2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump explained

The women's long jump event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on August 27 and 28.

Reigning world champion Brittney Reese was the pre-event favourite as she held the best mark that year (7.19 m) and led on the Diamond League circuit. Russia's Darya Klishina and Olga Zaytseva were the only ones to have cleared seven metres that season, while Americans Funmi Jimoh and Janay DeLoach were the only jumpers to have defeated Reese on the circuit. Veronika Shutkova and Maurren Maggi (the 2008 Olympic gold medallist) were other highly ranked entrants.[1] [2]

Maggi produced the best jump of the qualifying rounds, followed by Belarusian Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova. Brittney Reese needed the last of her three jumps to achieve the qualifying mark. Zaytseva was the most prominent jumper to be eliminated at the first stage.[3] Maggi, Jimoh and Naide Gomes were high-profile eliminations in the first half of the final round. Reese took the lead with her first jump of 6.82 m and, despite having had five no-jumps, she remained in first place to take the gold. It was Olga Kucherenko, Ineta Radēviča and Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova who fought for the minor medals. Mironchyk-Ivanova jumped 6.74 m in round three, only to be overtaken by Kucherenko (6.77 m) the following round. Radēviča produced her best (6.76 m) with her final jump to edge into the bronze medal position.[4]

Reese's mark of 6.82 m was the shortest winning distance in the history of the event at the World Championships.[4] Nevertheless, she became only the second woman to ever win two consecutive long jump world titles, matching the feat of her fellow American Jackie Joyner-Kersee.[5] Kucherenko and Radēviča gained their first ever medals on the world stage, although both had been medallists at the 2010 European Athletics Championships.

Mironchyk-Ivanova was fourth. She had a jump which seemed to be the longest of all, about 6.90 m. Her ponytail swang and left the mark behind at 6.74 m and she lost the win and all the other medals as a result.[6]

A retest of silver medallist Kucherenko's sample in 2016 came back positive for doping and she was stripped of her medal. As a result Radēviča was promoted to silver medal and Mironchyk-Ivanova moved into the medals with a bronze.[7]

Medalists

Revised

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Brittney Reese
Ineta Radēviča
Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova

Original

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Brittney Reese
Olga Kucherenko
Ineta Radēviča

Records

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

World record7.51Leningrad, Soviet Union11 June 1988
Championship record7.36Rome, Italy3 September 1987
World leading7.19Eugene, OR, United States26 June 2011
African record7.12Atlanta, GA, United States2 August 1996
Asian record7.01Jinan, China5 June 1993
North, Central American and Caribbean record7.49New York, NY, United States22 May 1994
Sestriere, Italy31 July 1994
South American record7.26Bogotá, Colombia26 June 1999
European record7.51Leningrad, Soviet Union11 June 1988
Oceanian record7.00Melbourne, Australia7 March 2002

Schedule

DateTimeRound
August 27, 2011 21:15 Qualification
August 28, 2011 18:15 Final

Results

Qualification

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

Rank Group Athlete Nationality
  1. 1
  1. 2
  1. 3
Result Notes
1B 6.55 6.86 6.86 Q
2 B 6.80 6.80 Q
3 A 6.41 6.79 6.79 Q
4 B 6.77 6.77 Q
5 A 6.76 6.76 Q
6 B 6.68 6.26 6.68 q
7 A 6.37 6.67 6.67 q
8 A 6.60 6.40 6.60 q
9 B 6.59 6.59 q
10 B 6.52 6.53 6.53 q
11 B 6.52 6.52q
12 A 6.29 6.51 6.51 q
13 B 6.50 6.50
14 A 6.48 6.48 6.32 6.48
15 A 6.45 6.40 6.45
16 A 6.45 6.29 6.45
17 A 3.96 6.44 6.44
18 B 6.36 6.27 6.36
19 B 6.34 6.22 6.21 6.34
20 B 6.34 6.34
21 A 6.31 6.19 6.22 6.31
22 A 6.30 6.30
23 A 6.27 6.16 6.10 6.27
24 A 6.09 6.07 6.26 6.26
25 A 6.26 6.26
26 B 6.22 6.22
27 B 6.19 6.15 6.19
28 A 6.19 5.75 6.19
29 B 6.18 6.18 SB
30 B 5.96 6.12 6.12
31 B 6.02 6.02
32 A 5.64 5.94 5.43 5.94
33 B 5.66 5.66
34A 5.35 5.48 5.44 5.48 SB
B
A

Final

Format: Each athlete has three attempts, then the eight best performers have three further attempts

Rank Athlete Nationality
  1. 1
  1. 2
  1. 3
  1. 4
  1. 5
  1. 6
Result Notes
6.82 6.82
6.61 6.63 6.66 6.61 6.76 6.76 SB
6.71 6.74 6.74
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6.32 6.39 6.32 6.56 6.56
6.39 6.30 6.49 6.50 6.33 6.50
6.44 6.44 6.19 6.44
6.37 6.31 6.26 6.37
10 6.16 6.26 6.26
11 6.17 6.17
6.48 6.56 6.65 6.77 DQ [8]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Martin, David (2011-08-20). Women's Long Jump - PREVIEW . IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-27.
  2. http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/inout=o/age=n/season=2011/sex=W/all=n/legal=A/disc=LJ/detail.html Long jump 2011
  3. Martin, David (2011-08-27). Women's Long Jump - Qualification - Reese takes stuttering step into final . IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-28.
  4. Lee, Lauren & Martin, David (2011-08-28). Women's Long Jump - Final - Reese successfully defends . IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-29.
  5. Wenig, Jörg (2011-08-28).Reese - Walking in the footsteps of idol Joyner-Kersee . IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-29.
  6. Merlo, Gianni (2011-09-03).- Incredible: Nastassia has lost the long jump gold and $60,000 dollars because of a hairstyle. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-09-03.
  7. Palmer, Dan (2017-02-01). Long jumper Kucherenko banned for two years, reports claim. Inside the Games. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  8. Web site: 13th IAAF World Championships in athletics - long jump, women's final. 2011-08-28. IAAF. 2017-07-14.

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