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Athletics
Long jump
Long jumper at the GE Money Grand Prix in Helsinki, Finland July 2005.
World records
MenMike Powell 8.95 m (29 ft 4+14 in) (1991)
WomenGalina Chistyakova 7.52 m (24 ft 8 in) (1988)
Olympic records
MenBob Beamon 8.90 m (29 ft 2+14 in) (1968)
WomenJackie Joyner 7.40 m (24 ft 3+14 in) (1988)
Women's Long Jump Final – 28th Summer Universiade 2015

The long jump (historically called the broad jump) is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a group are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". This event has a history in the Ancient Olympic Games and has been a modern Olympic event for men since the first Olympics in 1896 and for women since 1948.

Rules

An indicator of wind direction and a device for measuring wind speed (here +2.6 m/s) along a run-up track.

At the elite level, competitors run down a runway (usually coated with the same rubberized surface as running tracks, crumb rubber also vulcanized rubber—known generally as an all-weather track) and jump as far as they can from a wooden board 20 cm or 8 inches wide that is built flush with the runway into a pit filled with finely ground gravel or sand. If the competitor starts the leap with any part of the foot past the foul line, the jump is declared a foul and no distance is recorded. A layer of plasticine is placed immediately after the board to detect this occurrence. An official (similar to a referee) will also watch the jump and make the determination. The competitor can initiate the jump from any point behind the foul line; however, the distance measured will always be perpendicular to the foul line to the nearest break in the sand caused by any part of the body or uniform. Therefore, it is in the best interest of the competitor to get as close to the foul line as possible. Competitors are allowed to place two marks along the side of the runway in order to assist them to jump accurately. At a lesser meet and facilities, the plasticine will likely not exist, the runway might be a different surface or jumpers may initiate their jump from a painted or taped mark on the runway. At a smaller meet, the number of attempts might also be limited to four or three.

Each competitor has a set number of attempts. That would normally be three trials, with three additional jumps being awarded to the best 8 or 9 (depending on the number of lanes on the track at that facility, so the event is equatable to track events) competitors. All legal marks will be recorded but only the longest legal jump counts towards the results. The competitor with the longest legal jump (from either the trial or final rounds) at the end of competition is declared the winner. In the event of an exact tie, then comparing the next best jumps of the tied competitors will be used to determine place. In a large, multi-day elite competition (like the Olympics or World Championships), a set number of competitors will advance to the final round, determined in advance by the meet management. A set of 3 trial round jumps will be held in order to select those finalists. It is standard practice to allow at a minimum, one more competitor than the number of scoring positions to return to the final round, though 12 plus ties and automatic qualifying distances are also potential factors. (For specific rules and regulations in United States Track & Field see Rule 185).[1]

For record purposes, the maximum accepted wind assistance is two metres per second (m/s) (4.5 mph).

History

Halteres used in athletic games in ancient Greece.
Standing long jump, detail of a page from the Luzerner Chronik of 1513.

The long jump is the only known jumping event of Ancient Greece's original Olympics' pentathlon events. All events that occurred at the Olympic Games were initially supposed to act as a form of training for warfare. The long jump emerged probably because it mirrored the crossing of obstacles such as streams and ravines.[2] After investigating the surviving depictions of the ancient event it is believed that unlike the modern event, athletes were only allowed a short running start.[2] The athletes carried a weight in each hand, which were called halteres (between 1 and 4.5 kg). These weights were swung forward as the athlete jumped in order to increase momentum. It is commonly believed that the jumper would throw the weights behind him in midair to increase his forward momentum; however, halteres were held throughout the duration of the jump. Swinging them down and back at the end of the jump would change the athlete's center of gravity and allow the athlete to stretch his legs outward, increasing his distance. The jump itself was made from the bater ("that which is trod upon"). It was most likely a simple board placed on the stadium track which was removed after the event. The jumpers would land in what was called a skamma ("dug-up" area). The idea that this was a pit full of sand is wrong. Sand in the jumping pit is a modern invention.[3] The skamma was simply a temporary area dug up for that occasion and not something that remained over time. The long jump was considered one of the most difficult of the events held at the Games since a great deal of skill was required. Music was often played during the jump and Philostratus says that pipes at times would accompany the jump so as to provide a rhythm for the complex movements of the halteres by the athlete.[2] Philostratos is quoted as saying, "The rules regard jumping as the most difficult of the competitions, and they allow the jumper to be given advantages in rhythm by the use of the flute, and in weight by the use of the halter."[4] Most notable in the ancient sport was a man called Chionis, who in the 656BC Olympics staged a jump of 7.05 metres (23 feet and 1.7 inches).[5]

There has been some argument by modern scholars over the long jump. Some have attempted to recreate it as a triple jump. The images provide the only evidence for the action so it is more well received that it was much like today's long jump. The main reason some want to call it a triple jump is the presence of a source that claims there once was a fifty-five ancient foot jump done by a man named Phayllos.[6]

The long jump has been part of modern Olympic competition since the inception of the Games in 1896. In 1914, Dr. Harry Eaton Stewart recommended the "running broad jump" as a standardized track and field event for women.[7] However, it was not until 1948 that the women's long jump was added to the Olympic athletics programme.

Technique

Emmanuelle Chazal competes in the women's heptathlon long jump final during the French Athletics Championships 2013 at Stade Charléty in Paris, 13 July 2013.

There are five main components of the long jump: the approach run, the last two strides, takeoff, action in the air, and landing. Speed in the run-up, or approach, and a high leap off the board are the fundamentals of success. Because speed is such an important factor of the approach, it is not surprising that many long jumpers also compete successfully in sprints. A classic example of this long jump / sprint doubling are performances by Carl Lewis.

The approach

The objective of the approach is to gradually accelerate to a maximum controlled speed at takeoff. The most important factor for the distance travelled by an object is its velocity at takeoff – both the speed and angle. Elite jumpers usually leave the ground at an angle of twenty degrees or less; therefore, it is more beneficial for a jumper to focus on the speed component of the jump. The greater the speed at takeoff, the longer the trajectory of the center of mass will be. The importance of a takeoff speed is a factor in the success of sprinters in this event.

The length of the approach is usually consistent distance for an athlete. Approaches can vary between 12 and 19 strides on the novice and intermediate levels, while at the elite level they are closer to between 20 and 22 strides. The exact distance and number of strides in an approach depends on the jumper's experience, sprinting technique, and conditioning level. Consistency in the approach is important as it is the competitor's objective to get as close to the front of the takeoff board as possible without crossing the line with any part of the foot.

Inconsistent approaches are a common problem in the event. As a result, the approach is usually practiced by athletes about 6–8 times per jumping session (see Training below).

The last two strides

The objective of the last two strides is to prepare the body for takeoff while conserving as much speed as possible.

The penultimate stride is longer than the last stride. The competitor begins to lower his or her center of gravity to prepare the body for the vertical impulse. The final stride is shorter because the body is beginning to raise the center of gravity in preparation for takeoff.

The last two strides are extremely important because they determine the velocity with which the competitor will enter the jump; the greater the velocity, the better the jump.

Takeoff

Takeoff board

The objective of the takeoff is to create a vertical impulse through the athlete's center of gravity while maintaining balance and control.

This phase is one of the most technical parts of the long jump. Jumpers must be conscious to place the foot flat on the ground, because jumping off either the heels or the toes negatively affects the jump. Taking off from the board heel-first has a braking effect, which decreases velocity and strains the joints. Jumping off the toes decreases stability, putting the leg at risk of buckling or collapsing from underneath the jumper. While concentrating on foot placement, the athlete must also work to maintain proper body position, keeping the torso upright and moving the hips forward and up to achieve the maximum distance from board contact to foot release.the takeoff board is 1m away from the landing pit

There are four main styles of takeoff: the kick style, double-arm style, sprint takeoff, and the power sprint or bounding takeoff.

