World Athletics Championships 1993 / men's long jump

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	45 athletes from 35 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 19 (qualifying) August 20 (final)
Medalist Mike Powell ( USA )   Stanislaw Tarassenko ( RUS )   Vitaly Kyrylenko ( UKR )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The men's long jump at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held on August 19 and 20, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

World champion was the American defending champion, two-time Olympic silver medalist ( 1988 / 1992 ) and world record holder Mike Powell . He won ahead of the Russian Stanislaw Tarassenko . Bronze went to the Ukrainian Vitaly Kyrylenko .

Existing records

World record	8.95 m	Mike Powell	1991 World Cup in Tokyo , Japan	August 30, 1991
World championship record

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

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 19, 1993, 5:20 pm

45 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 8.10 m. Four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eight athletes placed next to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 7.91 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) wind (m / s)
1	Erick Walder	United States	8.30 / +0.6
2	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	8.23 / +1.0
3	Ivajlo Mladenov	Bulgaria	8.10 / +0.6
4th	François Fouché	France	7.95 / +1.0
5	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	7.91 / +0.9
6th	Konstandinos Koukodimos	Greece	7.90 / +1.1
7th	Ángel Hernández	Spain	7.86 / +0.3
8th	Joe Greene	United States	7.86 / +0.7
9	Obinna Eregbu	Nigeria	7.85 / +0.3
10	Vasily Sokov	Russia	7.75 / +0.5
11	Vladimir Malyavin	Turkmenistan	7.66 / +1.1
12	Lotfi Khaida	Algeria	7.65 / +0.3
13	Wendel Williams	Trinidad and Tobago	7.63 / +0.5
14th	Jérôme Romain	Dominica	7.62 / +0.7
15th	Viktor Rudenik	Belarus	7.60 / +0.7
16	Konstantin Krause	Germany	7.53 / -0.3
17th	Eugene Licorish	Grenada	7.48 / -0.4
18th	Banaras Khan	Pakistan	7.43 / +1.2
19th	Edrick Floréal	Canada	7.39 / -0.1
20th	Nélson Carlos Ferreira	Brazil	7.31 / +1.2
NM	Tibor Ordina	Hungary	ogV
	Rogelio Sáenz	Mexico

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) wind (m / s)
1	Mike Powell	United States	8.15 / ± 0.0
2	Stanislaw Tarassenko	Russia	8.05 / +0.3
3	Aljaksandr Hlawazki	Belarus	8.03 / +1.0
4th	Vitaly Kyrylenko	Ukraine	8.02 / +0.3
5	Milan Gombala	Czech Republic	7.99 / +0.7
6th	Spyridon Vasdekis	Greece	7.99 / +0.5
7th	André Müller	Germany	7.95 / +0.3
8th	Elmer Williams	Puerto Rico	7.86 / +0.6
9	Jaime Jefferson	Cuba	7.86 / +1.0
10	Craig Hepburn	Bahamas	7.83 / +0.7
11	Bernhard Kelm	Germany	7.78 / +0.3
12	Mattias Sunneborn	Sweden	7.78 / -0.2
13	Juha Kivi	Finland	7.69 / +0.6
14th	Robert Emmijan	Armenia	7.66 / +0.9
15th	Fred Salle	Great Britain	7.60 / +0.3
16	Masaki Morinaga	Japan	7.58 / +0.1
17th	Franck Zio	Burkina Faso	7.42 / +0.6
18th	Musabah Al-Saeed	United Arab Emirates	7.41 / +0.6
19th	Nai Hui-Fang	Chinese Taipei	7.31 / +0.2
20th	Galin Georgiev	Bulgaria	7.27 / +0.4
21st	Frans Maas	Netherlands	7.26 / +0.1
22nd	Ahmed Al-Mammari	Oman	7.23 / +0.5
23	Olive Fifita	Tonga	6.86 / ± 0.0

Long jumpers eliminated from group B in qualification:

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  7.78 m wasn't enough for Mattias Sunneborn to make it into the final

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  Robert Emmijan, 1986 European champion, 1987 vice world champion and holder of the European record, retired with 7.66 m in the qualification

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  With his 7.26 m, Frans Maas had no chance of participating in the finals

final

August 20, 1993, 7:00 p.m.

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

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	Mike Powell	United States	8.59 / +0.4	x	8.16	8.28	8.22	8.43	8.59
2	Stanislaw Tarassenko	Russia	8.16 / -0.1	7.85	7.84	8.01	8.16	8.02	x
3	Vitaly Kyrylenko	Ukraine	8.15 / +1.0	7.96	7.87	7.90	7.81	8.15	x
4th	Erick Walder	United States	8.05 / +0.9	7.74	7.94	7.72	7.71	8.05	8.02
5	Ivajlo Mladenov	Bulgaria	8.00 / +0.3	7.93	x	8.00	7.85	7.75	x
6th	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	7.97 / +0.1	7.97	7.89	7.95	x	7.81	7.84
7th	Aljaksandr Hlawazki	Belarus	7.95 / +0.6	7.70	x	7.90	7.94	7.95	x
8th	François Fouché	France	7.93 / +0.5	7.93	7.84	7.82	x	7.88	x
9	André Müller	Germany	7.83 / -0.1	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Spyridon Vasdekis	Greece	7.80 / +1.1
11	Milan Gombala	Czech Republic	7.69 / +0.2
NM	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	ogV	injured, exact procedure not specified

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  For the second consecutive time world champion Mike Powell (here in 2007) , two-time Olympic silver medalist ( 1988 / 1992 ) and world record holder

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  Iván Pedroso - later world champion four times in a row and also Olympic champion in 2000 - was unable to exhaust his potential in the final due to an injury

Video

• Mike Powell Long Jump 8.59m Stuttgart 1993 on youtube.com, accessed on May 13, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 13, 2020
• Men Long Jump Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 13, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Long Jump, Stuttgart 1993, p. 172 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 13, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 13, 2020