2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	38 athletes from 26 countries
Competition location	Estádio Nilton Santos
Competition phase	August 16, 2016 (qualification) ; August 17, 2016 (final)
	Medalists
	Tianna Bartoletta ( USA )
	Brittney Reese ( USA )
	Ivana Španović ( SRB )

The women's long jump at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 16 and 17, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 38 athletes took part.

There was a US double victory in this discipline. Tianna Bartoletta won the gold medal ahead of her Brittney Reese . Bronze went to Ivana Španović from Serbia .

Malaika Mihambo , Sosthene Moguenara and Alexandra Wester started for Germany . Wester failed in the qualification. Mihambo and Moguenara qualified for the final. Mihambo was fourth, Moguenara tenth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Darja Klischina started at these games as the only Russian athlete. Since she lives and trains in the USA, she was not involved in the Russian state doping system and was able to meet the conditions set by the IAAF for Russian athletes to participate.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion	Brittney Reese ( USA ) United States	7.12 m	London 2012
world champion	Tianna Bartoletta ( USA ) United States	7.14 m	Beijing 2015
European champion	Ivana Španović ( Serbia ) Serbia	6.94 m	Amsterdam 2016
North / Central America / Caribbean Champion	Quanesha Burks ( USA ) United States	6.93 m	San José 2015
South America Champion	Paola Mautino ( Peru ) Peru	6.52 m	Lima 2015
Asian champion	Lu Minjia ( People's Republic of China ) China People's Republic	6.52 m	Wuhan 2015
African champion	Ese Brume ( Nigeria ) Nigeria	6.57 m	Durban 2016
Oceania champion	Catherine Hannell ( Australia ) Australia	5.82 m	Cairns 2015

Existing records

World record	Galina Tschistjakowa ( Soviet Union ) Soviet Union	7.52 m	Saint Petersburg (now Leningrad ), Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 11, 1988
Olympic record	Jackie Joyner-Kersee ( USA ) United States	7.40 m	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 19, 1988

Remarks:

All times are based on local time in Rio ( UTC-3 ).
All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance required for direct entry into the final was 6.75 m. Since only three jumpers exceeded this value - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best jumpers from both groups to a total of twelve participants - highlighted in light green. So finally 6.53 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

August 16, 2016, 9:05 pm

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Ivana Španović	Serbia Serbia	6.87	-	-	6.87
2	Malaika Mihambo	Germany Germany	6.63	6.82	-	6.82
3	Tianna Bartoletta	United States United States	6.44	6.70	6.61	6.70
4th	Lorraine Ugen	United Kingdom Great Britain	6.44	6.58	6.65	6.65
5	Darja Klischina	Russia Russia	6.64	x	x	6.64
6th	Maryna Bech	Ukraine Ukraine	6.49	6.47	6.55	6.55
6th	Sosthene Moguenara	Germany Germany	6.46	x	6.55	6.55
8th	Karin Melis Mey	Turkey Turkey	6.49	6.43	6.40	6.49
9	Bianca Stuart	Bahamas Bahamas	6.45	5.40	6.39	6.45
10	Chelsea Jaensch	Australia Australia	6.20	6.35	6.41	6.41
11	Alina Rotaru	Romania Romania	6.40	x	6.38	6.40
12	Christabel Nettey	Canada Canada	6.05	6.32	6.37	6.37
13	Concepción Montaner	Spain Spain	6.23	6.23	6.32	6.32
14th	Wolha Sudarawa	Belarus Belarus	6.29	x	x	6.29
15th	Yulia Tarasova	Uzbekistan Uzbekistan	x	6.10	6.16	6.16
16	Anna Yermakowa-Lunjowa	Ukraine Ukraine	6.12	6.15	6.14	6.15
17th	Haido Alexouli	Greece Greece	6.07	x	6.13	6.13
18th	Amalja Sharojan	Armenia Armenia	5.58	x	5.95	5.95
19th	Keila Costa	Brazil Brazil	5.86	5.73	5.79	5.86

The Turkish Karin Melis Mey jumped 6.49 m and was eliminated from the qualification
Bianca Stuart from the Bahamas missed eight centimeters with her 6.45 m for the final
The Romanian Alina Rotaru failed with her 6.40 m in the qualification
6.37 m were not enough for the Canadian Christabel Nettey to take part in the final
The Belarusian Wolha Sudarawa jumped 6.29 m, which she eliminated in the qualification
The Uzbek Julija Tarasowa scored 6.16 m and was eliminated
Her 6.13 m from the preliminary fight were not enough for the Greek Haido Alexouli to be in the final

