World Athletics Championships 1993 / Women's long jump

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	38 athletes from 26 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 14th (qualification) August 15th (final)
Medalists Heike Drechsler ( GER )   Laryssa Bereschna ( UKR )   Renata Nielsen ( DEN )

The women's long jump at the 1993 World Athletics Championships was held on August 14th and 15th, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

World champion became one of the most successful long jumpers in sport history with the German Heike Drechsler . She was the Olympic champion in 1992 , Olympic silver medalist from 1988 , triple World Cup -Medaillengewinnerin ( 1983 : Gold / 1987 : Bronze / 1991 : silver) and two-time European champion ( 1986 / 1990 ). She had also won numerous medals in the sprint competitions. Second place took the World Championship -Third 1991 Laryssa Bereschna from the Ukraine . Bronze went to Renata Nielsen from Denmark .

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.

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

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 14, 1993, 6:50 p.m.

38 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 6.70 m. Three athletes 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). In the end, 6.48 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Olena Chlopotnova	Ukraine	6.83 / +0.5
2	Susen Tiedtke	Germany	6.66 / +0.5
3	Lyudmila Ninova	Austria	6.61 / +0.2
4th	Mirela Dulgheru	Romania	6.56 / -0.6
5	Jelena Zintschukova	Russia	6.50 / +0.6
6th	Anzhela Atroshchenko	Belarus	6.36 / ± 0.0
7th	Anna Biryukova	Russia	6.36 / +0.1
8th	Jackie Edwards	Bahamas	6.33 / +0.3
9	Yinka Idowu	Great Britain	6.30 / +0.4
10	Sheila Echols	United States	6.30 / +0.2
11	Antonella Capriotti	Italy	6.23 / ± 0.0
12	Andrea Avila	Argentina	6.23 / +0.2
13	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	6.15 / -0.3
14th	Terri Horgan	Ireland	6.11 / +0.5
15th	Elma Muros	Philippines	5.99 / +0.5
16	Camille Jackson	United States	5.91 / +0.2
17th	Nashwa Morsy	Egypt	5.48 / -0.1
18th	Sylvie Kabore	Burkina Faso	5.35 / -0.3
19th	Pastora Chavez	Honduras	4.71 / +0.7

Group B

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  With her 6.44 m, Helga Radtke was four centimeters missing from the final

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  Fiona May - here still for Great Britain, then very successfully at the start for Italy from 1994 - was eliminated from the qualification with her 6.42 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Laryssa Bereschna	Ukraine	6.87 / +0.5
2	Heike Drechsler	Germany	6.70 / +0.3
3	Renata Nielsen	Denmark	6.61 / -0.1
4th	Lyudmila Galkina	Russia	6.60 / +0.2
5	Nicole Boegman	Australia	6.59 / -0.1
6th	Agata Karczmarek	Poland	6.48 / ± 0.0
7th	Valentina Uccheddu	Italy	6.48 / ± 0.0
8th	Helga Radtke	Germany	6.44 / +0.3
9	Fiona May	Great Britain	6.42 / +0.1
10	Marieta Ilcu	Romania	6.40 / -0.4
11	Joanne Wise	Great Britain	6.20 / +0.4
12	Sharon couch	United States	6.19 / +0.3
13	Dedra Davis	Bahamas	6.11 / -0.1
14th	Fatima Yüksel	Turkey	5.98 / +0.3
15th	Sandrine Hennart	Belgium	5.90 / +0.4
16	Ermelinda Shehu	Albania	5.67 / +0.1
17th	Solange Ostiana	Netherlands Antilles	5.37 / +0.3
18th	Beryl Larame	Seychelles	5.24 / -0.3
NM	Flora Hyacinth	American Virgin Islands	ogV

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

final

Heike Drechsler - as an Olympic and multiple European champion one of the strongest long jumpers in sports history - became world champion for the second time

August 15, 1993, 7:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Heike Drechsler	Germany	7.11 / -0.3	6.79	7.09	6.83	7.11	7.10	7.09
2	Laryssa Bereschna	Ukraine	6.98 / +0.4	6.98	x	6.94	x	6.76	-
3	Renata Nielsen	Denmark	6.76 / +0.6	6.76	6.76	x	6.64	x	6.71
4th	Olena Chlopotnova	Ukraine	6.75 / +0.5	6.64	6.75	x	6.57	6.55	6.26
5	Lyudmila Galkina	Russia	6.74 / +0.5	x	x	6.74	6.45	x	x
6th	Lyudmila Ninova	Austria	6.73 / +0.8	6.55	x	5.99	6.73	x	6.62
7th	Nicole Boegman	Australia	6.70 / +0.2	x	6.70	6.48	6.42	6.60	6.68
8th	Agata Karczmarek	Poland	6.57 / +0.6	x	6.57	x	6.44	x	6.39
9	Susen Tiedtke	Germany	6.54 / +0.6	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Jelena Zintschukova	Russia	6.52 / +0.5
11	Mirela Dulgheru	Romania	6.48 / +0.7
12	Valentina Uccheddu	Italy	6.38 / +0.3

Video

• World Championships 1993 Women's Long Jump , video posted September 26, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed May 20, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 20, 2020
• Women Long Jump Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 20, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Long Jump, Stuttgart 1993, p. 321 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 20, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 20, 2020