1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 19 countries
Competition location	Seoul Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 28, 1988 (qualifying) September 29, 1988 (final)
Medalists Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )   Heike Drechsler ( GDR )   Galina Tschistjakowa ( URS )

The women's long jump at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was held on September 28 and 29, 1988 in two rounds at the Seoul Olympic Stadium. Thirty athletes took part.

The American Jackie Joyner-Kersee became the Olympic champion . She won ahead of Heike Drechsler from the GDR and Galina Tschistjakowa from the Soviet Union.

In addition to the medalist Drechsler, Sabine John competed for the GDR . She also reached the final and was eighth.
The Austrian Ulrike Kleindl failed in the qualification.
Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1984	Anișoara Stanciu ( Romania )	6.96 m	Los Angeles 1984
World Champion 1987	Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )	7.36 m	Rome 1987
European champion 1986	Heike Drechsler ( GDR )	7.27 m	Stuttgart 1986
Pan American Champion 1987	Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )	7.45 m	Indianapolis 1987
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987	Niurka Montalvo ( Cuba )	6.31 m	Caracas 1987
South American Champion 1987	Rita Slompo ( Brazil )	6.17 m	São Paulo 1987
Asian champion 1987	Wang Zhihui ( South Korea )	6.70 m	Singapore 1987
African champion in 1988	Juliana Yendork ( Ghana )	5.70 m	Annaba 1988

Existing records

World record	7.52 m	Galina Tschistjakowa ( Soviet Union )	Leningrad , Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 11, 1988
Olympic record	7.06 m	Tatiana Kolpakowa ( Soviet Union )	Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia )	July 31, 1980

The Italian Antonella Capriotti was tenth in her qualifying group

qualification

Date: September 28, 1988

For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.65 m. Nine jumpers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue) and so the final field with the three next best athletes from both groups was filled to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). For the final, 6.48 m had to be jumped - that would have been eighth four years earlier in Los Angeles .

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	6.96 m	-	-	6.96 m
2	Sabine John	GDR	x	x	6.81 m	6.81 m
3	Inessa Krawez	Soviet Union	6.50 m	6.72 m	-	6.72 m
4th	Nicole Boegman	Australia	x	6.72 m	-	6.72 m
	Heike Drechsler	GDR	6.72 m	7.88 m	-
6th	Lene Demsitz	Denmark	x	6.59 m	x	6.59 m
7th	Shuzhen Liu	People's Republic of China	6.35 m	6.48 m	6.48 m	6.48 m
8th	Sheila Echols	United States	6.37 m	6.29 m	x	6.37 m
9	Kim Hagger	Great Britain	x	6.33 m	6.34 m	6.34 m
10	Antonella Capriotti	Italy	6.31 m	x	x	6.31 m
11	Jolanta Bartczak	Poland	6.28 m	x	6.30 m	6.30 m
12	Maria Teloni	Cyprus	6.29 m	x	5.98 m	6.29 m
13	Park Sook-yes	South Korea	5.74 m	5.79 m	5.90 m	5.90 m
14th	Juliana Yendork	Ghana	5.40 m	5.35 m	5.34 m	5.40 m
15th	Melvina Vulah	Liberia	5.23 m	4.91 m	5.17 m	5.23 m
ogV	Tracy Lee Smith	Canada	x	x	x		without space

Group B

Inessa Krawez from the USSR - here in a recording from 1995 - achieved tenth place in the final

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Elena Belevskaya	Soviet Union	7.06 m ORe	-	-	7.06 m	ORe
2	Galina Chistjakova	Soviet Union	6.97 m	-	-	6.97 m
3	Agata Karczmarek	Poland	6.57 m	6.45 m	6.67 m	6.67 m
4th	Fiona May	Great Britain	x	6.66 m	-	6.66 m
5	Qiying Xiong	People's Republic of China	6.43 m	6.61 m	6.44 m	6.61 m
6th	Carol Lewis	United States	6.45 m	6.39 m	6.47 m	6.47 m
7th	Laio Wenfen	People's Republic of China	x	6.44 m	6.41 m	6.44 m
8th	Marjon Wijnsma	Netherlands	6.39 m	6.25 m	x	6.39 m
9	Shonel Ferguson	Bahamas	6.21 m	6.34 m	6.16 m	6.34 m
10	Ulrike Kleindl	Austria	6.13 m	x	x	6.13 m
11	Madeline de Jesús	Puerto Rico	6.08 m	x	5.95 m	6.08 m
12	Shu-Hwa Wang	Chinese Taipei	5.75 m	5.87 m	x	5.87 m
13	Jacqueline Ross	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	x	x	5.50 m	5.50 m
14th	Mary Berkeley	Great Britain	x	x	5.04 m	5.04 m
DNS	Anke Behmer	GDR
	Erin Tierney	Cook Islands

final

Date: September 29, 1988

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, nine of them had skipped the required qualification distance. All three Soviet participants were in the final, plus two starters from China and the GDR as well as one participant each from Australia, Denmark, Poland, the USA and Great Britain.

