Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's long jump
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Qualifying round

Qualifying performance 6.75 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.
Rank Group Name Nationality 1 2 3 Mark Notes
1 B Brittney Reese
Brittney Reese
Brittney Reese is an American long jumper, who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and is the current world champion.-Personal:...

x 6.87
(+1.1)
6.87 Q
2 A Maurren Higa Maggi 6.68
(+0.3)
6.79
(+0.3)
6.79 Q
3 B Tatyana Lebedeva
Tatyana Lebedeva
Tatyana Romanovna Lebedeva is a Russian athlete who competes in both the long jump and triple jump events. She is one of most successful athletes in the disciplines, having won gold medals at Olympic, world and European levels...

6.65
(+0.7)
6.70
(+1.4)
- 6.70 q
4 A Carolina Klüft
Carolina Klüft
Carolina Evelyn Klüft is a Swedish athlete competing in triple jump, long jump and formerly in heptathlon and pentathlon. She won the Olympic heptathlon title in 2004...

6.70
(+1.0)
x
6.70 q
5 A Grace Upshaw
Grace Upshaw
Grace Upshaw is an American long jumper.Her personal best jump is , achieved in July 2008 in Eugene, with which she qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.-Achievements:-References:...

6.47
(-0.2)
6.68
(+0.6)
x 6.68 q
6 A Oksana Udmurtova
Oksana Udmurtova
Oksana Pavlovna Udmurtova is a Russian athlete specialising in the long jump. She is from the Volgograd region of Russia and she is part of the Russian Army Athletics Club where she is coached by Viacheslav Dogonkin and Yu Malkov...

6.48
(+1.3)
x 6.63
(+0.5)
6.63 q
7 B Keila Costa
Keila Costa
Keila da Silva Costa is a Brazilian long jumper and triple jumper. She has competed in two Olympic Games, 2004 and 2008, and has reached the final round both there and in World Championships and World Indoor Championships. She is the South American record holder in triple jump with 14.57 metres,...

 
x 6.44
(+0.4)
6.62
(+0.7)
6.62 q
8 A Tabia Charles
Tabia Charles
Tabia Charles is a Canadian long jumper.She finished tenth in the final round at the 2008 Olympic Games.Her personal best is 6.82 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Chania. This is the current Canadian record...

6.33
(+1.5)
6.61
(+0.6)
6.49
(+0.9)
6.61 q
9 A Funmi Jimoh 6.42
(+0.9)
6.28
(+1.1)
6.61
(+0.8)
6.61 q
10 B Jade Johnson
Jade Johnson
Jade Linsey Johnson is an English athlete, specialising in long jump.She is allergic to sand.Johnson came second in the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Later she won the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships and finished fourth at the 2003 World Championships...

 
6.33
(0.0)
6.15
(+0.2)
6.61
(+0.7)
6.61 q
11 A Chelsea Hammond 6.60
(+0.4)
x x 6.60 q
12 B Blessing Okagbare
Blessing Okagbare
Blessing Okagbare is a Nigerian long and triple jumper and short sprinter.In May 2007, at the All-Africa Games trials in Lagos, she established a Nigerian record of 14.13 metres in the triple jump. At the 2007 All-Africa Games she won the silver medal in the long jump and finished fourth in the...

 
6.37
(+0.2)
6.49
(+0.9)
6.59
(+0.4)
6.59 q
13 B Tatyana Kotova
Tatyana Kotova
Tatyana Vladimirovna Kotova is an athlete who competes for Russia in the long jump. Her personal best was a jump of 7.42 m at Annecy in 2002. In September, 2000 she was injured in a car accident....

 
6.37
(+1.0)
6.57
(+1.2)
x 6.57
14 A Hrysopiyí Devetzí
Hrysopiyí Devetzí
Hrysopiyi "Pigi" Devetzi in Alexandroupoli is a former Greek athlete competing in the triple jump and long jump.She won the triple jump silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics with 15.25 and the triple jump bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics with 15.23. At the 2004 Summer Olympics...

 
x 6.57
(+0.4)
x 6.57
15 B Concepción Montaner
Concepción Montaner
Concepción Montaner is a Spanish long jumper.She took the gold medal the World Junior Championships in 2000. At the 2006 World Indoor Championships she came close to her first major international senior medal, when she finished fourth with 6.76 metres - the same result as the bronze medalist Naide...