Kick

The kick style takeoff is where the athlete actively cycles the leg before a full impulse has been directed into the board then landing into the pit. This requires great strength in the hamstrings. This causes the jumper to jump to large distances.

Double-arm

The double-arm style of takeoff works by moving both arms in a vertical direction as the competitor takes off. This produces a high hip height and a large vertical impulse.

Sprint

The sprint takeoff is the style most widely instructed by coaching staff. This is a classic single-arm action that resembles a jumper in full stride. It is an efficient takeoff style for maintaining velocity through takeoff.

Power sprint or bounding

The power sprint takeoff, or bounding takeoff, is one of the more common elite styles. Very similar to the sprint style, the body resembles a sprinter in full stride. However, there is one major difference. The arm that pushes back on takeoff (the arm on the side of the takeoff leg) fully extends backward, rather than remaining at a bent position. This additional extension increases the impulse at takeoff.

The "correct" style of takeoff will vary from athlete to athlete.

Multi-eventer Jessica Ennis during a long jump, preparing to land

Action in the air and landing

There are three major flight techniques for the long jump: the hang, the sail, and the hitch-kick. Each technique is to combat the forward rotation experienced from take-off but is basically down to preference from the athlete. It is important to note that once the body is airborne, there is nothing that the athlete can do to change the direction they are traveling and consequently where they are going to land in the pit. However, it can be argued that certain techniques influence an athlete's landing, which can affect the distance measured. For example, if an athlete lands feet first but falls back because they are not correctly balanced, a lower distance will be measured.

In the 1970s some jumpers used a forward somersault, including John Delamere who used it at the 1974 NCAA Championships, and who matched the jump of the current Olympic champion Randy Williams. The somersault jump has potential to produce longer jumps than other techniques because in the flip, no power is lost countering forward momentum, and it reduces wind resistance in the air.[8] The front flip jump was subsequently banned due to fear of it being unsafe.

Training

The long jump generally requires training in a variety of areas. These areas include: speed work, jumping, over distance running, weight training, plyometric training.

Speed work

Speed work is essentially short distance speed training where the athlete would be running at top or near top speeds. The distances for this type of work would vary between indoor and outdoor season but are usually around 30–60 m for indoors and up to 100 m for outdoors.

Jumping

Long Jumpers tend to practice jumping 1–2 times a week. Approaches, or run-throughs, are repeated sometimes up to 6–8 times per session. Short approach jumps are common for jumpers to do, as it allows for them to work on specific technical aspects of their jumps in a controlled environment. Using equipment such as low hurdles and other obstacles are common in long jump training, as it helps the jumper maintain and hold phases of their jump. As a common rule, it is important for the jumper to engage in full approach jumps at least once a week, as it will prepare the jumper for competition.

Over-distance running

Over-distance running workouts helps the athlete jump a further distance than their set goal. For example, having a 100 m runner practice by running 200 m repeats on a track. This is specifically concentrated in the season when athletes are working on building endurance. Specific over-distance running workouts are performed 1–2 times a week. This is great for building sprint endurance, which is required in competitions where the athlete is sprinting down the runway 3–6 times. Typical workouts would include 5×150 m. Preseason workouts may be longer, including workouts like 6×300 m

Weight training

During pre-season training and early in the competition season weight training tends to play a major role in the sport. It is customary for a long jumper to weight train up to 4 times a week, focusing mainly on quick movements involving the legs and trunk. Some athletes perform Olympic lifts in training. Athletes use low repetition and emphasize speed to maximize the strength increase while minimizing adding additional weight to their frame. Important lifts for a long jumper include the back squat, front squat, power cleans and hang cleans. The emphasis on these lifts should be on speed and explosive as those are crucial in the long jump take off phase.

Plyometrics

Plyometrics, including running up and down stairs and hurdle bounding, can be incorporated into workouts, generally twice a week. This allows an athlete to work on agility and explosiveness. Other plyometric workouts that are common for long jumpers are box jumps. Boxes of various heights are set up spaced evenly apart and jumpers can proceed jumping onto them and off moving in a forward direction. They can vary the jumps from both legs to single jumps. Alternatively, they can set up the boxes in front of a high jump mat if allowed, and jump over a high jump bar onto the mat mimicking a landing phase of the jump. These plyometric workouts are typically performed at the end of a workout.

Bounding

Bounding is any sort of continuous jumping or leaping. Bounding drills usually require single leg bounding, double-leg bounding, or some variation of the two. The focus of bounding drills is usually to spend as little time on the ground as possible and working on technical accuracy, fluidity, and jumping endurance and strength. Technically, bounding is part of plyometrics, as a form of a running exercise such as high knees and butt kicks.

Flexibility

Flexibility is an often forgotten[citation needed] tool for long jumpers. Effective flexibility prevents injury, which can be important for high-impact events such as the long jump. It also helps the athlete sprint down the runway. Hip and groin injuries are common for long jumpers who may neglect proper warm-up and stretching.

Hurdle mobility drills are a common way that jumpers improve flexibility. Common hurdle drills include setting up about 5–7 hurdles at appropriate heights and having athletes walk over them in a continuous fashion. Other variations of hurdle mobility drills are used as well, including hurdle skips. This is a crucial part of a jumper's training since they perform most exercises for a very short period of time and often aren't aware of their form and technique. A common tool in many long jump workouts is the use of video taping. This enables the athlete to go back and watch their own progress as well as letting the athlete compare their own footage to that of some of the world-class jumpers.

Training styles, duration, and intensity vary immensely from athlete to athlete and are based on the experience and strength of the athlete as well as on their coaching style.

Culture

File:2003 Greece 10 Euro OS Long Jump front.jpg
Long Jump commemorative coin

Track and field events have been selected as a main motif in numerous collectors' coins. One of the recent samples is the €10 Greek Long Jump commemorative coin, minted in 2003 to commemorate the 2004 Summer Olympics. The obverse of the coin portrays a modern athlete at the moment he is touching the ground, while the ancient athlete in the background is shown while starting off his jump, as he is seen on a black-figure vase of the 5th century BC.

Records

Jesse Owens set a long jump world record at the 1936 Summer Olympics of 8.13 m (26 ft 8 in) that was not broken for 25 years and 2 months, until 1960 by Ralph Boston. At the 1968 Summer Olympics Bob Beamon jumped 8.90 m (29 ft 2+14 in) at an altitude of 7,349 feet (2,240 m), a jump not exceeded for 23 years, and which remains the second longest legal jump of all time. On 30 August 1991 Mike Powell of the United States set the current men's world record at the World Championships in Tokyo. It was in a well-known show down against Carl Lewis, who also beat Beamon's record that day but with an aiding wind (thus not legal for record purposes). Powell's record 8.95 m (29 ft 4+14 in) has now stood for almost 25 years; Beamon's Olympic record through the next 12 Olympiads.

Some jumps over 8.95 m (29 ft 4+14 in) have been officially recorded. 8.99 m (29 ft 5+34 in) was recorded by Mike Powell himself (wind-aided +4.4) set at high altitude in Sestriere, Italy in 1992. A potential world record of 8.96 m (29 ft 4+34 in) was recorded by Iván Pedroso,[9] with a "legal" wind reading also at Sestriere, but the jump was not validated because videotape revealed someone was standing in front of the wind gauge, invalidating the reading (and costing Pedroso a Ferrari valued at $130,000—the prize for breaking the record at that meet).[10][11] Lewis himself jumped 8.91m moments before Powell's record-breaking jump with the wind exceeding the maximum allowed. This jump remains the longest ever not to win an Olympic or World Championship gold medal, or any competition in general.

