Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)
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) |
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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 ) | 7.04 m | Beijing 2008 |
world champion | Brittney Reese ( USA ) | 6.82 m | Daegu 2011 |
European champion | Éloyse Lesueur ( France ) | 6.81 m | Helsinki 2012 |
Central America and Caribbean champion | Bianca Stuart ( Bahamas ) | 6.81 m | Mayagüez 2011 |
South America Champion | Maurren Higa Maggi ( Brazil ) | 6.52 m | Buenos Aires 2011 |
Asian champion | Mayookha Johny ( India ) | 6.56 m | Kobe 2011 |
African champion | Blessing Okagbare ( Nigeria ) | 6.96 m | Porto-Novo 2012 |
Oceania champion | Competition not in the championship program | Cairns 2012 |
Existing records
World record | Galina Tschistjakowa ( Soviet Union ) | 7.52 m | Leningrad , Soviet Union | June 11, 1988 |
Olympic record | Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA ) | 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 |
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1 | Shara Proctor | Great Britain | 6.83 | - | - | 6.83 | |
2 | Elena Sokolova | Russia | 6.63 | 6.71 | - | 6.71 | |
3 | Lyudmila Kolchanova | Russia | 6.57 | x | 6.54 | 6.57 | |
4th | Brittney Reese | United States | x | x | 6.57 | 6.57 | |
5 | Ivana Španović | Serbia | x | 6.21 | 6.41 | 6.41 | |
6th | Wolha Sudarawa | Belarus | 6.38 | 6.35 | 6.13 | 6.38 | actually qualified for the final |
7th | Blessing Okagbare | Nigeria | 6.32 | 6.20 | 6.34 | 6.34 | |
8th | Bianca Stuart | Bahamas | 5.30 | 6.31 | 6.32 | 6.32 | |
9 | Marestella Torres | Philippines | 5.98 | 6.21 | 6.22 | 6.22 | |
10 | Ola Sesay | Sierra Leone | 6.22 | 5.77 | 5.91 | 6.22 | |
11 | Marharyta Twerdochleb | Ukraine | x | 6.19 | 6.19 | 6.19 | |
12 | Lauma Grīva | Latvia | 6.10 | 5.96 | 6.08 | 6.10 | |
ogV | Maiko Gogoladze | Georgia | x | x | x | - | without space |
Yulia Tarasova | Uzbekistan | x | x | x | - | ||
DOP | Karin Mey Melis | Turkey | - | - | admitted to the finals | ||
Nastassja Mirontschyk-Ivanova | Belarus | admitted to the finals |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Janay DeLoach | United States | 6.81 | - | - | 6.81 | |
2 | Ineta Radēviča | Latvia | 6.58 | 6.59 | 6.68 | 6.68 | |
3 | Éloyse Lesueur | France | 6.48 | x | 6.38 | 6.48 | |
4th | Veranika Shutkova | Belarus | 6.01 | 6.21 | 6.40 | 6.40 | |
5 | Arantxa King | Bermuda | 6.40 | x | 6.20 | 6.40 | actually qualified for the final |
6th | Maurren Higa Maggi | Brazil | 6.37 | x | 6.27 | 6.37 | actually qualified for the final |
7th | Chelsea Hayes | United States | 6.11 | 6.37 | 6.05 | 6.37 | |
8th | Concepción Montaner | Spain | 6.30 | 6.13 | x | 6.30 | |
9 | Viktoria Rybalko | Ukraine | x | 6.21 | 6.29 | 6.29 | |
10 | Sosthene Moguenara | Germany | 6.23 | x | x | 6.23 | |
11 | Viorica Țigau | Romania | 6.21 | x | x | 6.21 | |
12 | Irene Pusterla | Switzerland | 6.20 | 6.14 | 4.88 | 6.20 | |
13 | Jana Velďáková | Slovakia | 6.02 | 6.18 | x | 6.18 | |
DOP | Anna Nazarova | Russia | x | - | admitted to the finals | ||
DNS | Caterine Ibargüen | Colombia | |||||
Margrethe Renstrøm | Norway |
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 |
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1 | Brittney Reese | United States | x | 7.12 | x | x | 6.69 | x | 7.12 | |
2 | Elena Sokolova | Russia | 6.80 | 7.07 | 6.84 | 6.93 | 6.78 | 6.79 | 7.07 | |
3 | Janay DeLoach | United States | 6.77 | x | 6.71 | 6.74 | 6.89 | x | 6.89 | |
4th | Ineta Radēviča | Latvia | 6.88 | 6.77 | 6.74 | x | x | 6.79 | 6.88 | |
5 | Lyudmila Kolchanova | Russia | x | x | 6.76 | 6.44 | x | 5.97 | 6.76 | |
6th | Éloyse Lesueur | France | 6.57 | x | x | x | 6.67 | x | 6.67 | |
7th | Shara Proctor | Great Britain | 6.55 | x | 6.37 | not in the final of the eight best jumpers |
6.55 |
actually entitled to 3 more jumps |
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8th | Veranika Shutkova | Belarus | 6.37 | 6.54 | 6.53 | 6.54 | ||||
9 | Ivana Španović | Serbia | 4.29 | 6.33 | 6.35 | 6.35 | ||||
DOP | Anna Nazarova | Russia | Results canceled for doping abuse |
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Nastassja Mirontschyk-Ivanova | Belarus | - | ||||||||
Karin Melis Mey | Turkey | - |
Web links
- SportsReference Long Jump , accessed September 24, 2018
- Official report , accessed September 24, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English) , accessed on September 24, 2018
Video
- Women Long Jump - Final - Athletics - London 2012 - Olympics on youtube.com, published July 28, 2016, accessed September 24, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 799 , accessed on September 24, 2018
- ↑ a b c Russian women Nazarova and Guschtschina disqualified Focus online November 13, 2017, accessed on September 24, 2018
- ↑ 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
- ↑ a b c Focus Online on September 19, 2012 , accessed on September 24, 2018
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt on July 26, 2012 , accessed on September 24, 2018