World Athletics Championships 2015 / Women's long jump

World Athletics Championships 2015
discipline	Long jump of women
city	Beijing
place	Beijing National Stadium
Participants	34 athletes from 21 countries
Competition phase	August 27, 2015 (qualification) August 28, 2015 (final)
Medalists
gold	Tianna Bartoletta ( USA )
silver	Shara Proctor ( GBR )
bronze	Ivana Španović ( SRB )

World champion Tianna Bartoletta

The women's long jump at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place on August 27th and 28th, 2015 in Beijing , People's Republic of China .

The American Tianna Bartoletta won the world title. Second place went to the British Shara Proctor . The Serbian Ivana Španović won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	Galina Chistjakova	7.52 m	Leningrad , Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 11, 1988
Championship record	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	7.36 m	World Cup in Rome , Italy	4th September 1987

qualification

August 27, 2015, 10:20 a.m. local time (4:20 a.m. CEST )

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.75 m. Since only six jumpers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to a total of twelve participants (highlighted in light green). In the end, 6.68 m was enough to make it to the final.

Group A

The Czech Jana Velďáková scored 6.64 m in qualification and was eliminated

Aiga Grabuste from Latvia did not reach the final with her 6.48 m

Alina Rotaru from Romania did not get beyond the qualification with 6.58 m

The German Lena Malkus jumped 6.46 m, which was too little for participation in the final

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Ivana Španović	Serbia	6.91			6.91 NO
02	Katarina Johnson-Thompson	Great Britain	6.54	6.79		6.79
03	Tianna Bartoletta	United States	6.71	6.66	6.71	6.71
04th	Darja Klischina	Russia	6.71	x	x	6.71
05	Erica Jarder	Sweden	6.70	x	6.53	6.70
06th	Wolha Sudarawa	Belarus	x	6.65	6.48	6.65
07th	Brooke Stratton	Australia	6.57	6.55	6.64	6.64
08th	Jana Velďáková	Slovakia	6.40	x	6.56	6.56
09	Kristina Hryschutina	Ukraine	6.53	6.28	x	6.53
10	Jasmine Todd	United States	x	6.26	6.52	6.52
11	Aiga Grabuste	Latvia	x	6.48	x	6.48
12	Elena Sokolova	Russia	6.31	x	6.44	6.44
13	Sosthene Moguenara	Germany	x	x	6.23	6.23
14th	Paola Mautino	Peru	6.15	6.03	5.80	6.15
NM	Eliane Martins	Brazil	x	x	x	without space
	Florentina Marincu	Romania	x	x	x
	María del Mar Jover	Spain	x	x	x

Group B

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Lorraine Ugen	Great Britain	6.29	6.61	6.87	6.87
02	Malaika Mihambo	Germany	6.84			6.84
03	Christabel Nettey	Canada	6.68	6.52	6.79	6.79
04th	Nastassja Mirontschyk-Ivanova	Belarus	6.71	6.76		6.76
05	Khaddi Sagnia	Sweden	6.53	6.54	6.71	6.71 SB
06th	Shara Proctor	Great Britain	6.67	6.68	6.57	6.67
07th	Janay DeLoach	United States	6.27	6.65	6.68	6.68
08th	Alina Rotaru	Romania	6.45	6.58	6.43	6.58
09	Yulia Pidluschnaya	Russia	6.51	x	6.57	6.57
10	Chantel Malone	British Virgin Islands	6.22	6.46	6.10	6.46
11	Lena Malkus	Germany	x	6.46	3.99	6.46
12	Brittney Reese	United States	6.39	6.23	6.17	6.39
13	Bianca Stuart	Bahamas	6.34	6.31	x	6.34
14th	Keila Costa	Brazil	6.32	x	x	6.32
15th	Tânia da Silva	Brazil	6.16	6.18	6.08	6.18
16	Lu Minjia	People's Republic of China	6.01	x	6.01	6.01
17th	Clàudia Gurí Moreno	Andorra	5.46	5.59	5.33	5.59

final

August 28, 2015, 7:50 p.m. local time (1:50 p.m. CEST )

