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The long jump at the World Championships in Athletics has been contested by both men and women since the inaugural edition in 1983. The competition format typically has one qualifying round contested by two groups of athletes, with all those clearing the qualifying height or placing in top twelve advancing to the final round.
The men's long jump at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 23 and 24 August 2023. The winning margin was 2 cm which is the narrowest winning margin in the men's long jump at these championships.
All India Inter-University Championships Moodabidri, India [98] 10,000 m walk: 43:38.83 Priyanka Goswami: 6 August 2022 Commonwealth Games: Birmingham, United Kingdom [99] 20,000 m walk: 1:36:16.87 Bhawna Jat: 22 August 2019 All-India Railway Championships Pune, India [100] 4 × 100 m relay: 43.37 India Dutee Chand Hima Das S Dhanalakshmi ...
Govindan Lakshmanan won both the men's long-distance track events and Mohammad Anas and Arokia Rajiv took a men's 1–2 in the 400 m before winning the relay title. Neeraj Chopra won the men's javelin in a championship record of 85.23 m. Nirmala Sheoran was an individual and relay champion in women's 400 m.
The men's long jump at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 15 and 16 July 2022. [ 1 ] 34 athletes from 21 nations entered to the competition. [ 2 ]
India has participated in the World Championships in Athletics since 1983. Their first ever medal was a Bronze medal won by Anju Bobby George in 2003 in Paris; in the Women's long jump discipline. [1] Neeraj Chopra is the second Indian to win a medal at the World Athletics Championships. [2]
At the 2022 World Athletics Championships, he qualified for the final round and finished seventh with a jump of 7.96 m. [12] At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, he won the silver medal with a jump of 8.08 metres and became the first male long jumper from India to win a silver medal at the Games. [13]
The last qualifier to the final was Tajay Gayle with a 7.89m. In the final, as the third jumper on the runway, Gayle jumped a personal best 8.46m to take the lead. No other jumper would beat that mark.