Group B

August 16, 2016, 9:05 pm

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Brittney Reese	United States United States	6.78	-	-	6.78
2	Ksenija Balta	Estonia Estonia	6.13	6.71	-	6.71
3	Ese Brume	Nigeria Nigeria	6.32	6.67	6.49	6.67
4th	Brooke Stratton	Australia Australia	6.40	6.46	6.56	6.56
5	Jazmin Sawyers	United Kingdom Great Britain	6.49	6.36	6.53	6.53
6th	Janay DeLoach	United States United States	6.45	6.50	6.46	6.50
7th	Jana Velďáková	Slovakia Slovakia	6.45	6.48	6.29	6.48
8th	Anna Kornuta	Ukraine Ukraine	x	6.34	6.37	6.37
9	Shara Proctor	United Kingdom Great Britain	6.36	6.34	6.30	6.36
10	Juliet Itoya	Spain Spain	6.35	x	5.69	6.35
11	Eliane Martins	Brazil Brazil	6.33	6.24	6.30	6.33
12	Maria Natalia Londa	Indonesia Indonesia	6.21	6.29	6.29	6.29
13	Khaddi Sagnia	Sweden Sweden	6.04	6.25	x	6.25
14th	Marestella Sunang	Philippines Philippines	6.22	6.10	6.15	6.22
15th	Yvonne Treviño	Mexico Mexico	x	6.16	x	6.16
16	Lynique Prinsloo	South Africa South Africa	5.96	x	6.10	6.10
17th	Alexandra Wester	Germany Germany	5.98	x	x	5.98
18th	María del Mar Jover	Spain Spain	x	5.82	5.90	5.90
19th	Konomi Kai	Japan Japan	x	x	5.87	5.87

The US-American Janay DeLoach was 6.50 m short of just three centimeters to make it to the final
The Slovak Jana Velďáková failed with 6.48 m in the qualification
The Ukrainian Anna Kornuta was eliminated with 6.37 m in the preliminary fight

6.36 m were not enough for the British vice world champion Shara Proctor to participate in the final
The South African Lynique Prinsloo scored 6.10 m in qualification and was eliminated
The German Alexandra Wester's 5.98 m was not enough for the final

final

August 17, 2016, 9:15 p.m.

In the final, each participant initially had three attempts, the length of the qualifying round was not counted. The best eight athletes then had three more attempts, the last four were eliminated.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, three of them directly via the qualifying distance, the other nine via their placements. Two US-Americans, two Germans and two British women as well as one participant each from Australia, Estonia, Nigeria, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine battled for the medals.

The favorites in the competition were primarily the 2012 Olympic champion and 2013 world champion Brittney Reese, the reigning world champion Tianna Bartoletta, both from the USA, the European champion and third place in the 2015 World Cup, Ivana Španović from Serbia and the British vice world champion Shara Proctor, who however, was already eliminated in the qualification.

In the first test round, Španović took the lead with 6.95 m ahead of the German Malaika Mihambo with 6.83 m. In the second round, Bartoletta came within an inch of Španović, in the third the American jumped the same distance as Španović before. Until the fifth attempt, Bartoletta was ahead of Španović due to the better second attempt, Mihambo still followed in third place. In the fifth lap, Reese reached 7.09 m, with which she briefly took the lead. Mihambo initially drew level with Španović and Bartoletta, but Španović and Bartoletta also improved: Španović to 7.08 m and Bartoletta to 7.17 m. Bartoletta was in the lead before the final decisive round. Reese was eight centimeters behind her, and Španović followed only another centimeter back. Reese improved again with her last jump to 7.15 m, but in the end the order remained after round five. Mihambo finished fourth, ahead of Nigerian Ese Brume and Estonian Ksenija Balta.

Ivana Španović was Serbia's first medalist in the women's long jump .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)	annotation
1	Tianna Bartoletta	United States United States	x	6.94	6.95	6.74	7.17	7.13	7.17
2	Brittney Reese	United States United States	x	6.79	x	x	7.09	7.15	7.15
3	Ivana Španović	Serbia Serbia	6.95	x	x	6.91	7.08	7.05	7.08	NO
4th	Malaika Mihambo	Germany Germany	6.83	x	x	6.58	6.95	6.79	6.95
5	Ese Brume	Nigeria Nigeria	6.73	6.34	6.71	5.96	6.81	x	6.81
6th	Ksenija Balta	Estonia Estonia	6.71	x	6.79	6.71	x	6.62	6.79
7th	Brooke Stratton	Australia Australia	x	6.69	6.64	6.74	6.64	6.53	6.74
8th	Jazmin Sawyers	United Kingdom Great Britain	6.55	6.69	6.57	6.53	x	x	6.69

9	Darja Klischina	Russia Russia	6.63	6.60	6.53	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			6.63
10	Sosthene Moguenara	Germany Germany	6.61	x	6.46				6.61
11	Lorraine Ugen	United Kingdom Great Britain	6.56	x	6.58				6.58
ogV	Maryna Bech	Ukraine Ukraine	x	x	x					without space