1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Long jump | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 48 athletes from 35 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Centennial Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 1, 1996 (qualifying) August 2, 1996 (final) |
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The women's long jump at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on August 1 and 2, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 48 athletes took part.
The Nigerian Chioma Ajunwa became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Italian Fiona May and the American Jackie Joyner-Kersee .
The Austrian Ljudmila Ninova was eliminated in the preliminary round without a valid attempt.
Athletes from Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic Champion |
Heike Drechsler ( Germany )
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7.14 m | Barcelona 1992 |
World Champion 1995 |
Fiona May ( Italy )
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6.98 m | Gothenburg 1995 |
European champion in 1994 |
Heike Drechsler ( Germany )
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7.14 m | Helsinki 1994 |
Pan American Champion 1995 |
Niurka Montalvo ( Cuba )
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6.89 m | Mar del Plata 1995 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1995 | Flora Hyacinth ( US Virgin Islands )
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6.59 m | Guatemala City 1995 |
South America Champion | Andrea Ávila ( Argentina )
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6.58 m | Manaus 1995 |
Asian champion 1995 | Jelena Perschina ( Kazakhstan )
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6.50 m | Jakarta 1995 |
African champion 1996 | Grace Umelo ( Nigeria )
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6.13 m | Yaoundé 1996 |
Oceania champion 1994 | Frith Maunder ( New Zealand )
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6.10 m | Auckland 1994 |
Existing records
World record | 7.52 m |
Galina Tschistjakowa ( Soviet Union )
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Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg ), Russia | June 11, 1988 |
Olympic record | 7.40 m |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA )
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Final from Seoul , South Korea | September 29, 1988 |
Remarks:
- All times are local Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 ).
- All widths are given in meters (m).
qualification
August 1, 1996, from 10:05 a.m.
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 6.70 m. Since only seven jumpers reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 6.58 m was enough for the final.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Fiona May |
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6.58 | 6.85 | - | 6.85 | |
2 | Chioma Ajunwa |
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6.64 | 6.81 | - | 6.81 | |
3 | Sharon Jaklofsky |
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x | 6.69 | 6.75 | 6.75 | |
4th | Do Vaszi |
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6.41 | 6.73 | - | 6.73 | |
5 | Olena Schechowzowa |
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6.44 | 6.70 | - | 6.70 | |
6th | Jackie Joyner-Kersee |
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6.70 | - | - | 6.70 | |
Agata Karczmarek |
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6.70 | - | - | |||
8th | Nicole Boegman |
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x | x | 6.67 | 6.67 | |
9 | Niki Xanthou |
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x | x | 6.60 | 6.60 | |
10 | Lissette Cuza |
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6.45 | 6.56 | 6.39 | 6.56 | |
11 | Jelena Perschina |
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6.50 | x | x | 6.50 | |
12 | Marieke Veltman |
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6.43 | 6.49 | x | 6.49 | |
13 | Olga Rublyova |
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6.47 | x | - | 6.47 | |
14th | Regla María Cárdenas |
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6.36 | 6.21 | 6.42 | 6.42 | |
15th | Ksenija Predikaka |
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x | 6.37 | x | 6.37 | |
16 | Virge Naeris |
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x | 6.26 | 6.17 | 6.26 | |
17th | Valentina Gotowska |
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x | x | 6.08 | 6.08 | |
18th | Andrea Avila |
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x | 5.92 | 6.00 | 6.00 | |
19th | Anzhela Atroshchenko |
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x | x | 5.94 | 5.94 | |
20th | Nilufar Yasmin |
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5.19 | 4.65 | 5.24 | 5.24 | |
21st | Béryl Laramé |
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x | 3.88 | x | 3.88 | |
ogV | Mihaela Gheorghiu |
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x | - | - | without space | |
Renata Nielsen |
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x | x | x | |||
DNS | Michelle Baptiste |
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Dione Rose |
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Group B
final
August 2, 1996, 7:15 p.m.
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, seven over the required qualification distance, five more over their placements. Two Greek women met one participant each from Australia, Bulgaria, Italy, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary and the USA.