6.53
(+0.7)
6.42
(+1.1)
6.43
(+0.7)
6.53
16 |B Bronwyn Thompson
Bronwyn Thompson
Bronwyn Thompson is a long jumper from Australia. She holds the Commonwealth and Australian record for the long jump and has been ranked as high as number two in the world. Her greatest achievements include winning gold in the long jump at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and placing fourth at the 2004...

 
x 6.53
(+0.3)
x 6.53
17 A Yargelis Savigne
Yargelis Savigne
Yargelis Savigne Herrera is a Cuban athlete competing in the triple jump and long jump.Her international breakthrough came in 2005, when she, competing in both the triple and long jump events at the 2005 World Championships, won a silver medal and finished fourth, respectively...

 
x x 6.49
(+0.1)
6.49
18 B Iryna Charnushenka-Stasiuk  6.48
(+1.1)
x x 6.48
19 |B Kumiko Ikeda
Kumiko Ikeda
is a Japanese long jumper.She won bronze medals at the 2000 World Junior Championships and the 2001 Summer Universiade, and finished eleventh at the 2001 World Championships. On the regional level she won a bronze medal at the 2005 Asian Championships and gold at the 2006 Asian Games.Her personal...

 
6.44
(+0.8)
6.47
(+0.1)
x 6.47
20 A Denisa Ščerbová
Denisa Šcerbová
Denisa Rosolová, née Ščerbová is a Czech athlete. Her main event is the long jump, but she competes also in heptathlon. Her best are 6.68 m in the long jump and 5,828 points in the heptathlon...

 
6.40
(+0.8)
6.46
(+1.5)
5.17
(-0.1)
6.46
21 A Patricia Sylvester
Patricia Sylvester
Patricia Sylvester is a Grenadian long jumper.Her personal best jump is 6.71 metres, achieved in March 2008 in Atlanta. This is the Grenadian record. She also holds the Grenadian records in the high jump, with 1.85 metres, and the triple jump with 13.87 metres.-References:...

 
6.44
(+0.9)
6.42
(+0.1)
6.38
(+0.4)
6.44
22 B Viorica Tigau
Viorica Tigau
Viorica Ţigău is a Romanian heptathlete.She won the bronze medal at the 1998 World Junior Championships and finished 18th at the 2000 Olympic Games.Her personal best result is 6289 points, achieved in June 2000 in Bucharest....

 
x 6.38
(+0.7)
6.44
(+0.2)
6.44
23 A Viktoriya Rybalko
Viktoriya Rybalko
Viktoriya Rybalko is a Ukrainian long jumper.She finished fourth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and seventh at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships....

 
x x 6.43
(+0.3)
6.43
24 A Melis Karin Mey
Melis Karin Mey
Karin Melis Mey is a South African-born long jumper who competes for Turkey in international competition...

 
x 6.42
(-0.4)
x 6.42
25 B Ruky Abdulai  x 6.41
(+0.4)
6.25
(+1.0)
6.41
26 A Nina Kolaric  4.92
(+1.4)
6.19
(0.0)
6.40
(+0.6)
6.40
27 B Ksenija Balta
Ksenija Balta
Ksenija Balta is an Estonian long jumper, sprinter and heptathlete.Balta finished fourteenth at the 2005 European Indoor Championships in pentathlon and won the bronze medal at the 2005 European Junior Championships in heptathlon...

 
x 6.38
(+0.7)
x 6.38
28 B Soon-ok Jung  x x 6.33
(+0.5)
6.33
29 B Olga Rypakova
Olga Rypakova
Olga Rypakova is a Kazakhstani track and field athlete. Originally a heptathlete, she switched to focus on the long jump and began to compete in the triple jump after 2007...

 
x 6.30
(+1.5)
6.04
(+0.6)
6.30
30 B Ivana Španović
Ivana Španovic
Ivana Španović is a Serbian long jumper.She finished seventh at the 2006 World Junior Championships, won the silver medal the 2007 World Youth Championships and the gold medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships...

 
x x 6.30
(+1.8)
6.30
31 A Naide Gomes
Naide Gomes
Enezaide do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes, OIH, is a Portuguese heptathlete, born in São Tomé and Príncipe. She is also a top-class competitor in the long jump, and she competed in 100 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics...

 
x x 6.29
(+0.5)
6.29
32 A Volha Sergeenka  6.25
(+0.1)
6.02
(+0.4)
6.09
(-0.6)
6.25
33 B Oleksandra Stadnyuk
Oleksandra Stadnyuk
Oleksandra Oleksandrivna Stadnyuk is a Ukrainian athlete who competes in the long jump and triple jump.She finished seventh in triple jump at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow. Her personal best jump is 14.09 metres, achieved in June 2005 in Florence.-External links:...

 
x 6.19
(0.0)
x 6.19
34 B Marestella Torres
Marestella Torres
Marestella Torres is a Filipino long jumper.Torres finished fourth at the 2002 Asian Championships and won the silver medal at the 2005 Asian Championships. She also competed at the 2005 World Championships without reaching the final. She also participated in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China...

