The women's long jump at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, from 5 to 6 October 2019.
The winning margin was 38 cm. As of 2024, this is the only time the women's long jump has been won by more than 30 cm at these championships.
Summary Throughout the 2019 season, only 3 athletes were able to jump over 7 metres, led by Malaika Mihambo who had been there in 6 out of 10 competitions. One of the others was defending champion Brittney Reese, who didn't make it out of the qualifying round, leaving Ese Brume 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:
Record Athlete Date LocationWorld7.52Galina Chistyakova11 Jun 1988Leningrad, Soviet UnionChampionship7.36Jackie Joyner-Kersee4 Sep 1987Rome, ItalyWorld leading7.30Malaika Mihambo4 Aug 2019Berlin, GermanyAfrican7.12Chioma Ajunwa2 Aug 1996Atlanta, United StatesAsian7.01Yao Weili5 Jun 1993Jinan, ChinaNACAC7.49Jackie Joyner-KerseeNew York City, United States31 Jul 1994Sestriere, ItalySouth American7.26Maurren Higa Maggi26 Jun 1999Bogotá, ColombiaEuropean7.52Galina Chistyakova11 Jun 1988Leningrad, Soviet UnionOceanian7.05Brooke Stratton12 Mar 2016Perth, Australia
Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:
Date Time Round5 October 17:50 Qualification6 October 19:15 Final
Results Qualification Qualification: Qualifying Performance 6.75 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.
Rank Group Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 1 B Malaika Mihambo 6.98 6.98 Q 2 A Ese Brume 6.89 6.89 Q 3 A Tori Bowie 6.54 6.77 6.77 Q 4 B Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk 6.69 6.74 6.74 q 5 A Alina Rotaru 6.57 6.31 6.72 6.72 q 6 B Abigail Irozuru 6.66 6.70 6.70 q 7 B Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova 6.41 6.69 6.69 q 8 A Shara Proctor 6.54 6.63 6.63 q 9 A Brooke Stratton 6.43 6.58 6.43 6.58 q 10 A Chanice Porter 6.50 6.46 6.57 6.57 q 11 A Anasztázia Nguyen 6.41 6.54 6.54 q 12 B Sha'Keela Saunders 6.35 6.27 6.53 6.53 q 13 A Brittney Reese 6.44 6.43 6.52 6.52 14 B Jasmine Todd 6.51 6.50 6.07 6.51 15 A Eliane Martins 6.25 6.50 6.50 16 B Tissanna Hickling 6.35 6.49 6.22 6.49 17 B Tilde Johansson 6.34 6.48 6.48 6.48 18 B Hilary Kpatcha 6.38 6.47 6.47 19 B Jazmin Sawyers 6.45 6.46 6.45 6.46 20 A Yanis David 6.44 6.46 6.46 21 A Éloyse Lesueur-Aymonin 6.34 6.46 6.39 6.46 22 A Chantel Malone 6.21 6.45 6.45 23 B Petra Farkas 6.08 6.44 6.20 6.44 24 B Yelena Sokolova 6.21 6.43 6.39 6.43 25 A Adriana Rodríguez 6.39 6.29 6.39 26 B Maria Natalia Londa 6.31 6.16 6.36 6.36 27 A Taika Koilahti 6.33 6.02 6.35 6.35 28 B Tania Vicenzino 6.19 6.23 6.23 29 B Florentina Iusco 6.22 6.21 6.22 30 A Nektaria Panagi 6.10 6.21 6.19 6.21 31 A Laura Strati 6.05 6.05
Final The final was started on 6 October at 19:16.
Rank Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 Malaika Mihambo 6.52 7.30 7.09 7.16 7.30 Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk 6.81 6.77 6.92 6.72 6.92 Ese Brume 6.83 6.91 6.90 6.87 6.84 6.45 6.91 4 Tori Bowie 6.61 6.49 6.81 6.65 6.57 6.81 5 Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova 6.53 6.76 6.70 6.55 6.71 6.76 6 Alina Rotaru 6.59 6.66 6.67 6.71 6.71 7 Abigail Irozuru 6.64 6.59 6.59 6.60 6.64 8 Chanice Porter 6.30 6.44 6.56 6.44 6.24 6.47 6.56 9 Sha'Keela Saunders 6.28 6.54 6.54 10 Brooke Stratton 6.46 6.42 6.46 11 Shara Proctor 6.34 6.43 6.43 12 Anasztázia Nguyen 6.26 6.26
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