Women's long jump at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
Dates | 16 August 2016 (qualifications) 17 August 2016 (final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 38 from 26 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning distance | 7.17 m | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics | ||
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Qualification | ||
Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
5000 m | men | women |
10,000 m | men | women |
100 m hurdles | women | |
110 m hurdles | men | |
400 m hurdles | men | women |
3000 m steeplechase | men | women |
4×100 m relay | men | women |
4×400 m relay | men | women |
Road events | ||
Marathon | men | women |
20 km walk | men | women |
50 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | women |
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | women |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | women |
Combined events | ||
Heptathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
The women's long jump event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place between 16–17 August at the Olympic Stadium. [1]
The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and commonly known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August. These were the first Olympic Games ever to be held in South America and the third to be held in a developing country, after the 1968 games in Mexico City and the 1988 games in Seoul, South Korea.
In the final, Malaika Mihambo jumped 6.83 m as the first athlete down the runway. The second jumper was Darya Klishina, the only Russian athlete in the entire athletics competition. Her 6.63 took the second spot. Ksenija Balta jumped 6.71 m as the fourth athlete but that order held until almost the end of the round when Ivana Španović moved on top with 6.95 m.
Malaika Mihambo is a German long jumper and current European champion in this event.
Darya Igorevna Klishina is a Russian long jumper.
Ksenija Balta is an Estonian long jumper, sprinter and heptathlete. She won the long jump at the 2009 European Indoor Championships in Athletics.
In the second round Tianna Bartoletta moved into silver medal position with a 6.94 m. Defending champion Brittney Reese jumped a 6.79 m, her only legal jump of the first four rounds, but remained outside of the medals. In the third round, Bartoletta's 1 cm improvement to 6.95 m equalled Španović, with the tiebreaker to put her in gold medal position. On the next jump, Balta equalled Reese, with the same tiebreaker rule pushing her into fifth place.
Tianna Bartoletta is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the long jump and short sprinting events. She is a two-time Olympian with three gold medals. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she placed fourth in the 100m race then won her first gold by leading off the world record-setting 4 × 100 m relay team. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she won two more golds, first with a personal best to win the long jump then again leading off the victorious 4 × 100 m relay team.
Brittney Reese is an American long jumper, Olympic gold medalist, and a seven-time world champion. Reese is the indoor American record holder in the long jump with a distance of 7.23 meters.
The fifth round had the real action. First Reese jumped 7.09 to leap from fifth to first. Her mood went from serious to jubilant. Mihambo jumped the third 6.95 of the competition. Then Španović moved right behind Reese with a 7.08 m, her personal best and a new Serbian national record.
On the final jump of the round, Bartoletta jumped the winner 7.17 m (23 ft 61⁄4 in), her personal best in the Olympic final. She moved up to be the number 21 performer in history. Only Reese has jumped further in the last nine years. But Reese wasn't done. She popped another big jump on her last attempt. She was celebrating again, but the measurement turned out to be 7.15 m, improving her hold on silver but didn't reach Bartoletta's gold.
The following evening the medals were presented by Auvita Rapilla, IOC member, Papua New Guinea and Svein Arne Hansen, Council Member of the IAAF.
Auvita Rapilla is a Papuan woman who is the Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee's secretary general since 2011. She was named onto the International Olympic Committee in 2016.
The International Olympic Committee is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas in 1894, it is the authority responsible for organising the modern Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
Svein Arne Hansen is a Norwegian sports official and the current President of the European Athletic Association.
The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete jumped three times (stopping early if they made the qualifying distance). At least the top twelve athletes moved on to the final; if more than twelve reached the qualifying distance, all who did so advanced. Distances were reset for the final round. Finalists jumped three times, after which the eight best jumped three more times (with the best distance of the six jumps counted).
Prior to the competition [update] , the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | 7.52 m | Leningrad, USSR | 11 June 1988 | |
Olympic record | 7.40 m | Seoul, South Korea | 29 September 1988 | |
2016 World leading | 7.31 m | Eugene, Oregon, United States | 2 July 2016 |
The following national record was established during the competition:
Country | Athlete | Round | Distance | Notes |
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Serbia | Final | 7.08 m |
All times are Brasilia Time (UTC-3)
Date | Time | Round |
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Tuesday, 16 August 2016 | 21:05 | Qualifications |
Wednesday, 17 August 2016 | 21:15 | Finals |
Qualification rule: qualification standard 6.75m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).
Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
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1 | A | Ivana Španović | 6.87 | 6.87 | Q | |||
2 | A | Malaika Mihambo | 6.63 | 6.82 | 6.82 | Q | ||
3 | B | Brittney Reese | 6.78 | 6.78 | Q | |||
4 | B | Ksenija Balta | 6.13 | 6.71 | – | 6.71 | q | |
5 | A | Tianna Bartoletta | 6.44 | 6.70 | 6.61 | 6.70 | q | |
6 | B | Ese Brume | 6.32 | 6.67 | 6.49 | 6.67 | q | |
7 | A | Lorraine Ugen | 6.44 | 6.58 | 6.65 | 6.65 | q | |
8 | A | Darya Klishina | 6.64 | x | x | 6.64 | q | |
9 | B | Brooke Stratton | 6.40 | 6.46 | 6.56 | 6.56 | q | |
10 | A | Maryna Bekh | 6.49 | 6.47 | 6.55 | 6.55 | q | |
11 | A | Sosthene Moguenara | 6.46 | x | 6.55 | 6.55 | q | |
12 | B | Jazmin Sawyers | 6.49 | 6.36 | 6.53 | 6.53 | q | |
13 | B | Janay Deloach | 6.45 | 6.50 | 6.46 | 6.50 | ||
14 | A | Karin Mey Melis | 6.49 | 6.43 | 6.40 | 6.49 | ||
15 | B | Jana Veldakova | 6.45 | 6.48 | 6.29 | 6.48 | ||
16 | A | Bianca Stuart | 6.45 | 5.40 | 6.39 | 6.45 | ||
17 | A | Chelsea Jaensch | 6.20 | 6.35 | 6.41 | 6.41 | ||
18 | A | Alina Rotaru | 6.40 | x | 6.38 | 6.40 | ||
19 | B | Anna Kornuta | x | 6.34 | 6.37 | 6.37 | ||
20 | A | Christabel Nettey | 6.05 | 6.32 | 6.37 | 6.37 | ||
21 | B | Shara Proctor | 6.36 | 6.34 | 6.30 | 6.36 | ||
22 | B | Juliet Itoya | 6.35 | x | 5.69 | 6.35 | ||
23 | B | Eliane Martins | 6.33 | 6.24 | 6.30 | 6.33 | ||
24 | A | Concepción Montaner | 6.23 | 6.23 | 6.32 | 6.32 | ||
25 | A | Volha Sudarava | 6.29 | x | x | 6.29 | ||
26 | B | Maria Natalia Londa | 6.21 | 6.29 | 6.29 | 6.29 | ||
27 | B | Khaddi Sagnia | 6.04 | 6.25 | x | 6.25 | ||
28 | B | Marestella Sunang | 6.22 | 6.10 | 6.15 | 6.22 | ||
29 | A | Yuliya Tarasova | x | 6.10 | 6.16 | 6.16 | ||
30 | B | Yvonne Treviño | x | 6.16 | x | 6.16 | ||
31 | A | Anna Lunyova | 6.12 | 6.15 | 6.14 | 6.15 | ||
32 | A | Haido Alexouli | 6.07 | x | 6.13 | 6.13 | ||
33 | B | Lynique Prinsloo | 5.96 | x | 6.10 | 6.10 | ||
34 | B | Alexandra Wester | 5.98 | x | x | 5.98 | ||
35 | A | Amaliya Sharoyan | 5.58 | x | 5.95 | 5.95 | ||
36 | B | María del Mar Jover | x | 5.82 | 5.90 | 5.90 | ||
37 | B | Konomi Kai | x | x | 5.87 | 5.87 | ||
38 | A | Keila Costa | 5.86 | 5.73 | 5.79 | 5.86 |
Rank | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
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Tianna Bartoletta | x | 6.94 | 6.95 | 6.74 | 7.17 | 7.13 | 7.17 | PB | ||
Brittney Reese | x | 6.79 | x | x | 7.09 | 7.15 | 7.15 | |||
Ivana Španović | 6.95 | x | x | 6.91 | 7.08 | 7.05 | 7.08 | NR | ||
4 | Malaika Mihambo | 6.83 | x | x | 6.58 | 6.95 | 6.79 | 6.95 | PB | |
5 | Ese Brume | 6.73 | 6.34 | 6.71 | 5.96 | 6.81 | x | 6.81 | ||
6 | Ksenija Balta | 6.71 | x | 6.79 | 6.71 | x | 6.62 | 6.79 | SB | |
7 | Brooke Stratton | x | 6.69 | 6.64 | 6.74 | 6.64 | 6.53 | 6.74 | ||
8 | Jazmin Sawyers | 6.55 | 6.69 | 6.57 | 6.53 | x | x | 6.69 | ||
9 | Darya Klishina | 6.63 | 6.60 | 6.53 | Did not advance | 6.63 | ||||
10 | Sosthene Moguenara | 6.61 | x | 6.46 | Did not advance | 6.61 | ||||
11 | Lorraine Ugen | 6.56 | x | 6.58 | Did not advance | 6.58 | ||||
– | Maryna Bekh | x | x | x | Did not advance | NM | ||||
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