The current world record for women is held by Galina Chistyakova of the former Soviet Union who leapt 7.52 m (24 ft 8 in) in Leningrad on 11 June 1988, a mark that has stood for 28 years.

All-time top 25 athletes

Men

Rank Mark Wind (m/s) Athlete Date Place Ref
1 8.95 m (29 ft 4+14 in) 0.3  Mike Powell (USA) 30 August 1991 Tokyo
2 8.90 m (29 ft 2+14 in) A 2.0  Bob Beamon (USA) 18 October 1968 Mexico City
3 8.87 m (29 ft 1 in) −0.2  Carl Lewis (USA) 30 August 1991 Tokyo
4 8.86 m (29 ft 34 in) A 1.9  Robert Emmiyan (URS) 22 May 1987 Tsakhkadzor
5 8.74 m (28 ft 8 in) 1.4  Larry Myricks (USA) 18 July 1988 Indianapolis
8.74 m (28 ft 8 in) A 2.0  Erick Walder (USA) 2 April 1994 El Paso
8.74 m (28 ft 8 in) −1.2  Dwight Phillips (USA) 7 June 2009 Eugene
8 8.73 m (28 ft 7+12 in) 1.2  Irving Saladino (PAN) 24 May 2008 Hengelo
9 8.71 m (28 ft 6+34 in) 1.9  Iván Pedroso (CUB) 18 July 1995 Salamanca
8.71 m (28 ft 6+34 in) indoor  Sebastian Bayer (GER) 8 March 2009 Torino
11 8.66 m (28 ft 4+34 in) 1.6  Louis Tsatoumas (GRE) 2 June 2007 Kalamata
12 8.63 m (28 ft 3+34 in) 0.5  Kareem Streete-Thompson (USA) 4 June 1994 Linz
13 8.62 m (28 ft 3+14 in) 0.7  James Beckford (JAM) 5 April 1997 Orlando
8.62 m (28 ft 3+14 in) A 1.2  Luvo Manyonga (RSA) 17 March 2017 Pretoria [14]
15 8.59 m (28 ft 2 in) indoor  Miguel Pate (USA) 4 March 2002 New York City
16 8.58 m (28 ft 1+34 in) 1.8  Jarrion Lawson (USA) 3 July 2016 Eugene [15]
17 8.56 m (28 ft 1 in) 1.3  Yago Lamela (ESP) 24 June 1999 Torino
8.56 m (28 ft 1 in) 0.2  Aleksandr Menkov (RUS) 16 August 2013 Moscow
19 8.54 m (28 ft 0 in) 0.9  Lutz Dombrowski (GDR) 28 July 1980 Moscow
8.54 m (28 ft 0 in) 1.7  Mitchell Watt (AUS) 29 July 2011 Stockholm
21 8.53 m (27 ft 11+34 in) 1.2  Jaime Jefferson (CUB) 12 May 1990 Havana
22 8.52 m (27 ft 11+14 in) 0.7  Savanté Stringfellow (USA) 21 June 2002 Palo Alto
8.52 m (27 ft 11+14 in) 1.8  Jeff Henderson (USA) 22 July 2015 Toronto
24 8.51 m (27 ft 11 in) 1.7  Roland McGhee (USA) 14 May 1995 São Paulo
8.51 m (27 ft 11 in) 1.7  Greg Rutherford (GBR) 24 April 2014 Chula Vista

Notes

Below is a list of all other legal jumps equal or superior to 8.75.

Assisted jumps

  • Mike Powell (USA) jumped 8.99 m (+4.4) at altitude in Sestriere, Italy on 21 July 1992.
  • Iván Pedroso (CUB) jumped 8.96 m (+1.2) at altitude in Sestriere, Italy on 29 July 1995. The jump was ruled invalid due to an obstructed wind-gauge.
  • Carl Lewis (USA) jumped 8.91 (+3.0) and 8.83 (+2.3) on 30 August 1991 at the World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Fabrice Lapierre (AUS) jumped 8.78 (+3.1) on 18 April 2010 in Perth, Australia.
  • James Beckford (JAM) jumped 8.68 (+4.9) on 20 May 1995 in Odessa, Ukraine.
  • Marquis Dendy (USA) jumped 8.68 (+3.7) on 25 June 2015 in Eugene, Oregon.
  • Joe Greene (USA) jumped 8.68 (+4.0) at altitude on 21 July 1995 in Sestriere, Italy.
  • Kareem Streete-Thompson (USA) jumped 8.64 (+3.5) on 18 June 1995 in Knoxville, Tennessee.
  • Mike Conley (USA) jumped 8.63 (+3.9) on 20 June 1986 in Eugene, Oregon.
  • Jeff Henderson (USA) jumped 8.59 (+2.9) on 3 July 2016 in Eugene, Oregon.
  • Jason Grimes (USA) jumped 8.57 (+5.2) on 27 June 1982 in Durham, North Carolina.
  • Kevin Dilworth (USA) jumped 8.53(+4.9) on 27 April 2002 in Fort-de-France, Martinique.

Women

Rank Mark Wind (m/s) Athlete Date Place Ref
1 7.52 m (24 ft 8 in) 1.4  Galina Chistyakova (URS) 11 June 1988 Leningrad
2 7.49 m (24 ft 6+34 in) 1.3  Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) 22 May 1994 New York City
3 7.48 m (24 ft 6+14 in) 1.2  Heike Drechsler (GDR) 9 July 1988 Neubrandenburg
4 7.43 m (24 ft 4+12 in) 1.4  Anişoara Cuşmir (ROM) 4 June 1983 Bucharest
5 7.42 m (24 ft 4 in) 2.0  Tatyana Kotova (RUS) 23 June 2002 Annecy
6 7.39 m (24 ft 2+34 in) 0.5  Yelena Belevskaya (URS) 18 July 1987 Bryansk
7 7.37 m (24 ft 2 in) N/A  Inessa Kravets (UKR) 13 June 1992 Kiev
8 7.33 m (24 ft 12 in) 0.4  Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS) 31 July 2004 Tula
9 7.31 m (23 ft 11+34 in) 1.5  Olena Khlopotnova (URS) 12 September 1985 Alma Ata
7.31 m (23 ft 11+34 in) −0.1  Marion Jones (USA) 12 August 1998 Zürich
7.31 m (23 ft 11+34 in) 1.7  Brittney Reese (USA) 2 July 2016 Eugene [16]
12 7.27 m (23 ft 10 in) −0.4  Irina Meleshina (RUS) 31 July 2004 Tula
13 7.26 m (23 ft 9+34 in) A 1.8  Maurren Higa Maggi (BRA) 26 July 1999 Bogotá
14 7.24 m (23 ft 9 in) 1.0  Larisa Berezhnaya (URS) 25 May 1991 Granada
indoor  Ivana Španović (SRB) 5 March 2017 Belgrade [17]
16 7.21 m (23 ft 7+34 in) 1.6  Helga Radtke (GDR) 26 July 1984 Dresden
7.21 m (23 ft 7+34 in) 1.9  Lyudmila Kolchanova (RUS) 27 May 2007 Sochi
18 7.20 m (23 ft 7+14 in) −0.5  Vali Ionescu-Constantin (ROU) 11 August 1982 Bucharest
7.20 m (23 ft 7+14 in) 2.0  Irena Ozenko (URS) 12 September 1986 Budapest
7.20 m (23 ft 7+14 in) 0.8  Yelena Sinchukova (URS) 20 June 1991 Budapest
7.20 m (23 ft 7+14 in) 0.7  Irina Mushailova (RUS) 14 July 1994 Saint Petersburg
22 7.17 m (23 ft 6+14 in) 1.8  Irina Valyukevich (URS) 18 July 1987 Bryansk
7.17 m (23 ft 6+14 in) 0.6  Tianna Bartoletta (USA) 17 August 2016 Rio de Janeiro [18]
24 7.16 m (23 ft 5+34 in) N/A  Iolanda Chen (URS) 30 July 1988 Moscow
7.16 m (23 ft 5+34 in) A −0.1  Elva Goulbourne (JAM) 22 May 2004 Mexico City
7.16 m (23 ft 5+34 in) 1.6  Sosthene Moguenara (GER) 28 May 2016 Weinheim [19]

Notes

Below is a list of all other legal jumps equal or superior to 7.40.

