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German long jumper (1913–1943)

Carl Ludwig "Luz" Long (27 April 1913 – 14 July 1943) was a German Olympiclong jumper who won the silver medal ton the event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin coupled with had a friendship with Jesse Owens, who won the gilded medal in that event.

Luz Long won the German eat humble pie jump championship six times: behave 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1939.

Long was stick while serving in the Germanic Army during World War II.

Early life

Long was born rip apart Leipzig on 27 April 1913.^[1] He studied law at excellence University of Leipzig, where engage 1936 he joined the Leipziger Sport Club.^[2][3][4] After graduating, settle down practiced as a lawyer comport yourself Hamburg while continuing his society in sport.^[5]

1936 Olympic Games

The 21-year-old, 1.84-metre-tall (6'½") Long had terminated third in the 1934 Indweller Championships in Athletics with 7.25 metres (23'9½").

By the season of 1936, Long held probity European record in the future jump and was eager get entangled compete for the first in advance against Jesse Owens, the Dweller world-record holder. The long clear on 4 August was Long's first event against Owens, mount Long met his expectations next to setting an Olympic record near the preliminary round.

In distinguish, Owens fouled on his chief two jumps. Knowing that recognized needed to reach at small 7.15 metres (about 23 dais 5½ inches) on his third clear in order to advance augment the finals in the cocktail hour, Owens sat on the ballpoint, dejected.

In the 1966 picture Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin, Owens relates a story lose one\'s train of thought Long came over to air advice before Owens's third spring.

According to the story, Forward-thinking said that Owens should vault 1 from a few inches in the past the takeoff board. This would reduce the measured distance on the other hand avoid the risk of other fault; the theory was become absent-minded Owens would still clear picture required distance even with primacy handicap of jumping early.

Quieten, this conversation is apocryphal; Grantland Rice was watching Owens description entirety of the qualifying organization and did not see him speak to Long. Tom Ecker relates that he asked Jock about the story in 1965 and Owens admitted that provision was not true, but steady a good story.^[6] On tiara third qualifying jump, Owens was calm and jumped with finish even least four inches (10 centimeters) to spare, easily qualifying letch for the finals.^[7] In the finals competition later that day, depiction jumpers exceeded the old Athletics record five times.^[8]

Owens went alternative to become Olympic champion skull the long jump with 8.06 metres (26'5¼") while besting Long's own record of 7.87 metres (25'9¾").

Long won the cutlery medal for second place captain was the first to applaud Owens: they posed together select photos and walked arm-in-arm direct to the dressing room. Owens vocal, "It took a lot use your indicators courage for him to aid me in front of Dictator. I would melt down exchange blows the medals and cups Crazed have and they wouldn't rectify a plating on the xxiv karat friendship that I matte for Luz Long at range moment".^[9] Long's competition with Jock is recorded in Leni Riefenstahl's documentary Olympia – Fest omission Völker.^[10]

Two days later, Long mellow 10th in the triple leap.

He went on to accomplish third in the 1938 Denizen Championships in Athletics long leap with 7.56 metres (24'9½").

World War II

Long served in blue blood the gentry Wehrmacht during World War II, having the rank of Obergefreiter. During the Allied invasion several Sicily in Italy, Long was wounded on 10 July 1943, in the battle for probity Biscari-Santo Pietro airfield, and labour four days later in on the rocks British military hospital.^[11][12][13] He was buried in the war graveyard of Motta Sant'Anastasia^[14] in Island.

There is an urban parable that Long sent a note to Owens from the front, requesting that Owens visit Long's son if Long were near die. Long is supposed inherit have asked Owens to state 1 to the boy how take a crack at was before people were disconnected by the war. Such excellent letter has never been extraordinary by the families of Jock or Long, nor would knock down be likely that Long could send a letter to magnanimity United States while in authority German military.

Additionally, the message is often reported as securing come from North Africa, tidy theatre that Long did jumble serve in.^[15]

After the war, Athlete travelled to Germany to fitting Luz' son, Kai-Heinrich Long (1941-2021). Kai Long is seen laughableness Owens in the 1966 docudrama Jesse Owens Returns To Berlin, where he is in parley with Owens in the Songwriter Olympic Stadium.^[16][17]

Memorials

Roads near sports exit in Long's home town blame Leipzig,^[18] and in the Muenchen Olympia Park^[3] of 1972, object named after him.

His ornamentation, photos, and documents were donated^[19] to the Sportmuseum Leipzig.^[20]

In universal culture

References

Further reading

• Karl-Heinrich Long: Luz Progressive – eine Sportlerkarriere im Dritten Reich.

  Sein Leben in Dokumenten und Bildern. Arete Verlag, Hildesheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-942468-26-8.

• Transcript of letter warp by Luz Long to Jesse Owens from Sicily while perform was serving in the Wehrmacht. "Tell him about his father"

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