The men's long jump event was part of the track and field athletics programme

Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics

At the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, 27 athletics events were contested, all for men only.-Medal table:-Medal summary:-Participating nations:657 athletes from 40 nations competed. Ten nations competed in athletics for the first time...

 at the 1924 Summer Olympics

1924 Summer Olympics

The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1924 in Paris, France...

. The competition was held on Tuesday, July 8, 1924.

34 long jumpers from 22 nations competed.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to this competition.

World Record	7.765	Robert LeGendre Robert LeGendre This article is about the athlete named Robert LeGendre. For the inmate who escaped from prison, see Iowa State PenitentiaryRobert "Bob" Lucien LeGendre is an American athlete and Olympics competitor who competed mainly in the Pentathlon.He competed for the United States in the 1924 Summer...	Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...  (FRA France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... )	July 7, 1924
Olympic Record	7.765	Robert LeGendre Robert LeGendre This article is about the athlete named Robert LeGendre. For the inmate who escaped from prison, see Iowa State PenitentiaryRobert "Bob" Lucien LeGendre is an American athlete and Olympics competitor who competed mainly in the Pentathlon.He competed for the United States in the 1924 Summer...	Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...  (FRA France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... )	July 7, 1924

Robert LeGendre

Robert LeGendre

This article is about the athlete named Robert LeGendre. For the inmate who escaped from prison, see Iowa State PenitentiaryRobert "Bob" Lucien LeGendre is an American athlete and Olympics competitor who competed mainly in the Pentathlon.He competed for the United States in the 1924 Summer...

, who did not compete in this event, set a new world record in the pentathlon contest

Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics - Men's pentathlon

The men's pentathlon event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. It was the third and last appearance of a pentathlon at the Olympics. The competition was held on Monday, July 7, 1924....

 one day earlier. He improved the old records:

World Record	7.69	Edward Gourdin Edward Gourdin Edward Orval "Ned" Gourdin was an American athlete and jurist...	Cambridge Cambridge The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...  (GBR United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it.... )	July 23, 1923
Olympic Record	7.60	Albert Gutterson Albert Gutterson Albert Lovejoy Gutterson was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump.He competed for the United States in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden in the long jump where he won the gold medal....	Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...  (SWE Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.... )	July 12, 1912

Qualification

The best six long jumpers, all four groups counted together, qualified for the final. In this case seven competitors were allowed to participated in the fianal, because two jumpers tied in sixth place in the qualification. The jumping order and the jumping series are notavailable.

Group 1

Place	Athlete	Distance	Overall Rank	Qual.
1		7.12	3	Q
2		6.83	10
3		6.635	14
		6.635	14
5		6.59	18
6		6.585	19
7		6.55	20
8		6.51	22
9		6.00	26
10		5.94	27
11		5.735	28
12		5.67	31

Group 2

Place	Athlete	Distance	Overall Rank	Qual.
1		7.26	1	Q
2		7.07	4	Q
3		6.88	6	Q
4		6.855	9
5		6.22	24
6		6.09	25
7		5.68	29
8		5.48	32

Group 3

Place	Athlete	Distance	Overall Rank	Qual.
1		6.99	5	Q
2		6.86	8
3		6.83	10
4		6.72	13
5		6.61	17
6		6.54	21
7		5.68	29
–		NM	-

Group 4

Place	Athlete	Distance	Overall Rank	Qual.
1		7.19	2	Q
2		6.88	6	Q
3		6.81	12
4		6.62	16
5		6.24	23
–		NM	-

Final

The final was held on the same day.

Place	Athlete	Qual. Width	Final Width	Distance
1		7.12	7.445	7.445
2		7.19	7.275	7.275
3		7.26		7.26
4		7.07		7.07
5		6.99		6.99
6		6.88	6.92	6.92
7		6.88	6.89	6.89