  • Jackie Joyner-Kersee jumped 7.49 (1994 at altitude), 7.45 (1987), 7.40 (1988).
  • Heike Drechsler jumped 7.48 (1992), 7.45 (June 1986), 7.45 (July 1986), 7.44 (1985), 7.40 (1984), 7.40 (1987).
  • Galina Chistyakova jumped 7.45 (June 1988 ancillary jump during world record competition), 7.45 (August 1988).

Assisted jumps

Olympic medalists

Men

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Athens
details
Ellery Clark
 United States
6.35 m Robert Garrett
 United States
6.18 m James Brendan Connolly
 United States
6.11 m
1900 Paris
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Alvin Kraenzlein
 United States
7.185 m Myer Prinstein
 United States
7.175 m Patrick Leahy
 Great Britain
6.95 m
1904 St. Louis
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Myer Prinstein
 United States
7.34 m Daniel Frank
 United States
6.89 m Robert Stangland
 United States
6.88 m
1908 London
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Frank Irons
 United States
7.48 m Daniel Kelly
 United States
7.09 m Calvin Bricker
 Canada
7.08 m
1912 Stockholm
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Albert Gutterson
 United States
7.60 m Calvin Bricker
 Canada
7.21 m Georg Åberg
 Sweden
7.18 m
1920 Antwerp
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William Petersson
 Sweden
7.15 m Carl Johnson
 United States
7.095 m Erik Abrahamsson
 Sweden
7.08 m
1924 Paris
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DeHart Hubbard
 United States
7.445 m Edward Gourdin
 United States
7.275 m Sverre Hansen
 Norway
7.26 m
1928 Amsterdam
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Ed Hamm
 United States
7.73 m Silvio Cator
 Haiti
7.58 m Al Bates
 United States
7.40 m
1932 Los Angeles
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Ed Gordon
 United States
7.64 m Lambert Redd
 United States
7.60 m Chūhei Nambu
 Japan
7.45 m
1936 Berlin
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Jesse Owens
 United States
8.06 m Luz Long
 Germany
7.87 m Naoto Tajima
 Japan
7.74 m
1948 London
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Willie Steele
 United States
7.82 m Bill Bruce
 Australia
7.55 m Herb Douglas
 United States
7.54 m
1952 Helsinki
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Jerome Biffle
 United States
7.57 m Meredith Gourdine
 United States
7.53 m Ödön Földessy
 Hungary
7.30 m
1956 Melbourne
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Gregory Bell
 United States
7.83 m John Bennett
 United States
7.68 m Jorma Valkama
 Finland
7.48 m
1960 Rome
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Ralph Boston
 United States
8.12 m Bo Roberson
 United States
8.11 m Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
 Soviet Union
8.04 m
1964 Tokyo
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Lynn Davies
 Great Britain
8.07 m Ralph Boston
 United States
8.03 m Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
 Soviet Union
7.99 m
1968 Mexico City
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Bob Beamon
 United States
8.90 m Klaus Beer
 East Germany
8.19 m Ralph Boston
 United States
8.16 m
1972 Munich
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Randy Williams
 United States
8.24 m Hans Baumgartner
 West Germany
8.18 m Arnie Robinson
 United States
8.03 m
1976 Montreal
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Arnie Robinson
 United States
8.35 m Randy Williams
 United States
8.11 m Frank Wartenberg
 East Germany
8.02 m
1980 Moscow
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Lutz Dombrowski
 East Germany
8.54 m Frank Paschek
 East Germany
8.21 m Valeriy Pidluzhnyy
 Soviet Union
8.18 m
1984 Los Angeles
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Carl Lewis
 United States
8.54 m Gary Honey
 Australia
8.24 m Giovanni Evangelisti
 Italy
8.24 m
1988 Seoul
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Carl Lewis
 United States
8.72 m Mike Powell
 United States
8.49 m Larry Myricks
 United States
8.27 m
1992 Barcelona
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Carl Lewis
 United States
8.67 m Mike Powell
 United States
8.64 m Joe Greene
 United States
8.34 m
1996 Atlanta
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Carl Lewis
 United States
8.50 m James Beckford
 Jamaica
8.29 m Joe Greene
 United States
8.24 m
2000 Sydney
details
Iván Pedroso
 Cuba
8.55 m Jai Taurima
 Australia
8.49 m Roman Shchurenko
 Ukraine
8.31 m
2004 Athens
details
Dwight Phillips
 United States
8.59 m John Moffitt
 United States
8.47 m Joan Lino Martínez
 Spain
8.32 m
2008 Beijing
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Irving Saladino
 Panama
8.34 m Godfrey Khotso Mokoena
 South Africa
8.24 m Ibrahim Camejo
 Cuba
8.20 m
2012 London
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Greg Rutherford
 Great Britain
8.31 m Mitchell Watt
 Australia
8.16 m Will Claye
 United States
8.12 m
2016 Rio de Janeiro
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Jeff Henderson
 United States
8.38 m Luvo Manyonga
 South Africa
8.37 m Greg Rutherford
 Great Britain
8.29 m
2020 Tokyo
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Miltiadis Tentoglou
 Greece
8.41 m Juan Miguel Echevarría
 Cuba
8.41 m Maykel Massó
 Cuba
8.21 m
2024 Paris
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Miltiadis Tentoglou
 Greece
8.48 m Wayne Pinnock
 Jamaica
8.36 m Mattia Furlani
 Italy
8.34 m

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)22151047
2 Great Britain (GBR)2024
3 Greece (GRE)2002
4 East Germany (GDR)1214
5 Cuba (CUB)1124
6 Sweden (SWE)1023
7 Panama (PAN)1001
8 Australia (AUS)0404
9 Germany (GER)0202
 Jamaica (JAM)0202
 South Africa (RSA)0202
12 Canada (CAN)0112
13 Haiti (HAI)0101
14 Soviet Union (URS)0033
15 Italy (ITA)0022
 Japan (JPN)0022
17 Finland (FIN)0011
 Hungary (HUN)0011
 Norway (NOR)0011
 Spain (ESP)0011
 Ukraine (UKR)0011
Totals (21 entries)30303090

