1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	34 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	August 6, 1992 (qualification) August 7, 1992 (final)
Medalists Heike Drechsler ( GER )   Inessa Krawez ( EUN )   Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )

The women's long jump at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on August 6th and 7th, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 34 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the German Heike Drechsler , who won ahead of the Ukrainian Inessa Krawez , here for the united team at the start. The bronze medal went to the American Jackie Joyner-Kersee .

In addition to the winner, wood turner Helga Radtke and Susen Tiedtke competed for Germany . Radtke failed to qualify. Tiedtke reached for the final and finished eighth.
Ljudmila Ninova participated for Austria. You dropped out in the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion in 1988	Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )	7.40 m	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991		7.32 m	Tokyo 1991
European champion in 1990	Heike Drechsler ( GDR )	7.30 m	Split 1990
Pan American Champion 1991	Diane Guthrie ( USA )	6.64 m	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean champion 1991	Flora Hyacinth ( US Virgin Islands )	6.65 m	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	Rita Slompo ( Brazil )	5.94 m	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Ri Yong-ae ( North Korea )	6.79 m	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African champion 1992	Karen Botha ( South Africa )	6.78 m	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Katie Ackerman ( Australia )	6.01 m	Suva 1990

Existing records

World record	7.52 m	Galina Tschistjakowa ( Soviet Union )	Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg ), Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 11, 1988
Olympic record	7.40 m	Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 29, 1988

qualification

Date: August 6, 1992

For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.75 m. Since only five jumpers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best jumpers from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). After all, 6.55 m were necessary to take part in the finals.

Group A

The German Helga Radtke finished ninth in her group and did not qualify for the final

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Heike Drechsler	Germany	7.08 m	-	-	7.08 m
2	Mirela Dulgheru	Romania	6.63 m	6.83 m	-	6.83 m
3	Flora Hyacinth	American Virgin Islands	6.71 m	6.44 m	6.56 m	6.71 m
4th	Sharon couch	United States	6.49 m	6.44 m	6.64 m	6.64 m
5	Sheila Echols	United States	x	6.55 m	6.55 m	6.55 m
6th	Agata Karczmarek	Poland	6.48 m	6.55 m	6.48 m	6.55 m
7th	Lyudmila Ninova	Austria	5.97 m	6.53 m	6.51 m	6.53 m
8th	Yang Juan	People's Republic of China	6.49 m	x	6.42 m	6.49 m
9	Helga Radtke	Germany	x	6.42 m	x	6.42 m
10	Valentina Uccheddu	Italy	6.40 m	6.32 m	x	6.40 m
11	Tamara Malešev	IOP	6.35 m	5.97 m	5.82 m	6.35 m	Participant from Serbia
12	Dionne Rose	Jamaica	6.19 m	x	6.22 m	6.22 m
13	Ri Yong-ae	North Korea	6.17 m	6.13 m	6.17 m	6.17 m
14th	Eunice Barber	Sierra Leone	5.55 m	x	5.55 m	5.55 m
ogV	Larissa Berezhnaya	EUN	x	-	-		without space
	Rita Ináncsi	Hungary	x	x	x
	Fiona May	Great Britain	x	-	-
DNS	Muyebg Mabala	Zaire

Group B

As eleventh of her qualifying group, the Italian Antonella Capriotti did not reach the final

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Irina Mushailova	EUN	6.67 m	5.96 m	6.88 m	6.88 m
2	Inessa Krawez	EUN	6.70 m	6.79 m	-	6.79 m
3	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	6.75 m	-	-	6.75 m
4th	Susen Tiedtke	Germany	6.74 m	x	5.11 m	6.74 m
5	Nijolė Medvedeva	Lithuania	6.71 m	6.68 m	6.46 m	6.71 m
6th	Renata Nielsen	Denmark	6.63 m	x	x	6.63 m
7th	Ringa Ropo-Junnila	Finland	6.26 m	6.52 m	6.48 m	6.52 m
8th	Marieta Ilcu	Romania	6.46 m	x	6.45 m	6.46 m
9	Liu Shuzhen	People's Republic of China	x	6.44 m	6.32 m	6.44 m
10	Karen Botha	South Africa South Africa	6.43 m	6.38 m	6.40 m	6.43 m
11	Antonella Capriotti	Italy	x	6.43 m	x	6.43 m
12	Jacqueline Edwards	Bahamas	x	5.91 m	6.41 m	6.41 m
13	Oluyinka Idowu	Great Britain	x	x	6.29 m	6.29 m
14th	Joanne Wise	Great Britain	x	x	5.87 m	5.87 m
15th	Natalia Toledo	Paraguay	5.73 m	5.48 m	x	5.73 m
16	Sonya Agbéssi	Benin	5.64 m	x	x	5.64 m
ogV	Diane Guthrie	Jamaica	x	x	x		without space
	Nicole Staines	Australia	x	x	x

