2017 World Athletics Championships / Women's Long Jump

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of women
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Participants	30 athletes from 20 countries
Competition phase	August 9, 2017 (qualification) August 11, 2017 (final)
Medalists
gold	Brittney Reese ( USA )
silver	Darja Klischina ( ANA )
bronze	Tianna Bartoletta ( USA )

London Olympic Stadium - interior with spectators

The women's long jump at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place on August 9-11, 2017 in London , United Kingdom .

The American Brittney Reese became world champion . Second was the Russian Darja Klischina , who started under a neutral flag . The American Tianna Bartoletta won bronze.

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

The British Shara Proctor missed the final by one centimeter with her 6.45 m

The Ukrainian Maryna Bekh was eliminated from the qualification with 6.36 m

The Canadian Christabel Netty did not reach the final with her 6.36 m

The American Shakeelah Saunders scored 6.32 m and was eliminated

August 9, 2017, 7:10 p.m. local time (8:10 p.m. CEST )

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance required for direct entry into the final was 6.70 m. Since only six jumpers exceeded this value - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best jumpers from both groups to a total of twelve participants - highlighted in light green. So finally 6.46 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Darja Klischina	Authorized Neutral Athletes	6.51	6.66	x	6.66
02	Tianna Bartoletta	United States	6.64	x	6.48	6.64
03	Ivana Španović	Serbia	6.62	R.		6.62
04th	Lauma Grīva	Latvia	6.50	6.58	-	6.58
05	Claudia Salman-Rath	Germany	x	6.42	6.52	6.52
06th	Chantel Malone	British Virgin Islands	6.52	x	x	6.52
07th	Alina Rotaru	Romania	6.23	6.50	6.45	6.50
08th	Shara Proctor	Great Britain	6.07	6.26	6.45	6.45
09	Quanesha Burks	United States	6.12	6.04	6.44	6.44
10	Ese Brume	Nigeria	6.16	6.29	6.38	6.38
11	Maryna Bech	Ukraine	6.35	6.36	6.33	6.36
12	Jazmin Sawyers	Great Britain	6.17	5.98	6.34	6.34
13	Naa Anang	Australia	6.22	5.07	6.27	6.27
14th	Ksenija Balta	Estonia	x	5.81	6.15	6.15
15th	Rellie Kaputin	Papua New Guinea	x	5.59	x	5.59

Group B

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Lorraine Ugen	Great Britain	6.63	x	x	6.63
02	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria	6.21	6.51	x	6.51
03	Brittney Reese	United States	6.50	6.46	6.47	6.50
04th	Brooke Stratton	Australia	6.43	6.46	6.43	6.46
05	Eliane Martins	Brazil	6.46	6.41	x	6.46
06th	Nectaria Panagi	Cyprus	6.43	6.29	6.33	6.43
07th	Khaddi Sagnia	Sweden	x	x	6.42	6.42
08th	Christabel Nettey	Canada	6.36	6.20	6.15	6.36
09	Shakeelah Saunders	United States	6.25	6.32	6.24	6.32
10	Alexandra Wester	Germany	x	5.95	6.27	6.27
11	Laura Strati	Italy	6.21	x	6.19	6.21
12	Chaido Alexouli	Greece	x	5.94	x	5.94
13	Angela Morosanu	Romania	5.79	5.39	5.92	5.92
14th	Bianca Stuart	Bahamas	4.25	x	5.91	5.91
15th	Jessamyn Sauceda	Mexico	5.61	5.42	5.46	5.61

final

August 11, 2017, 7:10 p.m. local time (8:10 p.m. CEST )

The closest favorites included the US-American Tianna Bartoletta as world champion in 2015 and Olympic champion in 2016 , her compatriot Brittney Reese, among other things Olympic runner-up in 2016, Olympic champion in 2012 and world champion in 2013 as well as the Serbian Olympic third in 2016, World Cup third in 2015 and 2016 European Champion Ivana Španović.

With widths less than 6.80 m, the competition started a bit sluggishly in the first round. Darja Klischina, starting under a neutral flag, led with 6.78 m ahead of Reese with 6.75 m. In lap two, Španović took the lead with 6.96 m, Klischina improved to 6.88 m. With her third jump, Reese achieved 7.02 m. Before the three finals of the top eight, Reese was leading ahead of Španović and Klischina. British Lorraine Ugen was fourth with 6.72 m ahead of Australian Brooke Stratton. Bartoletta followed in sixth place with a rather modest 6.60 m.

In lap four, Klischina rose to 6.91 m and Bartoletta to 6.64 m, but that didn't change the ranking. In the fifth round, Klischina reached exactly 7.00 m, which displaced Španović to third place. Bartoletta was getting on better now, too. She improved to fourth place with 6.88 m. With her last jump, Tianna Bartoletta achieved 6.97 m and won the bronze medal. Ivana Španović, who had been beaten by only one centimeter, achieved another good distance with 6.91 m, but remained fourth. There were no more changes to the first two places. Brittney Reese won the world title, Darja Klischina won silver. Even from fifth place on, nothing had changed in the finals. Lorraine Ugen finished fifth ahead of Brooke Stratton. Chantel Malone from the British Virgin Islands and the Nigerian Blessing Okagbare finished seventh and eighth.

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Brittney Reese	United States	6.75	x	7.02	x	x	x	7.02
	Darja Klischina	Authorized Neutral Athletes	6.78	6.88	x	6.91	7.00	6.83	7.00 SB
	Tianna Bartoletta	United States	6.56	6.60	x	6.64	6.88	6.97	6.97
04th	Ivana Španović	Serbia	x	6.96	6.77	x	x	6.91	6.96
05	Lorraine Ugen	Great Britain	x	x	6.72	x	x	6.40	6.72
06th	Brooke Stratton	Australia	6.27	6.54	6.67	6.55	6.67	6.64	6.67
07th	Chantel Malone	British Virgin Islands	6.52	6.44	6.57	x	x	6.52	6.57
08th	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria	6.40	6.55	6.47	6.49	x	6.31	6.55
09	Lauma Grīva	Latvia	6.54	x	6.42	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			6.54
10	Claudia Salman-Rath	Germany	6.39	6.29	6.54				6.54
11	Eliane Martins	Brazil	6.52	x	x				6.52
12	Alina Rotaru	Romania	6.29	6.20	6.46				6.46

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  World Champion Brittney Reese, USA

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  Vice world champion Darja Klischina, neutral athlete

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  Bronze medalist Tianna Bartoletta, USA

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  The Serbian Ivana Španović finished fourth

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  The British Lorraine Ugen came in fifth place

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  Chantal Malone from the British Virgin Islands reached number seven

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  Eighth place for the Nigerian Blessing Okagbare - here as a sprinter

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  Latvian Lauma Grīva came in ninth

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  The German Claudia Salman-Rath was tenth

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  The Romanian Alina Rotaru took twelfth place

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, women long jump on the IAAF website (English), accessed on December 18, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 18, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 18, 2018

Video

• WCH London 2017 Highlights - Long Jump - Women - Final - Reese wins on youtube.com, published August 13, 2017, accessed December 18, 2018