World Athletics Championships 1999 / men's long jump

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	42 athletes from 30 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 26th (qualification) August 28th (final)
Medalist Valentina Tichomirowa ( CUB )   Heide Rosendahl ( ESP )   Inge Exner ( SLO )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The men's long jump at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 26th and 28th, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

His third World Cup title in a row was won by Cuban Iván Pedroso , who had also won the long jump competition at the Pan American Games in 1995 and 1999 . The Spaniard Yago Lamela came in second. Bronze went to the Slovenian Gregor Cankar .

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.

In qualification group A, two national records were set on August 26th.

• 8.06 m - Hussein Taher Al-Sabee ( Saudi Arabia )
• 8.00 m - Ciaran McDonagh ( Ireland )

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 the entire course of the long jump competition, there were only two jumps that had wind support above the permitted value. Both were irrelevant to the result.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid
r	Competition not continued (retired)

qualification

August 26, 1999, 6:50 p.m.

42 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 8.15 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next-placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 7.90 m was enough for participation in the finals.

Group A

Luis Felipe Méliz retired with 7.85 m as twelfth of his qualifying group

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Gregor Cankar	Slovenia	8.23	x	x	8.23 / -0.2
2	Yago Lamela	Spain	8.15	x	x	8.15 / -0.1
3	Kevin Dilworth	United States	8.09	7.72 / -0.2	x	8.09 / +0.3
4th	Hussein Taher Al-Sabee	Saudi Arabia	8.06 NO	x	7.73 / +0.1	8.00 / -0.7
5	Ciaran McDonagh	Ireland	8.00 NO	7.91 / -0.5	8.00 / +0.3	-
6th	Emmanuel Bangué	France	7.92	7.87 / 0.8	7.92 / -0.2	7.83 / +0.3
7th	Younés Moudrik	Morocco	7.91	7.59 / -0.2	7.91 / -0.3	x
8th	Shane Hair	Australia	7.90	7.84 / +0.5	7.90 / ± 0.0	7.85 / +0.2
9	Konstandinos Koukodimos	Greece	7.90	7.90 / -0.2	x	7.77 / -0.2
10	Roman Shchurenko	Ukraine	7.89	7.83 / -0.3	7.89 / -0.3	7.88 / +0.3
11	Kofi Amoah Prah	Germany	7.86	x	7.86 / +0.3	x
12	Luis Felipe Méliz	Cuba	7.85	7.85 / -0.3	r
13	Ivajlo Mladenov	Bulgaria	7.83	7.83 / -0.2	7.53 / -0.1	7.66 / -0.4
14th	Erick Walder	United States	7.80	x	7.68 / -0.4	7.80 / +0.2
15th	Nélson Carlos Ferreira	Brazil	7.71	7.71 / -0.8	7.53 / +0.3	x
16	Danijal Jahic	Yugoslavia	7.68	7.68 / -0.4	x	x
17th	Richard Duncan	Canada	7.65	x	7.23 / +0.7	7.65 / +0.1
18th	Sung Hee-Jun	South Korea	7.62	7.50 / -0.7	7.62 / +0.6	5.92 / -0.5
19th	Chen Jing	People's Republic of China	7.61	7.53 / +0.9	7.61 / -0.3	7.61 / -0.1
20th	Mark Anthony Awere	Ghana	7.60	x	7.60 / -0.4	7.47 / +0.7
21st	Daisuke Watanabe	Japan	7.41	x	7.41 / -0.1	7.33 / ± 0.0
22nd	Nathan Morgan	Great Britain	7.31	x	7.31 / -0.4	r

