The women's

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at the

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was held at the

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, Qatar, from 5 to 6 October 2019.

Summary

Throughout the 2019 season, only 3 athletes were able to jump over 7 metres, led by

Malaika Mihambo Malaika Mihambo (; born 3 February 1994) is a German athlete and the current Olympic and world champion in long jump. Career Mihambo's athletic career began around 2009, when at the age of 15 she became the German under-16 champion with the he ...

who had been there in 6 out of 10 competitions. One of the others was defending champion

Brittney Reese Brittney Davon Reese (born September 9, 1986) is a retired American long jumper, Olympic gold medalist, and a seven-time world champion. Reese is the indoor American record holder in the long jump with a distance of 7.23 meters. Personal Born in ...

, who didn't make it out of the qualifying round, leaving

Ese Brume Ese Brume Member of the Order of the Niger, MON (born 20 January 1996) is a Nigerians, Nigerian Sport of athletics, athlete who specializes in the long jump. She is the current commonwealth champion and a three-time African senior champion in t ...

as Mihambo's strongest challenger. On the first jump of the competition, Brume jumped 6.83m, then third up Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk came close to Brume with a 6.81m. At the end of the round, Abigail Irozuru jumped 6.64m to take over third place. Brume opened the second round by expanding her lead with a 6.91m. After two rounds Mihambo was languishing in seventh place with a 6.52m, which would ultimately prove to be inadequate to qualify for the final three jumps. On her third jump she went . It was her personal best and more than 20 cm beyond the personal best of everyone else in the field. Later in the competition, she had two more jumps that would have won the competition, the last equalling her previous world leading jump 7.16m. Those standings remained until near the end of the fifth round when Bekh-Romanchuk jumped 6.92m to take silver by a centimetre.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 6.75 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.

Final

The final was started on 6 October at 19:16.Final 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