City Year Long.Jump Name Country Athens 1896 6.35 Ellery Clark United States Paris 1900 7.19 Alvin Kraenzlein United States St.Louis 1904 7.34 Myer Prinstein United States London 1908 7.48 Frank Irons United States Stockholm 1912 7.6 Albert Gutterson United States Antwerp 1920 7.15 William Petersson Sweden Paris 1924 7.45 DeHart Hubbard United States Amsterdam 1928 7.73 Ed Hamm United States Los.Angeles 1932 7.64 Ed Gordon United States Berlin 1936 8.06 Jesse Owens United States London 1948 7.83 Willie Steele United States Helsinki 1952 7.57 Jerome Biffle United States Melbourne 1956 7.83 Gregory Bell United States Rome 1960 8.12 Ralph Boston United States Tokyo 1964 8.07 Lynn Davies Great Britain Mexico.City 1968 8.9 Bob Beamon United States Munich 1972 8.24 Randy Williams United States Montreal 1976 8.35 Arnie Robinson United States Moscow 1980 8.54 Lutz Dombrowski East Germany Los.Angeles 1984 8.54 Carl Lewis United States Seoul 1988 8.72 Carl Lewis United States Barcelona 1992 8.67 Carl Lewis United States Atlanta 1996 8.5 Carl Lewis United States Sydney 2000 8.55 Ivyn Pedroso Cuba Athens 2004 8.59 Dwight Phillips United States Beijing 2008 8.34 Irving Saladino Panama London 2012 8.31 Greg Rutherford Great Britain Rio.de.Janeiro 2016 8.38 Jeff Henderson United States Tokyo 2020 8.41 Miltiadis Tentoglou Greece