2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	39 athletes from 26 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 27, 2000 (qualification) September 29, 2000 (final)
Medalists Heike Drechsler ( DEU )   Fiona May ( ITA )   Tatiana Kotowa ( RUS )

The women's long jump at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 27 and 29, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 39 athletes took part.

The German Heike Drechsler became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Italian Fiona May and the Russian Tatjana Kotowa .

With Sofia Schulte and Susen Tiedtke , two other Germans took part in the competition. Schulte dropped out in the qualification. Tiedtke reached the final and was fifth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1996	Chioma Ajunwa ( Nigeria )	7.12 m	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Niurka Montalvo ( Spain )	7.06 m	Seville 1999
European Champion 1998	Heike Drechsler ( Germany )	7.16 m	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Maurren Higa Maggi ( Brazil )	6.59 m	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999	Lacena Golding ( Jamaica )	6.52 m	Bridgetown 1999
South America Champion 1999	Maurren Higa Maggi ( Brazil )	7.26 m	Bogotá 1999
Asian Champion 2000	Elena Bobrovskaja ( Kyrgyzstan )	6.66 m	Jakarta 2000
African champion 2000	Kéné Ndoye ( Senegal )	6.39 m	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Siulolo Liku ( Tonga )	6.15 m	Adelaide 2000

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

Remarks:

• All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

September 27, 2000, 8:05 pm

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 6.70 m. Since only five athletes 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). In order to take part in the finals, they had to jump 6.60 m.

Group A

The Hungarian Zita Ajkler reached thirteenth place with 6.36 m in her qualification group and was eliminated

For Maurren Higa Maggi from Brazil, 6.35 m and fifteenth place in her qualifying group were not enough to enter the final

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Fiona May	Italy	6.48	6.65	6.81	6.81
2	Elva Goulbourne	Jamaica	6.35	6.52	6.68	6.68
3	Olena Schechowzowa	Ukraine	6.56	6.65	x	6.65
4th	Susen Tiedtke	Germany	6.55	6.65	x	6.65
5	Lyudmila Galkina	Russia	6.62	x	6.31	6.62
6th	Jacqueline Edwards	Bahamas	6.60	x	6.47	6.60
7th	Elena Koshcheyeva	Morocco	6.42	x	6.57	6.57
8th	Erica Johansson	Sweden	6.53	x	6.49	6.53
9	Niki Xanthou	Greece	6.50	x	x	6.50
10	Guan Yingnan	People's Republic of China	x	x	6.48	6.48
11	Shana Williams	United States	6.24	6.28	6.44	6.44
12	Chantal Brunner	New Zealand	6.14	6.42	6.31	6.42
13	Zita Ajkler	Hungary	6.35	6.36	x	6.36
14th	Maurren Higa Maggi	Brazil	6.35	6.28	x	6.35
15th	Lissette Cuza	Cuba	x	6.19	6.25	6.25
16	Elena Bobrovskaya	Kyrgyzstan	5.94	6.19	6.03	6.19
17th	Flora Hyacinth	American Virgin Islands	6.08	x	5.89	6.08
18th	Mónica Falcioni	Uruguay	6.05	6.04	5.96	6.05
ogV	Concepción Montaner	Spain	x	x	x		without space
DNS	Françoise Mbango	Cameroon

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Heike Drechsler	Germany	6.84	-	-	6.84
2	Marion Jones	United States	6.78	-	-	6.78
3	Dawn Burrell	United States	x	6.68	6.77	6.77
4th	Do Vaszi	Hungary	x	x	6.70	6.70
5	Tatiana Kotova	Russia	6.41	6.66	4.21	6.66
6th	Olga Rublyova	Russia	6.62	x	6.65	6.65
7th	Joanne Wise	Great Britain	6.39	6.54	6.59	6.59
8th	Viktoria Vershynina	Ukraine	6.46	6.56	6.47	6.56
9	Bronwyn Thompson	Australia	6.55	x	6.21	6.55
10	Valentina Gotowska	Latvia	6.44	x	6.47	6.47
11	Lacena Golding	Jamaica	6.37	6.39	6.39	6.39
12	Patience Itanyi	Nigeria	6.33	6.22	6.12	6.33
13	Viorica Țigau	Romania	x	x	6.25	6.25
14th	Jelena Perschina	Kazakhstan	6.24	x	6.22	6.24
15th	Sofia Schulte	Germany	6.15	x	6.23	6.23
16	Andrea Avila	Argentina	6.11	x	6.07	6.11
17th	Despoina Papavasilaki	Greece	x	x	5.86	5.86
ogV	Guo Chunfang	People's Republic of China	x	x	x		without space
	Luciana dos Santos	Brazil	x	x	x
	Anna Tarasova	Kazakhstan	x	x	x

final

September 29, 2000, 7:20 pm

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, five of them by qualifying distance and another seven by their placements. Three participants came from Russia, two each from Germany and the United States, one participant each from the Bahamas, Italy, Jamaica, Ukraine and Hungary.

