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Long jump
at the Olympic Games
Dawn Burrell in the 2000 Olympic long jump competition
Overview
SportAthletics
GenderMen and women
Years heldMen: 18962024
Women: 19482024
Olympic record
Men8.90 m Bob Beamon (1968)
Women7.40 m Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1988)
Reigning champion
Men Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE)
Women Tara Davis-Woodhall (USA)

The long jump at the Summer Olympics, is grouped among the four track and field jumping events held at the multi-sport event. The men's long jump has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's long jump was introduced over fifty years later in 1948, and was the second Olympic jumping event for women after the high jump, which was added in 1928.

The Olympic records for the event are 8.90 m (29 ft 2+14 in) for men, set by Bob Beamon in 1968, and 7.40 m (24 ft 3+14 in) for women, set by Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1988. Beamon's mark is the longest-standing Olympic athletics record by a margin of twelve years, which was the only time a man has set a long jump world record at the competition. The women's world record has been broken on two occasions at the Olympics, with Mary Rand jumping 6.76 m (22 ft 2 in) in 1964 and Viorica Viscopoleanu clearing 6.82 m (22 ft 4+12 in) in 1968. In 1956, Elżbieta Krzesińska jumped 6.35 m (20 ft 10 in) to equal her own world record.[1]

Ellery Clark and Olga Gyarmati were the first men's and women's Olympic long jump champions. Miltiadis Tentoglou and Malaika Mihambo are the reigning Olympic champions from 2020. Carl Lewis is the event's most successful athlete as he was Olympic champion four times consecutively from 1984 to 1996. Heike Drechsler is the only woman to win two Olympic long jump titles. Ralph Boston and Jackie Joyner-Kersee are the only other two athletes to win three Olympic long jump medals in their careers. The United States is the most successful nation in the event.

A standing long jump variant of the event was contested from 1900 to 1912 and standing jumps specialist Ray Ewry won all but one of the gold medals in its brief history.

Medalists

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Men

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Athens
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Ellery Clark
 United States
6.35 m Robert Garrett
 United States
6.18 m James Brendan Connolly
 United States
6.11 m
1900 Paris
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Alvin Kraenzlein
 United States
7.18 m Myer Prinstein
 United States
7.17 m Patrick Leahy
 Great Britain
6.95 m
1904 St. Louis
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Myer Prinstein
 United States
7.34 m Daniel Frank
 United States
6.89 m Robert Stangland
 United States
6.88 m
1908 London
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Frank Irons
 United States
7.48 m Daniel Kelly
 United States
7.09 m Calvin Bricker
 Canada
7.08 m
1912 Stockholm
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Albert Gutterson
 United States
7.60 m Calvin Bricker
 Canada
7.21 m Georg Åberg
 Sweden
7.18 m
1920 Antwerp
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William Petersson
 Sweden
7.15 m Carl Johnson
 United States
7.09 m Erik Abrahamsson
 Sweden
7.08 m
1924 Paris
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DeHart Hubbard
 United States
7.44 m Edward Gourdin
 United States
7.27 m Sverre Hansen
 Norway
7.26 m
1928 Amsterdam
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Ed Hamm
 United States
7.73 m Silvio Cator
 Haiti
7.58 m Al Bates
 United States
7.40 m
1932 Los Angeles
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Ed Gordon
 United States
7.64 m Lambert Redd
 United States
7.60 m Chūhei Nambu
 Japan
7.45 m
1936 Berlin
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Jesse Owens
 United States
8.06 m Luz Long
 Germany
7.87 m Naoto Tajima
 Japan
7.74 m
1948 London
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Willie Steele
 United States
7.82 m Bill Bruce
 Australia
7.55 m Herb Douglas
 United States
7.54 m
1952 Helsinki
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Jerome Biffle
 United States
7.57 m Meredith Gourdine
 United States
7.53 m Ödön Földessy
 Hungary
7.30 m
1956 Melbourne
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Gregory Bell
 United States
7.83 m John Bennett
 United States
7.68 m Jorma Valkama
 Finland
7.48 m
1960 Rome
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Ralph Boston
 United States
8.12 m Bo Roberson
 United States
8.11 m Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
 Soviet Union
8.04 m
1964 Tokyo
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Lynn Davies
 Great Britain
8.07 m Ralph Boston
 United States
8.03 m Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
 Soviet Union
7.99 m
1968 Mexico City
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Bob Beamon
 United States
8.90 m Klaus Beer
 East Germany
8.19 m Ralph Boston
 United States
8.16 m
1972 Munich
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Randy Williams
 United States
8.24 m Hans Baumgartner
 West Germany
8.18 m Arnie Robinson
 United States
8.03 m
1976 Montreal
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Arnie Robinson
 United States
8.35 m Randy Williams
 United States
8.11 m Frank Wartenberg
 East Germany
8.02 m
1980 Moscow
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Lutz Dombrowski
 East Germany
8.54 m Frank Paschek
 East Germany
8.21 m Valeriy Pidluzhnyy
 Soviet Union
8.18 m
1984 Los Angeles
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Carl Lewis
 United States
8.54 m Gary Honey
 Australia
8.24 m Giovanni Evangelisti
 Italy
8.24 m
1988 Seoul
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Carl Lewis
 United States
8.72 m Mike Powell
 United States
8.49 m Larry Myricks
 United States
8.27 m
1992 Barcelona
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Carl Lewis
 United States
8.67 m Mike Powell
 United States
8.64 m Joe Greene
 United States
8.34 m
1996 Atlanta
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Carl Lewis
 United States
8.50 m James Beckford
 Jamaica
8.29 m Joe Greene
 United States
8.24 m
2000 Sydney
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Iván Pedroso
 Cuba
8.55 m Jai Taurima
 Australia
8.49 m Roman Shchurenko
 Ukraine
8.31 m
2004 Athens
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Dwight Phillips
 United States
8.59 m John Moffitt
 United States
8.47 m Joan Lino Martínez
 Spain
8.32 m
2008 Beijing
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Irving Saladino
 Panama
8.34 m Godfrey Khotso Mokoena
 South Africa
8.24 m Ibrahim Camejo
 Cuba
8.20 m
2012 London
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Greg Rutherford
 Great Britain
8.31 m Mitchell Watt
 Australia
8.16 m Will Claye
 United States
8.12 m
2016 Rio de Janeiro
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Jeff Henderson
 United States
8.38 m Luvo Manyonga
 South Africa
8.37 m Greg Rutherford
 Great Britain
8.29 m
2020 Tokyo
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Miltiadis Tentoglou
 Greece
8.41 m Juan Miguel Echevarría
 Cuba
8.41 m Maykel Massó
 Cuba
8.21 m
2024 Paris
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Miltiadis Tentoglou
 Greece
8.48 m Wayne Pinnock
 Jamaica
8.36 m Mattia Furlani
 Italy
8.34 m

