European Athletics Championships 2018 / women long jump

discipline	Long jump of women
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Participants	27 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 9, 2018 (qualification) August 11, 2018 (final)
Medalists
gold	Malaika Mihambo ( GER )
silver	Maryna Bech ( UKR )
bronze	Shara Proctor ( GBR )

Berlin Olympic Stadium

The women's long jump at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 9th and 11th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

The German Malaika Mihambo won the European Championship . Maryna Bech from Ukraine won the silver medal. Bronze went to Shara Proctor from Great Britain .

Records

WR	Galina Chistjakova	7.52 m	Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg ), USSR (now Russia )	June 11, 1988
HE
CR	Heike Drechsler	7.30 m	EM in Split , Yugoslavia (today Croatia )	August 28, 1990

qualification

The Romanian Alina Rotaru was eliminated with 6.55 m in the qualification

6.55 m was not enough for the German Alexandra Wester to be in the final

The German Sosthene Moguenara scored 6.54 m and was eliminated

August 9, 2018, 10:30 a.m. CEST

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance required for direct entry into the final was 6.67 m. Since only six jumpers exceeded this value - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best jumpers from both groups to a total of twelve participants - highlighted in light green. So finally 6.61 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Ivana Španović	Serbia	x	6.56	6.84	6.84
02	Shara Proctor	Great Britain	6.22	6.49	6.75	6.75
03	Khaddi Sagnia	Sweden	x	6.69	-	6.69 SB
04th	Ksenija Balta	Estonia	6.54	6.63	-	6.63 SBe
05	Nectaria Panagi	Cyprus	6.30	x	6.62	6.62
06th	Alina Rotaru	Romania	x	x	6.55	6.55
	Alexandra Wester	Germany	x	6.55	x	6.55
08th	Lauma Grīva	Latvia	6.47	6.46	x	6.47
09	Kristina Hryschutina	Ukraine	x	6.31	x	6.31
10	Milena Mitkova	Bulgaria	6.25	x	6.29	6.29
11	Fatima Diame	Spain	6.24	6.20	x	6.24
12	Chaido Alexouli	Greece	x	6.11	6.21	6.21
NM	Neja Filipič	Slovenia	x	x	x	without space
	Éloyse Lesueur-Aymonin	France	x	x	-

Group B

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Malaika Mihambo	Germany	6.71	-	-	6.71
02	Lorraine Ugen	Great Britain	x	6.70	-	6.70
03	Nastassja Mirontschyk-Ivanova	Belarus	6.60	6.68	-	6.68
04th	Juliet Itoya	Spain	6.65	x	6.45	6.65
05	Maryna Bech	Ukraine	6.64	x	6.63	6.64 SBe
06th	Jazmin Sawyers	Great Britain	x	6.49	6.64	6.64
07th	Evelise Veiga	Portugal	6.61	x	x	6.61 NU23Re
08th	Laura Strati	Italy	x	6.60	6.29	6.60
09	Angela Moroșanu	Romania	6.13	6.55	x	6.55 SB
10	Sosthene Moguenara	Germany	x	6.54	x	6.54
11	Milica Gardašević	Serbia	6.26	6.00	x	6.26
12	Karin Melis Mey	Turkey	5.98	x	6.18	6.18
13	Florentina Iușco	Romania	x	x	6.17	6.17

final

August 11, 2018, 8:05 p.m. CEST

The narrow group of favorites included the Serbian European champion from 2016 , Olympic third from 2016 , World Cup fourth from 2017 Ivana Španović, British vice world champion from 2015 Shara Proctor as well as the German European Championship third from 2016 and Olympic champion from 2016 Malaika Mihambo. The British Lorraine Ugen - WM -Fünfte of 2017 and World Cup -Vierte of 2015 went with good prospects for the top places at the start. Španović had qualified as the best qualifier for the final, but could not start there due to injury.

In the first rounds, the long jump didn't really want to get going. After round one the Ukrainian Maryna Bech was leading with 6.60 m ahead of Proctor with a meager 6.58 m. This did not change in the second round. By then, Mihambo was 6.36 m tall and had not yet qualified for the top eight final. In the third attempt, Mihambo reached 6.75 m, with which she not only gained permission for three more jumps, but also took the lead. Proctor improved on lap four to 6.69 m and sat in second position. Now acceptable widths were slowly being achieved. There were further increases in the fifth round. Bech achieved 6.67 m and consolidated third place. The British Jazmin Sawyers jumped 6.66 m and was fourth. The last series of tests brought further improvements. First Sawyers drew level with Bech with 6.67 m, but was now on the bronze rank due to her better second-best jump. But Bech immediately countered, she scored 6.73 m and was only two centimeters behind the leading Mihambo. But the Ukrainian had overtaken Proctor and Sawyer again and was on the silver rank. Proctor's increase to 6.70 m didn't change that either. Malaika Mihambo, who had another good attempt in the fifth round with 6.73 m, became European champion ahead of Maryna Bech and Shara Proctor. Jazmin Sawyers missed bronze by three centimeters. The Belarusian Nastassja Mirontschyk-Iwanowa was fifth ahead of the Estonian Ksenija Balta.

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Malaika Mihambo	Germany	6.36	6.36	6.75	6.54	x	6.73	6.75
	Maryna Bech	Ukraine	6.60	6.45	6.52	x	6.67	6.73	6.73 SB
	Shara Proctor	Great Britain	6.58	6.44	6.51	6.69	x	6.70	6.70
4th	Jazmin Sawyers	Great Britain	6.40	5.10	6.53	x	6.66	6.67	6.67
5	Nastassja Mirontschyk-Ivanova	Belarus	6.42	6.47	6.58	6.53	x	x	6.58
6th	Ksenija Balta	Estonia	6.49	x	6.38	x	6.30	x	6.49
7th	Khaddi Sagnia	Sweden	6.43	6.47	x	x	x	x	6.47
8th	Evelise Veiga	Portugal	6.47	6.39	x	6.14	6.30	x	6.47
9	Lorraine Ugen	Great Britain	x	6.45	x	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			6.45
10	Juliet Itoya	Spain	6.38	x	6.34				6.38
11	Nectaria Panagi	Cyprus	6.10	6.10	6.29				6.29
DNS	Ivana Španović	Serbia	-

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  European Champion Malaika Mihambo, Germany

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  Vice European Champion Maryna Bech, Ukraine

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  Bronze medalist Shara Proctor, Great Britain

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  The British Jazmin Sawyers finished fourth

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  Sixth place for Estonian Ksenija Balta

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  Lorraine Ugen, the third British woman in this final, came in ninth

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  The Serbian defending champion Ivana Španović could not compete in the final due to injury

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 23, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 23, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 23, 2019

Video

• Mihambo wins gold with nerves, European Championships 2018, sports show on youtube.com, published on September 1, 2018, accessed on January 23, 2019