Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade – Men's long jump
# Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade – Men's long jump

The men's long jump event at the 1997 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Cibali in Catania, Italy, on 30 and 31 August.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Iván Pedroso Cuba | James Beckford Jamaica | Gregor Cankar Slovenia |

## Results

### Qualification

| Rank | Group | Athlete | Nationality | Result |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | ? | Iván Pedroso | Cuba | 7.91 |
| 2 | ? | Brian Bowers | United States | 7.88 |
| 3 | ? | Gregor Cankar | Slovenia | 7.87 |
| 4 | ? | James Beckford | Jamaica | 7.86 |
| 4 | ? | Yevgeniy Tretyak | Russia | 7.86 |
| 6 | ? | Kevin Dilworth | United States | 7.84 |
| 7 | ? | Nélson Carlos Ferreira | Brazil | 7.82 |
| 7 | ? | Bogdan Tudor | Romania | 7.82 |
| 9 | ? | Bogdan Țăruș | Romania | 7.79 |
| 10 | ? | Oleksy Lukashevych | Ukraine | 7.69 |
| 11 | ? | Douglas de Souza | Brazil | 7.65 |
| 12 | ? | Diego Boschiero | Italy | 7.64 |
| 13 | ? | Aleksandr Glavatskiy | Belarus | 7.61 |
| 14 | ? | Sung Hee-jun | South Korea | 7.60 |
| 14 | ? | Xu Bin | China | 7.60 |
| 16 | ? | Roman Shchurenko | Ukraine | 7.58 |
| 16 | ? | Dejan Vojnović | Croatia | 7.58 |
| 18 | ? | János Uzsoki | Hungary | 7.56 |
| 19 | ? | Bakri Darouèche | France | 7.53 |
| 20 | ? | Aleksey Zhukov | Russia | 7.51 |
| 21 | ? | Marko Rajić | Yugoslavia | 7.44 |
| 22 | ? | Takanori Sugibayashi | Japan | 7.38 |
| 23 | ? | Wilfried Dorombo | Central African Republic | 7.35 |
| 24 | ? | Trevino Betty | Canada | 7.32 |
| 25 | ? | Danijel Mišić | Yugoslavia | 7.30 |
| 26 | ? | András Hegedüs | Hungary | 7.27 |
| 27 | ? | Merujan Sarkisyan | Armenia | 7.24 |
| 27 | ? | Niels Kruller | Netherlands | 7.24 |
| 29 | ? | Wisnu Nugroho | Indonesia | 7.07 |
| 30 | ? | Vachik Sahakyan | Armenia | 6.99 |
| 31 | ? | Mohamed Abdelbaki | Jordan | 6.81 |
| 32 | ? | Michael Sharapoff | New Zealand | 6.74 |
| 33 | ? | Ancel Luis Daniel Flores | Honduras | 6.73 |
| 34 | ? | Wong Chi Fai | Macau | 6.67 |
| 35 | ? | Fathi Youssif | Sudan | 6.64 |
| 36 | ? | Maziko Phiri | Zambia | 6.58 |
| 37 | ? | An Dang Hoai | Vietnam | 6.57 |
| 38 | ? | Omar Al-Monani | Jordan | 6.08 |
| ? | ? | Carlos Castelbranco | Portugal | 2.38 |
| | ? | Erik Nys | Belgium | NM |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Result |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Iván Pedroso | Cuba | 8.40 |
| | James Beckford | Jamaica | 8.35 |
| | Gregor Cankar | Slovenia | 8.11 |
| 4 | Nélson Carlos Ferreira | Brazil | 8.01 |
| 5 | Kevin Dilworth | United States | 7.92 |
| 6 | Brian Bowers | United States | 7.85 |
| 7 | Olexiy Lukashevych | Ukraine | 7.79 |
| 8 | Bogdan Țăruș | Romania | 7.62 |
| 9 | Yevgeniy Tretyak | Russia | 7.61 |
| 10 | Diego Boschiero | Italy | 7.60 |
| 11 | Douglas de Souza | Brazil | 7.55 |
| 12 | Bogdan Tudor | Romania | 7.47 |