A three-way battle was expected between the two former world record holders Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Heike Drechsler and the current world record holder Galina Tschistjakowa, whose record of 7.52 m, set three months earlier, still exists today - as of February 2018 .

Tschistjakowa took the lead in the final in the first round with 7.11 m. Joyner-Kersee was in second place followed by Drechsler. In the second round, Drechsler improved to second place with 7.06 m, while the Soviet jumper Jelena Belewskaja was 7.04 m ahead of Joyner-Kersee. In the third attempt, Drechsler reached 7.18 m, taking the lead, Joyner-Kersee jumped 7.16 m to second place, and Tschistjakowa fell back to third place ahead of Belewskaya. Drechsler was able to extend her lead in lap four with a jump to 7.22 m, but the 7-meter festival was still not over. In the fifth attempt, Jackie Joyner-Kersee achieved 7.40 m, which was the Olympic victory. In the last round there were no more changes, Heike Drechsler won silver and Galina Tschistjakowa the bronze medal ahead of Jelena Belewskaja. The Australian Nicole Boegman was fifth, the British Fiona May sixth.

The level of this long jump competition was incredibly high. As in the 1987 World Championships, four jumpers exceeded the 7-meter mark. The Olympic record was already set in the qualification . In the final there were eleven jumps beyond the 7-meter mark, the Olympic record was exceeded four times. The top widths decreased more and more in the next few years - a tendency that also emerged in other disciplines - especially in the field of litter. In numerous publications there are references to doping practices of the time, the controls had an even more holey standard than in later years. So there are in the sense of a clean sport from professional circles u. a. Demands for the withdrawal of all existing athletics records. In contrast to the sprinters from the 100 meter final, there is no direct evidence or positive doping results for the athletes who shone here with their performances. But the critical reviews do not come out of nowhere.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee won her second gold medal in here Seoul after becoming Olympic champion in the heptathlon five days earlier . She achieved her first US victory in the women's long jump .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	7.00 m	x	7.16 m	x	7.40 m OR	x	7.40 m	OR
2	Heike Drechsler	GDR	6.92 m	7.06 m	7.18 m OR	7.22 m OR	7.16 m	7.17 m	7.22 m
3	Galina Chistjakova	Soviet Union	7.11 m OR	6.24 m	x	7.02 m	6.96 m	6.84 m	7.11 m
4th	Elena Belevskaya	Soviet Union	6.36 m	7.04 m	6.99 m	x	x	6.66 m	7.04 m
5	Nicole Boegman	Australia	6.59 m	x	x	x	6.71 m	6.73 m	6.73 m
6th	Fiona May	Great Britain	x	x	6.53 m	6.62 m	6.52 m	x	6.62 m
7th	Agata Karczmarek	Poland	x	6.40 m	6.60 m	x	6.48 m	6.23 m	6.60 m
8th	Sabine John	GDR	6.47 m	6.55 m	6.45 m	6.43 m	x	x	6.55 m
9	Qiying Xiong	People's Republic of China	6.49 m	6.50 m	6.46 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			6.50 m
10	Inessa Krawez	Soviet Union	6.36 m	6.46 m	6.37 m				6.46 m
11	Shuzhen Liu	People's Republic of China	6.30 m	6.40 m	x				6.40 m
12	Lene Demsitz	Denmark	6.28 m	6.38 m	x				6.38 m

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed February 1, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 265f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on February 1, 2018

Video

• 1988 Seoul Olympics Jackie Joyner Kersee 7 40 , published September 8, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed February 1, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 799
2. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 265f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on February 1, 2018
3. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 266, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on February 1, 2018
4. ↑ Michael Reinsch, Tabula rasa for track and field records , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, updated on May 3, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2018
5. ↑ “Everything is swallowed” , Der Spiegel H. 18/1990, April 30, 1990, accessed on February 1, 2018
6. ↑ The drama of the dubious diva on derstandard.at, September 24, 2013, accessed on February 1, 2018