Women

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1948 London
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Olga Gyarmati
 Hungary
5.695 m Noemí Simonetto
 Argentina
5.60 m Ann-Britt Leyman
 Sweden
5.575 m
1952 Helsinki
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Yvette Williams
 New Zealand
6.24 m Aleksandra Chudina
 Soviet Union
6.14 m Shirley Cawley
 Great Britain
5.92 m
1956 Melbourne
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Elżbieta Krzesińska
 Poland
6.35 m Willye White
 United States
6.09 m Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili
 Soviet Union
6.07 m
1960 Rome
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Vera Krepkina
 Soviet Union
6.37 m Elżbieta Krzesińska
 Poland
6.27 m Hildrun Claus
 United Team of Germany
6.21 m
1964 Tokyo
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Mary Rand
 Great Britain
6.76 m Irena Kirszenstein
 Poland
6.60 m Tatyana Shchelkanova
 Soviet Union
6.42 m
1968 Mexico City
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Viorica Viscopoleanu
 Romania
6.82 m Sheila Sherwood
 Great Britain
6.68 m Tatyana Talysheva
 Soviet Union
6.66 m
1972 Munich
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Heide Rosendahl
 West Germany
6.78 m Diana Yorgova
 Bulgaria
6.77 m Eva Šuranová
 Czechoslovakia
6.67 m
1976 Montreal
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Angela Voigt
 East Germany
6.72 m Kathy McMillan
 United States
6.66 m Lidiya Alfeyeva
 Soviet Union
6.60 m
1980 Moscow
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Tatyana Kolpakova
 Soviet Union
7.06 m Brigitte Wujak
 East Germany
7.04 m Tatyana Skachko
 Soviet Union
7.01 m
1984 Los Angeles
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Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu
 Romania
6.96 m Valy Ionescu
 Romania
6.81 m Sue Hearnshaw
 Great Britain
6.80 m
1988 Seoul
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee
 United States
7.40 m Heike Drechsler
 East Germany
7.22 m Galina Chistyakova
 Soviet Union
7.11 m
1992 Barcelona
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Heike Drechsler
 Germany
7.14 m Inessa Kravets
 Unified Team
7.12 m Jackie Joyner-Kersee
 United States
7.07 m
1996 Atlanta
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Chioma Ajunwa
 Nigeria
7.12 m Fiona May
 Italy
7.02 m Jackie Joyner-Kersee
 United States
7.00 m
2000 Sydney
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Heike Drechsler
 Germany
6.99 m Fiona May
 Italy
6.92 m Tatyana Kotova
 Russia
6.83 m
2004 Athens
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Tatyana Lebedeva
 Russia
7.07 m Irina Simagina
 Russia
7.05 m Tatyana Kotova
 Russia
7.05 m
2008 Beijing
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Maurren Maggi
 Brazil
7.04 m Blessing Okagbare
 Nigeria
6.91 m Chelsea Hammond
 Jamaica
6.79 m
2012 London
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Brittney Reese
 United States
7.12 m Elena Sokolova
 Russia
7.07 m Janay DeLoach
 United States
6.89 m
2016 Rio de Janeiro
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Tianna Bartoletta
 United States
7.17 m Brittney Reese
 United States
7.15 m Ivana Španović
 Serbia
7.08 m
2020 Tokyo
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Malaika Mihambo
 Germany
7.00 m Brittney Reese
 United States
6.97 m Ese Brume
 Nigeria
6.97 m
2024 Paris
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Tara Davis-Woodhall
 United States
7.10 m Malaika Mihambo
 Germany
6.98 m Jasmine Moore
 United States
6.96 m

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)44412
2 Germany (GER)4105
3 Soviet Union (URS)2169
4 Romania (ROU)2103
5 Russia (RUS)1225
6 East Germany (GDR)1214
7 Poland (POL)1203
8 Great Britain (GBR)1124
9 Nigeria (NGR)1113
10 Brazil (BRA)1001
 Hungary (HUN)1001
 New Zealand (NZL)1001
13 Italy (ITA)0202
14 Argentina (ARG)0101
 Bulgaria (BUL)0101
 Ukraine (UKR)0101
17 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0011
 Jamaica (JAM)0011
 Serbia (SRB)0011
 Sweden (SWE)0011
Totals (20 entries)20202060

World Championships medalists

Men

Championships Gold Silver Bronze
1983 Helsinki
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Carl Lewis
 United States
8.55 m Jason Grimes
 United States
8.29 m Mike Conley
 United States
8.12 m
1987 Rome
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Carl Lewis
 United States
8.67 m Robert Emmiyan
 Soviet Union
8.53 m Larry Myricks
 United States
8.33 m
1991 Tokyo
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Mike Powell
 United States
8.95 m Carl Lewis
 United States
8.91 m Larry Myricks
 United States
8.42 m
1993 Stuttgart
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Mike Powell
 United States
8.59 m Stanislav Tarasenko
 Russia
8.16 m Vitaliy Kyrylenko
 Ukraine
8.15 m
1995 Gothenburg
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Iván Pedroso
 Cuba
8.70 m James Beckford
 Jamaica
8.30 m Mike Powell
 United States
8.29 m
1997 Athens
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Iván Pedroso
 Cuba
8.42 m Erick Walder
 United States
8.38 m Kirill Sosunov
 Russia
8.18 m
1999 Seville
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Iván Pedroso
 Cuba
8.56 m Yago Lamela
 Spain
8.40 m Gregor Cankar
 Slovenia
8.36 m
2001 Edmonton
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Iván Pedroso
 Cuba
8.40 m Savanté Stringfellow
 United States
8.24 m Carlos Calado
 Portugal
8.21 m
2003 Saint-Denis
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Dwight Phillips
 United States
8.32 m James Beckford
 Jamaica
8.28 m Yago Lamela
 Spain
8.22 m
2005 Helsinki
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Dwight Phillips
 United States
8.60 m Ignisious Gaisah
 Ghana
8.34 m Tommi Evilä
 Finland
8.25 m
2007 Osaka
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Irving Saladino
 Panama
8.57 m Andrew Howe
 Italy
8.47 m Dwight Phillips
 United States
8.30 m
2009 Berlin
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Dwight Phillips
 United States
8.54 m Godfrey Khotso Mokoena
 South Africa
8.47 m Mitchell Watt
 Australia
8.37 m
2011 Daegu
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Dwight Phillips
 United States
8.45 m Mitchell Watt
 Australia
8.33 m Ngonidzashe Makusha
 Zimbabwe
8.29 m
2013 Moscow
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Aleksandr Menkov
 Russia
8.56 m Ignisious Gaisah
 Netherlands
8.29 m Luis Rivera
 Mexico
8.27 m
2015 Beijing
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Greg Rutherford
 Great Britain
8.41 m Fabrice Lapierre
 Australia
8.24 m Wang Jianan
 China
8.18 m
2017 London
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Luvo Manyonga
 South Africa
8.48 m Jarrion Lawson
 United States
8.44 m Ruswahl Samaai
 South Africa
8.32 m
2019 Doha
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Tajay Gayle
 Jamaica
8.69 m Jeff Henderson
 United States
8.39 m Juan Miguel Echevarría
 Cuba
8.34 m
2022 Eugene
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Wang Jianan
 China
8.36 m Miltiadis Tentoglou
 Greece
8.32 m Simon Ehammer
 Switzerland
8.16 m
2023 Budapest
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Miltiadis Tentoglou
 Greece
8.52 m Wayne Pinnock
 Jamaica
8.50 m Tajay Gayle
 Jamaica
8.27 m

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)86519
2 Cuba (CUB)4015
3 Jamaica (JAM)1315
4 Russia (RUS)1113
 South Africa (RSA)1113
6 Greece (GRE)1102
7 China (CHN)1012
8 Great Britain (GBR)1001
 Panama (PAN)1001
10 Australia (AUS)0213
11 Spain (ESP)0112
12 Ghana (GHA)0101
 Italy (ITA)0101
 Netherlands (NED)0101
 Soviet Union (URS)0101
16 Finland (FIN)0011
 Mexico (MEX)0011
 Portugal (POR)0011
 Slovenia (SLO)0011
 Switzerland (SUI)0011
 Ukraine (UKR)0011
 Zimbabwe (ZIM)0011
Totals (22 entries)19191957

