2017 World Athletics Championships / Men's Long Jump

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of men
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Attendees	32 athletes from 23 countries
Competition phase	August 4, 2017 (qualification) August 5, 2017 (final)
Medalist
gold	Luvo Manyonga ( RSA )
silver	Jarrion Lawson ( USA )
bronze	Rushwal Samaai ( RSA )

London Olympic Stadium in the evening mood

The men's long jump at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place on August 4th and 5th, 2017 in London , United Kingdom .

The South African Luvo Manyonga became world champion . He won ahead of the American Jarrion Lawson and the South African Rushwal Samaai .

Records

World record	Mike Powell	8.95 m	World Cup in Tokyo , Japan	August 30, 1991
Championship record

qualification

7.72 m were not enough for the German Julian Howard to be in the final

The Chinese Huang Changzhou was eliminated from the qualification with his 7.70 m

The South African Zarck Visser scored 7.66 m and was eliminated

August 4, 2017, 7:30 p.m. local time (8:30 p.m. CEST )

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 8.05 m. Since only eight jumpers exceeded this distance - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best jumpers from both groups - highlighted in light green - to a total of twelve participants. So finally 7.91 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Radek Juška	Czech Republic	8.01	8.24	-	8.24
02	Maykel Massó	Cuba	8.15	-	-	8.15
03	Luvo Manyonga	South Africa	8.12	-	-	8.12
04th	Michel Tornéus	Sweden	8.07	-	-	8.07
05	Shi Yuhao	People's Republic of China	x	x	8.06	8.06
06th	Jarrion Lawson	United States	8.02	x	8.05	8.05
07th	Emiliano Lasa	Uruguay	7.96	7.79	x	7.96
08th	Damar Forbes	Jamaica	7.82	7.86	7.93	7.93
09	Fabrice Lapierre	Australia	7.67	7.91	7.84	7.91
10	Kim Deok-hyeon	South Korea	7.73	7.85	7.77	7.85
11	Marquis Dendy	United States	7.71	7.78	7.55	7.78
12	Julian Howard	Germany	7.72	x	x	7.72
13	Huang Changzhou	People's Republic of China	7.60	7.51	7.70	7.70
14th	Zarck Visser	South Africa	7.37	7.60	7.66	7.66
15th	Yahya Berrabah	Morocco	7.49	7.33	7.33	7.49
16	Arttu Pajulahti	Finland	7.49	x	x	7.49

Group B

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Rushwal Samaai	South Africa	7.95	8.04	8.14	8.14
02	Alexander Menkow	Authorized Neutral Athletes	8.07	-	-	8.07
03	Wang Jianan	People's Republic of China	7.83	7.89	7.92	7.92
04th	Tyrone Smith	Bermuda	7.74	7.88	7.84	7.88
05	Henry Frayne	Australia	7.68	7.88	6.61	7.88
06th	Juan Miguel Echevarría	Cuba	7.86	7.72	7.02	7.86
07th	Jeff Henderson	United States	7.74	x	7.84	7.84
08th	Kevin Ojiaku	Italy	7.82	7.64	7.38	7.82
09	Miltiadis Tendoglou	Greece	7.70	7.79	x	7.79
10	Ramone Bailey	Jamaica	7.76	7.51	7.49	7.76
11	Lazar Anic	Serbia	x	7.34	7.71	7.71
12	Tomasz Jaszczuk	Poland	7.58	7.64	x	7.64
13	Paulo Sérgio Oliveira	Brazil	7.53	x	x	7.53
14th	Serhiy Nykyforov	Ukraine	x	x	7.47	7.47
15th	Quincy Breell	Aruba	6.90	x	x	6.90
NM	Eusebio Cáceres	Spain	x	x	x	without space

final

August 5, 2017, 8:05 p.m. local time (9:05 p.m. CEST )

There wasn't a distinctly single favorite here. The medal candidates included the US Olympic champion from 2016 Jeff Henderson, the Olympic runner-up Luvo Manyonga from South Africa, the world champion from 2013 starting under a neutral flag Alexander Menkow, the Australian runner-up world champion from 2015 Fabrice Lapierre, the Chinese world championship third from 2015 and Olympic fifth from 2016 Wang Jianan and the 2016 Olympic champion Jarrion Lawson from the USA.

From the beginning, the long jump developed into an exciting competition. Lawson took the lead after the first round with 8.37 m, ahead of Menkow with 8.27 m. With just one centimeter behind Menkow, the South African Rushwal Samaai followed in third place. In lap two Manyonga reached 8.48 m, which he now took the lead. Lawson stayed second but improved to 8.43 m. Jianan jumped 8.23 ​​m and was fifth behind Samaai and Menkow. In round three, too, there were good widths, especially through Lawson with 8.40 m and Manyonga with 8.38 m, but no improvements.

In the fifth test series, the Cuban Maykel Massó with his 8.26 m pushed Jianan from fifth place. Once again the last round was tough. Jarrion Lawson was only three centimeters behind the new world champion Luvo Manyonga with his 8.44 m. Rushwal Samaai rose to 8.32 m and won the bronze medal. Alexander Menkow, who was previously in third place, finally finished fourth with his 8.27 m from lap one. Maykel Massó kept his fifth place. The Chinese Shi Yuhao drew even with his compatriot Wang Jianan after his 8.23 ​​m. Yuhao finished sixth in the final ranking due to his second best attempt. Behind Jianan, the Swede Michel Tornéus finished eighth with 8.18 m from round one.

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Luvo Manyonga	South Africa	x	8.48	8.32	8.29	8.17	x	8.48
	Jarrion Lawson	United States	8.37	8.43	8.40	8.11	8.31	8.44	8.44 SB
	Rushwal Samaai	South Africa	8.25	x	8.15	x	8.27	8.32	8.32
4th	Alexander Menkow	Authorized Neutral Athletes	8.27	x	x	x	x	x	8.27
5	Maykel Massó	Cuba	x	8.11	8.22	x	8.26	7.98	8.26
6th	Shi Yuhao	People's Republic of China	7.93	8.17	x	7.74	x	8.23	8.23
7th	Wang Jianan	People's Republic of China	8.14	8.23	7.95	8.00	7.85	7.89	8.23
8th	Michel Tornéus	Sweden	8.18	x	x	x	7.92	8.05	8.18
9	Emiliano Lasa	Uruguay	8.06	x	8.11	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			8.11
10	Radek Juška	Czech Republic	7.81	8.02	5.34				8.02
11	Fabrice Lapierre	Australia	7.89	7.93	7.91				7.93
12	Damar Forbes	Jamaica	7.61	7.91	7.85				7.91

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  World champion Luvo Manyonga, South Africa

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  Alexander Menkow, who started under a neutral flag, finished fourth

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  The Cuban Maykel Massó took fifth place

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  The Swede Michel Tornéus came in eighth

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  Ninth place Emiliano Lasa from Uruguay

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  The Jamaican Damar Forbes reached twelfth place

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the World Championships 2017, long jump men on the website of the IAAF (English), accessed on December 1, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships from Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 1, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 1, 2018

Video

• Luvo Manyonga 8.48m on youtube.com, published August 6, 2017, accessed December 1, 2018