# Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump

The men's long jump event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Tuesday, July 8, 1924. 34 long jumpers from 21 nations competed. The maximum number of athletes per nation was 4. The event was won by DeHart Hubbard of the United States, the nation's sixth title in the event (having not won only at the 1920 Games). Sverre Hansen won Norway's first long jump medal with the bronze.

## Background

This was the seventh appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The only returning finalist from the 1920 Games was fifth-place finisher Erling Aastad of Norway. The favorite was DeHart Hubbard of the United States, the 1922–1924 AAU champion and winner of the U.S. Olympic trials.
Bulgaria, Ecuador, Estonia, Haiti, India, Japan, Mexico, and Poland each made their first appearance in the event. The United States appeared for the seventh time, the only nation to have long jumpers at each of the Games thus far.

## Competition format

The 1924 format continued to use the two-round format used in 1900 and since 1908, with the six-man finals introduced in 1920 (though a tie for sixth led to seven jumpers advancing this time). Each jumper had three jumps in the qualifying round; finalists received an additional three jumps, with qualifying round jumps still counting if the final jumps were not better.

## Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to this competition. Robert LeGendre, who did not compete in this event, set a new world record in the pentathlon contest one day earlier.
| World record | Robert LeGendre (USA) | 7.765 | Paris, France | 7 July 1924 |
| Olympic record | Robert LeGendre (USA) | 7.765 | Paris, France | 7 July 1924 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| Tuesday, 8 July 1924 | 14:00 | Qualifying Final |

## Results

The best six long jumpers, all four groups counted together, qualified for the final. In this case seven competitors were allowed to participate in the final, because two jumpers tied in sixth place in the qualification. The jumping order and the jumping series are not available.
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Qualifying | Qualifying | Final | Best mark |
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Distance | Rank | Final | Best mark |
| | DeHart Hubbard | United States | 7.120 | 3 | 7.445 | 7.445 |
| | Edward Gourdin | United States | 7.190 | 2 | 7.275 | 7.275 |
| | Sverre Hansen | Norway | 7.260 | 1 | Unknown | 7.260 |
| 4 | Vilho Tuulos | Finland | 7.070 | 4 | Unknown | 7.070 |
| 5 | Louis Wilhelme | France | 6.990 | 5 | Unknown | 6.990 |
| 6 | Christopher MacKintosh | Great Britain | 6.880 | 6 | 6.92 | 6.920 |
| 7 | Virgilio Tommasi | Italy | 6.880 | 6 | 6.89 | 6.890 |
| 8 | Jaap Boot | Netherlands | 6.860 | 8 | Did not advance | 6.860 |
| 9 | Albert Rose | United States | 6.855 | 9 | Did not advance | 6.855 |
| 10 | Mikio Oda | Japan | 6.830 | 10 | Did not advance | 6.830 |
| 10 | Pauli Sandström | Finland | 6.830 | 10 | Did not advance | 6.830 |
| 12 | Silvio Cator | Haiti | 6.810 | 12 | Did not advance | 6.810 |
| 13 | Erling Aastad | Norway | 6.720 | 13 | Did not advance | 6.720 |
| 14 | Richard Honner | Australia | 6.635 | 14 | Did not advance | 6.635 |
| 14 | Dalip Singh | India | 6.635 | 14 | Did not advance | 6.635 |
| 16 | Marcel Guillouet | France | 6.620 | 16 | Did not advance | 6.620 |
| 17 | Adolf Meier | Switzerland | 6.610 | 17 | Did not advance | 6.610 |
| 18 | Alois Sobotka | Czechoslovakia | 6.590 | 18 | Did not advance | 6.590 |
| 19 | Valter Ever | Estonia | 6.585 | 19 | Did not advance | 6.585 |
| 20 | Louis-Henri Albinet | France | 6.550 | 20 | Did not advance | 6.550 |
| 21 | Väinö Rainio | Finland | 6.540 | 21 | Did not advance | 6.540 |
| 22 | Gaston Médécin | Monaco | 6.510 | 22 | Did not advance | 6.510 |
| 23 | Paul Hammer | Luxembourg | 6.240 | 23 | Did not advance | 6.240 |
| 24 | Paul Couillaud | France | 6.220 | 24 | Did not advance | 6.220 |
| 25 | Josef Macháň | Czechoslovakia | 6.090 | 25 | Did not advance | 6.090 |
| 26 | Kiril Petrunov | Bulgaria | 6.000 | 26 | Did not advance | 6.000 |
| 27 | Konstantinos Pantelidis | Greece | 5.940 | 27 | Did not advance | 5.940 |
| 28 | Francisco Contreras | Mexico | 5.735 | 28 | Did not advance | 5.735 |
| 29 | Jos Hilger | Luxembourg | 5.680 | 29 | Did not advance | 5.680 |
| 29 | Alberto Jurado | Ecuador | 5.680 | 29 | Did not advance | 5.680 |
| 31 | Stanisław Sośnicki | Poland | 5.670 | 31 | Did not advance | 5.670 |
| 32 | Alfonso Stoopen | Mexico | 5.480 | 32 | Did not advance | 5.480 |
| 33 | William Comins | United States | — | 33 | Did not advance | No mark |
| 33 | Hannes de Boer | Netherlands | — | 33 | Did not advance | No mark |