26'3"/8.00m long jumping before 1960

[dadme]

Can anyone list the 8.00 jumps before 1960,legal or otherwise. Distance,by whom,date & venue would be appreciated. There can't be that many.

[gh]

Re: 26'3

Outdoors, with legal wind, 8 men had jumped 8m before 1960.

[dukehjsteve]

Re: 26'3

I'll take a shot at some of them, strictly from memory:

Owens 26 8.25
Bell 26'7"

others @ 26'3" or better:
Shelby ?
brain dead after that...

edit:

2 hours later, thought of 2 more, then I'm done.... Pan Ams in '55 got some good marks from Ross Range and John Bennett. Think they both were over 8 m. Nothing like Mexico City altitude.

[wineturtle]

Re: 26'3

Guess only----Ter-O and or Boston.

[dukehjsteve]

Re: 26'3

>Guess only----Ter-O and or Boston.

Don't think Ralph was one of them, he pretty much came out of nowhere, relatively speaking, in 1960. But Ter-O might be on the money.

[Per Andersen]

Re: 26'3

Willie Steele 8.07 in 1947
Eulace Peacock 8.00 in 1935
George Brown 8.00 in May 1952

[wineturtle]

Re: 26'3

>Willie Steele 8.07 in 1947
Eulace Peacock 8.00 in 1935
George Brown 8.00 in
>May 1952
Owens in '35---4 in 4 to go
and ?sTer-o,Eric Shelby,Greg Bell,Range, Bennett
and we don't have any windy stuff
Boston has a WR in 60 at 8.21 not hard to believe he could have done 11 inches less the year before.
Who had the record up till Owens?did he continue to compete?

[dukehjsteve]

Re: 26'3

Who had the record up till Owens?did he continue to compete?

Chuhei Nambu of Japan set WR of 7.98 in 1931. A year later he won the OG in the 3J and got 3rd in the LJ. Don't know what if anything he did after that, my guess he retired.

[gh]

Re: 26'3

all-time list as of 1/1/60

26-8 1/4 (8.13) Jesse Owens '35
26-7 (8.10) Greg Bell '57
26-6 (8.07) Willie Steele '47
26-4 1/4 (8.03) Ros Range '55
26-3 1/2 (8.01) John Bennett '55
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan '59
26-3 (8.00) George Brown '52
Eulace Peacock '35

As noted above, Range and Bennett were both at Mexico City. Note also that Steele was at Salt Lake City, so even then (even though nobody paid it much mind), high altitude was tweaking the all-time lists.

[tafnut]

Re: 26'3

so we're left with only five 'valid' jumpers - less than I would have thought - what a stud Owens was

26-8 1/4 (8.13) Jesse Owens '35
26-7 (8.10) Greg Bell '57
26-3 1/2 (8.01)Igor Ter-Ovanesyan '59
26-3 (8.00) George Brown '52 and Eulace Peacock '35

[wineturtle]

Re: 26'3

>Can anyone list the 8.00 jumps before 1960,legal or otherwise.
There can't be that many.
I can not find any otherwises but my avail bases smaller than most of you.

[Per Andersen]

Re: 26'3

I think it is a bit harsh to not give Steele credit as a "valid" 8 meter guy even though his 8.07 was in Salt Lake City. The guy had 7.97 the next year and he won the Olympic LJ in London by more than a foot despite being injured. He owned the LJ for a couple of years.
I think it is interesting to note how the value of an 8 meter LJ has changed over the years. In 1960 I would think that 8 meters was about equivalent to a 2.12 HJ and a 4.65 PV. Today I would think it is equivalent to a 2.24 HJ and a 5.50 PV.

[BYU grad]

Re: 26'3

I agree with Per re: the comparison's of the LJ with the PV and HJ. Even tho the WR is over 29 feet there really aren't that many long jumpers who have gone over 28 feet or even over 27 feet, so and 8.00 meter jump, after all these years, is still quite respectable.

[Bob H]

Re: 26'3

>Today I would think it is equivalent to a 2.24 HJ and a 5.50 PV.<

On the IAAF Scoring Tables, 8.00 is equivalent to a 2.26 HJ and a 5.55 PV.

[dadme]

pre 1960 8.00m/26'3&quot; long jumping

Can anyone help with this, as my T&F News only goes back to Aug'57.
Where did Greg Bell Jump his 26'4½" windy on15th May 1957, all i have is
Indiana.