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Host City: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Format: Top six advanced to the final.

Date Started: July 31, 1928

Date Finished: July 31, 1928

(Competitors: 43; Countries: 23; Finalists: 14)

Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam

Overview by IAAF

Hamm was the prohibitive favourite, having set a world record of 7.90 in the US Trials. He had shown great consistency with five other competitions of 25 feet (7.62) or better. Remarkably the event contained six Olympic Champions in horizontal jumping events; Hamm, Hubbard and Gordon (long jump), and Tuulos, Oda and Nambu (triple jump). Hubbard, nursing an injured ankle, was bracketed in 11th place with Tuulos and Oda at 7.11, with Nambu just ahead of them in ninth (7.25). Sixth place was determined by a jump-off with de Boer reaching 6.96 to Gordon’s 6.57, and so taking three more jumps. At the head of the competition Hamm jumped 7.73 in round 2, after having had a foul in round 1 reportedly just below 8 metres. Cator also had a long foul (7.80+) with his opener, followed by 7.50. The only Haitian ever to win an Olympic medal had been the world’s number two man in 1925, jumping 7.65, but had done little of note since then. He improved to 7.58 in the next round, but Hamm responded with jumps of 7.68 and 7.66, and clearly deserved his gold medal. Cator, who captained the Haitian soccer team, would have his day in September, when he took Hamm’s world record with the first ever 26 feet jump – 7.93. It was the only mark from that season good enough to rank in the world’s top 100 in any event in the last year of the 20th century.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

At the combined 1928 AAU/Olympic Trials, Ed Hamm jumped 7.90 (25-11) for a world record and was the heavy favorite. In the second round in Amsterdam, he jumped 7.73 (25-4½) which held up for the gold medal. Defending champion DeHart Hubbard was back but had an injured ankle and placed only 11th. Haiti’s Silvio Cator jumped 7.50 (24-7¼) in round two and 7.58 (24-10½) in round three to earn the silver medal. In September 1928, jumping in Paris he went a world record 7.93 (26-0¼), the first legal jump over 26-feet.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics.

World Record	7.90	Ed Hamm	Cambridge (GBR)	July 7, 1928
Olympic Record	7.765(*)	Robert LeGendre	Paris (FRA)	July 7, 1924

(*) Robert LeGendre set the Olympic record in the 1924 pentathlon contest

			Results

*Long Jump*	Men		Final	31 July

Rank	Mark		Athlete	Country	NOC	Age	Records	Notes
1	7.73		Ed Hamm	United States	USA	22
2	7.58		Sylvio Cator	Haiti	HAI	27
3	7.40		Al Bates	United States	USA	23
4	7.39		Willi Meier	Germany	GER	21
5	7.35		Erich Köchermann	Germany	GER	23
6	7.32		Hannes de Boer	Netherlands	NED	28
*Long Jump*	Men		Qualifying Round	31 July

Rank	Mark		Athlete	Country	NOC	Age	Records	Notes
1	7.73	Q	Ed Hamm	United States	USA	22
2	7.58	Q	Sylvio Cator	Haiti	HAI	27
3	7.40	Q	Al Bates	United States	USA	23
4	7.39	Q	Willi Meier	Germany	GER	21
5	7.35	Q	Erich Köchermann	Germany	GER	23
6	7.32	Q	Hannes de Boer	Netherlands	NED	28
7	7.32		Ed Gordon	United States	USA	19
8	7.29		Eric Svensson	Sweden	SWE	24
9	7.25		Chuhei Nanbu	Japan	JPN	23
10	7.18		Olle Hallberg	Sweden	SWE	24
11T	7.11		Mikio Oda	Japan	JPN	23
11T	7.11		Ville Tuulos	Finland	FIN	33
11T	7.11		DeHart Hubbard	United States	USA	24
14	7.07		Erling Aastad	Norway	NOR	30
15	6.99		Helmut Schlöske	Germany	GER	23
16	6.97		Alfonso de Gortari	Mexico	MEX
17	6.96		Toon van Welsenes	Netherlands	NED	24
18	6.91		Rudi Dobermann	Germany	GER	25
19	6.88		Toimi Tulikoura	Finland	FIN	23
20	6.87		Gijs Lamoree	Netherlands	NED	24
21	6.81		Paddy Anglim	Ireland	IRL	23
22	6.80		Adolf Meier	Switzerland	SUI	26
23	6.79		Lajos Balogh	Hungary	HUN	25
24	6.77		Imre Fekete	Hungary	HUN	21
25T	6.76		Virgilio Tommasi	Italy	ITA	23
25T	6.76		Enrico Torre	Italy	ITA	26
27	6.70		Charles Alzieu	France	FRA	23
28	6.64		Jacques Flouret	France	FRA	20
29	6.63		Konstantinos Petridis	Greece	GRE
30	6.62		Hermann Brügmann	Denmark	DEN	28
31	6.60		Arild Lenth	Norway	NOR	23
32	6.58		Reginald Revans	Great Britain	GBR	21
33	6.57		Zdzisław Nowak	Poland	POL	22
34T	6.51		Óscar Alvarado	Chile	CHI
34T	6.51		Gaston Médécin	Monaco	MON	27
36	6.45		Tibor Püspöki	Hungary	HUN	27
37	6.45		Dalip Singh	India	IND	29
38	6.44		Johannes Viljoen	South Africa	RSA	24
39	6.39		James Cohen	Great Britain	GBR	22
40	6.23		Alfred Sutter	Switzerland	SUI	21
41	6.16		Fernando Labourdette-Liaresq	Spain	ESP	22

