2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump


The women's long jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 21 and 23 August.
In the [|final], Olympic champion Maurren Higa Maggi took the early lead as the first jumper in the competition. After three fouls, the second legal jump of the competition took Brittney Reese into the lead with a 6.92m. Tatyana Lebedeva's second round 6.97m put her into the lead for six jumps until Reese could take her third jump. Her season best tying settled the competition. No athlete improved over the final three rounds.
In 2017, silver medalist Lebedeva's 2008 Olympic doping sample was retested and found positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone. Her Olympic medal was revoked. Ordinarily, a doping violation is followed by a two year ban which would include this championship. No changes in medals have been announced yet.

Medalists

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.
World record7.52Leningrad, Soviet Union11 June 1988
Championship record7.36Rome, Italy4 September 1987
World leading7.06Belém, Brazil24 May 2009
African record7.12Atlanta, United States2 August 1996
Asian Record7.01Jinan, China5 June 1993
North American record7.49New York, United States22 May 1994
South American record7.26Bogotá, Colombia26 June 1999
European record7.52Leningrad, Soviet Union11 June 1988
Oceanian record7.00Melbourne, Australia7 March 2002

No new records were set during this competition.

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 6.75 or at least 12 best performers advance to the final.
RankGroupAthleteNationality#1#2#3ResultNotes
ANaide Gomes6.606.866.86Q
BBrittney Reese6.786.78Q
BTatyana Lebedeva6.766.76Q
BOlga Kucherenko6.686.656.68q
AMaurren Maggi6.686.586.306.68q
BKarin Melis Mey6.576.616.676.67q
BKeila Costa 6.666.556.66q
BKsenija Balta6.236.596.59q
ANastassia Mironchyk6.086.556.426.55q
10ATeresa Dobija6.556.55q
11ABrianna Glenn6.536.53q
12AShara Proctor6.436.526.476.52q
13AYelena Sokolova6.446.516.466.51
14AJung Soon-Ok6.456.316.496.49
15ARuky Abdulai6.376.456.45
16BJovanee Jarrett6.296.426.436.43
17BViktoriya Rybalko6.406.186.40
18BÉloyse Lesueur6.406.096.116.40
19AIrina Meleshina6.396.146.39
20BNataliya Dobrynska6.326.386.366.38
21AFunmi Jimoh6.346.34
22BYarianny Argüelles6.155.976.326.32
23BMelanie Bauschke6.326.136.146.32
24BMargrethe Renstrøm6.316.106.31
25ABianca Kappler6.266.216.296.29
26AViktoriya Molchanova6.296.206.29
27AOla Sesay5.926.236.196.23
28ASachiko Masumi6.236.066.136.23
29BMarestella Torres6.216.036.226.22
30BJanice Josephs6.225.756.22
31BBeatrice Marscheck6.076.196.19
32AJana Velďáková6.166.16
33ASirkka-Liisa Kivine5.926.106.10
34BAlice Falaiye6.076.096.09
35ANina Kolarič6.006.00
36BPatricia Sylvester5.925.805.92
BBlessing OkagbareDNS

Key: DNS = Did not start, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place

Final

Key: NR = National record, SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading