The women's long jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 21 and 23 August.
In the final, Olympic champion Maurren Higa Maggi took the early lead as the first jumper in the competition. After three fouls, the second legal jump of the competition took Brittney Reese into the lead with a 6.92m. Tatyana Lebedeva's second round 6.97m put her into the lead for six jumps until Reese could take her third jump. Her season best tying settled the competition. No athlete improved over the final three rounds.
In 2017, silver medalist Lebedeva's 2008 Olympic doping sample was retested and found positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol). Her Olympic medal was revoked. Ordinarily, a doping violation is followed by a two year ban which would include this championship. No changes in medals have been announced yet.
Medalists GoldSilverBronze
Records Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.
World record7.52Leningrad, Soviet Union11 June 1988Championship record7.36Rome, Italy4 September 1987World leading7.06Belém, Brazil24 May 2009African record7.12Atlanta, United States2 August 1996Asian Record7.01Jinan, China5 June 1993North American record7.49New York, United States22 May 1994South American record7.26Bogotá, Colombia26 June 1999European record7.52Leningrad, Soviet Union11 June 1988Oceanian record7.00Melbourne, Australia7 March 2002
No new records were set during this competition.
Qualification standards A standardB standard 6.72m 6.62m
Schedule Date Time Round21 August 2009 18:00 Qualification23 August 2009 16:15 Final
Results
Qualification Qualification: Qualifying Performance 6.75 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.
Rank Group Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes A Naide Gomes 6.60 6.86 6.86 Q B Brittney Reese 6.78 6.78 Q B Tatyana Lebedeva 6.76 6.76 Q B Olga Kucherenko 6.68 6.65 6.68 q A Maurren Maggi 6.68 6.58 6.30 6.68 q B Karin Melis Mey 6.57 6.61 6.67 6.67 q B Keila Costa 6.66 6.55 6.66 q B Ksenija Balta 6.23 6.59 6.59 q A Nastassia Mironchyk 6.08 6.55 6.42 6.55 q 10 A Teresa Dobija 6.55 6.55 q 11 A Brianna Glenn 6.53 6.53 q 12 A Shara Proctor 6.43 6.52 6.47 6.52 q 13 A Yelena Sokolova 6.44 6.51 6.46 6.51 14 A Jung Soon-Ok 6.45 6.31 6.49 6.49 15 A Ruky Abdulai 6.37 6.45 6.45 16 B Jovanee Jarrett 6.29 6.42 6.43 6.43 17 B Viktoriya Rybalko 6.40 6.18 6.40 18 B Éloyse Lesueur 6.40 6.09 6.11 6.40 19 A Irina Meleshina 6.39 6.14 6.39 20 B Nataliya Dobrynska 6.32 6.38 6.36 6.38 21 A Funmi Jimoh 6.34 6.34 22 B Yarianny Argüelles 6.15 5.97 6.32 6.32 23 B Melanie Bauschke 6.32 6.13 6.14 6.32 24 B Margrethe Renstrøm 6.31 6.10 6.31 25 A Bianca Kappler 6.26 6.21 6.29 6.29 26 A Viktoriya Molchanova 6.29 6.20 6.29 27 A Ola Sesay 5.92 6.23 6.19 6.23 28 A Sachiko Masumi 6.23 6.06 6.13 6.23 29 B Marestella Torres 6.21 6.03 6.22 6.22 30 B Janice Josephs 6.22 5.75 6.22 31 B Beatrice Marscheck 6.07 6.19 6.19 32 A Jana Velďáková 6.16 6.16 33 A Sirkka-Liisa Kivine 5.92 6.10 6.10 34 B Alice Falaiye 6.07 6.09 6.09 35 A Nina Kolarič 6.00 6.00 36 B Patricia Sylvester 5.92 5.80 5.92 B Blessing Okagbare
Key: DNS = Did not start, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place
Final Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Brittney Reese 6.92 6.85 7.10 7.10 WL Tatyana Lebedeva 6.78 6.97 6.97 SB Karin Melis Mey 6.76 6.80 6.49 6.80 Naide Gomes 6.77 6.52 6.68 6.69 6.68 6.77 Olga Kucherenko 6.77 6.63 6.68 6.77 Shara Proctor 6.56 6.71 6.40 6.71 NR Maurren Higa Maggi 6.68 6.64 - - 6.68 Ksenija Balta 6.62 6.52 6.15 6.60 6.57 6.62 Brianna Glenn 6.59 6.59 10 Teresa Dobija 6.58 6.51 6.58 11 Nastassia Mironchyk 6.24 6.29 6.29 Keila Costa
Key: NR = National record, SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)
References Long jump qualification from IAAF (Archived 2009-09-08). IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-26. Long jump final results from IAAF. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-26.