Long jump at the World Athletics Championships
Miltiadis Tentoglou competing in the 2023 final.
Overview
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1983 – 2023 Women: 1983 – 2023
Championship record
Men	8.95 m Mike Powell (1991)
Women	7.36 m Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1987)
Reigning champion
Men	Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE)
Women	Ivana Vuleta (SRB)

The long jump at the World Championships in Athletics has been contested by both men and women since the inaugural edition in 1983. The competition format typically has one qualifying round contested by two groups of athletes, with all those clearing the qualifying height or placing in top twelve advancing to the final round.

The United States is the most successful nation in the event, winning 31 medals in total, including 16 gold medals.

Iván Pedroso and Brittney Reese are the two most successful nations in the event, both winning 4 gold medals.

The championship records are 8.98 m for men, set by Mike Powell in 1991, and 7.36 m for women, set byJackie Joyner-Kersee in 1987.

• All information from World Athletics.^[1]

Distinction	Male			Female
	Athlete	Age	Date	Athlete	Age	Date
Youngest champion	Carl Lewis (USA)	22 years, 40 days	10 Aug 1983	Heike Daute (GDR)	18 years, 241 days	14 Aug 1983
Youngest medalist	Wang Jianan (CHN)	18 years, 363 days	25 Aug 2015	Heike Daute (GDR)	18 years, 241 days	14 Aug 1983
Youngest finalist	Maykel Massó (CUB)	18 years, 89 days	5 Aug 2017	Heike Daute (GDR)	18 years, 241 days	14 Aug 1983
Youngest participant	Maykel Massó (CUB)	16 years, 108 days	24 Aug 2015	Beatrice Utondu (NGR)	17 years, 284 days	3 Sep 1987
Oldest champion	Dwight Phillips (USA)	33 years, 336 days	2 Sep 2011	Ivana Vuleta (SRB)	33 years, 102 days	20 Aug 2023
Oldest medalist	Larry Myricks (USA)	35 years, 173 days	30 Aug 1991	Ivana Vuleta (SRB)	33 years, 102 days	20 Aug 2023
Oldest finalist	Dwight Phillips (USA)	35 years, 319 days	16 Aug 2013	Valentina Gotovska (LAT)	37 years, 361 days	30 Aug 2003
Oldest participant	Yahya Berrabah (MAR)	37 years, 349 days	27 Sep 2019	Valentina Gotovska (LAT)	37 years, 361 days	30 Aug 2003

Championships	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1983 Helsinki details	Carl Lewis  United States	8.55 m	Jason Grimes  United States	8.29 m	Mike Conley  United States	8.12 m
1987 Rome details	Carl Lewis  United States	8.67 m	Robert Emmiyan  Soviet Union	8.53 m	Larry Myricks  United States	8.33 m
1991 Tokyo details	Mike Powell  United States	8.95 m	Carl Lewis  United States	8.91 m	Larry Myricks  United States	8.42 m
1993 Stuttgart details	Mike Powell  United States	8.59 m	Stanislav Tarasenko  Russia	8.16 m	Vitaliy Kyrylenko  Ukraine	8.15 m
1995 Gothenburg details	Iván Pedroso  Cuba	8.70 m	James Beckford  Jamaica	8.30 m	Mike Powell  United States	8.29 m
1997 Athens details	Iván Pedroso  Cuba	8.42 m	Erick Walder  United States	8.38 m	Kirill Sosunov  Russia	8.18 m
1999 Seville details	Iván Pedroso  Cuba	8.56 m	Yago Lamela  Spain	8.40 m	Gregor Cankar  Slovenia	8.36 m
2001 Edmonton details	Iván Pedroso  Cuba	8.40 m	Savanté Stringfellow  United States	8.24 m	Carlos Calado  Portugal	8.21 m
2003 Saint-Denis details	Dwight Phillips  United States	8.32 m	James Beckford  Jamaica	8.28 m	Yago Lamela  Spain	8.22 m
2005 Helsinki details	Dwight Phillips  United States	8.60 m	Ignisious Gaisah  Ghana	8.34 m	Tommi Evilä  Finland	8.25 m
2007 Osaka details	Irving Saladino  Panama	8.57 m	Andrew Howe  Italy	8.47 m	Dwight Phillips  United States	8.30 m
2009 Berlin details	Dwight Phillips  United States	8.54 m	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena  South Africa	8.47 m	Mitchell Watt  Australia	8.37 m
2011 Daegu details	Dwight Phillips  United States	8.45 m	Mitchell Watt  Australia	8.33 m	Ngonidzashe Makusha  Zimbabwe	8.29 m
2013 Moscow details	Aleksandr Menkov  Russia	8.56 m	Ignisious Gaisah  Netherlands	8.29 m	Luis Rivera  Mexico	8.27 m
2015 Beijing details	Greg Rutherford  Great Britain	8.41 m	Fabrice Lapierre  Australia	8.24 m	Wang Jianan  China	8.18 m
2017 London details	Luvo Manyonga  South Africa	8.48 m	Jarrion Lawson  United States	8.44 m	Ruswahl Samaai  South Africa	8.32 m
2019 Doha details	Tajay Gayle  Jamaica	8.69 m	Jeff Henderson  United States	8.39 m	Juan Miguel Echevarría  Cuba	8.34 m
2022 Eugene details	Wang Jianan  China	8.36 m	Miltiadis Tentoglou  Greece	8.32 m	Simon Ehammer  Switzerland	8.16 m
2023 Budapest details	Miltiadis Tentoglou  Greece	8.52 m	Wayne Pinnock  Jamaica	8.50 m	Tajay Gayle  Jamaica	8.27 m