There was no clear favorite for this competition. The reigning world champion Niurka Montalvo from Spain was not at the start. The circle of medal contenders mainly included the Italian Vice World Champion and Vice European Champion Fiona May, the Russian World Champion of 1997 and World Cup fourth in 1999 Lyudmila Galkina, the German European and Olympic Champion of 1992 Heike Drechsler and also the media star of these games Marion Jones from the USA, although the long jump was not her top discipline. But she was third in the World Cup and had set herself the goal of becoming a five-time Olympic champion. She had already won the 100 and 200 meter run , now, according to her ideas, there should still be gold in the long jump and in the two relays. Nobody could have guessed that all the medals she won would dissolve into smoke and mirrors a few years later because Marion Jones had used unauthorized means to improve performance.

In the final, May took the lead with 6.76 m in the first round and expanded this further with 6.82 m in the second attempt. The Russian Tatiana Kotowa took second place in this round with 6.76 m. In the third attempt, Kotowa increased to 6.83 m, May countered with 6.92 m. But now Drechsler intervened in the battle for the medals. With 6.99 m she took the lead. In the fourth attempt, Jones made it into third place with 6.92 mm. Although she jumped exactly the same distance as May, the Italian had a better second-best distance. Nothing changed in the ranking until the end of the competition. Heike Drechsler was an Olympic champion, Fiona May had silver and for Marion Jones it seemed to be bronze. However, in 2007 she returned her medal for a doping rule violation . So all other athletes moved up one rank each. Tatjana Kotowa won bronze, her compatriot Olga Rubljowa came fourth ahead of the Germans Susen Tiedtke and Jacqueline Edwards from the Bahamas.

Heike Drechsler was the first long jumper to win a second gold medal at the Olympic Games. In terms of the total number of medals won, she was at the top of all long jumpers with three medals - 1988 silver / 1992 gold / 2000 gold - together with the US athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee - 1988 gold / 1992 bronze / 1996 bronze.

In 2007, Marion Jones, who had been suspected of doping for a long time, confessed to taking tetrahydrogestrinone (GHG). A short time later, she admitted that she had been doped during the Sydney Games . In October 2007 she returned the medals she had won in 2000 (see also the list of revoked Olympic medals ). On 23 November 2007, she was the world athletics federation IAAF banned for two years. Your results were retroactively canceled as of September 1, 2000.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Heike Drechsler	Germany	6.48	x	6.99	6.79	x	x	6.99
2	Fiona May	Italy	6.76	6.82	6.92	6.72	6.73	6.72	6.92
3	Tatiana Kotova	Russia	x	6.76	6.83	x	x	6.73	6.83
4th	Olga Rublyova	Russia	x	6.79	x	6.79	x	x	6.79
5	Susen Tiedtke	Germany	x	6.52	6.74	x	4.94	x	6.74
6th	Jacqueline Edwards	Bahamas	6.59	6.52	6.51	6.31	6.35	6.42	6.59
7th	Do Vaszi	Hungary	6.32	x	6.59	x	x	x	6.59
8th	Lyudmila Galkina	Russia	6.42	6.56	6.05	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			6.56
9	Elva Goulbourne	Jamaica	x	6.43	6.20				6.43
10	Dawn Burrell	United States	x	x	6.38				6.38
11	Olena Schechowzowa	Ukraine	x	x	6.37				6.37
DOP	Marion Jones	United States	x	6.68	x	6.92	x	x	6.92

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  Olympic champion Heike Drechsler, Germany

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  Silver medalist Fiona May, Italy

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  The American Dawn Burrell came in tenth in the final

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  Marion Jones, United States, was doped and was not allowed to keep any of her numerous medals

literature

• Rudi Cerne (Ed.), Sydney 2000, The Games of the XXVII. Olympiad with contributions by Rudi Cerne, Birgit Fischer , Willi Phillip Knecht , Willi Leissl and Jan Ullrich , MOHN Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh, p. 74f

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed April 15, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 15, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 15, 2018

Video

• Women's long jump Olympics 2000 , published July 9, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 799 , accessed on April 15, 2018
2. ↑ Article in Spiegel Online from October 5, 2007 , accessed on April 15, 2018
3. ↑ Article in Spiegel Online from November 23, 2007 , accessed on April 15, 2018