1999 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump

Events at the 1999 World Championships
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
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

These are the official results of the Men's Long Jump event at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Spain. There were a total number of 45 participating athletes, with the final held on Saturday 28 August 1999.

Medalists

Gold	Iván Pedroso Cuba (CUB)
Silver	Yago Lamela Spain (ESP)
Bronze	Gregor Cankar Slovenia (SLO)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
26.08.1999 – 18:50h	26.08.1999 – 18:50h
Final Round
28.08.1999 – 19:05h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Qualification

• Held on Thursday 26 August 1999

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Gregor Cankar (SLO)	8.23 m
2.	Yago Lamela (ESP)	8.15 m
3.	Kevin Dilworth (USA)	8.09 m
4.	Hussein Taher Al-Sabee (KSA)	8.06 m
5.	Ciaran McDonagh (IRL)	8.00 m
6.	Emmanuel Bangué (FRA)	7.92 m
7.	Younés Moudrik (MAR)	7.91 m
8.	Shane Hair (AUS)	7.90 m
9.	Konstantinos Koukodimos (GRE)	7.90 m
10.	Roman Shchurenko (UKR)	7.89 m
11.	Kofi Amoah Prah (GER)	7.86 m
12.	Luis Méliz (CUB)	7.85 m
13.	Ivaylo Mladenov (BUL)	7.83 m
14.	Erick Walder (USA)	7.80 m
15.	Nelson Carlos Ferreira Jr. (BRA)	7.71 m
16.	Danial Jahac (YUG)	7.68 m
17.	Richard Duncan (CAN)	7.65 m
18.	Sung Hee-Jun (KOR)	7.62 m
19.	Chen Jing (CHN)	7.61 m
20.	Mark Anthony Awere (GHA)	7.60 m
21.	Daisuke Watanabe (JPN)	7.41 m
22.	Nathan Morgan (GBR)	7.31 m

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Iván Pedroso (CUB)	8.16 m
2.	Huang Le (CHN)	7.94 m
3.	Erik Nijs (BEL)	7.93 m
4.	Jai Taurima (AUS)	7.92 m
5.	Hatem Mohamed Mersal (EGY)	7.90 m
6.	Nikolay Atanasov (BUL)	7.86 m
7.	Shigeru Tagawa (JPN)	7.78 m
8.	Aleksey Lukashevich (UKR)	7.77 m
9.	Cheikh Tidiane Touré (FRA)	7.76 m
10.	Kareem Streete-Thompson (CAY)	7.75 m
11.	Carlos Calado (POR)	7.75 m
12.	Bogdan Tarus (ROM)	7.74 m
13.	Ian Lowe (CAN)	7.72 m
14.	Nicola Trentin (ITA)	7.70 m
15.	Andrey Ignatov (RUS)	7.66 m
16.	Konstantin Krause (GER)	7.61 m
17.	Kader Klouchi (FRA)	7.57 m
18.	Savante Stringfellow (USA)	7.39 m
19.	Gable Garenamotse (BOT)	7.28 m
20.	Abdurahman Al-Nubi (QAT)	7.15 m
—	Mattias Sunneborn (SWE)	DNS
—	Armen Martirosyan (ARM)	DNS
—	Masaki Morinaga (JPN)	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Iván Pedroso (CUB)	8.19	8.33	8.56	—	5.74	—	8.56 m
	Yago Lamela (ESP)	8.34	X	X	8.40	8.09	8.39	8.40 m
	Gregor Cankar (SLO)	8.20	8.32	8.09	8.36	8.07	X	8.36 m	SB
4	Jai Taurima (AUS)	X	8.12	X	X	X	8.35	8.35 m	AR
5	Shane Hair (AUS)	X	7.89	7.99	8.24	8.11	6.10	8.24 m	PB
6	Huang Le (CHN)	7.95	7.70	8.01	7.96	—	—	8.01 m	SB
7	Kevin Dilworth (USA)	7.99	8.00	7.88	7.75	7.98	7.87	8.00 m
8	Younés Moudrik (MAR)	7.68	7.99	7.71	7.71	X	7.76	7.99 m
9	Emmanuel Bangué (FRA)	7.94	7.84	X				7.94 m
10	Ciaran McDonagh (IRL)	7.90	7.72	X				7.90 m
11	Erik Nijs (BEL)	7.81	X	7.83				7.83 m
12	Hussein Al-Sabee (KSA)	7.62	X	6.67				7.62 m

See also

• 1999 Long Jump Year Ranking

References

• IAAF
• todor66
• trackandfieldnews