A decidedly average Long Jump post

[AS]

I've been playing around with the all-time LJ performance list and thought I'd share the findings.

Using http://www.alltime-athletics.com/mlongok.htm (so 2376 legal jumps of 8.20+, outdoors and in, including ancilliary), I've generated averages for a jumper's top 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 jumps all-time (i.e. when said jumps are 8.20+).

So here we go...

Average of Top 5 jumps (30 highest averages from 77 jumpers with 5+ jumps)

1 Carl Lewis USA 8.810
2 Mike Powell USA 8.716
3 Iván Pedroso CUB 8.680
4 Larry Myricks USA 8.668
5 Dwight Phillips USA 8.638
6 Robert Emmiyan ARM 8.636
7 Irving Saladino PAN 8.610
8 Erick Walder USA 8.564
9 James Beckford JAM 8.552
10 Kareem Streete-Thompson USA 8.528
11 Yago Lamela ESP 8.520
12 Jaime Jefferson CUB 8.484
13 Lutz Dombrowski GDR 8.478
14 Miguel Pate USA 8.476
15 Louis Tsátoumas GRE 8.470
16 Godfrey Khotso Mokoena RSA 8.468
17 Savanté Stringfellow USA 8.466
18 Mitchell Watt AUS 8.460
19 Joe Greene USA 8.446
20 Roland McGhee USA 8.440
21 Bob Beamon USA 8.406
22 Llewellyn Starks USA 8.398
23 Mohamed Salman Al-Khuwalidi KSA 8.394
24 Andrew Howe ITA 8.384
25 Jai Taurima AUS 8.380
26 Mike Conley USA 8.378
27 Ignisious Gaisah GHA 8.358
28 Jason Grimes USA 8.350
29 Kirill Sosunov RUS 8.346
30 Yahaya Barrabah MAR 8.342

(Blue athletes still active at 8.20+)

[AS]

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Average of Top 10 jumps (30 highest)

1 Carl Lewis USA 8.770
2 Mike Powell USA 8.656
3 Iván Pedroso CUB 8.645
4 Larry Myricks USA 8.617
5 Dwight Phillips USA 8.594
6 Irving Saladino PAN 8.560
7 Robert Emmiyan ARM 8.531
8 James Beckford JAM 8.513
9 Erick Walder USA 8.500
10 Yago Lamela ESP 8.472
11 Kareem Streete-Thompson USA 8.464
12 Jaime Jefferson CUB 8.432
13 Savanté Stringfellow USA 8.432
14 Miguel Pate USA 8.417
15 Godfrey Khotso Mokoena RSA 8.410
16 Joe Greene USA 8.407
17 Mitchell Watt AUS 8.407
18 Lutz Dombrowski GDR 8.406
19 Roland McGhee USA 8.394
20 Louis Tsátoumas GRE 8.387
21 Llewellyn Starks USA 8.369
22 Mike Conley USA 8.345
23 Ignisious Gaisah GHA 8.333
24 Andrew Howe ITA 8.332
25 Mohamed Salman Al-Khuwalidi KSA 8.319
26 Kirill Sosunov RUS 8.310
27 Hussein Taher Al-Sabee KSA 8.300
28 Ralph Boston USA 8.295
29 Brian Johnson USA 8.288
30 Fabrice Lapierre AUS 8.282

[AS]

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Average of Top 20 jumps (all 22 athletes with 20+ jumps)

1 Carl Lewis USA 8.722
2 Iván Pedroso CUB 8.610
3 Mike Powell USA 8.594
4 Larry Myricks USA 8.570
5 Dwight Phillips USA 8.521
6 Irving Saladino PAN 8.496
7 James Beckford JAM 8.467
8 Erick Walder USA 8.435
9 Robert Emmiyan ARM 8.431
10 Yago Lamela ESP 8.412
11 Kareem Streete-Thompson USA 8.397
12 Jaime Jefferson CUB 8.376
13 Savanté Stringfellow USA 8.369
14 Godfrey Khotso Mokoena RSA 8.350
15 Joe Greene USA 8.344
16 Lutz Dombrowski GDR 8.342
17 Miguel Pate USA 8.340
18 Roland McGhee USA 8.331
19 Louis Tsátoumas GRE 8.306
20 Mike Conley USA 8.302
21 Ignisious Gaisah GHA 8.300
22 Ralph Boston USA 8.261

So the average of Lewis' top 20 jumps is better than the average of anyone else's top 5!

