1999 World Athletics Championships / Women's Long Jump

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	33 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 21 (qualifying) August 23 (final)
Medalists Niurka Montalvo ( ESP )   Fiona May ( ITA )   Marion Jones ( USA )

The women's long jump at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 21 and 23, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

The Spanish Niurka Montalvo became world champion . She was runner-up in 1995 and had Cuban citizenship until 1999 . Second place went to Italian World Champion from 1995, World Cup third from 1997 , Olympic runner-up in 1996 , Vice European Champion from 1998 and European Championship third from 1994 Fiona May . Bronze went to the American Marion Jones , who was particularly successful as a sprinter . In 1997 and here in Seville, too, she had become world champion in the 100 meters and had also won 1997 World Cup gold with the US 4-by-100-meter relay .

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 Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

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

Two national records were achieved.

• 6.55 m - Baya Rahouli ( Algeria ), qualifying group A on August 21
• 7.06 m - Niurka Montalvo ( Spain ), final on 23 August

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the individual 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 improper 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 21, 1999, 11:30 a.m.

33 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.80 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). So finally 6.62 m had to be achieved for the final.

The placement rule for the better second best attempt was also used. Dawn Burrell , who was twelfth in both qualification groups , had, in addition to her 6.62 m as the best jump, a distance of 6.56 m for her second best attempt. Tatjana Kotowa with 6.62 m had achieved the second best distance of 6.53 m and was eliminated in thirteenth place overall.

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	Fiona May	Italy	7.04	7.04 / +0.2	-	-
2	Niurka Montalvo	Spain	6.78	6.56 / +0.3	x	6.78 / -0.2
3	Olga Rublyova	Russia	6.76	x	6.52 / +0.2	6.78 / ± 0.0
4th	Joanne Wise	Great Britain	6.75	6.75 / +0.1	6.45 / NWI	x
5	Nicole Boegman	Australia	6.63	6.63 / -0.2	x	6.56 / +0.1
6th	Dawn Burrell	United States	6.62	6.45 / -0.6	6.62 / +0.2	6.56 / +0.6
7th	Tatiana Kotova	Russia	6.62	6.09 / -1.1	6.62 / +0.6	6.53 / +0.4
8th	Baya Rahouli	Algeria	6.55 NO	6.55 / -1.0	x	6.51 / +0.6
9	Aurélie Felix	France	6.54	6.23 / -1.8	6.53 / +0.1	6.24 / ± 0.0
10	Elena Koshcheyeva	Kazakhstan	6.40	x	6.40 / -0.6	x
11	Olena Schechowzowa	Ukraine	6.39	x	6.28 / +0.4	6.39 / -0.4
12	Jackie Edwards	Bahamas	6.23	6.20 / -0.6	6.23 / -0.5	6.20 / -0.5
13	Elena Bobrovskaya	Kyrgyzstan	6.07	5.87 / -1.5	6.07 / +0.3	5.70 / -0.5
14th	Luciana dos Santos	Brazil	6.00	x	x	6.00 / +0.2
NM	Vanessa Monar	Canada	ogV	x	x	x
DNS	Camilla Johansson	Sweden
	Heike Drechsler	Germany
	Chioma Ajunwa	Nigeria

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	Lyudmila Galkina	Russia	6.88	6.53 / -1.4	6.88 / ± 0.0	-
2	Marion Jones	United States	6.81	6.63 / -0.5	6.81 / ± 0.0	-
3	Erica Johansson	Sweden	6.79	6.68 / -0.5	6.79 / -0.8	x
4th	Susen Tiedtke	Germany	6.67	6.49 / -0.2	6.67 / +0.1	6.49 / -0.2
5	Maurren Higa Maggi	Brazil	6.66	6.66 / +0.1	6.62 / +0.1	x
6th	Shana Williams	United States	6.63	x	x	6.63 / -0.1
7th	Agata Karczmarek	Poland	6.58	x	6.53 / 0.3	6.58 / +0.1
8th	Valentina Gotovska	Latvia	6.55	6.28 / -0.1	6.55 / ± 0.0	6.53 / +0.1
9	Guan Yingnan	People's Republic of China	6.55	6.55 / +0.1	6.44 / -1.3	x
10	Yelena Pershina	Kazakhstan	6.51	6.29 / -0.2	6.39 / ± 0.0	6.51 / +0.1
11	Tatiana Ter-Mesrobjan	Russia	6.47	6.47 / -0.2	x	x
12	Viktoria Vershynina	Ukraine	6.44	6.36 / -0.7	6.40 / -0.7	6.44 / +0.5
13	Chantal Brunner	New Zealand	6.40	6.40 / ± 0.0	6.34 / -0.6	6.27 / +0.3
14th	Do Vaszi	Hungary	6.39	6.31 / +0.9	6.12 / ± 0.0	6.39 / -0.3
15th	Niki Xanthou	Greece	6.34	x	6.34 / +0.2	6.25 / +0.2
16	Sharon Jaklofsky	Netherlands	6.31	6.31 / +0.9	x	x
17th	Eva Dolezalová	Czech Republic	6.22	6.22 / -0.8	x	x
NM	Flora Hyacinth	American Virgin Islands	ogV	x	x	r

final

August 23, 1999, 8:05 pm

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	Niurka Montalvo	Spain	7.06 NO	6.80 / -0.5	6.77 / ± 0.0	x	6.88 / ± 0.0	x	7.06 / -0.1
2	Fiona May	Italy	6.94	6.92 / -0.3	x	6.94 / -0.2	x	x	6.87 / -0.1
3	Marion Jones	United States	6.83	6.79 / +0.4	6.62 / ± 0.0	6.73 / -0.1	x	6.83 / -0.2	x
4th	Lyudmila Galkina	Russia	6.82	6.70 / ± 0.0	6.71 / -0.1	6.52 / -0.3	6.64 / -0.5	6.68 / -0.2	6.82 / ± 0.0
5	Joanne Wise	Great Britain	6.75	6.75 / -0.3	6.55 / -0.4	6.46 / -0.2	6.69 / -0.3	4.83 / -0.4	6.71 / -0.1
6th	Dawn Burrell	United States	6.74	6.60 / +0.2	6.74 / ± 0.0	6.51 / -0.2	6.69 / ± 0.0	6.57 / +0.2	4.84 / -0.4
7th	Susen Tiedtke	Germany	6.68	6.68 / -0.1	x	x	x	x	6.59 / -0.1
8th	Maurren Higa Maggi	Brazil	6.68	x	6.53 / ± 0.0	6.68 / +0.1	x	6.47 / -0.1	x
9	Nicole Boegman	Australia	6.63	6.63 / -0.3	6.48 / -0.3	6.52 / -0.1	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Erica Johansson	Sweden	6.63	x	x	6.63 / -0.1
11	Olga Rublyova	Russia	6.56	6.56 / +0.9	6.49 / ± 0.0	6.34 / -0.3
12	Shana Williams	United States	6.52	6.49 / -0.3	x	6.52 / ± 0.0

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  World champion Niurka Montalvo, now starting for Spain, was vice world champion in 1995 as a Cuban

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  Vice world champion Fiona May added another medal to her collection

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  Bronze medalist Marion Jones - she was previously successful as a sprinter

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  Dawn Burrell finished sixth

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  Maurren Higa Maggi came in eighth

Video

• Long Jump Women's 1999 World Championships on youtube.com, accessed July 30, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
• Women Long Jump Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 30, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Long Jump, Seville 1999, p. 322f (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 30, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 30, 2020