After Heike Drechsler , the German Olympic champion in 1992, was canceled due to injury, the American Jackie Joyner-Kersee was actually the favorite. However, she also suffered from a thigh injury. Other medal candidates were the reigning world champion Fiona May from Italy, who previously started for Great Britain and took third place at the European Championships in 1994 , as well as the Russian European Championship third Inessa Krawez, who had already won the triple jump here.
In the first attempt, the Nigerian Chioma Ajunwa jumped 7.12 m. With 6.90 m, Agata Karczmarek from Poland was in second place. In the second round May reached 7.02 m, which brought her to second place. The Greek Niki Xanthou displaced Karczmarek from third place with 6.97 m. In the next round nothing changed.
In the fourth round the Ukrainian Olena Schechowzowa jumped 6.97 m like Xanthou. Because of her better next best distance, Shekhovzova was now on the bronze rank, Xanthou was fourth. The Greek turned it around with her fifth attempt to 6.95 m and thus initially regained third place. In her last jump Jackie Joyner-Kersee reached 7.00 m and won the bronze medal. But the Olympic champion was the outsider Chioma Ajunwa ahead of Fiona May. Niki Xanthou came in fourth ahead of Olena Schechowzowa and Agata Karczmarek.
Bulgarian Iwa Prandschewa, initially in seventh place with 6.82 m, was convicted of doping with Metandienon and disqualified. Before the following Sydney games, she was banned for life as a repeat offender after another positive doping test.
The level of performance was no longer comparable to the level offered by the athletes at the end of the 1980s, when 7-meter widths were produced in series and the top results were 30 centimeters better than here in Atlanta . This decline in development must be seen above all in connection with a particular high point in the use of prohibited means to improve performance. In numerous publications there are references to doping practices from the 80s, the controls had an even more holey standard than later. So there are in the sense of a clean sport from professional circles u. a. Demands for the withdrawal of all existing athletics records. There is no official evidence or positive doping results for the athletes who had shone with their achievements at the time. But the critical reviews do not come out of nowhere.
Chioma Ajunwa was not only the first Nigerian medalist in the women's long jump . She was also the first ever Olympic champion in Nigeria.
Fiona May was the first Italian medalist in this discipline.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Chioma Ajunwa |
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7.12 | 6.99 | 6.85 | 6.84 | - | x | 7.12 | |
2 | Fiona May |
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6.68 | 7.02 | 6.78 | 6.73 | 6.76 | 6.88 | 7.02 | |
3 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee |
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6.55 | 6.75 | 6.86 | x | 6.52 | 7.00 | 7.00 | |
4th | Niki Xanthou |
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x | 6.97 | x | 6.67 | 6.95 | 6.85 | 6.97 | |
5 | Olena Schechowzowa |
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6.84 | 6.88 | x | 6.97 | x | x | 6.97 | |
6th | Agata Karczmarek |
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6.90 | x | x | x | x | 6.65 | 6.90 | |
7th | Nicole Boegman |
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6.73 | x | x | x | 6.55 | 6.23 | 6.73 | |
8th | Do Vaszi |
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6.60 | x | x | not in the final of the eight best jumpers |
6.60 | |||
9 | Chantal Brunner |
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6.45 | 6.49 | 6.45 | 6.49 | ||||
10 | Paraskevi Patoulidou |
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x | 6.26 | 6.37 | 6.37 | ||||
ogV | Sharon Jaklofsky |
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x | x | x | without space | ||||
DOP | Iwa Prandschewa |
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x | x | x | x |
literature
- Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 50f
Web links
- SportsReference Long Jump , accessed March 15, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 91, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 15, 2018
Video
- Women's Long Jump Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published June 21, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 15, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 799 , accessed on March 15, 2018
- ↑ a b Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 91, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 15, 2018
- ↑ Tom Knight in the Telegraph of September 14, 2000 , accessed March 15, 2018
- ↑ Michael Reinsch, Tabula rasa for track and field records , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, updated on May 3, 2017, accessed on March 15, 2018
- ↑ “Everything is swallowed” , Der Spiegel H. 18/1990, April 30, 1990, accessed on March 15, 2018
- ↑ The drama of the dubious diva on derstandard.at, September 24, 2013, accessed on March 15, 2018