Average of Top 30 jumps (all 15 athletes with 30+ jumps)

1 Carl Lewis USA 8.691
2 Iván Pedroso CUB 8.582
3 Mike Powell USA 8.557
4 Larry Myricks USA 8.541
5 Dwight Phillips USA 8.480
6 Irving Saladino PAN 8.451
7 James Beckford JAM 8.444
8 Erick Walder USA 8.399
9 Robert Emmiyan ARM 8.381
10 Yago Lamela ESP 8.370
11 Kareem Streete-Thompson USA 8.359
12 Jaime Jefferson CUB 8.337
13 Savanté Stringfellow USA 8.330
14 Godfrey Khotso Mokoena RSA 8.315
15 Miguel Pate USA 8.304


And Lewis' top 30 jumps better top 5 of all but Mike Powell!

[AS]

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Average of Top 50 jumps (the list is thinning!):

1 Carl Lewis USA 8.636
2 Iván Pedroso CUB 8.540
3 Mike Powell USA 8.506
4 Larry Myricks USA 8.500
5 Dwight Phillips USA 8.426
6 James Beckford JAM 8.408
7 Irving Saladino PAN 8.391
8 Erick Walder USA 8.347

Top 100:

1 Carl Lewis USA 8.551
2 Iván Pedroso CUB 8.461
3 Larry Myricks USA 8.441
4 Mike Powell USA 8.422
5 James Beckford JAM 8.353

Top 150:

1 Carl Lewis USA 8.477
2 Iván Pedroso CUB 8.404
3 Larry Myricks USA 8.401
4 Mike Powell USA 8.368

Myricks is the only man with 200+ jumps at 8.20m+ (271 to be precise).
His top 200 average = 8.3686
His top 250 average = 8.34024

Counts (all folks with 20+, then active jumpers who are 5+):
271 Larry Myricks
179 Iván Pedroso
171 Carl Lewis
162 Mike Powell
146 James Beckford
97 Dwight Phillips
69 Irving Saladino
66 Erick Walder
47 Kareem Streete-Thompson
45 Robert Emmiyan
44 Yago Lamela
44 Jaime Jefferson
41 Savanté Stringfellow
35 Miguel Pate
35 Godfrey Khotso Mokoena
29 Ignisious Gaisah
27 Roland McGhee
26 Lutz Dombrowski
26 Mike Conley
24 Joe Greene
23 Ralph Boston
21 Louis Tsátoumas
19 Salim Sdiri
16 Mitchell Watt
14 Chris Tomlinson (Top 5/10 = 8.282, 8.254)
13 Andrew Howe
11 Brian Johnson (Top 5/10 = 8.316, 8.288)
8 Christian Reif (Top 5 = 8.298)
8 Yahya Berrabah
5 Ngonidzashe Makusha (Top 5 = 8.304)
5 Greg Rutherford (Top 5 = 8.250)

[Half Miler]

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Seeing Jason Grimes in the list brought back some memories.

That guy had more vertical height on his jumps than anyone I can remember. He would hit the board like he was bouncing off rubber.

Don't recall too many others with his triple hitch-kick style, either.

(Nice work, btw)

[tandfman]

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Excellent work!

Thank you.

[donley2]

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Seeing Ralph Boston on that list caught my attention. Beamons miracle at Mexico City has definitely helped over shadow just how good Boston was.

[lonewolf]

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Excellent compilation. Thank you.

[26mi235]

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Does this include indoor marks? Beamon's other four average just 8.283 and his next five less than 8.13.

[Pego]

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Excellent compilation. Thank you.

I'll join tandfman and lonewolf. Most impressive and informative.

[AS]

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Does this include indoor marks?

Yep: 2376 legal jumps of 8.20+, outdoors and in, including ancilliary)

[Littlemac]

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Add one more.....Marcos Chuva from Portugal jumped 8.34 today in Estonia.

[AS]

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Add one more.....Marcos Chuva from Portugal jumped 8.34 today in Estonia.

Only 2cm behind Portugese record from Calado... and a 31 cm improvement on his old PR (from earlier this year)

[Grasshopper]

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So, Carl Lewis' average of top-100 jumps (8.551) is better than the 10th best average of top-5 jumps (Kareem Streete-Thompson, 8.528)? Wow! How does this level of dominance compare to the best for any other event?