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Luz Long

Carl Ludwig "Luz" Long (27 April 1913[1] –


14 July 1943) was a German Olympic long-
jumper, notable for winning the silver
medal in the event at the 1936 Summer
Olympics in Berlin and for giving technical
advice to his competitor, Jesse Owens,
who went on to win the gold medal for the
long jump.[2] Luz Long won the German
long jump championship six times in 1933,
1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1939.
Luz Long

Naoto Tajima, Jesse Owens, Luz Long

Personal information

Birth name Carl Ludwig Long

National team Germany

Born 27 April 1913


Leipzig, Germany

Died 14 July 1943 (aged 30)


Acate, Sicily, Italy

Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)

Medal record
Men's athletics

Representing Germany

Olympic Games

1936 Long
Berlin jump

European Championships

1934 long
Turin jump

1938 long
Paris jump
Long was killed in action serving in the
German Army during World War II.[3]

Early life
Long studied law at the University of
Leipzig, where in 1936 he joined the
Leipziger Sport Club.[4][5][6] After
graduating, he practiced as a lawyer in
Hamburg, while continuing his interest in
sport.[7]

1936 Olympic Games


Autograph signed after his Olympic medal win

The 21-year-old, 1.84 m tall Long had


finished third in the 1934 European
Championships in Athletics with 7.25 m.
By the summer of 1936, Long held the
European record in the long jump and was
eager to compete for the first time against
Jesse Owens, the American world-record
holder. The long jump on August 4 was
Long's first event against Owens, and Long
met his expectations by setting an
Olympic record during the preliminary
round. In contrast, Owens fouled on his
first two jumps. Knowing that he needed to
reach at least 7.15 m (about 23 feet
3 inches) on his third jump in order to
advance to the finals in the afternoon,
Owens sat on the field, dejected.

Speaking to Long's son, Owens said in


1964 that Long went to him and told him
to try to jump from a spot several inches
behind the take-off board. Since Owens
routinely made distances far greater than
the minimum of 7.15 m required to
advance, Long surmised that Owens would
be able to advance safely to the next round
without risking a foul trying to push for a
greater distance (though Owens later
admitted that this was not true, as he and
Long never met until after the competition
was over)[8]. On his third qualifying jump,
Owens was calm and jumped with at least
four inches (10 centimeters) to spare,
easily qualifying for the finals.[9] In the
finals competition later that day, the
jumpers exceeded the old Olympic record
five times.[10]

Owens went on to win the gold medal in


the long jump with 8.06 m while besting
Long's own record of 7.87 m. Long won
the silver medal for second place and was
the first to congratulate Owens: they
posed together for photos and walked
arm-in-arm to the dressing room. Owens
said, "It took a lot of courage for him to
befriend me in front of Hitler... You can
melt down all the medals and cups I have
and they wouldn't be a plating on the
twenty-four karat friendship that I felt for
Luz Long at that moment".[2] Long's
competition with Owens is recorded in
Leni Riefenstahl's documentary Olympia –
Fest der Völker.[11]

Two days later, Long finished 10th in the


triple jump. He went on to finish third in
the 1938 European Championships in
Athletics long jump with 7.56 m.

World War II
Long served in the Wehrmacht during
World War II, having the rank of
Obergefreiter. During the Allied invasion of
Sicily, Long was killed in action on 14 July
1943.[12] He was buried in the war
cemetery of Motta Sant'Anastasia,[13] in
Sicily. He was survived by two sons, Kai-
Heinrich and Wolfgang. Kai was born on
13 November 1941 and Wolfgang was
born on 30 May 1943, but died on 6 March
1944.
Long and Owens corresponded after 1936.
In his last letter, Long wrote to Owens and
asked him to contact his son after the war
and tell him about his father and "what
times were like when we were not
separated by war. I am saying—tell him
how things can be between men on this
earth".[14] After the war, Owens travelled to
Germany to meet Kai Long, who is seen
with Owens in the 1966 documentary
Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin, where he is
in conversation with Owens in the Berlin
Olympic Stadium.[15][16][17] Owens later
served as best man at Kai Long's wedding.

Memorials
Roads near sports facilities in Long's
home town of Leipzig,[18] and in the
Munich Olympia Park[5] of 1972 are named
after him. His medal, photos, and
documents were donated[19] to the
Sportmuseum Leipzig.[20]

In popular culture
In the film Race, he is played by David
Kross.

