European Athletics Championships 2012 / Women's long jump

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 27th (qualification) June 28th (final)
Medalists Éloyse Lesueur ( FRA )   Wolha Sudarawa ( BLR )   Margrethe Renstrøm ( NOR )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's long jump at the European Athletics Championships 2012 was held on June 27th and 28th, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

European champion was the French Éloyse Lesueur . She won in front of the Belarusian Wolha Sudarawa . Bronze went to the Norwegian Margrethe Renstrøm .

Existing records

World record	7.52 m	Galina Chistjakova	Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), Soviet Union (today Russia )	June 11, 1988
European record
EM record	7.27 m	Heike Drechsler	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 27, 1986

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

doping

There was one doping case in this competition: Karin Melis Mey ( TUR ),
originally placed fifth , was disqualified due to a positive doping test.

Two athletes in particular were disadvantaged as a result:

• The Russian Svetlana Birjukowa would have allowed three more attempts in the final as eighth place.
• The Latvian Lauma Grīva would have been allowed to compete in the final.

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the respective jumps are named. The permitted limit is two meters per second. With stronger wind support, the distance will be counted for the competition, but will not be included in the lists of records and the best.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

June 27, 2012, 9:00 a.m.

Thirty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.65 m. Three athletes, including Karin Melis Mey, who was later disqualified for doping fraud, exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine athletes placed next to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 6.39 m was enough for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Margrethe Renstrøm	Norway	6.66	x	x	6.66 / +0.7
2	Sosthene Moguenara	Germany	6.62	x	6.29 / +0.2	6.66 / -0.2
3	Svetlana Biryukova	Russia	6.53	6.41 / +0.4	5.73 / -2.5	6.53 / +0.7
4th	Marharyta Tverdochlib	Ukraine	6.53	6.12 / +0.7	6.15 / -1.3	6.53 / -0.1
5	Melanie Bauschke	Germany	6.43	x	6.43 / +0.3	6.30 / -1.6
6th	Jana Velďáková	Slovakia	6.41	6.32 / +0.6	6.41 / -1.0	000x
7th	Concepción Montaner	Spain	6.39	6.39 / +0.6	6.39 / -0.3	6.34 / -1.0
8th	Lauma Grīva	Latvia	6.37	x	6.37 / -0.3	6.36 / -0.8 actually qualified for the final
9	Teresa Dobija	Poland	6.36	x	6.23 / -1.1	6.36 / +0.1
10	Ivana Španović	Serbia	6.33	x	x	6.33 / +0.1
11	Viorica Ţigau	Romania	c	6.19 / -1.9	x	6.29 / -0.8
12	Cristina Sandu	Romania	6.22	6.22 / -0.4	x	000x
13	Kristina Hryschutina	Ukraine	6.08	x	5.77 / -0.4	6.08 / +1.0
14th	Māra Grīva	Latvia	6.00	5.90 / -1.6	6.00 / +1.4	000x
DOP	Karin Melis Mey	Turkey	admitted to the finals

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  Lauma Grīva reached 6.37 m and was cheated out of the final

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  Teresa Dobija missed the final with her 6.36 m by three centimeters

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  This year Ivana Španović failed with 6.33 m in the qualification - in the following years she was much more successful

Group B

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  Alina Rotarus 6.19 m was not enough to participate in the final

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  With 6.16 m Anna Jagaciak retired in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Éloyse Lesueur	France	6.66	6.66 / ± 0.0	-	-
2	Wolha Sudarawa	Belarus	6.44	6.29 / +0.1	6.36 / +0.9	6.44 / +0.5
3	Irene Pusterla	Switzerland	6.44	6.01 / -0.1	6.34 / +2.6	6.44 / -0.1
4th	Ineta Radēviča	Latvia	6.44	6.25 / -0.2	6.44 / -0.7	6.31 / -1.6
5	Nectaria Panagi	Cyprus	6.31	x	6.01 / +1.0	6.31 / +0.3
6th	María del Mar Jover	Spain	6.27	6.15 / -1.0	4.77 / -0.4	6.27 / +0.6
7th	Oksana Zukovskaya	Russia	6.26	6.16 / +0.6	5.97 / -0.7	6.26 / +0.8
8th	Alina Rotaru	Romania	6.19	6.19 / +0.9	5.99 / -1.3	x
9	Abigail Irozuru	Great Britain	6.19	x	4.22 / -0.2	6.19 / -0.6
10	Anna Jagaciak	Poland	6.16	x	6.16 / +0.7	x
11	Sinje Florczak	Germany	6.15	6.15 / +0.2	5.99 / +0.3	6.11 / -1.0
12	Viktoriya Molchanova	Ukraine	6.12	6.06 / -0.3	5.42 / -1.7	6.12 / -0.4
13	Renáta Medgyesová	Slovakia	5.95	5.95 / -0.7	x	5.73 / -0.7
14th	Maiko Gogoladze	Georgia	5.71	5.71 / +1.5	x	x
15th	Anna Sirvent	Andorra	4.43	x	4.27 / +0.5	4.43 / -0.1

final

June 28, 2012, 5:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	4th attempt (m) wind (m / s)	5th attempt (m) wind (m / s)	6th attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Éloyse Lesueur	France	6.81	6.81 / +0.5	x	3.61 / -1.1	6.57 / +0.5	x	x
2	Wolha Sudarawa	Belarus	6.74	6.59 / +0.8	6.51 / -0.5	x	6.38 / -0.4	6.74 / +0.6	6.51 / +1.5
3	Margrethe Renstrøm	Norway	6.67	x	x	6.51 / -0.3	x	6.67 / +1.2	x
4th	Sosthene Moguenara	Germany	6.66	6.59 / -0.2	x	6.53 / +0.2	6.57 / +0.4	6.48 / +0.6	6.66 / +0.7
5	Ineta Radēviča	Latvia	6.55	6.43 / -0.5	x	6.55 / -0.6	x	6.49 / -0.2	6.33 / +1.0
6th	Irene Pusterla	Switzerland	6.53	6.53 / +0.9	6.50 / -0.1	4.96 / -0.8	6.32 / -0.9	6.40 / +0.7	6.25 / +0.6
7th	Melanie Bauschke	Germany	6.50	6.50 / -0.1	x	6.36 / -1.3	6.47 / +0.5	6.34 / +1.5	6.39 / +0.5
8th	Svetlana Biryukova	Russia	6.40	6.40 / +0.3	x	6.33 / -0.1	actually entitled to 3 more jumps
9	Jana Velďáková	Slovakia	6.31	6.16 / -0.1	x	6.31 / -0.6	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Concepción Montaner	Spain	6.26	x	6.07 / -1.8	6.26 / -0.6
NM	Marharyta Tverdochlib	Ukraine	ogV	x	x	x
DOP	Karin Melis Mey	Turkey

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  European champion Éloyse Lesueur

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  Vice European Champion Wolha Sudarawa

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  Sosthene Moguenara missed the bronze medal by an inch

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  Defending champion Ineta Radēviča came in fifth this time

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  Seventh-placed Melanie Bauschke

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  Jana Velďáková reached ninth place, the day after she was fifth in the  triple jump

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  Doping fraudster Karin Melis Mey

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed January 27, 2020
• European Championship 2012 Helsinki, Women Long Jump on todor66.com, accessed January 27, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 27, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Long Jump European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 517 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 27, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, long jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on January 27, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 27, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women , accessed January 27, 2020
2. ↑ Long jumper Mey Melis banned for two years , Westfälische Nachrichten, July 21, 2018, accessed on January 27, 2020