Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump

Men's long jump at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing Olympic Stadium
Date	16 August 2008 (qualification) 18 August 2008 (final)
Competitors	41 from 33 nations
Winning distance	8.34
Medalists
Irving Saladino   Panama   Khotso Mokoena   South Africa   Ibrahim Camejo   Cuba

Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4 × 100 m relay		men		women
4 × 400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's long jump at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 16 and 18 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium.^[1]

The qualifying standards were 8.20 m (26.9 ft) (A standard) and 8.05 m (26.41 ft) (B standard).^[2]

This event marked the first time that an American did not compete in the final phase in a non-boycotted Olympic competition. On the other hand, Panama achieved its first gold medal in its Olympic history.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Mike Powell (United States)	8.95 m	Tokyo, Japan	30 August 1991
Olympic record	Bob Beamon (USA)	8.90 m	Mexico City, Mexico	18 October 1968

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Results

Qualifying round

Qualifying Performance 8.15 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	Mark	Remarks
1	A	Louis Tsatoumas	Greece	8.27 (+0.1)	0.00 !	0.00 !	8.27	Q
2	A	Ibrahim Camejo	Cuba	8.23 (+0.5)	0.00 !	0.00 !	8.23	Q
3	A	Greg Rutherford	Great Britain	8.16 (-0.1)	0.00 !	0.00 !	8.16	Q
4	A	Khotso Mokoena	South Africa	8.03 (-0.1)	0.00 !x	8.14 (-0.1)	8.14	q
5	B	Ngonidzashe Makusha	Zimbabwe	8.14 (0.0)	7.94 (0.0)	-	8.14	q
6	B	Wilfredo Martínez	Cuba	7.92 (+0.4)	7.80 (+0.4)	8.07 (+0.1)	8.07	DSQ[3]
7	B	Ndiss Kaba Badji	Senegal	7.65 (-0.1)	7.79 (-0.1)	8.07 (-0.5)	8.07	q, SB
8	A	Hussein Taher Al-Sabee	Saudi Arabia	5.47 (+0.3)	8.04 ( -0.4)	0.00 !x	8.04	q
9	B	Irving Saladino	Panama	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	8.01 (+0.2)	8.01	q
10	A	Luis Felipe Méliz	Spain	0.00 !x	7.77 (-0.1)	7.95 (+0.1)	7.95	q
11	A	Gable Garenamotse	Botswana	7.58 (+0.3)	0.00 !x	7.95 (+0.4)	7.95	q
12	B	Roman Novotný	Czech Republic	7.75 (+0.3)	7.81 (-0.1)	7.94 (-0.2)	7.94	q
13	A	Stephan Louw	Namibia	7.73 (+0.1)	0.00 !x	7.93 (+0.6)	7.93
14	B	Mohamed Salman Al-Khuwalidi	Saudi Arabia	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.93 (+0.4)	7.93
15	B	Tyrone Smith	Bermuda	6.95 (+0.1)	7.63 (-0.6)	7.91 (-0.1)	7.91
16	B	Fabrice Lapierre	Australia	7.90 (+0.1)	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.90
17	A	Yahya Berrabah	Morocco	7.88 (+0.1)	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.88
17	A	Tommi Evilä	Finland	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.88 (+0.2)	7.88
19	B	Trevell Quinley	United States	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.87 (-0.2)	7.87
20	B	Andrew Howe	Italy	7.73 (+0.1)	7.81 ( -0.2)	0.00 !x	7.81
21	A	Salim Sdiri	France	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.81 (+0.3)	7.81
22	B	Brian Johnson	United States	0.00 !x	7.79 (-0.1)	0.00 !x	7.79
23	A	Sebastien Bayer	Germany	0.00 !x	7.43 (+0.1)	7.77 (0.0)	7.77
24	A	Hugo Chila	Ecuador	7.77 (+0.2)	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.77
24	B	Andriy Makarchev	Ukraine	7.77 (+0.3)	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.77
26	A	Mauro da Silva	Brazil	0.00 !x	7.75 (-0.1)	0.00 !x	7.75
27	B	Chris Tomlinson	Great Britain	7.52 (+0.4)	7.62 (0.0)	7.70 (+0.2)	7.70
28	A	Li Runrun	China	7.70 (+0.2)	0.00 !x	7.56 (+0.1)	7.70	SB
29	B	Tarik Bouguetaib	Morocco	7.69 (-0.1)	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.69
30	B	Herbert McGregor	Jamaica	7.64 (0.0)	7.46 (+0.3)	7.36 (0.0)	7.64
31	A	Morten Jensen	Denmark	0.00 !x	7.58 (+0.3)	7.63 (-0.1)	7.63
32	B	Louis Tristán	Peru	7.58 (+0.1)	7.62 (+0.3)	0.00 !x	7.62
33	A	Marcin Starzak	Poland	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.62 (-0.2)	7.62
34	A	Henry Dagmil	Philippines	7.58 (0.0)	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.58
35	A	Nikolai Atanasov	Bulgaria	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.54 (-0.5)	7.54
36	B	Julien Fivaz	Switzerland	7.53 (0.0)	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.53
37	A	Vladimir Malyavin	Russia	7.32 (-0.2)	7.35 (-0.1)	0.00 !x	7.35
38	B	Miguel Pate	United States	0.00 !x	7.34 (+0.4)	0.00 !x	7.34
99 !	B	Zhou Can	China	-	-	-	0.00 !NM
99 !	B	Arnaud Casquette	Mauritius				0.00 !DNS
99 !	A	Issam Nima	Algeria				0.00 !DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes[4]
01 !	Irving Saladino	Panama	0.00 !x (+0.1)	8.17 (-0.1)	8.21 (+0.1)	8.34 (-0.3)	0.00 !x (-0.2)	0.00 !x (-0.5)	8.34 (-0.3)
02 !	Khotso Mokoena	South Africa	7.86 (+0.1)	0.00 !x (0.0)	8.02 (+0.2)	8.24 (0.0)	0.00 !x (-0.2)	0.00 !x (-0.4)	8.24 (0.0)
03 !	Ibrahim Camejo	Cuba	7.94	8.09	8.08	7.88	7.93	8.20	8.20
4	Ngonidzashe Makusha	Zimbabwe	8.19	8.06	8.05	8.10	8.05	6.48	8.19
5	Wilfredo Martínez	Cuba	7.60	7.90	0.00 !x	8.04	0.00 !x	8.19	8.19	DSQ
6	Ndiss Kaba Badji	Senegal	8.03	0.00 !x	8.02	8.16	8.03	7.92	8.16	SB
7	Luis Felipe Méliz	Spain	0.00 !x	8.02	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	7.98	8.07	8.07
8	Roman Novotný	Czech Republic	7.87	7.75	8.00	0.00 !x	7.82	7.94	8.00
9	Gable Garenamotse	Botswana	0.00 !x	7.85	-				7.85
10	Greg Rutherford	Great Britain	0.00 !x	5.20	7.84				7.84
11	Hussein Taher Al-Sabee	Saudi Arabia	7.80	0.00 !x	0.00 !x				7.80
99 !	Louis Tsatoumas	Greece	0.00 !x	0.00 !x	0.00 !x				0.00 !NM

DNS — Did Not Start NM — No Mark

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