Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump

Men's long jump at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venues	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	5-6 August
Competitors	31 from 25 nations
Winning distance	8.54
Medalists
Carl Lewis  United States Gary Honey  Australia Giovanni Evangelisti  Italy

Official Video Highlights

These are the official results of the Men's Long Jump event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There were a total number of 31 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups, and the final held on August 6, 1984.

While criticized in the media, Carl Lewis had the event won with his first and only attempt. The rest was just a formality as he relaxed and watched the best in the world take their best shots. But none could come within a foot of Lewis and he could focus on the 200 meters final later that afternoon.

To that point in time, it equaled the tenth best jump in history. Of those ten, seven had been by Lewis, it equaled the winning jump 4 years earlier by Lutz Dombrowski whose East German team was part of the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, one was by Larry Myricks who was in the competition but not showing signs of jumping his best, and the remaining jump was the unworldly Olympic and World Record by Bob Beamon set 16 years earlier.

Medalists

Gold	Carl Lewis  United States
Silver	Gary Honey  Australia
Bronze	Giovanni Evangelisti  Italy

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
OR	olympic record
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics
World Record	Bob Beamon (USA)	8.90 m	October 18, 1968	Mexico City, Mexico
Olympic Record

Qualification

Group A
Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1	1	Carl Lewis (USA)	8.30	—	—	8.30 m
2	4	Antonio Corgos (ESP)	8.02	—	—	8.02 m
3	6	Gary Honey (AUS)	7.93	—	—	7.93 m
4	7	Joey Wells (BAH)	X	7.92	—	7.92 m
5	8	Mike McRae (USA)	7.70	7.50	7.89	7.89 m
6	9	Kim Jong-Il (KOR)	X	7.67	7.86	7.86 m
7	10	Liu Yuhuang (CHN)	7.83	X	7.73	7.83 m
8	14	Nenad Stekić (YUG)	7.60	7.41	7.45	7.60 m
9	16	Moses Kiyai (KEN)	X	7.51	X	7.51 m
10	18	Wang Shijie (CHN)	X	7.22	7.36	7.36 m
11	20	Lee Fu-an (TPE)	7.23	6.96	6.82	7.23 m
12	22	Kristján Harðarson (ISL)	X	7.09	6.93	7.09 m
13	24	Fidel Solórzano (ECU)	6.93	6.84	6.90	6.93 m
14	25	Abdoulaye Traoré (MLI)	6.92	6.36	6.60	6.92 m
15	26	Bilanday Bodjona (TOG)	6.82	6.70	6.75	6.82 m
16	27	Ghabi Issa Khouri (LIB)	6.25	X	6.80	6.80 m
—	—	Paul Emordi (KEN)	—	—	—	DNS
Group B
			1	2	3
1	2	Larry Myricks (USA)	7.80	8.02	—	8.02 m
2	3	Junichi Usui (JPN)	7.62	8.02	—	8.02 m
3	5	Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA)	7.94	—	—	7.94 m
4	11	Yusuf Alli (NGR)	7.65	7.43	7.82	7.82 m
5	12	Jubobaraye Kio (NGR)	X	7.76	X	7.76 m
6	13	René Gloor (SUI)	7.57	7.71	7.58	7.71 m
7	15	Lester Benjamin (ANT)	X	7.44	7.57	7.57 m
8	17	Kémobé Djirmassal (CHA)	7.01	7.11	7.51	7.37 m
9	19	Lyndon Sands (BAH)	7.32	5.95	7.22	7.32 m
10	21	Steve Hanna (BAH)	6.97	2.36	7.10	7.10 m
11	23	Shahad Mubarak (UAE)	6.98	X	—	6.98 m
12	28	Oscar Diesel (PAR)	6.45	6.78	6.73	6.78 m
13	29	Ernest Tché-Noubossie (CMR)	6.76	6.57	6.52	6.76 m
14	30	Dimitrios Araouzos (CYP)	X	X	5.67	5.67 m
—	—	Steve Walsh (NZL)	X	X	X	NM
—	—	Ronald Desruelles (BEL)	—	—	—	DNS
—	—	Francis Dodoo (GHA)	—	—	—	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Carl Lewis (USA)	8.54	X	—	—	—	—	8.54 m
	Gary Honey (AUS)	7.97	7.92	8.18	7.92	X	8.24	8.24 m
	Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA)	8.09	7.94	7.90	X	X	8.24	8.24 m
4	Larry Myricks (USA)	8.06	7.99	X	8.00	8.16	6.28	8.16 m
5	Liu Yuhuang (CHN)	X	7.66	7.89	7.65	7.60	7.99	7.99 m
6	Joey Wells (BAH)	7.97	X	X	—	—	—	7.97 m
7	Junichi Usui (JPN)	7.63	7.82	7.87	7.72	7.09	—	7.87 m
8	Kim Jong-Il (KOR)	7.76	7.81	7.77	X	7.59	X	7.81 m
9	Yusuf Alli (NGR)	7.67	7.78	7.72				7.78 m
10	Antonio Corgos (ESP)	7.44	7.50	7.69				7.69 m
11	Mike McRae (USA)	X	7.63	7.45				7.63 m
12	Jubobaraye Kio (NGR)	X	7.57	X				7.57 m

See also

• 1982 Men's European Championships Long Jump (Athens)
• 1983 Men's World Championships Long Jump (Helsinki)
• 1984 Men's Friendship Games Long Jump (Moscow)
• 1986 Men's European Championships Long Jump (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Men's World Championships Long Jump (Rome)

External links

• Official Report
• Results