The Women's long jump competition at the

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on 29 September 2000. In the final,

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finished in first place, with a jump distance on .

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finished in second, while

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claimed the third place. On 5 October 2007, Jones admitted that she had taken

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. As a result, she was disqualified and the

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(IOC) stripped her of bronze medal on 9 December.

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, who originally finished in fourth place, was instead awarded the bronze. Kotova was later found guilty of doping, but her Olympic results were unaffected.2005 World Athletics: Kotova disqualified, Anju's silver turns into gold
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Schedule

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Abbreviations

*''All results shown are in metres''

Records

Qualifying

Held on Wednesday 27 September 2000. The qualifying distance was 6.70m. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the longest jumps until a total of 12 qualifiers.

Group A

Group B

Overall Qualifying

Final

References

External links

Results
* Source: Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics available at https://web.archive.org/web/20080522105330/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Women's Long Jump L Long jump at the Olympics 2000 in women's athletics Women's events at the 2000 Summer Olympics