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	8.16	8.16 / +1.2	-	-
2	Huang Le	People's Republic of China	7.94	7.94 / +0.1	7.69 / ± 0.0	7.65 / +0.7
3	Erik Nijs	Belgium	7.93	7.81 / ± 0.0	7.69 / -0.6	7.93 / -0.5
4th	Jai Taurima	Australia	7.92	7.92 / +0.8	x	x
5	Hatem Mersal	Egypt	7.90	7.90 / +0.9	7.80 / -0.6	7.79 / +0.3
6th	Nikolai Atanasov	Bulgaria	7.86	7.80 / +0.8	7.86 / +0.3	7.24 / +1.0
7th	Shigeru Tagawa	Japan	7.78	7.62 / -0.2	7.78 / -0.6	x
8th	Oleksiy Lukashevytsch	Ukraine	7.77	7.67 / +0.1	7.77 / -0.2	7.64 / +0.6
9	Cheikh Tidiane Touré	France	7.76	x	7.66 / -0.5	7.76 / +0.3
10	Kareem Streete-Thompson	Cayman Islands	7.75	x	7.73 / ± 0.0	7.75 / +0.2
11	Carlos Calado	Portugal	7.75	7.75 / +0.6	7.58 / -0.1	x
12	Bogdan Țăruş	Romania	7.74	7.71 / +0.9	7.74 / -0.6	x
13	Ian Lowe	Canada	7.72	6.01 / +0.1	x	7.72 / +1.2
14th	Nicola Trentin	Italy	7.70	7.53 / -0.3	7.68 / -0.1	7.70 / +1.3
15th	Andrei Ignatov	Russia	7.66	7.66 / +0.6	7.42 / -0.5	x
16	Konstantin Krause	Germany	7.61	7.61 / -0.4	x	7.42 / -0.2
17th	Squad Klouchi	France	7.57	7.57 / -0.1	x	7.36 / +0.8
18th	Savanté Stringfellow	United States	7.39	7.39 / -0.4	7.36 / -0.1	7.39 / +0.2
19th	Gable Garenamotse	Botswana	7.28	7.27 / -0.2	7.28 / -0.5	6.93 / ± 0.0
20th	Abdulrahman Faraj Al-Nubi	Qatar	7.15	7.15 / +2.2	6.79 / -0.2	r
DNS	Poor Martirosjan	Armenia
	Masaki Morinaga	Japan
	Mattias Sunneborn	Sweden

final

August 28, 1999, 7:05 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	8.56	8.19 / -0.2	8.33 / +0.5	8.56 / +1.1	-	5.74 / +0.3	-
2	Yago Lamela	Spain	8.40	8.24 / +1.0	x	x	8.40 / +0.6	8.09 / +0.7	8.39 / +1.4
3	Gregor Cankar	Slovenia	8.36	8.20 / +0.4	8.32 / -0.3	8.09 / -0.2	8.36 / +1.6	8.07 / +1.7	x
4th	Jai Taurima	Australia	8.35	x	8.12 / +1.0	x	x	x	8.35 / +0.7
5	Shane Hair	Australia	8.24	x	7.89 / +0.4	7.99 / +1.1	8.24 / +1.9	8.11 / +1.1	6.10 / +1.8
6th	Huang Le	People's Republic of China	8.01	7.95 / +2.5	7.70 / +1.2	8.01 / +0.5	7.96 / +1.1	-	-
7th	Kevin Dilworth	United States	8.00	7.99 / +0.6	8.00 / +1.4	7.88 / +0.9	7.75 / +0.8	7.98 / +2.0	7.87 / +1.0
8th	Younés Moudrik	Morocco	7.99	7.68 / -0.4	7.99 / +1.6	7.71 / -0.4	7.71 / +0.5	x	7.76 / +0.4
9	Emmanuel Bangué	France	7.94	7.94 / +1.5	7.84 / +0.6	x	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Ciaran McDonagh	Ireland	7.90	7.90 / +0.8	7.72 / +0.3	x
11	Erik Nijs	Belgium	7.83	7.81 / +0.3	x	7.83 / +0.3
12	Hussein Taher Al-Sabee	Saudi Arabia	7.62	7.62 / +0.8	x	6.67 / +0.6

• 

  Iván Pedroso - world champion for the third time in a row

• 

  Vice world champion Yago Lamela

Video

• Men's Long Jump World Athletics Champs Seville 1999 on youtube.com, accessed July 18, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
• Men Long Jump Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Long Jump, Seville 1999, p. 173 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 18, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 18, 2020