The men's

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

at the

2015 World Championships in Athletics The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...

was held at the

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on 24 and 25 August. In the finals were the defending champion

Aleksandr Menkov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Menkov (russian: Александр Александрович Меньков, born 7 December 1990 in Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai) is a Russian athlete who competes in the long jump. Career Menkov set a personal best ...

, Olympic Champion

Greg Rutherford Gregory James Rutherford MBE (born 17 November 1986) is a retired British track and field athlete who specialised in the long jump. He represented Great Britain at the Olympics, World and European Championships, and England at the Commonwealth ...

and world leader Jeff Henderson, however world #2-4

Zarck Visser Zarck Visser (born 15 September 1989) is a South African athlete specialising in the long jump. He won silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as t ...

Rushwahl Samaai Ruswahl Samaai (born 25 September 1991)
Glasgow2014. Retrieved on 2014-08-02. is a South African ...

and

Marquis Dendy Marquis Dendy (born November 17, 1992) is an American track and field athlete, primarily known for horizontal jumping events. He is the 2015 National Champion in the Long Jump. His winning jump, of , though wind aided at +3.7mps, his first jum ...

were unable to get out of the rounds. Henderson was the top qualifier with an 8.36 automatic first attempt trial. Three Chinese jumpers made the final at home. The Chinese made a statement in the first round as both Wang Jianan and Gao Xinglong jumped 8.14 to share the lead. Menkov jumped 8.02 to take the third spot while Rutherford, Henderson and four other jumpers were unable to land a legal jump. In the second round, Henderson got a legal jump of 7.95, two feet below his best of the year, but it put him in 5th place for a moment, then Wang improved to 8.18 and Rutherford popped 8.29 to assume the lead. In the third round Henderson again missed the board.

Kafétien Gomis Kafétien Gomis (born 23 March 1980 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne) is a French long jumper. His personal best jump is 8.24 metres, achieved in August 2010. He finished ninth at the 2003 Summer Universiade, seventh at the 2005 Summer Univer ...

made 8.02 after two fouls,

Fabrice Lapierre Fabrice Lapierre (born 17 October 1983 in Réduit, Mauritius) is a Mauritian-born Australian long jumper. Lapierre placed 4th at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany, behind another Australian, Mitchell Watt, who took the ...

did 8.10 and

Li Jinzhe Li Jinzhe (simplified Chinese: 李金哲; born 1 September 1989) is a Chinese track and field athlete who specialises in the long jump. His personal best is 8.47 metres, set in 2014. This gives him the Chinese record long jump. He was the 20 ...

did 8.09, suddenly the world leader was pushed into ninth place and had no more jumps left. In the fourth round Rutherford put an exclamation point on his lead with an 8.41, but only Gomis was able to make a legal jump in the round. Lapierre jumped 8.20 in the fifth round to move into second place and solidified that standing with an 8.24 in the final round. Having been hampered by injury in 2013, the victory completed the full set of outdoor titles for Rutherford, making him the reigning Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Champion.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Qualification

Qualification: 8.15 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).

Final

The final was started at 18:30Final results
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References

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Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

Long jump at the World Athletics Championships