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	8	6	5	19
2	Cuba (CUB)	4	0	1	5
3	Jamaica (JAM)	1	3	1	5
4	Russia (RUS)	1	1	1	3
	South Africa (RSA)	1	1	1	3
6	Greece (GRE)	1	1	0	2
7	China (CHN)	1	0	1	2
8	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
	Panama (PAN)	1	0	0	1
10	Australia (AUS)	0	2	1	3
11	Spain (ESP)	0	1	1	2
12	Ghana (GHA)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Soviet Union (URS)	0	1	0	1
16	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		19	19	19	57

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Period	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iván Pedroso	Cuba (CUB)	1995-2001	4	0	0	4
2	Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	1983-1991	2	1	0	3
	Mike Powell	United States (USA)	1991-1995	2	1	0	3
4	Miltiadis Tentoglou	Greece (GRE)	2022-2023	1	1	0	2
5	Wang Jianan	China (CHN)	2015-2022	1	0	1	2
	Tajay Gayle	Jamaica (JAM)	2019-2023	1	0	1	2
7	James Beckford	Jamaica (JAM)	1995-2003	0	2	0	2
	Ignisious Gaisah	Ghana (GHA)  Netherlands (NED)	2005-2013	0	2	0	2
9	Yago Lamela	Spain (ESP)	1999-2003	0	1	1	2
	Mitchell Watt	Australia (AUS)	2009-2011	0	1	1	2
10	Larry Myricks	United States (USA)	1987-1991	0	0	2	2

Championships	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1983 Helsinki details	Heike Daute  East Germany	7.27 m	Anișoara Cușmir  Romania	7.15 m	Carol Lewis  United States	7.04 m
1987 Rome details	Jackie Joyner-Kersee  United States	7.36 m	Yelena Belevskaya  Soviet Union	7.14 m	Heike Drechsler  East Germany	7.13 m
1991 Tokyo details	Jackie Joyner-Kersee  United States	7.32 m	Heike Drechsler  Germany	7.29 m	Larysa Berezhna  Soviet Union	7.11 m
1993 Stuttgart details	Heike Drechsler  Germany	7.11 m	Larysa Berezhna  Ukraine	6.98 m	Renata Nielsen  Denmark	6.76 m
1995 Gothenburg details	Fiona May  Italy	6.98 m	Niurka Montalvo  Cuba	6.86 m	Irina Mushailova  Russia	6.83 m
1997 Athens details	Lyudmila Galkina  Russia	7.05 m	Niki Xanthou  Greece	6.94 m	Fiona May  Italy	6.91 m
1999 Seville details	Niurka Montalvo  Spain	7.06 m	Fiona May  Italy	6.94 m	Marion Jones  United States	6.83 m
2001 Edmonton details	Fiona May  Italy	7.02 m	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	7.01 m	Niurka Montalvo  Spain	6.88 m
2003 Saint-Denis details	Eunice Barber  France	6.99 m	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	6.74 m	Anju Bobby George  India	6.70 m
2005 Helsinki details	Tianna Madison  United States	6.89 m	Eunice Barber  France	6.76 m	Yargelis Savigne  Cuba	6.69 m
2007 Osaka details	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia	7.03 m	Lyudmila Kolchanova  Russia	6.92 m	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	6.90 m
2009 Berlin details	Brittney Reese  United States	7.10 m	Karin Melis Mey  Turkey	6.80 m	Naide Gomes  Portugal	6.77 m
2011 Daegu details	Brittney Reese  United States	6.82 m	Ineta Radēviča  Latvia	6.76 m	Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova  Belarus	6.74 m
2013 Moscow details	Brittney Reese  United States	7.01 m	Blessing Okagbare  Nigeria	6.99 m	Ivana Španović  Serbia	6.82 m
2015 Beijing details	Tianna Bartoletta  United States	7.14 m	Shara Proctor  Great Britain	7.07 m	Ivana Španović  Serbia	7.01 m
2017 London details	Brittney Reese  United States	7.02 m	Darya Klishina  Authorised Neutral Athletes	7.00 m	Tianna Bartoletta  United States	6.97 m
2019 Doha details	Malaika Mihambo  Germany	7.30 m	Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk  Ukraine	6.92 m	Ese Brume  Nigeria	6.91 m
2022 Eugene details	Malaika Mihambo  Germany	7.12 m	Ese Brume  Nigeria	7.02 m	Leticia Oro Melo  Brazil	6.89 m
2023 Budapest details	Ivana Vuleta  Serbia	7.14 m	Tara Davis-Woodhall  United States	6.91 m	Alina Rotaru-Kottmann  Romania	6.88 m