Women

Championships Gold Silver Bronze
1983 Helsinki
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Heike Daute
 East Germany
7.27 m Anișoara Cușmir
 Romania
7.15 m Carol Lewis
 United States
7.04 m
1987 Rome
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee
 United States
7.36 m Yelena Belevskaya
 Soviet Union
7.14 m Heike Drechsler
 East Germany
7.13 m
1991 Tokyo
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee
 United States
7.32 m Heike Drechsler
 Germany
7.29 m Larysa Berezhna
 Soviet Union
7.11 m
1993 Stuttgart
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Heike Drechsler
 Germany
7.11 m Larysa Berezhna
 Ukraine
6.98 m Renata Nielsen
 Denmark
6.76 m
1995 Gothenburg
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Fiona May
 Italy
6.98 m Niurka Montalvo
 Cuba
6.86 m Irina Mushailova
 Russia
6.83 m
1997 Athens
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Lyudmila Galkina
 Russia
7.05 m Niki Xanthou
 Greece
6.94 m Fiona May
 Italy
6.91 m
1999 Seville
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Niurka Montalvo
 Spain
7.06 m Fiona May
 Italy
6.94 m Marion Jones
 United States
6.83 m
2001 Edmonton
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Fiona May
 Italy
7.02 m Tatyana Kotova
 Russia
7.01 m Niurka Montalvo
 Spain
6.88 m
2003 Saint-Denis
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Eunice Barber
 France
6.99 m Tatyana Kotova
 Russia
6.74 m Anju Bobby George
 India
6.70 m
2005 Helsinki
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Tianna Madison
 United States
6.89 m Eunice Barber
 France
6.76 m Yargelis Savigne
 Cuba
6.69 m
2007 Osaka
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Tatyana Lebedeva
 Russia
7.03 m Lyudmila Kolchanova
 Russia
6.92 m Tatyana Kotova
 Russia
6.90 m
2009 Berlin
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Brittney Reese
 United States
7.10 m Karin Melis Mey
 Turkey
6.80 m Naide Gomes
 Portugal
6.77 m
2011 Daegu
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Brittney Reese
 United States
6.82 m Ineta Radēviča
 Latvia
6.76 m Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova
 Belarus
6.74 m
2013 Moscow
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Brittney Reese
 United States
7.01 m Blessing Okagbare
 Nigeria
6.99 m Ivana Španović
 Serbia
6.82 m
2015 Beijing
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Tianna Bartoletta
 United States
7.14 m Shara Proctor
 Great Britain
7.07 m Ivana Španović
 Serbia
7.01 m
2017 London
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Brittney Reese
 United States
7.02 m Darya Klishina
 Authorised Neutral Athletes
7.00 m Tianna Bartoletta
 United States
6.97 m
2019 Doha
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Malaika Mihambo
 Germany
7.30 m Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk
 Ukraine
6.92 m Ese Brume
 Nigeria
6.91 m
2022 Eugene
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Malaika Mihambo
 Germany
7.12 m Ese Brume
 Nigeria
7.02 m Leticia Oro Melo
 Brazil
6.89 m
2023 Budapest
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Ivana Vuleta
 Serbia
7.14 m Tara Davis-Woodhall
 United States
6.91 m Alina Rotaru-Kottmann
 Romania
6.88 m

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)81312
2 Germany (GER)3104
3 Russia (RUS)2327
4 Italy (ITA)2114
5 France (FRA)1102
6 Serbia (SRB)1023
7 East Germany (GDR)1012
 Spain (ESP)1012
9 Nigeria (NGR)0213
10 Ukraine (UKR)0202
11 Cuba (CUB)0112
 Romania (ROU)0112
 Soviet Union (URS)0112
14 Great Britain (GBR)0101
 Greece (GRE)0101
 Latvia (LAT)0101
 Turkey (TUR)0101
 Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)0101
18 Belarus (BLR)0011
 Brazil (BRA)0011
 Denmark (DEN)0011
 India (IND)0011
 Portugal (POR)0011
Totals (22 entries)19191957

World Indoor Championships medalists

Men

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1985 Paris[A]  Jan Leitner (TCH)  Gyula Pálóczi (HUN)  Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA)
1987 Indianapolis
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 Larry Myricks (USA)  Paul Emordi (NGR)  Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA)
1989 Budapest
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 Larry Myricks (USA)  Dietmar Haaf (FRG)  Mike Conley (USA)
1991 Seville
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 Dietmar Haaf (GER)  Jaime Jefferson (CUB)  Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA)
1993 Toronto
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 Iván Pedroso (CUB)  Joe Greene (USA)  Jaime Jefferson (CUB)
1995 Barcelona
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 Iván Pedroso (CUB)  Mattias Sunneborn (SWE)  Erick Walder (USA)
1997 Paris
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 Iván Pedroso (CUB)  Kirill Sosunov (RUS)  Joe Greene (USA)
1999 Maebashi
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 Iván Pedroso (CUB)  Yago Lamela (ESP)  Erick Walder (USA)
2001 Lisbon
details
 Iván Pedroso (CUB)  Kareem Streete-Thompson (CAY)  Carlos Calado (POR)
2003 Birmingham
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 Dwight Phillips (USA)  Yago Lamela (ESP)  Miguel Pate (USA)
2004 Budapest
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 Savanté Stringfellow (USA)  James Beckford (JAM)  Vitaliy Shkurlatov (RUS)
2006 Moscow
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 Ignisious Gaisah (GHA)  Irving Saladino (PAN)  Andrew Howe (ITA)
2008 Valencia
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 Godfrey Khotso Mokoena (RSA)  Chris Tomlinson (GBR)  Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi (KSA)
2010 Doha
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 Fabrice Lapierre (AUS)  Godfrey Khotso Mokoena (RSA)  Mitchell Watt (AUS)
2012 Istanbul
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 Mauro Vinícius da Silva (BRA)  Henry Frayne (AUS)  Aleksandr Menkov (RUS)
2014 Sopot
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 Mauro Vinícius da Silva (BRA)  Li Jinzhe (CHN)  Michel Tornéus (SWE)
2016 Portland
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 Marquis Dendy (USA)  Fabrice Lapierre (AUS)  Huang Changzhou (CHN)

Women

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1985 Paris[A]  Helga Radtke (GDR)  Tatyana Rodionova (URS)  Nijolė Medvedeva (URS)
1987 Indianapolis
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 Heike Drechsler (GDR)  Helga Radtke (GDR)  Yelena Belevskaya (URS)
1989 Budapest
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 Galina Chistyakova (URS)  Marieta Ilcu (ROU)  Larysa Berezhna (URS)
1991 Seville
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 Larysa Berezhna (URS)  Heike Drechsler (GER)  Marieta Ilcu (ROU)
1993 Toronto
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 Marieta Ilcu (ROU)  Susen Tiedtke (GER)  Inessa Kravets (UKR)
1995 Barcelona
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 Lyudmila Galkina (RUS)  Irina Mushailova (RUS)  Susen Tiedtke-Greene (GER)
1997 Paris
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 Fiona May (ITA)  Chioma Ajunwa (NGR)  Agata Karczmarek (POL)
1999 Maebashi
details
 Tatyana Kotova (RUS)  Shana Williams (USA)  Iva Prandzheva (BUL)
2001 Lisbon
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 Dawn Burrell (USA)  Tatyana Kotova (RUS)  Niurka Montalvo (ESP)
2003 Birmingham
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 Tatyana Kotova (RUS)  Inessa Kravets (UKR)  Maurren Maggi (BRA)
2004 Budapest
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 Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS)  Tatyana Kotova (RUS)  Carolina Klüft (SWE)
2006 Moscow
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 Tatyana Kotova (RUS)  Tianna Madison (USA)  Naide Gomes (POR)
2008 Valencia
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 Naide Gomes (POR)  Maurren Maggi (BRA)  Irina Simagina (RUS)
2010 Doha
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 Brittney Reese (USA)  Naide Gomes (POR)  Keila Costa (BRA)
2012 Istanbul
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 Brittney Reese (USA)  Janay DeLoach (USA)  Shara Proctor (GBR)
2014 Sopot
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 Éloyse Lesueur (FRA)  Katarina Johnson-Thompson (GBR)  Ivana Španović (SRB)
2016 Portland
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 Brittney Reese (USA)  Ivana Španović (SRB)  Lorraine Ugen (GBR)
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Season's bests

  • "i" denotes indoor performance.

