What 10 guys have ever jumped 28-feet and lost?

[Daisy]

Suspect Lewis or Powell won most of them.

From Pela's site:

8.91w Carl Lewis ’91 WC - 8.95 Mike Powell
8.74 Larry Myricks ’88 OT - 8.76 Carl Lewis
8.64 Mike Powell ’92 OG - 8.67 Carl Lewis
8.63 Larry Myricks ’87 USATF - 8.65 Carl Lewis
8.63 Mike Powell ’91 USATF - 8.64 Carl Lewis
8.63 Irving Saladino ’09 Pre - 8.74 Dwight Phillips
8.56 Yago Lamela ’99 WIC - 8.62 Iván Pedroso
8.54 Dwight Phillips ’09 Hengelo - 8.56 Irving Saladino
8.53 Robert Emmiyan ’87 WC - 8.67 Carl Lewis
8.53 Carl Lewis ’92 OT - 8.62 Mike Powell

[AS]

I did a little poking on the windy 8.53 losers, but I need to go back to older ATFS annuals, cause it takes 8.65 to make the performance list (30 deep), so there could be missing stuff. What I came up with for sure:

Lewis 8.72A (2) Sestriere 31Jul 94
Joe Greene 8.66A (2) 21 Jul 92
Kareem Street-Thompson 8.64 (2) NCAA 18 Jun 94
Conley 8.63 (2) TAC 20 Jun 86

There are probably others.

To answer "who won?" question we turn to pela's site and the following are found:
Sestriere 31Jul 94 8.95A (+3.9) Mike Powell
vs Lewis 8.72A(+3.9), 8.68A, 8.51A, 8.43A (all windy) and 8.66A (legal)
I could find no more Powell marks from that meet

Sestriere 21 Jul 92 8.99A (+4.4) Mike Powell
vs Greene 8.66A (+4.0)
Powell backs up with 8.85A (+3.8), 8.84A (+4.0), 8.80A (+3.0), 8.75A (+3.4), 8.65A (+3.7) :shock: :shock:
Greene with 8.65A, 8.34A

NCAA Knoxville 18 Jun 94 8.68 (+4.1) Powell
vs Street-Thompson 8.64 (+3.5)
Powell backs up with legal 8.51

TAC Eugene 20 Jun 86 8.67(+3.3) Lewis
vs Conley 8.63 (+3.9)

all from http://www.alltime-athletics.com/mlongno.htm
and http://www.alltime-athletics.com/mlongok.htm

[Bruce Kritzler]

great list.

who was the winner in each of those competitions?

Suspect Lewis or Powell won most of them.

[mj]

great list.

who was the winner in each of those competitions?

[tandfman]

I did a little poking on the windy 8.53 losers, but I need to go back to older ATFS annuals, cause it takes 8.65 to make the performance list (30 deep), so there could be missing stuff.

Wouldn't pela's site have that stuff?

[fez]

Err.... Yago Lamela '91?

[Dave]

Unless you are Carl Lewis, you are probably thrilled beyond belief that you jumped over 28'. If you are Carl Lewis, you either think, "Damn I made him work for it" or "damn, damn, damn". Still, that would be astonishing to average 29' and lose the competition.

[mike renfro]

I did a little poking on the windy 8.53 losers, but I need to go back to older ATFS annuals, cause it takes 8.65 to make the performance list (30 deep), so there could be missing stuff. What I came up with for sure:

Lewis 8.72A (2) Sestriere 31Jul 94
Joe Greene 8.66A (2) 21 Jul 92
Kareem Street-Thompson 8.64 (2) NCAA 18 Jun 94
Conley 8.63 (2) TAC 20 Jun 86

There are probably others.

[26mi235]

Nice. Really makes one want to go to the effort to craft these things.

GH, thanks for taking the time to craft this list. This is part of why we come back so often.

What he said.

[Dave]

Nice. Really makes one want to go to the effort to craft these things.

GH, thanks for taking the time to craft this list. This is part of why we come back so often.

[Daisy]

Nice. Really makes one want to go to the effort to craft these things.

:?:

I looked at it and really enjoyed it. Thanks.

Re: 10 vs 7, It was just an observation. Actually, I wondered if getting the next three guys in the series (longest losing jumps) was going to be one of your quizzes.

[26mi235]

Lewis AVERAGED 8.83+ (about 29) and lost. I am not sure when there will be a LJ competition to match this, but I might be a pretty old guy by then (and the comp is already in its 18th year).

[ndamix]

Clarification by the way: the list doesn't include the many occasions of windy 28-footers (other than the Lewis 29, which had a legal in the series)

In that case, you say the person who beat me had to set a World Record to do it...

[gh]

Clarification by the way: the list doesn't include the many occasions of windy 28-footers (other than the Lewis 29, which had a legal in the series)

[Novianv2]

Nice list.

It's so easy to forget how epic that '91 battle was. Man, 8.91m and 8.84m and you lose?!

It's also sort of fitting that Lewis tops this list...after all he broke the hearts of Myricks, Powell and Emmiyan on multiple occasions.

I still remember that 8.76m vs. 8.74m competition. I thought there was no possible way Lewis could win. Man was I wrong.

I'm giddy with excitement. :lol: