1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	23 athletes from 17 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 8, 1984 (qualifying) August 9, 1984 (final)
Medalists Anișoara Stanciu ( ROM )   Vali Ionescu ( ROM )   Susan Hearnshaw ( GBR )

The women's long jump at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 8 and 9, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 23 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Romanian Anișoara Stanciu , who won before her compatriot Vali Ionescu . Bronze went to the Briton Susan Hearnshaw .

Jumpers from the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1983	Tatiana Kolpakowa ( Soviet Union )	7.06 m	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Heike Drechsler - 1983 still Heike Daute ( GDR )	7.27 m	Helsinki 1983
European champion 1982	Vali Ionescu ( Romania )	6.79 m	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	Kathy McMillan ( USA )	6.70 m	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean champion 1983	Shonel Ferguson ( Bahamas )	6.65 m	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia ( Brazil )	6.12 m	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Liao Wenfen ( People's Republic of China )	6.21 m	Kuwait City 1983
African champion 1982	Jacinta Serete ( Kenya )	5.37 m	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	7.43 m	Anișoara Stanciu - 1983 still Anișoara Cușmir ( Romania )	Bucharest , Romania	June 4th 1983
Olympic record	7.06 m	Tatiana Kolpakowa ( Soviet Union )	Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia )	July 31, 1980

qualification

Date: August 8, 1984

For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.50 m. Since only six jumpers reached this distance, the final field was filled with the next best jumpers from both groups, the so-called lucky losers , to twelve participants. So finally 6.19 m was enough for the final. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Jacinta Bartholomew was Grenada's first female participant in the Olympic Games.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Jackie Joyner	United States	x	6.76 m	-	6.76 m
2	Anișoara Stanciu	Romania	6.69 m	-	-	6.69 m
3	Robyn Lorraway	Australia	6.61 m	-	-	6.61 m
4th	Linda Garden	Australia	6.49 m	6.22 m	6.00 m	6.49 m
5	Dorothy Scott	Jamaica	6.16 m	6.02 m	6.47 m	6.47 m
6th	Jennifer Inniss	Guyana	5.76 m	6.17 m	5.84 m	6.17 m
7th	Maya Bentzur	Israel	6.07 m	6.04 m	6.03 m	6.07 m
8th	Conceição Geremias	Brazil	x	5.81 m	6.04 m	6.04 m
9	Elma Muros	Philippines	5.57 m	5.64 m	x	5.64 m
10	Madeline de Jesús	Puerto Rico	5.53 m	5.63 m	5.58 m	5.63 m
11	Sarinee Phenglaor	Thailand	5.38 m	5.47 m	5.51 m	5.51 m
DNS	Jantien Hidding	Netherlands

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Susan Hearnshaw	Great Britain	6.64 m	-	-	6.64 m
2	Vali Ionescu	Romania	6.32 m	6.60 m	-	6.60 m
3	Carol Lewis	United States	x	6.55 m	-	6.55 m
4th	Glynis Nunn	Australia	6.23 m	6.41 m	6.28 m	6.41 m
5	Angie Thacker	United States	6.36 m	x	6.13 m	6.36 m
6th	Snežana Dančetović	Yugoslavia	6.21 m	6.06 m	6.22 m	6.22 m
7th	Shonel Ferguson	Bahamas	x	6.19 m	x	6.19 m
8th	Liao Wenfen	People's Republic of China	6.16 m	5.96 m	6.00 m	6.16 m
9	Annette Tånnander	Sweden	x	6.05 m	6.16 m	6.16 m
10	Jacinta Bartholomew	Grenada	6.07 m	5.84 m	5.77 m	6.07 m
11	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia	Brazil	x	6.01 m	x	6.01 m
12	Marie-Ange Wirtz	Seychelles	5.21 m	5.15 m	5.10 m	5.21 m