National records

Men

Nation Distance Athlete Date Location Ref
 United States 8.95 m (29 ft 4+14 in) Mike Powell 30 August 1991 Tokyo
 Soviet Union/
 Armenia
8.86 m (29 ft 34 in) Robert Emmiyan 22 May 1987 Tsakhkadzor
 Panama 8.73 m (28 ft 7+12 in) Irving Saladino 24 May 2008 Hengelo
 Cuba 8.71 m (28 ft 6+34 in) Iván Pedroso 18 July 1995 Salamanca
 Greece 8.66 m (28 ft 4+34 in) Louis Tsatoumas 2 June 2007 Kalamata
 Jamaica 8.62 m (28 ft 3+14 in) James Beckford 5 April 1997 Orlando
 South Africa 8.62 m (28 ft 3+14 in) A Luvo Manyonga 17 March 2017 Pretoria [23]
 Spain 8.56 m (28 ft 1 in) Yago Lamela 24 June 1999 Turin [24]
 Russia 8.56 m (28 ft 1 in) Aleksandr Menkov 16 August 2013 Moscow [25]
 East Germany/
 Germany
8.54 m (28 ft 0 in) Lutz Dombrowski 28 July 1980 Moscow
 Australia 8.54 m (28 ft 0 in) Mitchell Watt 29 July 2011 Stockholm
 United Kingdom 8.51 m (27 ft 11 in) Greg Rutherford 24 April 2014 Chula Vista
 Saudi Arabia 8.48 m (27 ft 9+34 in) Mohamed Salman Al-Khuwalidi 2 July 2006 Sotteville-lès-Rouen
 Italy 8.47 m (27 ft 9+14 in) Andrew Howe 30 August 2007 Osaka
 People's Republic of China 8.47 m (27 ft 9+14 in) Li Jinzhe 29 June 2014 Bad Langensalza [26]
 Mexico 8.46 m (27 ft 9 in) Luis Rivera 12 July 2013 Kazan [27][28]
 Senegal 8.46 m (27 ft 9 in) Cheikh Tidiane Touré 15 June 1997 Bad Langensalza
 Yugoslavia/
 Serbia
8.45 m (27 ft 8+12 in) Nenad Stekić 25 July 1975 Montreal
 Sweden 8.44 m (27 ft 8+14 in) A Michel Tornéus 10 July 2016 Monachil [29]
 Ghana 8.43 m (27 ft 7+34 in) Ignisious Gaisah 14 July 2006 Rome
 France 8.42 m (27 ft 7+14 in) Salim Sdiri 12 June 2009 Pierre-Bénite
 Bahamas 8.41 m (27 ft 7 in) Craig Hepburn 17 June 1993 Nassau
 Zimbabwe 8.40 m (27 ft 6+12 in) Ngonidzashe Makusha 9 June 2011 Des Moines
 Brazil 8.40 m (27 ft 6+12 in) Douglas de Souza 15 February 1995 São Paulo
 Slovenia 8.40 m (27 ft 6+12 in) Gregor Cankar 18 May 1997 Celje
 Morocco 8.40 m (27 ft 6+12 in) Yahya Berrabah 2 October 2009 Beirut
 Romania 8.37 m (27 ft 5+12 in) Bogdan Tudor 9 July 1995 Bad Cannstatt
 Portugal 8.36 m (27 ft 5 in) Carlos Calado 20 June 1997 Lisbon
 Ukraine 8.35 m (27 ft 4+12 in) Sergey Layevskiy 16 July 1988 Dnipropetrovsk
Roman Shchurenko 25 July 2000 Kiev
 Taiwan 8.34 m (27 ft 4+14 in) Nai Huei-Fang 14 May 1993 Shanghai
 Venezuela 8.34 m (27 ft 4+14 in) Víctor Castillo 30 May 2004 Cochabamba
 Bulgaria 8.33 m (27 ft 3+34 in) Ivaylo Mladenov 3 June 1995 Seville
 Belarus 8.33 m (27 ft 3+34 in) Aleksandr Glovatskiy 7 August 1996 Sestriere
 Egypt 8.31 m (27 ft 3 in) Hassine Hatem Moursal 30 June 1999 Oslo
 Hungary 8.30 m (27 ft 2+34 in) László Szalma 7 July 1985 Budapest
 Austria 8.30 m (27 ft 2+34 in) Andreas Steiner 4 June 1988 Innsbruck
 Netherlands 8.29 m (27 ft 2+14 in) Ignisious Gaisah 16 August 2013 Moscow
 Mauritius 8.28 m (27 ft 1+34 in) Jonathan Chimier 24 August 2004 Athens
 Poland 8.28 m (27 ft 1+34 in) Grzegorz Marciniszyn 14 July 2001 Mals
 Nigeria 8.27 m (27 ft 1+12 in) Yussuf Alli 8 August 1989 Lagos
 Botswana 8.27 m (27 ft 1+12 in) Gable Garenamotse 20 August 2006 Rhede
 Algeria 8.26 m (27 ft 1 in) Issam Nima 28 July 2007 Zaragoza
 Czech Republic 8.25 m (27 ft 34 in) Milan Mikuláš 16 July 1988 Prague
 Republic of Moldova 8.25 m (27 ft 34 in) Sergey Podgainiy 18 August 1990 Chişinău
 Japan 8.25 m (27 ft 34 in) Masaki Morinaga 5 May 1992 Shizuoka
 Belgium 8.25 m (27 ft 34 in) Erik Nys 6 July 1996 Hechtel
 Denmark 8.25 m (27 ft 34 in) Morten Jensen 3 July 2005 Gothenburg
 Georgia 8.25 m (27 ft 34 in) i Bachana Khorava 7 February 2016 Tbilisi
 Namibia 8.24 m (27 ft 14 in) A Stephan Louw 12 January 2008 Germiston
 Croatia 8.23 m (27 ft 0 in) Siniša Ergotić 5 June 2002 Zagreb
 Bermuda 8.22 m (26 ft 11+12 in) Tyrone Smith 26 July 2010 Mayagüez
 Finland 8.22 m (26 ft 11+12 in) Tommi Evilä 28 June 2008 Gothenburg
 South Korea 8.22 m (26 ft 11+12 in) Kim Deok-hyeon 10 June 2016 Ried [30]
 Canada 8.20 m (26 ft 10+34 in) Edrick Floreal 20 July 1991 Sherbrooke
 India 8.19 m (26 ft 10+14 in) Ankit Sharma 26 June 2016 Almaty [31]
 Uruguay 8.19 m (26 ft 10+14 in) Emiliano Lasa 18 February 2017 São Paulo [32]
 Iran 8.17 m (26 ft 9+12 in) Mohammad Arzandeh 7 July 2012 Tehran
 Kazakhstan 8.16 m (26 ft 9+14 in) Sergey Vasilenko 18 June 1988 Alma Ata
 Qatar 8.13 m (26 ft 8 in) Abdulrahman Faraj Al-Nubi 21 September 2003 Manila
 Hong Kong 8.12 m (26 ft 7+12 in) Chan Ming Tai 7 May 2016 Hong Kong [33]
 Estonia 8.10 m (26 ft 6+34 in) Erki Nool 27 May 1995 Götzis
 Peru 8.10 m (26 ft 6+34 in) Jorge McFarlane 23 November 2009 Sucre
 Uzbekistan 8.10 m (26 ft 6+34 in) Aleksandr Pototskiy 4 June 1992 Bryansk
 Turkey 8.08 m (26 ft 6 in) Mesut Yavaş 24 June 2000 Istanbul
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 8.08 m (26 ft 6 in) Clayton Latham 29 July 2008 Hamburg
 Latvia 8.08 m (26 ft 6 in) Elvijs Misāns 12 July 2016 Saldus [34]
 Albania 8.08 m (26 ft 6 in) i Izmir Smajlaj 4 March 2017 Belgrade [35]
 Ireland 8.07 m (26 ft 5+12 in) Ciaran McDonagh 21 August 2005 La Chaux-de-Fonds
 New Zealand 8.05 m (26 ft 4+34 in) Bob Thomas 20 January 1968 Whangarei
 Latvia 8.05 m (26 ft 4+34 in) Juris Tone 21 June 1983 Moscow
 Thailand 8.04 m (26 ft 4+12 in) Supanara Sukhasvasti 5 June 2010 Banglore
 Norway 8.02 m (26 ft 3+12 in) Kristen Fløgstad 4 August 1973 Bislett
 Philippines 7.99 m (26 ft 2+12 in) Henry Dagmil 7 June 2008 Eagle Rock [36]
 Israel 7.99 m (26 ft 2+12 in) Yochai Halevi 15 May 2010 Tel Aviv
 Viet Nam 7.90 m (25 ft 11 in) Nguyen Ngoc Quan 2 May 1997 Hanoi
 Malaysia 7.88 m (25 ft 10 in) Josbert Tinus 5 October 2007 Bangkok
 Turks and Caicos Islands 7.88 m (25 ft 10 in) Ifeanyi Otuonye 15 July 2016 San Salvador [37]
 Indonesia 7.85 m (25 ft 9 in) Agus Reza Irawan 21 September 1995 Jakarta
 United Arab Emirates 7.79 m (25 ft 6+12 in) Mousbeh Ali Said 6 September 1992 Latakia
 Aruba 7.72 m (25 ft 3+34 in) Quincy Breell 16 May 2015 Cartagena [38]
 Luxembourg 7.68 m (25 ft 2+14 in) i Romain Lambert 14 January 2017 Kirchberg [39]
 Singapore 7.62 m (25 ft 0 in) Matthew Goh Yujie 5 December 2009 Vientiane
 Benin 7.50 m (24 ft 7+14 in) Romeo N'Tia 26 June 2015 Reims
 Bahrain 7.47 m (24 ft 6 in) Mohamed Imam Bakhash 16 October 2003 Manama
 Lebanon 7.43 m (24 ft 4+12 in) Marc Habib 22 July 2004 Lebanon
 Montenegro 7.33 m (24 ft 12 in) Darko Pešić 25 June 2016 Pitești [40]
 Laos 7.31 m (23 ft 11+34 in) Sompong Vongphakdy 12 June 2015 Kallang [41]
 Jersey 7.21 m (23 ft 7+34 in) Ross Jeffs 1 July 2012 Jersey
 Macedonia 7.15 m (23 ft 5+14 in) Zoran Tasevski 15 May 1976 Skopje
Toni Damcevski 23 May 1995 Sofia
Slavcho Mirchevski 7 June 2015 Ohrid
 Afghanistan 7.05 m (23 ft 1+12 in) Mohammed Anwar 1940 Kabul
 Brunei 7.04 m (23 ft 1 in) Daniel Chung 7 August 1993 Kota Kinabalu