final

Olympic champion Heike Drechsler from Germany

Silver medalist Inessa Krawez, for the united team at the start

Date: August 7, 1992

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, five of them by the required qualification distance, the other seven by their placements. All three US jumpers were in the final, as were two Germans and two participants from the united team. The final field was completed by one athlete each from the American Virgin Islands, Denmark, Lithuania, Poland and Romania.

The favorites were the 1988 Olympic champion and world champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee from the USA as well as the German European champion and runner-up world champion Heike Drechsler. But there were other jumpers with top performances well beyond the 7-meter mark who were among the medal candidates here. Such was the Ukrainian Laryssa Bereschnaja, here for the unified team at the start, with 7.11 m WM become -Third and Marieta Ilcu from Romania had as EM achieved -Second 7.04 m.

Inessa Krawez from the united team took the lead after the first round with 7.12 m. Joyner-Kersee had jumped 7.07 m and was in second place. Drechsler caught up with 6.99 m in the second attempt and took the lead in the fourth run with 7.14 m. This sequence should not change anything until the end.

With 6.76 m, the Lithuanian Nijolė Medvedeva was initially in fourth place. The analysis of her doping sample revealed that she had taken the stimulant mesocarb . Medvedeva was then disqualified and the athletes originally placed behind her moved up one rank each. So there was gold for Heike Drechsler, a very surprising silver for Inessa Krawez and bronze for Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Fourth was the Romanian Mirela Dulgheru, fifth was Irina Muschailowa, who started for the united team. The American Sharon Couch was sixth, her compatriot Sheila Echols seventh.

The eighth-placed German Susen Tiedtke was initially in ninth place at the beginning of the final battle of the best eight jumpers, as Medvedeva, who was later disqualified, was fourth here. So Tiedtke was deprived of an additional three attempts, which she would have been entitled to in eighth place.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Heike Drechsler	Germany	6.34 m	6.99 m	6.85 m	7.14 m	6.97 m	x	7.14 m
2	Inessa Krawez	EUN	7.12 m	6.99 m	6.94 m	6.91 m	6.88 m	7.00 m	7.12 m
3	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	7.07 m	x	6.91 m	7.00 m	5.17 m	6.90 m	7.07 m
4th	Mirela Dulgheru	Romania	6.51 m	6.54 m	6.71 m	6.52 m	6.31 m	6.36 m	6.71 m
5	Irina Mushailova	EUN	6.51 m	6.56 m	6.68 m	6.67 m	x	6.43 m	6.68 m
6th	Sharon couch	United States	6.26 m	6.52 m	6.66 m	6.15 m	6.11 m	6.17 m	6.66 m
7th	Sheila Echols	United States	6.51 m	6.62 m	6.14 m	x	x	6.44 m	6.62 m
8th	Susen Tiedtke	Germany	6.48 m	x	6.60 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			6.60 m
9	Flora Hyacinth	American Virgin Islands	6.24 m	6.36 m	6.52 m				6.52 m
10	Agata Karczmarek	Poland	6.41 m	6.38 m	6.35 m				6.41 m
11	Renata Nielsen	Denmark	5.93 m	6.06 m	5.95 m				6.06 m
DOP	Nijolė Medvedeva	Lithuania	x	x	6.66 m	6.76 m	6.73 m	6.63 m	6.76 m

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed February 19, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 73, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 19, 2018

Video

• History - Heike Drechsler wins long jump gold , August 7, 2017 on sportschau.de, accessed on February 19, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 799 , accessed on February 19, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 73, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 19, 2018
3. ↑ Article in Sun-Journal of August 11, 1992, p. 25 , accessed on February 19, 2018