final

Date: August 9, 1984

For the final on August 9, 1984, twelve jumpers had qualified, six of which had reached the qualification distance. In addition to all three US athletes, the three Australians were also there. The starting field was completed by two Romanians, one British, a Yugoslav, a jumper from the Bahamas and a Jamaican. Due to the Olympic boycott, the reigning world champion Heike Drechsler from the GDR could not take part. Until shortly before the games before her marriage on July 28, she started under the name Heike Daute. The athletes from the Soviet Union were also affected, especially Tatiana Proskurjakowa, fourth in the World Cup . But the strong Romanians Anișoara Stanciu, world record holder and vice world champion under her name Anișoara Cușmir, and Vali Ionescu, reigning European champion , were at the start. Another favorite was Carol Lewis, sister of the athletics star of these games, Carl Lewis . She had finished third at the 1983 World Cup .

In the first round, Stanciu took the lead with the British Susan Hearnshaw with 6.80 m. Behind them lay Ionescu and the Australian Glynis Nunn. Ionescu was able to improve on lap two to 6.67 m, but initially did not make any further progress in the classification. She was even relegated to fourth place with 6.72 m by the US athlete Jackie Joyner, sister of the triple jump Olympic champion Al Joyner and later Jackie Kersee. Totally surprising, Carol Lewis got stuck with 6.43 m in the preliminary fight, which was indisputable for her, and did not reach the final of the eight best jumpers.

In the fourth attempt, Stanciu took the sole lead with 6.96 m. The US jumper Angie Thacker moved up to third place behind Hearnshaw with 6.78 m and was one centimeter ahead of Joyner, who reached 6.77 m. In the fifth round Ionescu improved with 6.81 m to second place in front of Hearnshaw. In the last round nothing changed, Anișoara Stanciu was Olympic champion, Vali Ionescu won silver and Susan Hearnshaw was third in front of Angie Thacker and Jackie Joyner.

The level of this competition was well below the quality of the previous long jump competitions at major athletic events. There was no jump over seven meters. At the Olympic Games in Moscow three jumpers and four at the 1983 World Championships exceeded this mark. However, the winner Anișoara Stanciu had reached 7.15 m as runner-up world champion herself in this competition in Helsinki . In addition, many of the jumps at this event had strong wind support. And it must also be noted that the distances achieved in later years, in which the use of illegal doping substances began to be monitored more intensively and systematically, fell significantly again. This applies to the long jump as well as to many other disciplines, especially in the area of ​​throws.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Anișoara Stanciu	Romania	6.80 m	6.68 m	x	6.96 m	6.89 m	x	6.96 m
2	Vali Ionescu	Romania	6.59 m	6.67 m	x	6.52 m	6.81 m	x	6.81 m
3	Susan Hearnshaw	Great Britain	6.80 m	6.75 m	6.55 m	6.67 m	6.74 m	6.64 m	6.80 m
4th	Angie Thacker	United States	6.32 m	x	6.65 m	6.78 m	x	6.70 m	6.78 m
5	Jackie Joyner	United States	x	6.72 m	x	6.77 m	x	x	6.77 m
6th	Robyn Lorraway	Australia	x	6.67 m	6.43 m	x	6.62 m	6.43 m	6.67 m
7th	Glynis Nunn	Australia	6.45 m	6.37 m	6.39 m	-	6.53 m	6.27 m	6.53 m
8th	Shonel Ferguson	Bahamas	6.44 m	6.13 m	x	6.41 m	6.20 m	6.31 m	6.44 m
9	Carol Lewis	United States	6.21 m	x	6.43 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			6.43 m
10	Dorothy Scott	Jamaica	6.03 m	5.89 m	6.40 m				6.40 m
11	Linda Garden	Australia	x	5.89 m	6.30 m				6.30 m
12	Snežana Dančetović	Yugoslavia	5.28 m	5.88 m	5.88 m				5.88 m

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , Eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 50f

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed January 15, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 266, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 15, 2018

Video

• 1984 Olympics Women's Long Jump Final , published August 2, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed January 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 799 , accessed on January 15, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 267, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 15, 2018
3. ↑ SportsReference Long Jump , accessed January 15, 2018