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1987 World Championships In Athletics – Women's Long Jump
__NOTOC__ These are the official results of the Long jump, women's long jump event at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics, 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 29 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Friday 4 September 1987. Medalists Schedule *''All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)'' Records Existing records at the start of the event. The following new world and championship records were set during this competition. Final Qualifying round *Held on Thursday 1987-09-03 Pool 1 Pool 2 References Results {{DEFAULTSORT:1987 World Championships In Athletics - Women's Long Jump Events at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics, - Women's Long Jump, 1987 World Championships In Athletics Long jump at the World Athletics Championships 1987 in women's athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 group are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". This event has a history in the ancient Olympic Games and has been a modern Olympic event for men since the first Olympics in 1896 and for women since 1948. Rules At the elite level, competitors run down a runway (usually coated with the same All-weather running track, rubberized surface as running tracks, crumb rubber or vulcanized rubber, known generally as an all-weather track) and jump as far as they can from a wooden or synthetic board, 20 centimetres or 8 inches wide, that is built flush with the runway, into a pit filled with soft damp sand. If the competitor starts the leap with any part of the foot past the foul line, the jump is declared a foul and no distance is recorded. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helga Radtke
Helga Radtke (born 16 May 1962 in Sanitz, Rostock) is a retired German track and field athlete, former World Indoor Long Jump Champion. Career She competed from 1979 to the 1990s in the long and triple jumps. Until 1990 she represented East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on .... She won the bronze medal in the long jump at the 1990 European championship and was successful in many more indoor world and European championships. Results in detail *1979, Junior European championship: 1st place (6.22 - x - 6.10 - 6.47 - x - 6.35) *1983, Indoor European championship: 2nd place (x - 6.48 - 6.47 - x - 6.63 - 6.52) *1983, World championship: 12th place (6.37 - 6.35 - 6.44) *1985, Indoor world games: 1st place (6.74 - 6.72 - 6.81 - 6.82 - 6.86 - 6.88) *1985, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatrice Utondu
Beatrice Utondu (born 23 November 1969) is a former sprinter from Nigeria who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Barcelona 1992. She specialized in the 100 metres event, setting her personal best of 11.40 seconds during the 1991 World Championships and becoming the African champion in the event in 1993. She also won long jump in the 1987 All-Africa Games The 4th All-Africa Games (), also known as Nairobi 1987, were played from 1 to 12 August 1987, in Nairobi, Kenya. 42 countries participated in fourteen sports. From the beginning the intent had been to hold the African Games every four years. Ec .... Achievements External links * 1969 births Living people Nigerian female sprinters Nigerian female long jumpers Nigerian female high jumpers Olympic athletes for Nigeria Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Nigeria Medalists at the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeline De Jesús
Madeline de Jesús Candelaria (born November 4, 1957, in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired female track and field athlete from Puerto Rico, who competed in the women's long jump and triple jump during her career. Her personal best (6.96 metres) in the long jump was set on July 24, 1988, in Mexico City. She finished fifth in the long jump at the 1987 Pan American Games. De Jesús twin sister Margaret de Jesús also competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics, in the women's 400 metres. Madeline is currently living in Belgium where she's active as a sports teacher and coach. Olympic cheating After Puerto Rico's Madeline de Jesus got injured while competing in the long jump, she was unable to run in the 4×400-meter relay at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. She came up with a plan and enlisted her identical twin sister, Margaret, as an imposter for a qualifying heat. Margaret ran the second leg of the qualifier, and the team advanced but when the chief coach of the Puerto Rican team learned of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Zhihui
Wang Zhihui (born 1 May 1965) is a retired Chinese 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 ...er. She won the 1987 Asian Championships in a new championship record of 6.70 metres.Asian Championships - GBR Athletics This was also her career best jump. /ref> She also competed at the 1987 World Championships without reaching the final round. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonella Capriotti
