7.40 X 7.40
42 Mesut Yavas   Turkey B 7.34 7.35 6.03 7.35
43 Nélson Carlos Ferreira   Brazil B 5.81 X 7.32 7.32
44 Shirak Poghosyan   Armenia B 7.24 7.10 X 7.24
45 Rustam Khusnutdinov   Uzbekistan A 7.24 X X 7.24
46 Wendell Williams   Trinidad and Tobago A X X 7.22 7.22
Rai Sanjay Khumar   India A X No mark
Daisuke Watanabe   Japan B X X X No mark
Sung Hee-Jun   South Korea A X X X No mark
Abdul Rahman Al-Nubi   Qatar A X X X No mark
Stephan Louw   Namibia A X X X No mark
Dimítrios Serélis   Greece A X X X No mark
Liu Honglin   China A X X X No mark

Final

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The final was held on 28 September 2000.

Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distance
  Iván Pedroso   Cuba X 8.34 X 8.41 X 8.55 8.55
  Jai Taurima   Australia X 8.18 8.34 8.40 8.49 AR 8.28 8.49
  Roman Shchurenko   Ukraine 7.76 X 8.14 X X 8.31 8.31
4 Olexiy Lukashevych   Ukraine 8.08 X X 8.22 8.26 X 8.26
5 Kofi Amoah Prah   Germany 7.84 X 8.19 7.95 X 7.86 8.19
6 Peter Burge   Australia 7.80 8.06 7.93 7.96 8.15 8.11 8.15
7 Luis Méliz   Cuba 7.97 7.94 8.08 X 7.82 X 8.08
8 Dwight Phillips   United States X 7.90 8.06 X X X 8.06
9 Bogdan Tarus   Romania 8.00 7.93 X Did not advance 8.00
10 Carlos Calado   Portugal 7.94 7.85 7.77 Did not advance 7.94
11 Petar Dachev   Bulgaria 7.80 X 7.70 Did not advance 7.80
12 Vladimir Malyavin   Russia X X 7.67 Did not advance 7.67

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Long Jump". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "Long Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  3. ^ http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/images/stories/tfn_pdfs/ogqualifying_standards.pdf[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Official Report, Results Book for Athletics.
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