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)22151047
2 Great Britain (GBR)2024
3 Greece (GRE)2002
4 East Germany (GDR)1214
5 Cuba (CUB)1124
6 Sweden (SWE)1023
7 Panama (PAN)1001
8 Australia (AUS)0404
9 Germany (GER)0202
 Jamaica (JAM)0202
 South Africa (RSA)0202
12 Canada (CAN)0112
13 Haiti (HAI)0101
14 Soviet Union (URS)0033
15 Italy (ITA)0022
 Japan (JPN)0022
17 Finland (FIN)0011
 Hungary (HUN)0011
 Norway (NOR)0011
 Spain (ESP)0011
 Ukraine (UKR)0011
Totals (21 entries)30303090

Multiple medalists

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Rank Athlete Nation Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Carl Lewis  United States (USA) 1984–1996 4 0 0 4
2 Miltiadis Tentoglou  Greece (GRE) 2020–2024 2 0 0 2
3 Ralph Boston  United States (USA) 1960–1968 1 1 1 3
4 Myer Prinstein  United States (USA) 1900–1904 1 1 0 2
Randy Williams  United States (USA) 1972–1976 1 1 0 2
6 Arnie Robinson  United States (USA) 1972–1976 1 0 1 2
Greg Rutherford  Great Britain (GBR) 2012–2016 1 0 1 2
8 Mike Powell  United States (USA) 1988–1992 0 2 0 2
9 Calvin Bricker  Canada (CAN) 1908–1912 0 1 1 2
10 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan  Soviet Union (URS) 1960–1964 0 0 2 2
Joe Greene  United States (USA) 1992–1996 0 0 2 2

