World Athletics Championships 1997 / men's long jump

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	39 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 3rd (qualification) August 5th (final)
Medalist Iván Pedroso ( CUB )   Erick Walder ( USA )   Kirill Sossunow ( RUS )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

The men's long jump at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 3 and 5, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

World champion was the Cuban defending champion Iván Pedroso , who won gold at the 1995 Pan-American Games and bronze in 1991 . Second place went to the American Erick Walder . Bronze went to the Russian Kirill Sossunow .

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.

Elston Albert Shaw from Belize achieved a new national record in qualifying with 7.21 m.

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the 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, the wind support was in the permitted range both in qualification and in the finals for all jumps.

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 3, 1997, 8:20 a.m.

39 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 8.05 m. Four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eight athletes placed next to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 7.93 m had to be achieved for the final. Another athlete, like the participant, had achieved 7.93 m in twelfth place, but was classified in thirteenth place after applying the rule for further differentiation via the second best attempt and could not take part in the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Maurice Wignall	Jamaica	8.09	7.74 / +0.8	8.09 / -0.1	-
2	Erick Walder	United States	8.05	8.05 / +0.1	-	-
3	Nélson Carlos Ferreira	Brazil	8.00	7.68 / -0.2	7.98 / +0.8	8.00 / +0.2
4th	Lao Jianfeng	People's Republic of China	7.99	7.79 / -0.1	7.92 / -0.8	7.99 / -0.2
5	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	7.98	7.86 / +0.1	7.98 / -1.2	x
6th	Kirill Sossunov	Russia	7.96	7.83 / +0.3	7.88 / -0.2	7.96 / -0.3
7th	Masaki Morinaga	Japan	7.93	7.84 / -0.1	x	7.92 / -0.7
8th	Carlos Calado	Portugal	7.92	7.92 / -0.1	x	7.86 / +0.2
9	Oleksiy Lukashevytsch	Ukraine	7.90	x	7.90 / +0.5	x
10	Konstandinos Koukodimos	Greece	7.87	7.87 / -0.5	7.86 / -0.8	7.86 / -0.4
11	Tomas Bardauskas	Lithuania	7.75	7.66 / -0.8	7.75 / +0.2	x
12	Grzegorz Marciniszyn	Poland	7.69	7.68 / +0.5	7.60 / -0.8	7.69 / -0.2
13	Raúl Fernández	Spain	7.62	7.62 / +0.2	x	x
14th	Elston Albert Shaw	Belize	7.21 NO	7.14 / -0.5	6.77 / +0.3	7.21 / +1.6
15th	Victor Shabangu	Swaziland	7.18	7.18 / +0.3	r	-
16	Richard Duncan	Canada	7.17	7.17 / -0.1	x	x
17th	Joe Greene	United States	7.15	7.15 / -0.3	6.98 / +0.1	x
NM	Gregor Cankar	Slovenia	ogV	x	x	x
	Squad Klouchi	France		no information in the sources

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	8.11	x	8.11 / +0.2	-
2	Tidiane Touré Cheikh	Senegal	8.09	7.74 / ± 0.0	7.93 / +0.7	8.09 / +1.5
3	James Beckford	Jamaica	8.03	7.77 / 0.2	7.90 / +0.3	8.03 / +1.3
4th	Kevin Dilworth	United States	7.96	7.93 / -0.1	7.80 / -1.2	7.96 / +0.1
5	Aljaksandr Hlawazki	Belarus	7.94	7.69 / +0.1	7.78 / ± 0.0	7.94 / +0.6
6th	Emmanuel Bangué	France	7.93	x	7.93 / +0.6	7.47 / +0.9
7th	Tan Zhengze	People's Republic of China	7.92	7.79 / +0.3	7.91 / +0.3	7.92 / +1.2
8th	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	7.88	7.75 / ± 0.0	x	7.88 / -0.4
9	Bogdan Țăruş	Romania	7.87	x	7.60 / +0.8	7.87 / +0.1
10	Mattias Sunneborn	Sweden	7.72	7.60 / +0.7	7.69 / -0.1	7.72 / -0.4
11	Marko Rajic	Yugoslavia	7.70	7.14 / -0.9	7.38 / -0.3	7.70 / -0.4
12	Younés Moudrik	Morocco	7.66	7.66 / -0.1	7.60 / +0.2	x
13	Robert Emmijan	Armenia	7.65	7.57 / +1.0	7.51 / ± 0.0	7.65 / +0.8
14th	Andrei Ignatov	Russia	7.64	7.51 / ± 0.0	x	7.64 / +0.5
15th	Dimítrios Filíndras	Greece	7.63	7.63 / +0.3	7.54 / NWI	r
16	Sung Hee-Jun	South Korea	7.63	7.63 / -0.8	r	-
17th	Keita Cline	British Virgin Islands	7.23	7.23 / -0.9	x	x
18th	Nai Hui-Fang	Chinese Taipei	7.05	7.05 / +0.9	x	x
NM	Krzysztof Luczak	Poland	ogV	x	x	x
	Dimitrios Chatzopoulos	Greece		x	x	x

Long jumpers eliminated from group B in qualification:

• 

  Nobuharu Asahara (here as a sprinter) was only six centimeters short with his 7.88 to participate in the final

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  Mattias Sunneborn achieved 7.72 m

• 

  Robert Emmijan, 1986 European champion and 1987 vice world champion failed with 7.65 m

final

August 5, 1997, 7:00 p.m.

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	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	8.42	8.42 / +0.1	x	x	x	x	7.60 / -0.2
2	Erick Walder	United States	8.38	8.29 / -0.4	8.15 / -0.3	8.29 / +1.4	8.36 / +1.1	8.30 / +0.5	8.38 / -0.2
3	Kirill Sossunov	Russia	8.18	8.04 / +0.9	7.89 / +1.1	8.05 / +0.3	8.12 / -0.4	7.83 / +0.1	8.18 / +0.9
4th	James Beckford	Jamaica	8.14	x	8.07 / +0.2	7.92 / +0.4	8.14 / +0.6	6.92 / -0.4	7.85 / -0.5
5	Nélson Carlos Ferreira	Brazil	8.04	7.97 / +0.3	x	8.04 / +0.4	x	6.63 / -0.8	x
6th	Aljaksandr Hlawazki	Belarus	8.03	7.98 / -0.4	6.99 / -0.3	7.90 / -0.2	8.03 / +0.3	x	x
7th	Tidiane Touré Cheikh	Senegal	7.98	7.81 / -0.6	7.98 / ± 0.0	7.92 / ± 0.0	7.98 / -0.2	7.98 / +0.2	7.91 / -0.1
8th	Kevin Dilworth	United States	7.88	7.88 / -0.4	x	x	x	x	x
9	Masaki Morinaga	Japan	7.86	7.70 / +0.6	7.72 / +0.2	7.86 / +0.1	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Lao Jianfeng	People's Republic of China	7.76	7.76 / +1.2	x	7.59 / +0.8
11	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	7.66	7.66 / ± 0.0	7.51 / ± 0.0	7.65 / -0.3
NM	Maurice Wignall	Jamaica	ogV	x	x	x

• 

  Iván Pedroso won his second of four world titles

• 

  The 1995 vice world champion James Beckford finished fourth

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  Maurice Wignall, also active as a hurdler , failed to make a valid jump in the final after having achieved 8.12 m in qualifying two days earlier

Video

• Men's Long Jump Final - 1997 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed June 13, 2020

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 9, 2020
• Men Long Jump Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed June 21, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Long Jump, Athens 1997, p. 173f (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 21, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 21, 2020