Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump

Men's long jump at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 2
Medalists
Ralph Boston United States   Bo Roberson United States   Igor Ter-Ovanesyan Soviet Union

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's long jump field event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 2.

Results

All jumpers reaching 7.40 metres advanced to the finals. All distances are listen in metres.

Qualifying

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	Notes
1	Bo Roberson	United States	7.81
2	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan	Soviet Union	7.79
3	Henk Visser	Netherlands	7.72
4	Manfred Steinbach	United Team of Germany	7.70
5	Jorma Valkama	Finland	7.63
6	Ralph Boston	United States	7.60
7	Takayuki Okazaki	Japan	7.58
8	Attilio Bravi	Italy	7.57
9	Dmitry Bondarenko	Soviet Union	7.49
10	Manfred Molzberger	United Team of Germany	7.46
11	Dimos Manglaras	Greece	7.45
12	Fred Alsop	Great Britain	7.42
13	Paul Foreman	British West Indies	7.42
14	Christian Collardot	France	7.40
15	John Oladipo Oladitan	Nigeria	7.38
16	Kazimierz Kropidłowski	Poland	7.37
17	Yukishige Yasuma	Japan	7.34
18	Juhani Manninen	Finland	7.34
19	Fritz Köppen	United Team of Germany	7.32
20	Anthony Watson	United States	7.32
21	Gustav Schlosser	Switzerland	7.27
22	Jan Netopilík	Czechoslovakia	7.26
23	Fermín Donazar	Uruguay	7.24
24	Roberto Procel	Mexico	7.23
25	David Kushnir	Israel	7.20
26	Ali Brakchi	France	7.20
27	John Howell	Great Britain	7.19
28	Pedro de Almeida	Portugal	7.10
29	Roar Berthelsen	Norway	7.09
30	B.V. Satyanarayan	India	7.08
31	Luis Felipe Areta	Spain	7.04
32	Dave Norris	New Zealand	7.04
33	Ian Tomlinson	Australia	7.03
34	Seo Yeong-Ju	South Korea	6.98
35	Yalçın Ünsal	Turkey	6.97
36	John Baguley	Australia	6.96
37	Mahmoud Atter Abdel Fattah	United Arab Republic	6.94
38	Romain Poté	Belgium	6.92
39	Jun Ebina	Japan	6.83
40	Revaz Kvachakidze	Soviet Union	6.82
41	Prajim Wongsuwan	Thailand	6.78
42	Vilhjálmur Einarsson	Iceland	6.76
43	Kaimar-ud-Din bin Maidin	Malaya	6.74
44	Virsa Singh	India	6.70
45	Bevyn Baker	Australia	6.43
46	Abdul Razzak	Iraq	6.37
-	Clive Bonas	Venezuela		NM
-	Luigi Ulivelli	Italy		NM
-	Muhammad Ramzan Ali	Pakistan		NM

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
01 !	Ralph Boston	United States	8.12	7.82	X	8.12 OR	7.80	X	7.96	OR
02 !	Bo Roberson	United States	8.11	X	8.03	7.88	7.75	7.62	8.11
03 !	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan	Soviet Union	8.04	7.90	7.80	X	X	7.68	8.04
4	Manfred Steinbach	United Team of Germany	8.00	7.81	X	7.76	X	X	8.00
5	Jorma Valkama	Finland	7.69	7.52	7.69	7.36	7.31	X	7.29
6	Christian Collardot	France	7.68	7.67	X	7.68	6.96	7.50	X
7	Henk Visser	Netherlands	7.66	7.59	7.43	7.66
8	Dmitry Bondarenko	Soviet Union	7.58	7.27	7.58	7.37
9	Manfred Molzberger	United Team of Germany	7.49	7.35	7.49	7.47
10	Attilio Bravi	Italy	7.47	7.30	7.22	7.47
11	Dimos Manglaras	Greece	7.45	7.16	7.32	7.45
12	Paul Foreman	British West Indies	7.26	7.26	XX	XX
13	Fred Alsop	Great Britain	7.25	7.25	7.18	7.16

Key: OR = Olympic record; NR = no mark; X = foul; XX = pass

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's long jump, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-11.