Women

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
1948 London
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Olga Gyarmati
 Hungary
5.69 m Noemí Simonetto
 Argentina
5.60 m Ann-Britt Leyman
 Sweden
5.57 m
1952 Helsinki
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Yvette Williams
 New Zealand
6.24 m Aleksandra Chudina
 Soviet Union
6.14 m Shirley Cawley
 Great Britain
5.92 m
1956 Melbourne
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Elżbieta Krzesińska
 Poland
6.35 m Willye White
 United States
6.09 m Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili
 Soviet Union
6.07 m
1960 Rome
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Vera Krepkina
 Soviet Union
6.37 m Elżbieta Krzesińska
 Poland
6.27 m Hildrun Claus
 United Team of Germany
6.21 m
1964 Tokyo
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Mary Rand
 Great Britain
6.76 m Irena Kirszenstein
 Poland
6.60 m Tatyana Shchelkanova
 Soviet Union
6.42 m
1968 Mexico City
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Viorica Viscopoleanu
 Romania
6.82 m Sheila Sherwood
 Great Britain
6.68 m Tatyana Talysheva
 Soviet Union
6.66 m
1972 Munich
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Heide Rosendahl
 West Germany
6.78 m Diana Yorgova
 Bulgaria
6.77 m Eva Šuranová
 Czechoslovakia
6.67 m
1976 Montreal
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Angela Voigt
 East Germany
6.72 m Kathy McMillan
 United States
6.66 m Lidiya Alfeyeva
 Soviet Union
6.60 m
1980 Moscow
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Tatyana Kolpakova
 Soviet Union
7.06 m Brigitte Wujak
 East Germany
7.04 m Tatyana Skachko
 Soviet Union
7.01 m
1984 Los Angeles
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Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu
 Romania
6.96 m Valy Ionescu
 Romania
6.81 m Sue Hearnshaw
 Great Britain
6.80 m
1988 Seoul
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee
 United States
7.40 m Heike Drechsler
 East Germany
7.22 m Galina Chistyakova
 Soviet Union
7.11 m
1992 Barcelona
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Heike Drechsler
 Germany
7.14 m Inessa Kravets
 Unified Team
7.12 m Jackie Joyner-Kersee
 United States
7.07 m
1996 Atlanta
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Chioma Ajunwa
 Nigeria
7.12 m Fiona May
 Italy
7.02 m Jackie Joyner-Kersee
 United States
7.00 m
2000 Sydney
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Heike Drechsler
 Germany
6.99 m Fiona May
 Italy
6.92 m Tatyana Kotova
 Russia
6.83 m
2004 Athens
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Tatyana Lebedeva
 Russia
7.07 m Irina Simagina
 Russia
7.05 m Tatyana Kotova
 Russia
7.05 m
2008 Beijing
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Maurren Maggi
 Brazil
7.04 m Blessing Okagbare
 Nigeria
6.91 m Chelsea Hammond
 Jamaica
6.79 m
2012 London
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Brittney Reese
 United States
7.12 m Elena Sokolova
 Russia
7.07 m Janay DeLoach
 United States
6.89 m
2016 Rio de Janeiro
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Tianna Bartoletta
 United States
7.17 m Brittney Reese
 United States
7.15 m Ivana Španović
 Serbia
7.08 m
2020 Tokyo
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Malaika Mihambo
 Germany
7.00 m Brittney Reese
 United States
6.97 m Ese Brume
 Nigeria
6.97 m
2024 Paris
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Tara Davis-Woodhall
 United States
7.10 m Malaika Mihambo
 Germany
6.98 m Jasmine Moore
 United States
6.96 m

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)44412
2 Germany (GER)4105
3 Soviet Union (URS)2169
4 Romania (ROU)2103
5 Russia (RUS)1225
6 East Germany (GDR)1214
7 Poland (POL)1203
8 Great Britain (GBR)1124
9 Nigeria (NGR)1113
10 Brazil (BRA)1001
 Hungary (HUN)1001
 New Zealand (NZL)1001
13 Italy (ITA)0202
14 Argentina (ARG)0101
 Bulgaria (BUL)0101
 Ukraine (UKR)0101
17 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0011
 Jamaica (JAM)0011
 Serbia (SRB)0011
 Sweden (SWE)0011
Totals (20 entries)20202060

Multiple medalists

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Rank Athlete Nation Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Heike Drechsler  Germany (GER)
 East Germany (GDR)
1988–2000 2 1 0 3
2 Brittney Reese  United States (USA) 2012–2020 1 2 0 3
3 Elżbieta Krzesińska  Poland (POL) 1956–1960 1 1 0 2
4 Jackie Joyner-Kersee  United States (USA) 1988–1996 1 0 2 3
5 Fiona May  Italy (ITA) 1996–2000 0 2 0 2
6 Tatyana Kotova  Russia (RUS) 2000–2004 0 0 2 2

Standing long jump

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Standing long jump
at the Olympic Games
Kostas Tsiklitiras in the 1912 standing long jump competition
Overview
SportAthletics
GenderMen
Years heldMen: 19001912
Olympic record
Men3.47 m Ray Ewry (1904)

From 1900 to 1912 a variation of the event was contested at the Olympics where athletes had to long jump from a standing position. This was one of three standing jumps to have featured on the Olympic programme, alongside the standing high jump (present for the same period) and the standing triple jump (1900 and 1904 only).[2]

The standing jump competitions were dominated by Ray Ewry, who won the Olympic standing long jump titles in 1900, 1904 and 1908. His clearance of 3.47 m (11 ft 4+12 in) at the 1904 Olympics remained as the Olympic record for the event until its discontinuation in 1912. Ewry took Olympic three gold medals in standing jumps in both 1900 and 1904, then won the standing high and long jumps at the 1908 Olympics, as well as the 1906 Intercalated Games.[3] After Ewry's retirement, Kostas Tsiklitiras became the winner of the final Olympic standing long jump competition in 1912.[4]

