Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)

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Olympic rings
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sport athletics
discipline Long jump
gender Women
Attendees 32 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase August 7, 2012 (qualification)
August 8, 2012 (final)
Medalists
gold medal Brittney Reese ( USA ) United StatesUnited States 
Silver medal Jelena Sokolowa ( RUS ) RussiaRussia 
Bronze medal Janay DeLoach ( USA ) United StatesUnited States 

The women's long jump at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on August 7th and 8th, 2012 at the Olympic Stadium in London . 32 athletes took part.

The American Brittney Reese , who won ahead of the Russian Jelena Sokolowa , became the Olympic champion . Bronze went to the American Janay DeLoach .

Germany was represented by Sosthene Moguenara , who failed in the qualification.
The Swiss Irene Pusterla also dropped out of the qualification.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion Maurren Higa Maggi ( Brazil ) BrazilBrazil  7.04 m Beijing 2008
world champion Brittney Reese ( USA ) United StatesUnited States  6.82 m Daegu 2011
European champion Éloyse Lesueur ( France ) FranceFrance  6.81 m Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champion Bianca Stuart ( Bahamas ) BahamasBahamas  6.81 m Mayagüez 2011
South America Champion Maurren Higa Maggi ( Brazil ) BrazilBrazil  6.52 m Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion Mayookha Johny ( India ) IndiaIndia  6.56 m Kobe 2011
African champion Blessing Okagbare ( Nigeria ) NigeriaNigeria  6.96 m Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania champion Competition not in the championship program Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record Galina Tschistjakowa ( Soviet Union ) Soviet UnionSoviet Union  7.52 m Leningrad , Soviet Union June 11, 1988
Olympic record Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA ) United StatesUnited States  7.40 m Final from Seoul , South Korea September 29, 1988

Remarks:

  • All times in this article are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
  • All widths are noted in meters (m).

Doping and other exclusions

There were three doping cases in this discipline:

  • The originally fifth-placed Russian Anna Nasarowa was convicted of doping abuse using dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (Oral-Turinabol), which resulted in her disqualification.
  • Belarusian Nastassja Mirontschyk-Ivanova , who originally came in seventh, was disqualified after a positive doping test.
  • The Turkish Karin Mey Melis qualified for the final was excluded from the final because of a doping test that tested positive at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki . The IAAF World Athletics Federation learned of the athlete's doping violation too late to prevent participation in the long jump qualification in London.

In addition to the athletes, whose placements were corrected several years later, the long jumpers, who were denied progress in qualifying, suffered. Due to their distance from the qualifying competition, the following three athletes would have been eligible to start in the final:

  • Arantxa King, Bermuda - 6.40 m, qualifying group B.
  • Wolha Sudarawa, Belarus - 6.38 m, qualifying group A.
  • Maurren Higa Maggi, Brazil - 6.37 m, qualifying group B.

In addition, two athletes were deprived of the three additional jumps of the eight best finalists due to them:

  • Shara Proctor, Great Britain - with 6.55 m in the adjusted final ranking in seventh place
  • Weranika Schutkowa, Belarus - with 6.54 m in the adjusted final ranking in eighth place

Even before the games, the Greek Paraskevi Papachristou was banned from the Greek NOK because of a racist comment on Twitter .

qualification

August 7, 2012, 7:05 pm
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.75 m. Since only four jumpers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to a total of twelve participants (highlighted in light green). In the end, 6.40 m was enough for a second best attempt of 6.21 m to make it to the final. However, three of the qualified athletes were doped - see section above - so that three other athletes had actually acquired the right to participate in the final over their width of at least 6.37 m.

Group A

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Expanse annotation
1 Shara Proctor United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 6.83 - - 6.83
2 Elena Sokolova RussiaRussia Russia 6.63 6.71 - 6.71
3 Lyudmila Kolchanova RussiaRussia Russia 6.57 x 6.54 6.57
4th Brittney Reese United StatesUnited States United States x x 6.57 6.57
5 Ivana Španović SerbiaSerbia Serbia x 6.21 6.41 6.41
6th Wolha Sudarawa BelarusBelarus Belarus 6.38 6.35 6.13 6.38 actually qualified for the final
7th Blessing Okagbare NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 6.32 6.20 6.34 6.34
8th Bianca Stuart BahamasBahamas Bahamas 5.30 6.31 6.32 6.32
9 Marestella Torres PhilippinesPhilippines Philippines 5.98 6.21 6.22 6.22
10 Ola Sesay Sierra LeoneSierra Leone Sierra Leone 6.22 5.77 5.91 6.22
11 Marharyta Twerdochleb UkraineUkraine Ukraine x 6.19 6.19 6.19
12 Lauma Grīva LatviaLatvia Latvia 6.10 5.96 6.08 6.10
ogV Maiko Gogoladze GeorgiaGeorgia Georgia x x x - without space
Yulia Tarasova UzbekistanUzbekistan Uzbekistan x x x -
DOP Karin Mey Melis TurkeyTurkey Turkey 6.81 - - 6.81 admitted to the finals
Nastassja Mirontschyk-Ivanova BelarusBelarus Belarus 6.55 6.62 6.66 6.66 admitted to the finals

  • The Belarusian Wolha Sudarawa was one of the athletes with a scoring 6.38 m who were cheated out of their participation in the final by the three doping sinners

