World Athletics Championships 1997 / Women's long jump

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	43 athletes from 33 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (qualification) August 9th (final)
Medalists Lyudmila Galkina ( RUS )   Niki Xanthou ( GRE )   Fiona May ( ITA )

The women's long jump at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 5 and 6, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

World champion was the Russian Lyudmila Galkina . She won ahead of the Greek Niki Xanthou . Bronze went to the Italian defending champion, Olympic runner-up in 1996 and European Championship third in 1994, Fiona May .

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 Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

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 respective 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.
In this competition there was not a single jump with too much wind support.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid
r	Competition not continued (retired)
NWI	no wind information

qualification

August 7, 1997, 8:20 a.m.

43 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 6.70 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the six next-placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 6.59 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

Paraskevi Patoulidous (here in 2008) 5.90 m was by far not enough to take part in the final

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Chioma Ajunwa	Nigeria	7.01 WL	6.67 / +0.1	7.01 / +1.1	-
2	Heike Drechsler	Germany	6.80	6.31 / -0.5	6.80 / -0.3	-
3	Lyudmila Galkina	Russia	6.75	6.57 / +1.1	6.75 / +0.2	x
4th	Sharon Jaklofsky	Netherlands	6.73	x	6.73 / +0.5	x
5	Erica Johansson	Sweden	6.64	6.27 / -0.6	6.36 / +0.9	6.64 / -0.4
6th	Magdalena Christowa	Bulgaria	6.63	x	6.63 / +0.2	x
7th	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	6.62	6.51 / +0.4	6.62 / -0.8	6.28 / +0.5
8th	Marion Jones	United States	6.59	6.59 / -0.3	6.37 / +1.0	x
9	Heli Koivula	Finland	6.57	6.45 / -0.3	x	6.57 / -0.2
10	Yelena Shekhovtsova	Ukraine	6.52	6.48 / +0.6	x	6.52 / -0.4
11	Do Vaszi	Hungary	6.52	6.35 / -0.5	x	6.52 / +0.4
12	Lacena Golding	Jamaica	6.50	x	x	6.50 / -0.1
13	Renata Nielsen	Denmark	6.49	6.43 / +0.9	6.39 / +0.2	6.49 / +0.1
14th	Linda Ferga	France	6.46	6.46 / -0.2	6.20 / -0.2	6.35 / +1.1
15th	Valentina Gotovska	Latvia	6.20	6.20 / +0.2	x	6.19 / -1.2
16	Sabine Braun	Germany	6.20	6.20 / 0.4	6.03 / +0.5	x
17th	Andrea Avila	Argentina	6.08	x	6.08 / +1.1	x
18th	Paraskevi Patoulidou	Greece	5.90	x	x	5.90 / -0.9
19th	Siulolo Liku	Tonga	5.83	5.83 / +0.7	r
20th	Gilda Massa	Peru	5.51	5.51 / -0.6	r
DNS	Flora Hyacinth	American Virgin Islands

Group B

Eunice Barber, here still for Sierra Leona, then later for France, retired with 6.19 m in the qualification - she was later very successful as a long jumper and heptathlete