The standing long jump—and standing jump events in general—had been a relatively common type of athletics event at the end of the 19th century, but became increasingly rare at top level national and international competitions as the 20th century progressed.[3] The Olympic event remains the only major international competition to have featured the event, except for the first three editions of the Women's World Games in the 1920s, as well as the 1919 and 1920 editions of the South American Championships in Athletics.[5][6] The standing long jump retained some popularity as a championship event in Scandinavia in the second half of the century.[7][8]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1900 Paris
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Ray Ewry
 United States
Irving Baxter
 United States
Emile Torcheboeuf
 France
1904 St. Louis
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Ray Ewry
 United States
Charles King
 United States
John Biller
 United States
1908 London
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Ray Ewry
 United States
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras
 Greece
Martin Sheridan
 United States
1912 Stockholm
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Konstantinos Tsiklitiras
 Greece
Platt Adams
 United States
Benjamin Adams
 United States

Intercalated Games

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The 1906 Intercalated Games were held in Athens and at the time were officially recognised as part of the Olympic Games series, with the intention being to hold a games in Greece in two-year intervals between the internationally held Olympics. However, this plan never came to fruition and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) later decided not to recognise these games as part of the official Olympic series. Some sports historians continue to treat the results of these games as part of the Olympic canon.[9]

Continuing its presence since the first Olympics, a men's long jump event was contested at the 1906 Games. The two protagonists were Myer Prinstein (the 1904 champion) and Peter O'Connor (the world record holder). Prinstein won with his opening jump of 7.20 m (23 ft 7+14 in). O'Connor was runner-up in 7.02 m (23 ft 14 in) but protested the measuring of Prinstein's mark and the judgement of no-jump rulings against him. Hugo Friend was a comfortable third in 6.96 m (22 ft 10 in).[10]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1906 Athens
details
 Myer Prinstein (USA)  Peter O'Connor (GBR)  Hugo Friend (USA)

The standing long jump variant was also contested at the Intercalated Games. Ray Ewry, who entered as the undefeated Olympic champion in the event, won a further gold medal with his mark of 3.30 m (10 ft 9+34 in). It was an American podium sweep with Martin Sheridan and Lawson Robertson taking second and third place.[11]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1906 Athens
details
 Ray Ewry (USA)  Martin Sheridan (USA)  Lawson Robertson (USA)

Non-canonical Olympic events

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In addition to the main 1900 Olympic men's long jump, a handicap competition was held four days later. Pál Koppán of Hungary won with a mark of 7.895 m (1.60 m handicap) and John McLean of the United States came second with 7.72 m (85 cm handicap). Sources differ as to whether the third-place finisher William Percy Remington (who was fourth in the main Olympic event) or Thaddeus McClain (seventh in the Olympic long jump).[12][13]

Two professionals-only contests were held in 1900. Mike Sweeney of the United States won with 5.995 m. Another American, Otto Bruno Schoenfeld, was second in 5.60 m, while Frenchman Jules Bouchoux came third in 5.55 m. A handicap professional contest was also held but the results have not been located.[12][14]

The handicap event returned at the 1904 Summer Olympics and the three Olympic finalists who failed to win medals comprised the top three – all of them American. Fred Englehardt won with 6.82 m, Gilbert Van Cleve was runner-up with a mark of 6.53 m, and John Hagerman took third, recording 6.53 m. The corresponding handicaps are not known.[12]

These events are no longer considered part of the official Olympic history of the long jump or the athletics programme in general. Consequently, medals from these competitions have not been assigned to nations on the all-time medal tables.[12]

References

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Participation and athlete data
Olympic record progressions
Specific
  1. ^ 12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook Berlin 2009 (pgs. 546, 556, 646). IAAF (2009). Retrieved on 2014-05-03.
  2. ^ Athletics Men's Standing Long Jump Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-07.
  3. ^ a b Ray Ewry. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-07.
  4. ^ Athletics at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games: Men's Standing Long Jump. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-07.
  5. ^ South American Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-05-07.
  6. ^ FSFI Women's World Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-05-07.
  7. ^ Norwegian Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-05-07.
  8. ^ Swedish Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-05-07.
  9. ^ 1906 Athina Summer Games. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-01-26.
  10. ^ Athletics at the 1906 Athina Summer Games: Men's Long Jump. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-03.
  11. ^ Athletics at the 1906 Athina Summer Games: Men's Standing Long Jump. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-07.
  12. ^ a b c d Handicap Olympic Athletics Events[1]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-04-18.
  13. ^ Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's Long Jump, Handicap. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-05.
  14. ^ Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's Long Jump, Professionals. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-05.
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