 
4.27
(+0.6)
5.94
(-0.1)
6.17
(+0.8)
6.17
35 A Pamela Mouele Mboussi  x 5.94
(+0.6)
6.06
(+0.9)
6.06 NR
36 B Arantxa King  6.01
(-0.3)
x x 6.01
37 A Rhonda Watkins
Rhonda Watkins
Rhonda Watkins is a Trinidad and Tobago long jumper.She won the gold medal at the 2006 World Junior Championships, and competed without reaching the final round at the 2008 Olympic Games. She also finished thirteenth in the high jump at the 2003 World Youth Championships.She has 6.82 metres in the...

 
x 5.88
(+0.5)
x 5.88
38 A Tricia Flores  5.25
(+1.2)
x - 5.25
} ||B||align="left"|Anju Bobby George
Anju Bobby George
Anju Bobby George is an Indian athlete. Anju Bobby George made history when she won the bronze medal in Long Jump at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris. With this achievement, she became the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal in a World Championships in Athletics jumping...

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| ||B||align="left"|Jackie Edwards
Jackie Edwards (athlete)
Jacqueline Lois Elizabeth Edwards is a Bahamian long jumper, who was born in Jamaica....

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| ||A|| align="left"|Jana Velďáková
Jana Veldáková
Jana Velďáková is a Slovak long jumper. She has a twin sister named Dana, who is a triple jumper.-Achievements:-References:...

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| ||A||align="left"|Lyudmila Blonska
Lyudmila Blonska
Lyudmyla Leonydivna Blonska , née Shevchuk is a Ukrainian heptathlete, long jumper and 2006 World Indoor champion pentathlete. She was given a lifetime ban from competition after failing a drug test at the 2008 Summer Olympics, her second doping offense.-Life and career:Blonska practiced rhythmic...

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Q - Qualified by right / q - Qualified by result / NM - No Mark / NR - National Record / SB - Season Best / DQ - Disqualified

Final

22 August 2008 - 19:20
Rank Name Nationality 123456Result Notes
Maurren Higa Maggi 7.04 x x x 6.73 x 7.04 SB
Tatyana Lebedeva
Tatyana Lebedeva
Tatyana Romanovna Lebedeva is a Russian athlete who competes in both the long jump and triple jump events. She is one of most successful athletes in the disciplines, having won gold medals at Olympic, world and European levels...

6.97 x x x x 7.03 7.03 SB
Blessing Okagbare
Blessing Okagbare
Blessing Okagbare is a Nigerian long and triple jumper and short sprinter.In May 2007, at the All-Africa Games trials in Lagos, she established a Nigerian record of 14.13 metres in the triple jump. At the 2007 All-Africa Games she won the silver medal in the long jump and finished fourth in the...

6.91 6.62 6.79 6.70 6.83 x 6.91 PB
4 Chelsea Hammond 6.79 6.68 6.51 x 6.64 6.59 6.79 PB
5 Brittney Reese
Brittney Reese
Brittney Reese is an American long jumper, who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and is the current world champion.-Personal:...

6.65 6.76 4.23 x 6.46 6.67 6.76
6 Oksana Udmurtova
Oksana Udmurtova
Oksana Pavlovna Udmurtova is a Russian athlete specialising in the long jump. She is from the Volgograd region of Russia and she is part of the Russian Army Athletics Club where she is coached by Viacheslav Dogonkin and Yu Malkov...

6.69 6.70 6.67 6.61 6.65 6.49 6.70
7 Jade Johnson
Jade Johnson
Jade Linsey Johnson is an English athlete, specialising in long jump.She is allergic to sand.Johnson came second in the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Later she won the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships and finished fourth at the 2003 World Championships...

6.51 6.64 6.40 6.59 6.43 x 6.64
8 Grace Upshaw
Grace Upshaw
Grace Upshaw is an American long jumper.Her personal best jump is , achieved in July 2008 in Eugene, with which she qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.-Achievements:-References:...

6.58 x 6.52 x x x 6.58
9 Carolina Klüft
Carolina Klüft
Carolina Evelyn Klüft is a Swedish athlete competing in triple jump, long jump and formerly in heptathlon and pentathlon. She won the Olympic heptathlon title in 2004...

x 6.49 6.42 6.49
10 Tabia Charles
Tabia Charles
Tabia Charles is a Canadian long jumper.She finished tenth in the final round at the 2008 Olympic Games.Her personal best is 6.82 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Chania. This is the current Canadian record...

6.16 6.38 6.47 6.47
11 Keila Costa
Keila Costa
Keila da Silva Costa is a Brazilian long jumper and triple jumper. She has competed in two Olympic Games, 2004 and 2008, and has reached the final round both there and in World Championships and World Indoor Championships. She is the South American record holder in triple jump with 14.57 metres,...

x x 6.43 6.43
12 Funmi Jimoh 6.24 x 6.29 6.29
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