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Fiona May	Italy	6.73	6.61 / +0.1	6.54 / +0.1	6.73 / -0.1
2	Susen Tiedtke	Germany	6.72	6.59 / -0.1	6.72 / +0.2	-
3	Viktoria Vershynina	Ukraine	6.66	6.34 / -0.1	6.50 / -0.1	6.66 / +1.0
4th	Niki Xanthou	Greece	6.62	6.62 / +0.3	6.61 / ± 0.0	x
5	Joanne Wise	Great Britain	6.52	6.52 / +0.5	6.42 / -0.3	x
6th	Lyudmila Ninova	Austria	6.50	6.20 / -0.4	x	6.50 / +0.6
7th	Nina Perevedentseva	Russia	6.45	5.70 / -0.5	6.45 / -0.4	6.30 / +0.1
8th	Agata Karczmarek	Poland	6.44	6.44 / +0.5	x	x
9	Yelena Pershina	Kazakhstan	6.38	6.38 / +0.5	x	6.34 / +1.3
10	Jackie Edwards	Bahamas	6.38	5.99 / +0.4	6.04 / -0.1	6.38 / -0.6
11	Sharon couch	United States	6.37	6.37 / -0.1	x	6.29 / +0.5
12	Nadine Caster	France	6.37	6.14 / +0.5	6.37 / -0.3	x
13	Jelena Donkina	Russia	6.29	5.95 / +0.4	6.17 / -0.3	6.29 / +0.9
14th	Chantal Brunner	New Zealand	6.26	5.98 / -0.9	6.07 / ± 0.0	6.26 / +0.2
15th	Eunice Barber	Sierra Leone	6.19	6.19 / +0.2	x	x
16	Jeļena Blaževiča	Latvia	6.18	6.18 / +0.6	x	x
17th	Yelena Lemeshevskaya	Belarus	6.07	6.07 / -0.2	5.90 / NWI	r
18th	Luciana dos Santos	Brazil	5.92	x	5.82 / +0.4	5.92 / +0.7
19th	Anja Valant	Slovenia	5.77	5.77 / +1.0	x	5.50 / +0.8
20th	Elisa Perez	Dominican Republic	5.67	5.67 / ± 0.0	5.63 / NWI	r
21st	Vera Bregu	Albania	5.58	5.58 / -0.4	x	5.52 / +0.1
22nd	Maria Fletschmann	Guatemala	5.25	5.25 / +0.2	r
23	Isis Moreno	Panama	5.08	4.88 / NWI	5.08 / -0.9	4.76 / NWI

final

August 9, 1997, 6:25 p.m.

In this final there was a deviation from the otherwise usual rule that the best eight athletes, in contrast to the jumpers placed behind them, have three more attempts after three jumps. In eighth place, two athletes were tied with the same width of 6.64 m, whereby the second best attempt was not used for further differentiation. In this case, nine participants were allowed three more attempts.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	4th attempt (m) wind (m / s)	5th attempt (m) wind (m / s)	6th attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Lyudmila Galkina	Russia	7.05 WL	6.89 / +0.3	6.85 / -1.2	x	7.05 / +0.6	x	x
2	Niki Xanthou	Greece	6.94	6.69 / +0.5	x	6.93 / ± 0.0	6.94 / +0.1	x	x
3	Fiona May	Italy	6.91	6.91 / +0.8	x	x	6.78 / +0.3	6.66 / +0.2	x
4th	Heike Drechsler	Germany	6.89	6.62 / -0.1	6.69 / +0.7	x	4.90 / +0.4	6.87 / +0.7	6.89 / -0.1
5	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	6.79	6.89 / +0.7	6.78 / +0.6	x	6.72 / -0.5	6.78 / +1.2	6.60 / +0.4
6th	Susen Tiedtke	Germany	6.78	6.75 / 0.5	x	x	6.78 / -0.1	6.54 / +0.7	6.77 / -0.1
7th	Viktoria Vershynina	Ukraine	6.71	4.28 / 0.3	6.71 / +0.8	x	x	6.56 / +0.2	6.54 / ± 0.0
8th	Erica Johansson	Sweden	6.64	x	6.54 / +0.3	6.64 / -0.3	6.54 / +0.6	5.34 / +2.0	6.41 / ± 0.0
9	Magdalena Christowa	Bulgaria	6.64	x	x	6.64 / +0.4	x	x	6.45 / +0.4
10	Marion Jones	United States	6.63	x	x	6.63 / ± 0.0	not in the final of the best eight or here nine jumpers
11	Sharon Jaklofsky	Netherlands	6.61	6.61 / +1.0	6.60 / +0.4	6.38 / +0.2
12	Chioma Ajunwa	Nigeria	5.21	5.21 / -0.3	x	x

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  The defending champion Fiona May, who was  second in the 1996 Olympics and third in the 1994 European Championship , won bronze this time

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  In the long jump, two-time world champion, Olympic and three-time European champion Heike Drechsler was two centimeters short of bronze in her fourth place

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  Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olympic long jump champion and two-time world champion, came in fifth here

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  Sprint world champion Marion Jones reached tenth place in the long jump

Video

• World Championships in Athletics 1997 - Long Jump Women on youtube.com, accessed July 5, 2020

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 9, 2020
• Women Long Jump Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed July 5, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Long Jump, Athens 1997, p. 322 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 5, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 5, 2020