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

Men's long jump
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad

Venue

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.

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	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	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	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

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
1 !	Ralph Boston	United States	8.12	7.82	X	8.12 OR	7.80	X	7.96	OR
2 !	Bo Roberson	United States	8.11	X	8.03 OR	7.88	7.75	7.62	8.11
3 !	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan	Soviet Union	8.04	7.90	7.80	X	X	7.68	8.04
4	Manfred Steinbach	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	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

Long jump at the Athletics at the Summer Olympics

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