World Athletics Championships 1991 / women's long jump

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	31 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 24th (qualification) August 25th (final)
Medalists Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )   Heike Drechsler ( GER )   Laryssa Bereschna ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The women's long jump at the World Athletics Championships in 1991 was held on August 24 and 25, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

The US defending champion and Olympic champion in 1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee , who was also the reigning world champion and Olympic champion in 1988 in the heptathlon , became world champion. With her fourth jump in the final, Joyner-Kersee sustained an injury that meant that she had to give up in the heptathlon here after the first day. The second place went to World Champion in 1983 , World Championship -Third of 1987 and two-time European champion ( 1986 / 1990 ) Heike Drechsler , former Heike Daute, from Germany , which before 1992 for the DDR was launched. She had won numerous medals on the sprint courses at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships and won bronze here on the final day with the German 4 x 100 meter relay . Third place went to the Soviet long jumper Laryssa Bereschna .

Existing records

World record	7.52 m	Galina Chistjakova	Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), Soviet Union (today Russia )	June 11, 1988
World Cup record	7.36 m	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	4th September 1987

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships. World champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee missed her own record in the final on August 25th by only four centimeters.

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.

qualification

August 24, 1991, 6:20 pm

31 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.65 m. Eleven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the next placed athlete to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 6.63 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

Fiona Mays 6.54 m was not enough for the final

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind (m / s)
1	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	6.91 / +2.4
2	Laryssa Bereschna	Soviet Union	6.87 / +1.9
3	Susen Tiedtke	Germany	6.85 / +2.2
4th	Jelena Zintschukova	Soviet Union	6.80 / +1.1
5	Christy Opara-Thompson	Nigeria	6.68 / +1.3
6th	Ringa Ropo-Junnila	Finland	6.66 / +2.8
7th	Jackie Edwards	Bahamas	6.66 / +1.2
8th	Liu Shuzhen	People's Republic of China	6.57 / +0.4
9	Yang Juan	People's Republic of China	6.56 / +0.6
10	Fiona May	Great Britain	6.54 / +1.0
11	Valentina Uccheddu	Italy	6.48 / +1.6
12	Iwa Prandschewa	Bulgaria	6.30 / +0.8
13	Jayne Moffitt	New Zealand	6.29 / +0.4
14th	Tamara Malesev	Yugoslavia	6.27 / +0.9
15th	Flora Hyacinth	American Virgin Islands	6.16 / +3.2

Group B

Helga Radtke only missed the final by three centimeters with her 6.62 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind (m / s)
1	Heike Drechsler	Germany	6.87 / +0.5
2	Lyudmila Ninova	Austria	6.79 / +2.0
3	Marieta Ilcu	Romania	6.77 / +0.9
4th	Elena Belevskaya	Soviet Union	6.70 / +1.0
5	Oluyinka Idowu	Great Britain	6.63 / +2.4
6th	Helga Radtke	Germany	6.62 / +3.2
7th	Nicole Staines	Australia	6.57 / +3.6
8th	Wang Chunfang	People's Republic of China	6.55 / k. A.
9	Agata Karczmarek	Poland	6.55 / ± 0.0
10	Sheila Echols	United States	6.47 / +1.0
11	Cindy Greiner	United States	6.41 / +1.5
12	Wang Shu-Hwa	Chinese Taipei	6.38 / +3.5
13	Diane Guthrie	Jamaica	6.37 / +1.7
NM	Solange Ostiana	Netherlands Antilles	ogV
	Ragne Kytölä	Finland
	Renata Nielsen	Denmark

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

final

August 25, 1991, 6:30 p.m.

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	7.32 / ± 0.0	7.32	x	-	x	-	7.11
2	Heike Drechsler	Germany	7.29 / -0.2	7.09	7.16	7.29	6.99	7.08	6.94
3	Laryssa Bereschna	Soviet Union	7.11 / ± 0.0	7.11	6.92	x	6.86	6.81	6.91
4th	Jelena Zintschukova	Soviet Union	7.04 / +1.8	6.84	6.86	7.00	6.68	7.04	6.90
5	Susen Tiedtke	Germany	6.77 / +0.9	6.55	6.65	6.63	x	6.77	5.74
6th	Marieta Ilcu	Romania	6.72 / +0.9	6.55	x	6.70	6.70	6.68	6.72
7th	Lyudmila Ninova	Austria	6.72 / -0.5	x	6.72	6.33	x	x	x
8th	Elena Belevskaya	Soviet Union	6.69 / -0.6	6.49	6.54	6.68	x	6.41	6.69
9	Ringa Ropo-Junnila	Finland	6.63 / +0.2	Individual attempts are not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Jackie Edwards	Bahamas	6.37 / +0.3
11	Christy Opara-Thompson	Nigeria	6.28 / -0.2
12	Oluyinka Idowu	Great Britain	6.16 / -0.4

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  Defending champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee (here in 1996) became world champion again, she was also Olympic champion in long jump and heptathlon in 1988 , and she was reigning world champion in heptathlon

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  World silver medalist Heike Drechsler, former Heike Daute, World Champion in 1983 , World Championship -Third of 1987 and two-time European champion ( 1986 / 1990 ), as well as a highly decorated  sprinter

Video

• 3344 World Track & Field 1991 Long Jump Women Jackie Joyner-Kersee , video posted April 16, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed May 3, 2020
• Women Long Jump Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed May 3, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Long Jump, Tokyo 1991, p. 321 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 3, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 3, 2020