2019 World Athletics Championships – Women's long jump explained

The women's long jump at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, from 5 to 6 October 2019.^[1]

The winning margin was 38 cm. As of 2024, this is the only time the women's long jump has been won by more than 30 cm at these championships.

Summary

Throughout the 2019 season, only 3 athletes were able to jump over 7 metres, led by Malaika Mihambo who had been there in 6 out of 10 competitions. One of the others was defending champion Brittney Reese, who didn't make it out of the qualifying round, leaving Ese Brume as Mihambo's strongest challenger.

On the first jump of the competition, Brume jumped 6.83m, then third up Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk came close to Brume with a 6.81m. At the end of the round, Abigail Irozuru jumped 6.64m to take over third place. Brume opened the second round by expanding her lead with a 6.91m. After two rounds Mihambo was languishing in seventh place with a 6.52m, which would ultimately prove to be inadequate to qualify for the final three jumps. On her third jump she went . It was her personal best and more than 20 cm beyond the personal best of everyone else in the field. Later in the competition, she had two more jumps that would have won the competition, the last equalling her previous world leading jump 7.16m. Those standings remained until near the end of the fifth round when Bekh-Romanchuk jumped 6.92m to take silver by a centimetre.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[2]

Record		Athlete		Date	Location
World	7.52	Galina Chistyakova		11 Jun 1988	Leningrad, Soviet Union
Championship	7.36	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States	4 Sep 1987	Rome, Italy
World leading	7.30	Malaika Mihambo		4 Aug 2019	Berlin, Germany
African	7.12	Chioma Ajunwa		2 Aug 1996	Atlanta, United States
Asian	7.01	Yao Weili		5 Jun 1993	Jinan, China
NACAC	7.49	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States		New York City, United States
				31 Jul 1994	Sestriere, Italy
South American	7.26	Maurren Higa Maggi	Brazil	26 Jun 1999	Bogotá, Colombia
European	7.52	Galina Chistyakova		11 Jun 1988	Leningrad, Soviet Union
Oceanian	7.05	Brooke Stratton	Australia	12 Mar 2016	Perth, Australia

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:^[3]

Date	Time	Round
5 October	17:50	Qualification
6 October	19:15	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 6.75 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.^{[4] [5]}

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	Round			Mark	Notes
				1	2	3
1	B			6.98			6.98	Q
2	A			6.89			6.89	Q
3	A			6.54	6.77		6.77	Q
4	B			6.69	6.74		6.74	q
5	A			6.57	6.31	6.72	6.72	q
6	B			6.66	6.70		6.70	q
7	B			6.41	6.69		6.69	q
8	A			6.54	6.63		6.63	q
9	A			6.43	6.58	6.43	6.58	q
10	A			6.50	6.46	6.57	6.57	q
11	A			6.41		6.54	6.54	q
12	B			6.35	6.27	6.53	6.53	q
13	A			6.44	6.43	6.52	6.52
14	B			6.51	6.50	6.07	6.51
15	A				6.25	6.50	6.50
16	B			6.35	6.49	6.22	6.49
17	B			6.34	6.48	6.48	6.48
18	B			6.38		6.47	6.47
19	B			6.45	6.46	6.45	6.46
20	A			6.44	6.46		6.46
21	A			6.34	6.46	6.39	6.46
22	A				6.21	6.45	6.45
23	B			6.08	6.44	6.20	6.44
24	B			6.21	6.43	6.39	6.43
25	A			6.39		6.29	6.39
26	B			6.31	6.16	6.36	6.36
27	A			6.33	6.02	6.35	6.35
28	B			6.19		6.23	6.23
29	B			6.22	6.21		6.22
30	A			6.10	6.21	6.19	6.21
31	A					6.05	6.05

Final

The final was started on 6 October at 19:16.^[6]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Round						Mark	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
			6.52		7.30		7.09	7.16	7.30
			6.81		6.77		6.92	6.72	6.92
			6.83	6.91	6.90	6.87	6.84	6.45	6.91
4			6.61	6.49		6.81	6.65	6.57	6.81
5			6.53		6.76	6.70	6.55	6.71	6.76
6			6.59	6.66	6.67		6.71		6.71
7			6.64		6.59	6.59	6.60		6.64
8			6.30	6.44	6.56	6.44	6.24	6.47	6.56
9				6.28	6.54				6.54
10			6.46		6.42				6.46
11				6.34	6.43				6.43
12				6.26					6.26

Notes and References

1. Web site: Long Jump Women − Qualification − Start List. IAAF. 4 October 2019. 4 October 2019.
2. Web site: Long Jump Women – Records . iaaf.org . 30 September 2019.
3. Web site: Women's Long Jump − Timetable. iaaf.org . 30 September 2019.
4. Web site: Long Jump Women − Qualification − Results. IAAF. 5 October 2019. 5 October 2019.
5. Web site: Long Jump Women − Qualification − Summary. IAAF. 5 October 2019. 5 October 2019.
6. Web site: Final results.