2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump

Events at the
2012 World Junior
Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men
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
10,000 m walk men women
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

The women's long jump at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 12 and 13 July.[1][2][3] The event was won by British heptathlon specialist Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

Medalists

GoldSilverBronze
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
 Great Britain		 Lena Malkus
 Germany		 Jazmin Sawyers
 Great Britain

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record  Heike Drechsler (GDR) 7.14 m Bratislava, Czechoslovakia 4 June 1983
Championship Record  Fiona May (GBR) 6.88 m Sudbury, Canada 30 July 1988
World Junior Leading  Jazmin Sawyers (GBR) 6.64 m Birmingham, Great Britain 24 June 2012
Broken records during the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics
World Junior Leading  Jazmin Sawyers (GBR) 6.67 Barcelona, Spain 13 July 2012

Qualification

Qualification: Standard 6.30 m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q)

Rank Group Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Note
1 B Alina Rotaru  Romania 6.58 6.58 Q
2 A Katarina Johnson-Thompson  Great Britain 6.21 6.51 6.51 Q
3 A Lena Malkus  Germany 6.28 6.45 6.45 Q
4 A Paula Beatriz Álvarez  Cuba X 5.94 6.44 6.44 Q
5 A Jéssica Carolina dos Reis  Brazil 6.20 6.40 6.40 Q
6 B Jazmin Sawyers  Great Britain 6.33 6.33 Q
7 A Maryna Bekh  Ukraine 6.25 5.99 6.32 6.32 Q
8 A Chanice Porter  Jamaica 6.30 6.30 Q
9 B Brooke Stratton  Australia 6.07 6.08 6.26 6.26 q
10 B Polina Yurchenko  Russia X 6.02 6.25 6.25 q
11 A Anastasiya Kadicheva  Russia X 6.22 6.04 6.22 q
12 B Anastassia Angioi  Italy 5.82 6.20 6.04 6.20 q
13 B Kaia Soosaar  Estonia 6.16 X X 6.16
14 B Malaika Mihambo  Germany 6.13 5.91 6.15 6.15
15 B Elise Malmberg  Sweden 6.15 6.12 6.11 6.15 PB
16 B Pinar Aday  Turkey 5.85 5.78 6.13 6.13
17 B Robin Reynolds  United States 6.12 5.82 3.68 6.12
18 A Akela Jones  Barbados 6.07 6.09 6.08 6.09
19 A Margaret Gayen  Australia 5.46 6.05 6.08 6.08
20 A LeTristan Pledger  United States X 5.75 6.08 6.08
21 A Jogailé Petrokaité  Lithuania X X 6.00 6.00
22 A Narumi Suenaga  Japan 5.98 5.79 5.78 5.98
23 B Andressa Fidelis  Brazil 5.86 5.94 5.94 5.94
24 A Anna Švecová  Czech Republic 5.79 7.11 5.88 5.88
25 B Bohdana Melnyk  Ukraine 5.57 5.66 5.88 5.88
26 A Giulia Liboá  Italy 5.78 5.56 5.74 5.78
27 B Zanri van der Merwe  South Africa X 5.77 X 5.77
28 A Satenik Hovhannisyan  Armenia X 5.74 X 5.74
29 B Ana Martín-Sacristán  Spain X X 5.71 5.71
30 A Jhoanmy Luque  Venezuela 5.70 5.67 X 5.70
31 B Josefina Gutiérrez  Chile X X 5.54 5.54
- B Wunmi Ademuwagun  Nigeria

Final

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Note
1st Katarina Johnson-Thompson  Great Britain 6.57 6.56 6.81 5.39 5.05 X 6.81
2nd Lena Malkus  Germany 6.47 6.18 6.28 6.38 X 6.80 6.80
3rd Jazmin Sawyers  Great Britain 6.67 X X X X X 6.67 WJL
4 Chanice Porter  Jamaica 6.25 6.42 6.19 6.58 6.33 6.51 6.58 NJ
5 Alina Rotaru  Romania X 6.52 6.41 6.38 6.20 X 6.52
6 Jéssica Carolina dos Reis  Brazil 6.51 6.01 6.45 6.46 6.23 X 6.51
7 Brooke Stratton  Australia X 6.34 4.90 X 6.42 X 6.42
8 Maryna Bekh  Ukraine 6.05 X 6.35 6.24 X 6.10 6.35
9 Polina Yurchenko  Russia 6.32 6.24 6.33 6.33
10 Anastasiya Kadicheva  Russia 6.11 6.30 6.33 6.33
11 Paula Beatriz Álvarez  Cuba X 6.22 6.30 6.30
12 Anastassia Angioi  Italy 5.95 6.08 5.95 6.08

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 31 athletes from 23 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/WJC12/Results/ResultsByEvent.aspx?/disctype=4/sex=W/discCode=LJ/combCode=hash/timetable.html
  2. ↑ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2012 Barcelona ESP Jul 10-15, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 22 Feb 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
  3. ↑ IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015

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