Qualification

The best six long jumpers qualified for the final. Two jumpers, Hannes de Boer and Ed Gordon, tied for sixth place, but only de Boer advanced to the final as his second best jump (6.96) was better than the second best jump of Gordon (6.57). The jumping order is not available and the jumping series are only available for the best six jumpers.

Group 1

Place	Athlete	1.	2.	3.	Distance	Overall Rank	Qual.
1	Ed Hamm (USA)	unk	7.73	7.68	7.73	1	Q
2	Silvio Cator (HAI)	X	7.50	7.58	7.58	2	Q
3	Erich Köchermann (GER)	7.35	7.16	7.25	7.35	5	Q
4	Erling Aastad (NOR)				7.07	14
5	Toon van Welsenes (NED)				6.96	17
6	Paddy Anglim (IRL)				6.81	21
7	Jacques Flouret (FRA)				6.64	28
8	Óscar Alvarado (CHI)				6.51	=34
8	Gaston Médécin (MON)				6.51	=34
10	Tibor Püspöki (HUN)				6.45	36
11	Alfred Sutter (SUI)				6.23	40

Group 2

Place	Athlete	1.	2.	3.	Distance	Overall Rank	Qual.
1	Al Bates (USA)	7.40	X	X	7.40	3	Q
2	Willi Meier (GER)	7.35	7.39	7.05	7.39	4	Q
3	Olle Hallberg (SWE)				7.18	10
4	Toimi Tulikoura (FIN)				6.91	18
5	Imre Fekete (HUN)				6.77	24
6	Virgilio Tommasi (ITA)				6.76	=25
7	Zdzisław Nowak (POL)				6.57	33
8	Dalip Singh (IND)				6.45	37
9	James Cohen (GBR)				6.39	39

Group 3

Place	Athlete	1.	Distance	Overall Rank
1	Ed Gordon (USA)	7.32 / 6.57	7.32	7
2	Eric Svensson (SWE)		7.29	8
3	Mikio Oda (JPN)		7.11	=11
4	Helmut Schlöske (GER)		6.99	15
5	Gijs Lamoree (NED)		6.87	20
6	Lajos Balogh (HUN)		6.79	23
7	Enrico Torre (ITA)		6.76	25
8	Konstantinos Petridis (GRE)		6.63	29
9	Reg Revans (GBR)		6.58	32
10	Johannes Viljoen (RSA)		6.44	38

Group 4

Place	Athlete	1.	Distance	Overall Rank	Qual.
1	Hannes de Boer (NED)	7.32 / 6.96	7.32	6	Q
2	Chūhei Nambu (JPN)		7.25	9
3	Ville Tuulos (FIN)		7.11	=11
3	DeHart Hubbard (USA)		7.11	=11
5	Alfonso de Gortari (MEX)		6.97	16
6	Rudi Dobermann (GER)		6.91	18
7	Adolf Meier (SUI)		6.80	22
8	Charles Alzieu (FRA)		6.70	27
9	Hermann Brügmann (DEN)		6.62	30
10	Arild Lenth (NOR)		6.60	31
11	Fernando Labourdette-Liaresq (ESP)		6.16	41

Final

The final was held on the same day and started at 2 p.m. No jumper was able to improve his qualification width.

Place	Athlete	Qual. Width	1.	2.	3.	Distance
1	Ed Hamm (USA)	7.73	7.68	7.66	-	7.73
2	Silvio Cator (HAI)	7.58	7.20	7.22	X	7.58
3	Al Bates (USA)	7.40	6.79	6.92	6.75	7.40
4	Willi Meier (GER)	7.39	X	7.27	7.23	7.39
5	Erich Köchermann (GER)	7.35	7.05	X	6.85	7.35
6	Hannes de Boer (NED)	7.32	X	X	X	7.32