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The men's long jump was an athletics event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. There were 54 competitors from 41 nations, with one athlete not starting. [1] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress.
Men's Long jump details: Carl Lewis United States: James Beckford Jamaica: Joe Greene United States: Women's Long jump details: Chioma Ajunwa Nigeria: Fiona May Italy: Jackie Joyner-Kersee United States: Men's Triple jump details: Kenny Harrison United States: Jonathan Edwards Great Britain: Yoelbi Quesada Cuba: Women's Triple jump details ...
High jump details: Charles Austin United States: 2.39 m (OR) Artur Partyka Poland: 2.37 m Steve Smith Great Britain: 2.35 m Pole vault details: Jean Galfione France: 5.92 m Igor Trandenkov Russia: 5.92 m Andrei Tivontchik Germany: 5.92 m Long jump details: Carl Lewis United States: 8.50 m James Beckford Jamaica: 8.29 m Joe Greene United States ...
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 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) for men, set by Bob Beamon in 1968, and 7.40 m ( 24 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) for women, set by Jackie Joyner-Kersee ...
The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is ...
The distance of the marathon at the Olympics has varied in the early years, before being standardized at 42,195 m in 1924, the distance that was run at the 1908 Olympics. In other years, the distances have been: 1896: 40,000 m (approximately) 1900: 40,260 m (25.02 mi) 1904: 40,000 m (24.85 mi) 1912: 40,200 m (24.98 mi) 1920: 40,750 m (25.32 mi)
1.2 1996 Atlanta. 1.3 2000 Sydney. ... This is a list of the United States athletes who won an Olympic medal since 1992. Summer Olympics ... Men's long jump: August 6 ...
The opening ceremony featured Céline Dion singing "The Power of the Dream", the theme song of the 1996 Olympics. The closing ceremony featured Gloria Estefan singing "Reach", the official theme song of the 1996 Olympics. The mascot for the Olympiad was an abstract, animated character named Izzy. In contrast to the standing tradition of mascots ...