2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump explained

The women's long jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 21 and 23 August.

In the final, Olympic champion Maurren Higa Maggi took the early lead as the first jumper in the competition. After three fouls, the second legal jump of the competition took Brittney Reese into the lead with a 6.92m. Tatyana Lebedeva's second round 6.97m put her into the lead for six jumps until Reese could take her third jump. Her season best tying settled the competition. No athlete improved over the final three rounds.

In 2017, silver medalist Lebedeva's 2008 Olympic doping sample was retested and found positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol). Her Olympic medal was revoked. Ordinarily, a doping violation is followed by a two year ban which would include this championship. No changes in medals have been announced yet.

Medalists

Gold
Silver
Bronze

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World record	7.52	Leningrad, Soviet Union	11 June 1988
Championship record	7.36	Rome, Italy	4 September 1987
World leading	7.06	Belém, Brazil	24 May 2009
African record	7.12	Atlanta, United States	2 August 1996
Asian Record	7.01	Jinan, China	5 June 1993
North American record	7.49	New York, United States	22 May 1994
South American record	7.26	Bogotá, Colombia	26 June 1999
European record	7.52	Leningrad, Soviet Union	11 June 1988
Oceanian record	7.00	Melbourne, Australia	7 March 2002

No new records were set during this competition.

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
21 August 2009	18:00	Qualification
23 August 2009	16:15	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 6.75 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	1	2	3	Result	Notes
	A	6.60	6.86		6.86	Q
	B	6.78			6.78	Q
	B	6.76			6.76	Q
	B	6.68	6.65		6.68	q
	A	6.68	6.58	6.30	6.68	q
	B	6.57	6.61	6.67	6.67	q
	B	6.66		6.55	6.66	q
	B		6.23	6.59	6.59	q
	A	6.08	6.55	6.42	6.55	q
10	A	6.55			6.55	q
11	A			6.53	6.53	q
12	A	6.43	6.52	6.47	6.52	q
13	A	6.44	6.51	6.46	6.51
14	A	6.45	6.31	6.49	6.49
15	A	6.37	6.45		6.45
16	B	6.29	6.42	6.43	6.43
17	B	6.40	6.18		6.40
18	B	6.40	6.09	6.11	6.40
19	A	6.39	6.14		6.39
20	B	6.32	6.38	6.36	6.38
21	A			6.34	6.34
22	B	6.15	5.97	6.32	6.32
23	B	6.32	6.13	6.14	6.32
24	B	6.31		6.10	6.31
25	A	6.26	6.21	6.29	6.29
26	A	6.29	6.20		6.29
27	A	5.92	6.23	6.19	6.23
28	A	6.23	6.06	6.13	6.23
29	B	6.21	6.03	6.22	6.22
30	B	6.22	5.75		6.22
31	B	6.07		6.19	6.19
32	A		6.16		6.16
33	A		5.92	6.10	6.10
34	B	6.07	6.09		6.09
35	A			6.00	6.00
36	B	5.92	5.80		5.92
	B					DNS

Key: DNS = Did not start, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place

Final

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	6.92	6.85	7.10				7.10	WL
	6.78	6.97					6.97	SB
	6.76		6.80			6.49	6.80
	6.77		6.52	6.68	6.69	6.68	6.77
			6.77	6.63		6.68	6.77
		6.56	6.71			6.40	6.71	NR
	6.68			6.64	-	-	6.68
	6.62	6.52		6.15	6.60	6.57	6.62

		6.59					6.59
10		6.58	6.51				6.58
11		6.24	6.29				6.29

Key: NR = National record, SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)

References

Long jump qualification from IAAF (Archived 2009-09-08). IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-26.
Long jump final results from IAAF. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-26.