These are the official results of the women's long jump

Long jump

The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships

1987 World Championships in Athletics

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in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 29 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Friday 4 September 1987.

Medalists

Gold	Jackie Joyner-Kersee Jackie Joyner-Kersee Jacqueline "Jackie" Joyner-Kersee is a retired American athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the women's heptathlon as well as in the women's long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals, in those four different events... United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  (USA)
Silver	Yelena Belevskaya Yelena Belevskaya Yelena Belevskaya is a retired athlete who represented the USSR until 1991 and Belarus since 1992. She trained at Trudovye Rezervy in Minsk. Competing in long jump, in 1987 she won a bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the World Championships... Soviet Union Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....  (URS)
Bronze	Heike Daute-Drechsler Heike Drechsler Heike Gabriela Drechsler née Daute is a German track and field athlete. She is one of the most successful female long jumpers of all time and also had several successes in sprint disciplines.She is the only woman who has won two Olympic gold medals in the long jump... East Germany (GDR)

Schedule

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  Qualification Round
  Group A	Group B
  03.09.1987 – ??:??h	03.09.1987 – ??:??h
  Final Round
  04.09.1987 – ??:??h

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record		7.45	Dresden Dresden Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area.... , East Germany	August 13, 1987
Championship Record		7.27	Bucharest Bucharest Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River.... , Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...	August 14, 1983

The following new world and championship records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Result	WR	CR
September 4	Final		7.36		CR

Final

Rank	Name	Result	Notes
		7.36	CR
		7.14
		7.13
4		7.01
5		6.99
6		6.89
7		6.80
8		6.63
9		6.50
10		6.45
11		6.39
12		6.11

Pool 1

Rank	Name	Result	Notes
1		6.95	Q
2		6.86	Q
3		6.82	Q
4		6.75	Q
5		6.71	Q
6		6.58	Q
7		6.55
8		6.31
9		6.28
10		6.20
11		6.17
12		6.00
13		5.49
14		5.29
		NM

Pool 2

Rank	Name	Result	Notes
1		6.86	Q
2		6.61	Q
3		6.60	Q
4		6.60	Q
5		6.58	Q
6		6.58	Q
7		6.50
8		6.43
9		6.31
10		6.30
11		6.26
12		6.23
13		6.17
14		6.03