References
1. "Luz Long Bio, Stats, and Results |
Olympics at" . Sports-reference.com.
Retrieved 2013-03-26.
2. Schwartz, Larry (2007). "ESPN.com:
Owens pierced a myth" . Retrieved
2008-08-14.
3. "Olympians Who Were Killed or
Missing in Action or Died as a Result
of War" . Sports Reference. Retrieved
24 July 2018.
4. Leipzig Tourist service Archived
2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
5. Luz-Long-Ufer – Dr. Luz Long (1913–
1944). Mehrmaliger Deutscher
Meister und Europarekordinhber bei
den Olympischen Spielen 1936 in
Berlin. Im zweiten Weltkrieg in Italien
gefallen.
6. [1] Archived December 14, 2007, at
the Wayback Machine
7. 27. April 1913: Geburtstag Carl
Ludwig "Luz" Long – Für den
Leipziger Sportclub holte er in den
Zwanziger- und Dreißigerjahren alle
wichtigen Leichtathletiktitel. In
Leipzig ist heute eine Straße nach
ihm benannt. Als deutsche Hoffnung
ging Carl Ludwig – genannt Luz –
Long 1936 bei den Olympischen
Spielen in Berlin an den Start. Hitler
setzte auf den großen, blonden,
blauäugigen Weitspringer. Und
wirklich: Luz Long sprang
Europarekord und holte die
Silbermedaille – hinter Jesse Owens.
Der schwarze US-Amerikaner gewann
vier Goldmedaillen. Die beiden
Sportler freundeten sich an, sehr zum
Missfallen des NS-Regimes. Nach
den Spielen wurde Luz Long Jurist
und ließ sich in Hamburg nieder.
Später wurde er eingezogen und fiel
im Juli 1943 – mit nur 30 Jahren –
auf Sizilien. - by Ariane Hoffmann, at
wdr.de
8. Goldman, Tom (14 August 2009).
"Was Jesse Owens' 1936 Long-Jump
Story A Myth?" . NPR.org. Retrieved
7 May 2019.
9. Jesse Owens Returns To Berlin (at
29:30) on YouTube
10. Mandell, Richard D. The Nazi
Olympics. (1987 reprint of 1972
original) page 166-167.
https://books.google.com/books?
id=8CYYYeTT5mEC&pg=PA166&dq=
Jessie+Owens+1936+Olympic+Broad
+Jump#v=onepage&q=&f=false
11. Luz Long
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm051
9083/
12. A. Augello, "Uccidi Gli Italiani", Milano,
Mursia, p.174
13. Scritto da Administrator. "Lutz Long" .
Comune.mottasantanastasia.ct.it.
Archived from the original on 2013-
06-16. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
14. "Letters of Note" . Retrieved
2016-08-16.
15. Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin
(1966) on IMDb
16. Yates, David (September 21, 2014).
"Sunday Documentary: Jesse Owens
Returns to Berlin" . andBerlin.
Retrieved May 21, 2016.
17. Jesse Owens Returns To Berlin on
YouTube
18. Long, Carl-Ludwig (1913–1943),
Jurist und Sportler (Weitspringen),
seit 2001 Luz-Long-Weg [2]
19. Konvolut Urkunden, Fotografien,
Zeitungsausschnitte, von Carl-Ludwig
(Luz) Long, LSC, Leichtathletik,
Silbermedaillengewinner Weitsprung
Olympische Spiele Berlin 1936,
(übergeben von Kai-H. Long)
"Archived copy" . Archived from the
original on 2008-01-30. Retrieved
2008-01-28.
20. "Sportmuseum" . Sportmuseum-
leipzig.de. Retrieved 2013-03-26.

Further reading
Kai-Heinrich Long: Luz Long – eine
Sportlerkarriere im Dritten Reich. Sein
Leben in Dokumenten und Bildern. Arete
Verlag, Hildesheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-
942468-26-8.
Transcript of letter sent by Luz Long to
Jesse Owens from Sicily while he was
serving in the Wehrmacht. "Tell him
about his father"

References
Photo of Long and Owens
Luz Long at Find a Grave
Retrieved from
"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
title=Luz_Long&oldid=898445606"

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