The long jump winner of the last two World Championships 2011 / 2013 and Olympic champion in 2012 Brittney Reese of the United States was weak with it for 6.39 m already failed to qualify. The Russian Olympic runner-up Jelena Sokolowa jumped five centimeters further than Reese, but she did not reach the final either. The French double European champion from 2012 and 2014 Éloyse Lesueur did not run. The favorites that remained were the 2013 World Cup third and 2014 European Vice Champion Ivana Španović from Serbia, the US Olympic third Janay DeLoach and her compatriot Tianna Bartoletta and the British 2013 World Cup fifth Shara Proctor. The Belarusian fourth in the last World Championships also failed to qualify with 6.39 m.

In the first round, Španović managed to jump over the 7-meter mark with 7.01 m, with which she took the lead. At the same time she had set a new Serbian national record. Behind her was the Canadian Christabel Nettey with a good 6.95 m. This order did not change in lap two, but after an invalid first jump, Bartoletta was now level with Nettey's width and Proctor was fourth with 6.87 m. Proctor's compatriot Lorraine Ugen was now only two centimeters behind. In her third attempt, Proctor set a new British national record with 7.07 m, displacing Španović from the top. Before the three finals with the best eight athletes, Proctor was leading. Španović was second ahead of Bartoletta, Nettey and Ugen. The German Malaika Mihambo was in sixth place with 6.79 m from round two.

In rounds four and five nothing changed in this order. Proctor surpassed the 7-meter mark again with 7.01 m, but that was no improvement for her. In the final round there were two more 7-meter jumps. Initially, Bartoletta scored 7.14 m and took the lead. This also meant a new world record for the year. Then Španović reached 7.01 m, which they equaled their distance from the first round. With that the decision was made. Tianna Bartoletta was the new world champion, Shara Proctor had won silver, Ivana Španović bronze. Christabel Nettey came fourth ahead of Lorraine Ugen and Malaika Mihambo.

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Tianna Bartoletta	United States	x	6.95	6.87	6.62	6.94	7.14	7.14 WL
	Shara Proctor	Great Britain	x	6.87	7.07	7.01	x	x	7.07 NO
	Ivana Španović	Serbia	7.01	x	x	6.86	6.98	7.01	7.01 NO
04th	Christabel Nettey	Canada	6.95	6.85	x	6.69	6.84	x	6.95
05	Lorraine Ugen	Great Britain	x	6.85	6.73	x	x	x	6.85
06th	Malaika Mihambo	Germany	x	6.79	x	x	6.60	-	6.79
07th	Khaddi Sagnia	Sweden	x	6.67	6.56	6.40	6.78	5.05	6.78 PB
08th	Janay DeLoach	United States	6.67	x	6.64	6.53	x	x	6.67
09	Nastassja Mirontschyk-Ivanova	Belarus	6.66	x	6.53	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			6.66
10	Darja Klischina	Russia	6.60	6.65	6.50				6.65
11	Katarina Johnson-Thompson	Great Britain	6.63	x	6.63				6.63
12	Erica Jarder	Sweden	x	x	6.48				6.48

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  World Champion Tianna Bartoletta, USA

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  Vice World Champion Shara Proctor from Great Britain

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  Bronze medalist Ivana Španović, Serbia

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  The Canadian Christabel Netty came fourth

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  The British Lorraine Ugen took fifth place

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  Sixth place for the German Malaika Mihambo

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  The American Janay DeLoach came in seventh

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  The Russian Darja Klischina reached tenth place

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  Katarina Johnson-Thompson from Great Britain came in eleventh

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  The Swede Erica Jarder took twelfth place in this final

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2015 World Championships, women long jump on the IAAF website , accessed on November 12, 2018
• Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 12, 2018
• Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 12, 2018

Video

• 2015 Beijing - World Championship - Long Jump - Women on youtube.com, published August 29, 2015, accessed November 12, 2018