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

Men's long jump at the Games of the V Olympiad
Gutterson on the way to win the gold medal.
Venue	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Date	July 12
Competitors	30 from 13 nations
Medalists
Albert Gutterson  United States Calvin Bricker  Canada Georg Åberg  Sweden

Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
110 m hurdles	men
4×100 m relay	men
4×400 m relay	men
3000 m team race	men
10 km walk	men
Road events
Marathon	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men
Pole vault	men
Standing long jump	men
Standing high jump	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men
2-hand shot put	men
2-hand discus	men
2-hand javelin	men
Combined events
Pentathlon	men
Decathlon	men
Cross-country events
Individual	men
Team	men

Silver medalist Calvin Bricker.

And the bronze medalist Georg Åberg in action.

The men's long jump was a track and field athletics event held as part of the athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fifth appearance of the event, which is one of 12 to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Friday, July 12, 1912. Thirty long jumpers from 13 nations competed.^[1]

Records

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

World Record	7.61	Peter O'Connor	Dublin (GBR)	August 5, 1901
Olympic Record	7.48	Frank Irons	London (GBR)	July 22, 1908

Gutterson's first jump broke the Olympic record of 7.48 metres by 12 centimetres. He matched the old record with his second jump, but could not better his first mark.

Results

The top three jumpers after three jumps received another three attempts; only Åberg was able to better his own mark. He wasn't able to match the preliminary marks of Gutterson or Bricker, however, and no change in standings was made in the final three jumps.

Place	Athlete	Preliminary				Final			Best mark
		1	2	3	Rank	4	5	6
	Albert Gutterson (USA)	7.60 OR	7.48	7.25	1st	7.18	7.09	7.09	7.60
	Calvin Bricker (CAN)	6.92	7.07	7.21	2nd	7.04	6.85	—	7.21
	Georg Åberg (SWE)	7.04	6.70	6.99	3rd	6.98	7.18	6.63	7.18
4	Harry Worthington (USA)	7.03	6.96	6.65	4th				7.03
5	Eugene Mercer (USA)	6.97	6.84	6.84	5th				6.97
6	Fred Allen (USA)	—	6.94	6.91	6th				6.94
7	Jim Thorpe (USA)	6.67	6.89	6.62	7th				6.89
8	Robert Pasemann (GER)	6.82	6.80	6.54	8th				6.82
9	Frank Irons (USA)	—	6.80	6.72	9th				6.80
10	Henry Ashington (GBR)	6.61	6.78	—	10th				6.78
11	Ferdinand Bie (NOR)	6.75	6.70	6.36	11th				6.75
12	Sidney Abrahams (GBR)	6.74	6.54	6.52	12th				6.74
13	Edward Farrell (USA)	6.71	6.36	6.46	13th				6.71
	Nils Fixdal (NOR)	6.71	—	6.65	13th				6.71
15	Philip Kingsford (GBR)	6.52	6.65	6.33	15th				6.65
16	André Campana (FRA)	6.21	6.64	6.55	16th				6.64
17	Charles Lomberg (SWE)	6.44	6.52	6.62	17th				6.62
18	Viktor Franzl (AUT)	6.57	6.53	6.50	18th				6.57
19	Angelo Tonini (ITA)	6.25	6.44	—	19th				6.44
20	Patrik Ohlsson (SWE)	6.06	6.28	—	20th				6.28
21	Gustav Betzén (SWE)	6.24	—	—	21st				6.24
22	Aleksandr Schultz (RUS)	5.80	5.97	6.15	22nd				6.15
23	Philipp Ehrenreich (AUT)	5.95	6.10	6.14	23rd				6.14
24	Emil Kukko (FIN)	6.11	5.92	5.98	24th				6.11
25	Pál Szalay (HUN)	5.98	—	—	25th				5.98
26	Nándor Kovács (HUN)	—	—	5.96	26th				5.96
27	Alfredo Pagani (ITA)	5.89	5.95	—	27th				5.95
28	Arthur Maranda (CAN)	5.87	5.72	5.86	28th				5.87
29	Manlio Legat (ITA)	—	5.50	—	29th				5.50
30	Paul Fournelle (LUX)	—	—	—	30th				None

References

Sources

• Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.)., ed. The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 January 2007.