Long jump at the World Athletics Championships

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Long jump at the World Athletics Championships
Overview
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1983 – 2022 Women: 1983 – 2022
Reigning champion
Men	Wang Jianan (CHN)
Women	Malaika Mihambo (GER)

The long jump at the World Championships in Athletics has been contested by both men and women since the inaugural edition in 1983.

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

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

• Butler, Mark (2015). IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 Statistics Book. IAAF.