World Athletics Championships 1987 / women's long jump

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	29 athletes from 20 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 3 (qualification) September 4 (final)
Medalists Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )   Jelena Belewskaja l ( URS )   Heike Drechsler ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The women's long jump at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on September 3 and 4, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

World champion was the American co-owner of the long jump world record and Olympic silver medalist from 1984 in the heptathlon Jackie Joyner-Kersee , the three days had already previously won the heptathlon. Jelena Belewskaja from the Soviet Union took second place . Bronze went to the defending champion and reigning European champion Heike Drechsler from the GDR , who was also co-owner of the long jump world record, had won silver over 100 meters the day before and was the reigning European champion over 200 meters .

Records

Existing records

World record	7.45 m	Heike Drechsler	Tallinn , Soviet Union (now Estonia )	June 21, 1986
			Dresden , GDR (now Germany )	3rd July 1986
		Jackie Joyner-Kersee	Indianapolis , USA	3rd July 1986
World championship record	7.02 m	Heike Drechsler	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 14, 1983
		Tatiana Proskuryakova

Record improvement

World Champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee improved the existing World Championship record twice in the final on September 4th:

• 7.12 m - second attempt
• 7.36 m - third attempt

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the best 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.

Note

The x character indicates an invalid attempt.

qualification

3rd September 1987

29 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.58 m. Exactly twelve athletes equalized or exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). So the final field didn't have to go any further, the minimum number of twelve long jumpers was reached.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind (m / s)
1	Heike Drechsler	GDR	6.95 / +0.7
2	Galina Chistjakova	Soviet Union	6.86 / ± 0.0
3	Irina Valyukevich	Soviet Union	6.82 / +0.9
4th	Jennifer Inniss	United States	6.75 / ± 0.0
5	Sylvia Moneva	Bulgaria	6.71 / ± 0.0
6th	Lene Demsitz	Denmark	6.58 / -0.5
7th	Ringa Ropo	Finland	6.55 / -0.2
8th	Antonella Capriotti	Italy	6.31 / +0.3
9	Wang Zhihui	People's Republic of China	6.28 / +0.5
10	Madeline de Jesús	Puerto Rico	6.20 / +0.5
11	Beatrice Utondu	Nigeria	6.17 / +2.2
12	Carmen Sirbu	Romania	6.00 / -0.2
13	Lake Huey Chan	Singapore	5.49 / -0.9
14th	Jacqueline Ross	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	5.29 / +1.7
NM	Eva Murková	Czechoslovakia	ogV

Group B

Vali Ionescu, European champion in 1982 and Olympic runner-up in 1984 , was eliminated in the qualification with 6.30 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind (m / s)
1	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	6.86 / +2.9
2	Sheila Echols	United States	6.61 / +2.9
3	Nicole Boegman	Australia	6.60 / +0.9
4th	Lyudmila Ninova	Bulgaria	6.60 / -0.3
5	Helga Radtke	GDR	6.58 / -0.4
6th	Elena Belevskaya	Soviet Union	6.58 / -1.3
7th	Marieta Ilcu	Romania	6.50 / -0.3
8th	Sofia Boschanova	Bulgaria	6.43 / +0.7
9	Eva Karblom	Sweden	6.31 / +1.3
10	Vali Ionescu	Romania	6.30 / +1.8
11	Euphemia Huggins	Trinidad and Tobago	6.26 / +0.9
12	Eloina Echevarría	Cuba	6.23 / +1.2
13	Tracy Smith	Canada	6.17 / +1.1
14th	Sigal Gonen	Israel	6.03 / +0.6

final

4th September 1987

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind (m / s)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	7.36 / +0.4 CR	6.91	7.12 CR	7.36 CR	6.95	6.95	6.99
2	Elena Belevskaya	Soviet Union	7.14 / -0.6	6.17	6.81	6.74	7.14	6.92	6.98
3	Heike Drechsler	GDR	7.13 / -0.7	6.91	7.03	7.13	x	x	5.62
4th	Helga Radtke	GDR	7.01 / -0.1	6.95	6.56	7.01	x	x	6.95
5	Galina Chistjakova	Soviet Union	6.99 / +0.9	6.99	7.74	x	x	6.83	6.80
6th	Irina Valyukevich	Soviet Union	6.89 / -0.9	6.80	6.41	6.80	6.83	6.66	6.89
7th	Jennifer Inniss	United States	6.80 / -0.8	6.80	6.77	6.72	x	x	6.51
8th	Nicole Boegman	Australia	6.63 / -0.5	x	6.41	6.63	6.37	x	6.22
9	Lyudmila Ninova	Bulgaria	6.50 / -0.1	Individual attempts are not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Sylvia Moneva	Bulgaria	6.45 / -0.3
11	Sheila Echols	United States	6.39 / -1.0
12	Lene Demsitz	Denmark	6.11 / -0.8

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  World champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee, co-owner of the long jump world record and 1984 Olympic runner-up in the heptathlon , had already won the heptathlon three days earlier

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  The defending champion and reigning European champion Heike Drechsler won the bronze medal - she was also co-owner of the long jump world record, had won silver over 100 meters the day before and was the reigning European champion over 200 meters

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  Helga Radtke took fourth place

Video

• 987 World Champs Long jump women on youtube.com, accessed April 6, 2020

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 6, 2020
• Women Long Jump Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed April 6, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Long Jump, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 320f), English, accessed on April 6, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 6, 2020