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	8	1	3	12
2	Germany (GER)	3	1	0	4
3	Russia (RUS)	2	3	2	7
4	Italy (ITA)	2	1	1	4
5	France (FRA)	1	1	0	2
6	Serbia (SRB)	1	0	2	3
7	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	1	2
	Spain (ESP)	1	0	1	2
9	Nigeria (NGR)	0	2	1	3
10	Ukraine (UKR)	0	2	0	2
11	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	1	2
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
	Soviet Union (URS)	0	1	1	2
14	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
–	Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	0	1	0	1
18	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		19	19	19	57

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Period	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brittney Reese	United States (USA)	2009-2017	4	0	0	4
2	Heike Drechsler	East Germany (GDR)  Germany (GER)	1983-1993	2	1	1	4
	Fiona May	Italy (ITA)	1995-2001	2	1	1	4
4	Tianna Bartoletta	United States (USA)	2005-2017	2	0	1	3
5	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States (USA)	1987-1991	2	0	0	2
	Malaika Mihambo	Germany (GER)	2019-2022	2	0	0	2
7	Niurka Montalvo	Cuba (CUB)  Spain (ESP)	1995-2001	1	1	1	3
8	Eunice Barber	France (FRA)	2003-2005	1	1	0	2
9	Ivana Vuleta	Serbia (SRB)	2013-2023	1	0	2	3
10	Larysa Berezhna	Soviet Union (SOV)  Ukraine (UKR)	1991-1993	0	1	1	2
	Ese Brume	Nigeria (NGR)	2019-2022	0	1	1	2
12	Tatyana Kotova	Russia (RUS)	2001-2007	0	2	1	3

Men's long jump World Championships record progression^[2]

Mark	Athlete	Nation	Year	Round	Date
7.96 m	Atanas Atanasov	Bulgaria (BUL)	1983	Qualification	1983-08-09
8.29 m	Jason Grimes	United States (USA)	1983	Qualification	1983-08-09
8.37 m	Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	1983	Qualification	1983-08-09
8.55 m	Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	1983	Final	1983-08-10
8.67 m	Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	1987	Final	1987-09-05
	Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	1987	Final	1987-09-05
8.68 m	Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	1991	Final	1991-08-30
8.95 m	Mike Powell	United States (USA)	1991	Final	1991-08-30

Women's long jump World Championships record progression^[3]

Time	Athlete	Nation	Year	Round	Date
6.78 m	Carol Lewis	United States (USA)	1983	Final	1983-08-13
6.83 m	Tatyana Proshuryakova	Soviet Union (URS)	1983	Final	1983-08-14
6.90 m	Beverly Kinch	Great Britain (GBR)	1983	Final	1983-08-14
7.00 m	Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu	Romania (ROU)	1983	Final	1983-08-14
7.02 m	Heike Drechsler	East Germany (GDR)	1983	Final	1983-08-14
7.14 m	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States (USA)	1987	Final	1987-09-04
7.36 m	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	United States (USA)	1987	Final	1987-09-04

Furthest men's jumps at the World Championships[4] Rank Distance (m) Athlete Nation Year Date 1 8.95 m Mike Powell  United States 1991 1991-08-30 2 8.91 m Carl Lewis  United States 1991 1991-08-30 3 8.70 m Iván Pedroso  Cuba 1995 1995-08-12 4 8.69 m Tajay Gayle  Jamaica 2019 2019-09-28 5 8.67 m Carl Lewis  United States 1987 2005-09-05 6 8.60 m Dwight Phillips  United States 2005 2005-08-13 7 8.59 m Mike Powell  United States 1993 1993-08-20 8 8.57 m Irving Saladino  Panama 2007 2007-08-30 9 8.56 m Carl Lewis  United States 1991Q 1991-08-29 Iván Pedroso  Cuba 1999 1999-08-28 Aleksandr Menkov  Russia 2013 2013-08-16

Furthest women's jumps at the World Championships[5] Rank Distance (m) Athlete Nation Year Date 1 7.36 m Jackie Joyner-Kersee  United States 1987 1987-09-04 2 7.32 m Jackie Joyner-Kersee  United States 1991 1991-08-25 3 7.30 m Malaika Mihambo  Germany 2019 2019-10-06 4 7.29 m Heike Drechsler  Germany 1991 1991-08-25 5 7.27 m Heike Daute-Drechsler  East Germany 1983 1983-08-14 6 7.15 m Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu  Romania 1983 1983-08-14 7 7.14 m Yelena Belevskaya  Soviet Union 1987 1987-09-04 Tianna Bartoletta  United States 2015 2015-08-28 Ivana Vuleta  Serbia 2023 2023-08-20 10 7.13 m Heike Drechsler  East Germany 1987 1987-09-04

¹Does not include ancillary marks.

• Long jump
• Long jump at the Olympics

• Butler, Mark (2023). World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 Statistics Book. World Athletics.