Antonella Capriotti (born 4 February 1962 in Rome) is a retired Italian long jumper and triple jumper. She has won the Italian Championships 18 times (12 outdoor and 8 indoor). Biography She started off her career as a long jumper and later, with excellent results, succeeded also in triple jump, that was ushering in various international competitions. She was also the first Italian athlete to cross the threshold of fourteen meters in triple jump. Her personal best of 6.72 meters in long jump (established in 1994) still remains the third best performance ever in Italy after Fiona May's 7.11m and Valentina Uccheddu's 6.80m. She participated in the Seoul Olympic Games in 1988 and in the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992. She currently lives in Verona, Italy. She was invited from the RAI (the Italian state owned public service broadcaster and biggest Italian television company) to comment the World Athletics Championship 2011 in Daegu. Statistics World records ;Masters * Triple ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringa Ropo-Junnila
Ringa Ropo-Junnila (born 16 February 1966) is a Finnish athlete. She competed in the women's long jump at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994 .... She's the mother of high jumper Ella Junnila. References 1966 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Finnish female long jumpers Olympic athletes for Finland Place of birth missing (living people) Finnish Athletics Championships winners {{Finland-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lene Demsitz
Lene Stokholm Demsitz (Humlebæk) (Jørgensen) (born 8 March 1959 in Rønde, Midtjylland) is a retired female long jumper from Denmark. Her personal best jump was 6.72 metres, achieved in August 1985 in Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul .... She is also a two-time national champion (1984 and 1985) in the women's high jump. Achievements References External linkssports-reference*Profile 1959 births Living people Danish female high jumpers Danish female long jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Denmark People from Syddjurs Municipality Sportspeople from the Central Denmark Region {{Denmark-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Echols
Sheila Ann Echols (born October 2, 1964) is a retired track and field athlete from the United States who competed in the 100 metres and the long jump. She won a gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in the 4 × 100 m relay. She also won the 1989 IAAF World Cup 100 m title. Career Echols was born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, she won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay, alongside teammates Alice Brown, 100 m gold medalist Florence Griffith Joyner and 100 m silver medalist Evelyn Ashford. They ran 41.98 seconds. She was also an international long jumper and competed in that event at two Olympics. In Seoul, she failed to qualify for the final, placing 16th with a jump of 6.37m. In 1992, at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, she placed 7th in the final with a jump of 6.62m. She won a silver medal in the sprint relay at the 1993 World Championships, where she ran in the heats but not the final. Her biggest indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Khristova
Sylvia may refer to: People *Sylvia (given name) *Sylvia (singer), American country music and country pop singer and songwriter *Sylvia Robinson, American singer, record producer, and record label executive *Sylvia Vrethammar, Swedish singer credited as "Sylvia" in Australia and the UK * Tim Sylvia, American mixed martial arts fighter * Colin Sylvia, Australian football player Places * Mount Sylvia, a former name of Xueshan on Taiwan Island * Mount Sylvia, Queensland, Australia * Sylvia, Kansas, a town in Kansas, United States *Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem, New York City, New York, United States *Fort Sylvia, now Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysia Art, entertainment, and media Comics * ''Sylvia'' (comic strip), a long-running comic strip by cartoonist Nicole Hollander Films * ''Sylvia'' (1961 film), an Australian television play * ''Sylvia'' (1965 film), an American drama film * ''Sylvia'' (1985 film), a New Zealand film about New Zealand educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner * ''Sylvia'' (1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljudmila Ninova-Rudoll
Lyudmila Ninova-Rudoll (; born 25 June 1960 in Kula, Bulgaria) is a retired Bulgarian–Austrian long jumper. She competed for Bulgaria until the end of 1987 and began representing Austria from the start of 1988. Her personal best jump was 7.09 metres, achieved in June 1994 in Seville. This is the Austrian record. She also holds the Austrian triple jump
The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the tr ... record with 13.75 metres.
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Nicole Boegman
Nicole Jane Boegman-Stewart, formerly married Staines (born 5 March 1967) is an Australian retired long jumper, who competed at three Olympic Games. Biography Boegman won the British AAA Championships title in the long jump event four times, at the 1988 AAA Championships, 1989 AAA Championships 1993 AAA Championships and 1995 AAA Championships. Her personal best jump was 6.87 metres, achieved in August 1988 in Gateshead. Wind aided best 7.12 metres (+4.3) achieved in Sestriere, 1995. The Australian, and Oceanian, record currently belongs to Bronwyn Thompson Bronwyn Thompson (born 29 January 1978 in Rockhampton, Australia) is an Australian former long jumper. She was the former Commonwealth record holder and holds the Australian record for the long jump. She has been ranked as high as number two i ... with 7.00 metres. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
