World Athletics Championships 1995 / women's long jump

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 5th (qualification) August 6th (final)
Medalists Fiona May ( ITA )   Niurka Montalvo ( CUB )   Irina Muschailowa ( RUS )

The women's long jump at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 5th and 6th, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

World champion was the Italian European Championship third from 1994 Fiona May , who had started for Great Britain until 1993 . She won ahead of the Cuban Niurka Montalvo . Bronze went to the Russian Irina Muschailowa .

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 Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

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 5, 1995, 4:00 p.m.

Forty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.75 m. One athlete exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the next placed athletes to initially twelve jumpers. In twelfth place were two athletes tied with 6.53 m, both of whom were admitted to the final, so that in addition to the directly qualified athlete, twelve participants also qualified for the final via their placements (highlighted in light green).

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) wind (m / s)
1	Fiona May	Italy	6.76 / +2.6
2	Heike Drechsler	Germany	6.70 / +1.0
3	Niurka Montalvo	Cuba	6.69 / +2.6
4th	Irina Mushailova	Russia	6.69 / +2.1
5	Olena Chlopotnova	Ukraine	6.63 / +2.7
6th	Jackie Edwards	Bahamas	6.59 / +1.0
7th	Chantal Brunner	New Zealand	6.53 / +2.7
8th	Nicole Boegman	Australia	6.51 / -0.9
9	Niki Xanthou	Greece	6.50 / +0.5
10	Lyudmila Galkina	Russia	6.49 / +1.3
11	Yao Weili	People's Republic of China	6.49 / +1.3
12	Andrea Avila	Argentina	6.39 / +2.3
13	Valentina Gotovska	Latvia	6.32 / +1.4
14th	Sharon couch	United States	6.30 / +1.9
15th	Ksenija Predikaka	Slovenia	6.30 / +2.1
16	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	6.07 / +2.1
17th	Elma Muros	Philippines	6.01 / +3.6
18th	Nilufar Yeasmin	Bangladesh	5.40 / +3.2
NM	Do Vaszi	Hungary	ogV
	Pastora Chavez	Honduras

Group B

Paraskevi Patoulidou, 1992 Olympic champion in the 100 meter hurdles , was eliminated from the qualification without a valid attempt

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) wind (m / s)
1	Olga Rublyova	Russia	6.74 / +0.5
2	Inessa Krawez	Ukraine	6.73 / -0.6
3	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	6.73 / +0.3
4th	Viktoria Vershynina	Ukraine	6.72 / +2.1
5	Agata Karczmarek	Poland	6.54 / +2.3
6th	Valentina Uccheddu	Italy	6.53 / ± 0.0
7th	Marieke Veltman	United States	6.50 / +0.1
8th	Patience Itanyi	Nigeria	6.46 / +1.5
9	Lacena Golding	Jamaica	6.45 / +1.2
10	Nadine Caster	France	6.43 / +0.8
11	Renata Nielsen	Denmark	6.42 / ± 0.0
12	Claudia Gerhardt	Germany	6.40 / +2.0
13	Flora Hyacinth	American Virgin Islands	6.36 / +0.7
14th	Lyudmila Ninova	Austria	6.32 / -1.4
15th	Fatma Dulkan	Turkey	6.22 / +0.9
16	Beryl Larame	Seychelles	5.50 / +1.5
17th	Deborah Rugama	Nicaragua	4.88 / +4.2
NM	Heli Koivula	Finland	ogV
	Paraskevi Patoulidou	Greece
	Siulolo Liku	Tonga

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid
w	Wind support above the allowable value

final

August 6, 1995, 4:50 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	Fiona May	Italy	6.98 / +4.3	6.930	x	6.870	x	6.640	6.98 w
2	Niurka Montalvo	Cuba	6.86 / +0.5	6.420	x	6.700	6.620	x	6.860
3	Irina Mushailova	Russia	6.83 / +3.0	6.750	6.520	6.82w	x	6.76w	6.83 w
4th	Olga Rublyova	Russia	6.78 / +1.0	6.61w	6.65w	6.780	6.77w	6.68w	6.31w
5	Valentina Uccheddu	Italy	6.76 / +0.3	x	6.760	x	x	6.740	6.400
6th	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	6.74 / +3.3	6.74 w	x	6.690	6.250	6.59w	6.460
7th	Agata Karczmarek	Poland	6.71 / +0.9	x	5.740	6.710	5.960	6.710	6.560
8th	Viktoria Vershynina	Ukraine	6.66 / ± 0.0	x	6.660	x	6.62x	3.560	6.410
9	Heike Drechsler	Germany	6.64 / +2.6	x	x	6.64 w	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Inessa Krawez	Ukraine	6.57 / -2.1	x	6.570	x
11	Olena Chlopotnova	Ukraine	6.53 / +0.6	x	6.530	6.310
12	Chantal Brunner	New Zealand	6.43 / +0.7	x	x	6.430
NM	Jackie Edwards	Bahamas	ogV	x	x	x

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  World champion Fiona May, who was third in the 1994 European Championship , was still on the road to success - numerous other medals would follow later

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  Vice world champion Niurka Montalvo was still successful here for Cuba, from 1998 she started for Spain and became  world champion in Seville in 1999

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  The multiple world and Olympic champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee was no longer in the great shape of earlier years and came in sixth

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  The two-time world champion ( 1983 / 1993 ) and Olympic champion of 1992 Heike Drechsler had here with ninth satisfied - it was 2000 again Olympic champion

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  Inessa Krawez, second in the 1992 Olympics, reached tenth place - four days later she became world champion in the triple jump and in 1996 also Olympic champion in this discipline

Video

• Niki Xanthou long jump at the 1995 world championships in Gothenburg on youtube.com, accessed on June 9, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on June 9, 2020
• Women Long Jump Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed June 9, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Long Jump, Gothenborg 1995, p. 322f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 9, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 9, 2020