Women

Nation Distance Athlete Date Location Ref
 Serbia 7.24 m (23 ft 9 in) i Ivana Španović 5 March 2017 Belgrade [42]
 Great Britain 7.07 m (23 ft 2+14 in) Shara Proctor 28 August 2015 Beijing [43]
 Latvia 6.92 m (22 ft 8+14 in) Ineta Radēviča 28 July 2010 Barcelona
 India 6.83 m (22 ft 4+34 in) Anju Bobby George 27 August 2004 Athens [44]
 Bahamas 6.83 m (22 ft 4+34 in) Bianca Stuart 26 June 2015 Nassau [45]
 Barbados 6.80 m (22 ft 3+12 in) i Akela Jones 11 March 2016 Birmingham [46]
 Armenia 6.72 m (22 ft 12 in) Amaliya Sharoyan 21 May 2016 Elbasan [47]
 Philippines 6.72 m (22 ft 12 in) Marestella Sunang 4 July 2016 Almaty [48]
 Mexico 6.70 m (21 ft 11+34 in) Ivonne Treviño 5 June 2016 Monterrey [49]
 British Virgin Islands 6.69 m (21 ft 11+14 in) Chantel Malone 9 August 2015 San José [50]
 Iceland 6.62 m (21 ft 8+12 in) Hafdís Sigurðardóttir 9 July 2016 Hilversum [51]
 Ecuador 6.50 m (21 ft 3+34 in) A Yuliana Angulo 10 May 2015 Medellín [52]
 Sri Lanka 6.43 m (21 ft 1 in) Chamali Dilrukshi Priyadarshani 19 December 2015 Diyagama [53]
 Dominica 6.17 m (20 ft 2+34 in) i Thea LaFond 27 February 2015 Geneva [54]
 Papua New Guinea 6.10 m (20 ft 0 in) Rellie Kaputin 26 May 2016 Bradenton [55]
 Republic of the Congo 6.09 m (19 ft 11+34 in) Marie Mbuya Mala 8 June 2016 Blois [56]
 Papua New Guinea 5.97 m (19 ft 7 in) Rellie Kaputin 17 July 2015 Port Moresby [57]
 Laos 5.69 m (18 ft 8 in) Laenly Phoutthavong 4 April 2015 Kallang [58]
 Cape Verde 5.66 m (18 ft 6+34 in) i Evelise Veiga 27 January 2012 Pombal
 Libya 5.12 m (16 ft 9+12 in) Hedil Aboud Fethi 7 June 2015 Radès
 Kuwait 4.87 m (15 ft 11+12 in) Nadia Al-Haqqan 15 March 2015 Muscat

See also

Notes and references

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  3. ^ Miller, p. 66
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  6. ^ Miller, p. 68
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  51. ^ "Hilversum (Netherlands), 9.7.2016". trackinsun.blogspot.de. 12 July 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
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Cited sources

  • Stephen G. Miller (2004). Ancient Greek Athletics. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300115296.

Further reading

  • Guthrie, Mark (2003). Coach Track & Field Successfully. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics. pp. 149–155. ISBN 0-7360-4274-1.
  • Rogers, Joseph L. (2000). USA Track & Field Coaching Manual. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics. pp. 141–157. ISBN 0-88011-604-8.
  • Ernie Gregoire, Larry Myricks (1991). World Class Track & Field Series: Long Jump (VHS). Ames, Iowa: Championship Books & Video Productions.