Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's long jump

Women's long jump at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing National Stadium
Dates	19 August 2008 (qualification) 22 August 2008 (final)
Competitors	42 from 33 nations
Winning distance	7.04
Medalists
Maurren Maggi  Brazil Blessing Okagbare[1]  Nigeria vacant

Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's long jump at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on 19 and 22 August at the Beijing National Stadium.^[2]

The qualifying standards were 6.72 m (A standard) and 6.60 m (B standard).^[3]

Summary

In the qualifying round, Blessing Okagbare was the last qualifier, jumping 6.59m on her final attempt to knock bot Tatyana Kotova and triple jump bronze medalist, Hrysopiyí Devetzí out of the final by 2cm. #1 qualifier Brittney Reese jumped 6.65m as the first jump in the final, which held up for five jumps until Tatyana Lebedeva jumped 6.97m. Four more jumps later, Maurren Maggi's 7.04 m (23 ft 1 in) winner was the only jump of the competition to best Lebedeva. The penultimate jumper Chelsea Hammond jumped 6.79m, then the 19 year old Okagbare hit a 6.91m. Those first round jumps settled the competition. Only Lebedeva was able to improve with a 7.03m final attempt, but it was still 1cm short of capturing gold.

In 2017, retests showed Lebedeva also had a positive test for turinabol and was disqualified from both her silver medals.^[4] The IOC has not announced a medal reallocation that would likely move Hammond into bronze.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Galina Chistyakova (URS)	7.52	Leningrad, Soviet Union	11 June 1988
Olympic record	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	7.40	Seoul, South Korea	29 September 1988

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Results

Qualifying round

Qualifying performance 6.75 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	Mark	Notes
1	B	Brittney Reese	United States	x	6.87 (+1.1)		6.87	Q
2	A	Maurren Higa Maggi	Brazil	6.68 (+0.3)	6.79 (+0.3)		6.79	Q
3	B	Tatyana Lebedeva	Russia	6.65 (+0.7)	6.70 (+1.4)	-	6.70	DSQ
4	A	Carolina Klüft	Sweden	6.70 (+1.0)	x	-	6.70	q
5	A	Grace Upshaw	United States	6.47 (−0.2)	6.68 (+0.6)	x	6.68	q
6	A	Oksana Udmurtova	Russia	6.48 (+1.3)	x	6.63 (+0.5)	6.63	q
7	B	Keila Costa	Brazil	x	6.44 (+0.4)	6.62 (+0.7)	6.62	q
8	A	Tabia Charles	Canada	6.33 (+1.5)	6.61 (+0.6)	6.49 (+0.9)	6.61	q
9	A	Funmi Jimoh	United States	6.42 (+0.9)	6.28 (+1.1)	6.61 (+0.8)	6.61	q
10	B	Jade Johnson	Great Britain	6.33 (0.0)	6.15 (+0.2)	6.61 (+0.7)	6.61	q
11	A	Chelsea Hammond	Jamaica	6.60 (+0.4)	x	x	6.60	q
12	B	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria	6.37 (+0.2)	6.49 (+0.9)	6.59 (+0.4)	6.59	q
13	B	Tatyana Kotova	Russia	6.37 (+1.0)	6.57 (+1.2)	x	6.57
14	A	Hrysopiyí Devetzí	Greece	x	6.57 (+0.4)	x	6.57
15	B	Concepción Montaner	Spain	6.53 (+0.7)	6.42 (+1.1)	6.43 (+0.7)	6.53
16	B	Bronwyn Thompson	Australia	x	6.53 (+0.3)	x	6.53
17	A	Yargelis Savigne	Cuba	x	x	6.49 (+0.1)	6.49
18	B	Iryna Charnushenka-Stasiuk	Belarus	6.48 (+1.1)	x	x	6.48
19	B	Kumiko Ikeda	Japan	6.44 (+0.8)	6.47 (+0.1)	x	6.47
20	A	Denisa Ščerbová	Czech Republic	6.40 (+0.8)	6.46 (+1.5)	5.17 (−0.1)	6.46
21	A	Patricia Sylvester	Grenada	6.44 (+0.9)	6.42 (+0.1)	6.38 (+0.4)	6.44
22	B	Viorica Țigău	Romania	x	6.38 (+0.7)	6.44 (+0.2)	6.44
23	A	Viktoriya Rybalko	Ukraine	x	x	6.43 (+0.3)	6.43
24	A	Karin Melis Mey	Turkey	x	6.42 (−0.4)	x	6.42
25	B	Ruky Abdulai	Canada	x	6.41 (+0.4)	6.25 (+1.0)	6.41
26	A	Nina Kolarič	Slovenia	4.92 (+1.4)	6.19 (0.0)	6.40 (+0.6)	6.40
27	B	Ksenija Balta	Estonia	x	6.38 (+0.7)	x	6.38
28	B	Soon-ok Jung	South Korea	x	x	6.33 (+0.5)	6.33
29	B	Olga Rypakova	Kazakhstan	x	6.30 (+1.5)	6.04 (+0.6)	6.30
30	B	Ivana Španović	Serbia	x	x	6.30 (+1.8)	6.30
31	A	Naide Gomes	Portugal	x	x	6.29 (+0.5)	6.29
32	A	Volha Sergeenka	Belarus	6.25 (+0.1)	6.02 (+0.4)	6.09 (−0.6)	6.25
33	B	Oleksandra Stadnyuk	Ukraine	x	6.19 (0.0)	x	6.19
34	B	Marestella Torres	Philippines	4.27 (+0.6)	5.94 (−0.1)	6.17 (+0.8)	6.17
35	A	Pamela Mouele-Mboussi	Congo	x	5.94 (+0.6)	6.06 (+0.9)	6.06	NR
36	B	Arantxa King	Bermuda	6.01 (−0.3)	x	x	6.01
37	A	Rhonda Watkins	Trinidad and Tobago	x	5.88 (+0.5)	x	5.88
38	A	Tricia Flores	Belize	5.25 (+1.2)	x	-	5.25
N/A	B	Anju Bobby George	India	x	x	x	NM
N/A	B	Jackie Edwards	Bahamas	x	x	x	NM
N/A	A	Jana Velďáková	Slovakia	x	x	x	NM
N/A	A	Lyudmyla Blonska	Ukraine				DSQ

Q - Qualified by right / q - Qualified by result / NM - No Mark / NR - National Record / SB - Season Best / DSQ - Disqualified

Final

22 August 2008 - 19:20^[5]

Rank	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Maurren Higa Maggi	Brazil	7.04	x	x	x	6.73	x	7.04	SB
DQ	Tatyana Lebedeva	Russia	6.97	x	x	x	x	7.03	7.03	SB
	Blessing Okagbare	Nigeria	6.91	6.62	6.79	6.70	6.83	x	6.91	PB
4	Chelsea Hammond	Jamaica	6.79	6.68	6.51	x	6.64	6.59	6.79	PB
5	Brittney Reese	United States	6.65	6.76	4.23	x	6.46	6.67	6.76
6	Oksana Udmurtova	Russia	6.69	6.70	6.67	6.61	6.65	6.49	6.70
7	Jade Johnson	Great Britain	6.51	6.64	6.40	6.59	6.43	x	6.64
8	Grace Upshaw	United States	6.58	x	6.52	x	x	x	6.58
9	Carolina Klüft	Sweden	x	6.49	6.42				6.49
10	Tabia Charles	Canada	6.16	6.38	6.47				6.47
11	Keila Costa	Brazil	x	x	6.43				6.43
12	Funmi Jimoh	United States	6.24	x	6.29				6.29

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