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Women's long jump at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships Venue Oregon Convention Center Dates March 18 Competitors 16 from 11 nations Winning distance 7.22 Medalists Brittney Reese United States Ivana Španović Serbia Lorraine Ugen Great Britain ← 2014 2018 → 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships Track events 60 m men women 400 m men women 800 m men women 1500 m men women 3000 m men ...
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.
Event Gold Silver Bronze T11 [1]: Viktoria Karlsson Sweden 4.59 CR: Ronja Oja Finland 4.32 Arjola Dedaj Italy 4.25 T12 [2]: Sara Martinez Spain 5.53 SB: Anna Kaniuk Belarus 5.45 ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... The women's long jump at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 8 July.
This was also the first Olympic women's high jump since 1980 where the winning height was below two metres. A week earlier, while competing in the heptathlon , Katarina Johnson-Thompson had jumped 1.98 m.
The women's long jump was introduced over fifty years later in 1948, and was the second Olympic jumping event for women after the high jump, which was added in 1928. The Olympic records for the event are 8.90 m ( 29 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) for men, set by Bob Beamon in 1968, and 7.40 m ( 24 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) for women, set by Jackie Joyner-Kersee ...
Women's long jump at the 2018 European Athletics Championships Venue Olympic Stadium Location Berlin Dates 9 August (qualification) 11 August (final) Competitors 27 from 18 nations Winning distance 6.75 Medalists Malaika Mihambo Germany Maryna Bekh Ukraine Shara Proctor Great Britain ← 2016 2022 → 2018 European Athletics Championships Track events 100 m men women 200 m men women 400 m men ...
Before the competition, 2015 World Champion Caterine Ibargüen of Colombia had the longest jump of the season with 15.04 m. Kazakhstan's Olga Rypakova entered as the defending Olympic champion from 2012 and had been the first athlete to beat Ibargüen that year, ending her rival's 34-meet-long winning streak.