  • Bianca Stuart of the Bahamas was eliminated from the qualification with 6.32 m

  • 6.10 m of Latvian Lauma Grīva were not enough for a final

  • The Uzbek Yulia Tarasova had three invalid attempts in qualifying

Group B

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Expanse annotation
1 Janay DeLoach United StatesUnited States United States 6.81 - - 6.81
2 Ineta Radēviča LatviaLatvia Latvia 6.58 6.59 6.68 6.68
3 Éloyse Lesueur FranceFrance France 6.48 x 6.38 6.48
4th Veranika Shutkova BelarusBelarus Belarus 6.01 6.21 6.40 6.40
5 Arantxa King BermudaBermuda Bermuda 6.40 x 6.20 6.40 actually qualified for the final
6th Maurren Higa Maggi BrazilBrazil Brazil 6.37 x 6.27 6.37 actually qualified for the final
7th Chelsea Hayes United StatesUnited States United States 6.11 6.37 6.05 6.37
8th Concepción Montaner SpainSpain Spain 6.30 6.13 x 6.30
9 Viktoria Rybalko UkraineUkraine Ukraine x 6.21 6.29 6.29
10 Sosthene Moguenara GermanyGermany Germany 6.23 x x 6.23
11 Viorica Țigau RomaniaRomania Romania 6.21 x x 6.21
12 Irene Pusterla SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 6.20 6.14 4.88 6.20
13 Jana Velďáková SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia 6.02 6.18 x 6.18
DOP Anna Nazarova RussiaRussia Russia x 6.62 - 6.62 admitted to the finals
DNS Caterine Ibargüen ColombiaColombia Colombia
Margrethe Renstrøm NorwayNorway Norway

  • Arantxa King, Bermuda, with her 6.40 m, was cheated out of her participation in the finals by the doping offenders

  • The Brazilian Maurren Maggi would have entitled her 6.37 m to the final if the disqualification of the doping offenders had been possible immediately

  • The American Chelsea Hayes also scored 6.37 m, but had the weaker second-best jump, so that she could not reach the final in any case

  • With 6.23 m, the German Sosthene Moguenara was eliminated from the qualification

  • The Slovak Jana Velďáková did not make it into the final with her 6.18 m

final

August 8, 2012, 8:05 pm

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, four of them by qualifying distance and another eight by their placements. However, three of them were doped, as it gradually turned out. The Turkish Karin Mey Melis was excluded from the final from the start, the result of the other two doping fraudsters, who were not among the medal winners, was only canceled later. They will not play a role in the description of the course of the competition. In the final, two Russians and two US-Americans as well as one athlete from France, Great Britain, Latvia, Serbia and Belarus faced each other. There were also the two doped athletes from Russia and Belarus.

The American world champion Brittney Reese was considered the favorite . Her strongest competitors were primarily the Russian Jelena Sokolowa, the Latvian World Cup third Ineta Radēviča and the newly crowned European Champion Éloyse Lesueur from France. The 2008 Olympic champion, Maurren Higa Maggi from Brazil, did not qualify for the final.

Radēviča took the lead in the first lap with 6.88 m, followed by Sokolowa with 6.80 m. In the second round, Reese took the lead with 7.12 m, while Sokolowa was able to improve to 7.07 m, but remained second. The US athlete Janay DeLoach followed in fourth place with 6.77 m. In the two following rounds there were no changes in the leader's ranking, but the Russian Lyudmila Kolchanova achieved 6.76 m in her third jump. That got her fifth. In the fifth attempt, DeLoach jumped 6.89 m, which pushed Radēviča to fourth place. Since there were no improvements in the last lap, this ranking remained.

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt 4th attempt 5th attempt 6th attempt Expanse annotation
1 Brittney Reese United StatesUnited States United States x 7.12 x x 6.69 x 7.12
2 Elena Sokolova RussiaRussia Russia 6.80 7.07 6.84 6.93 6.78 6.79 7.07
3 Janay DeLoach United StatesUnited States United States 6.77 x 6.71 6.74 6.89 x 6.89
4th Ineta Radēviča LatviaLatvia Latvia 6.88 6.77 6.74 x x 6.79 6.88
5 Lyudmila Kolchanova RussiaRussia Russia x x 6.76 6.44 x 5.97 6.76
6th Éloyse Lesueur FranceFrance France 6.57 x x x 6.67 x 6.67
7th Shara Proctor United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 6.55 x 6.37 not in the final of the
eight best jumpers		 6.55 actually
entitled to 3 more jumps
8th Veranika Shutkova BelarusBelarus Belarus 6.37 6.54 6.53 6.54
9 Ivana Španović SerbiaSerbia Serbia 4.29 6.33 6.35 6.35
DOP Anna Nazarova RussiaRussia Russia Results
canceled for doping abuse		 -
Nastassja Mirontschyk-Ivanova BelarusBelarus Belarus -
Karin Melis Mey TurkeyTurkey Turkey -

  • Olympic Champion:
    Brittney Reese, USA

  • Silver medalist:
    Jenea Sokolowa from Russia

  • Bronze medalist:
    Janay DeLoach, USA

  • Latvian Ineta Radēviča finished fourth in the final

  • The Russian Lyudmila Kolchanova came in fifth place

  • The French Olympic sixth Éloyse Lesueur

  • The British Shara Proctor finished seventh, but was deprived of her three additional attempts from the best eight finalists by the participating doping sinners

  • The Belarusian Olympic contestant Weranika Schutkowa, who was also deprived of three final attempts that she was actually entitled to

  • The Serbian Ivana Španović came in ninth place

  • Doping sinner Anna Nasarowa from Russia

  • The Turkish Karin Melis Mey was suspended for doping abuse before the final was held

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 799 , accessed on September 24, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c Russian women Nazarova and Guschtschina disqualified Focus online November 13, 2017, accessed on September 24, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c IOC sanctions seven athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 , on olympic.org, November 25, 2016, accessed September 24, 2018
  4. ↑ a b c Focus Online on September 19, 2012 , accessed on September 24, 2018
  5. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt on July 26, 2012 , accessed on September 24, 2018