2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships - Women's Long Jump
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Medalists

Gold
Naide Gomes
Naide Gomes
Enezaide do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes, OIH, is a Portuguese heptathlete, born in São Tomé and Príncipe. She is also a top-class competitor in the long jump, and she competed in 100 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics...

 
Silver
Maurren Maggi
Maurren Maggi
Maurren Higa Maggi is a Brazilian athlete and Olympic gold medallist. She is the South American record holder at 100 metres hurdles and at long jump, with 12.71 seconds and 7.26 metres respectively. She also has 14.53 metres in the triple jump...

 
Bronze
Irina Simagina
Irina Simagina
Irina Alekseyevna Simagina is a Russian long jumper.She won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was then more or less away from the international scene the next two seasons. She did not start at the 2005 World Championships, despite having entered the competition, and gave birth to...

 

Qualification

Qualification rule: qualification standar 6.60m or at least best 8 qualified
Pos |Athlete |Country |Mark |Q |Attempts
1 2 3
1 Naide Gomes
Naide Gomes
Enezaide do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes, OIH, is a Portuguese heptathlete, born in São Tomé and Príncipe. She is also a top-class competitor in the long jump, and she competed in 100 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics...

 
6.72 Q 6.72
2 Éloyse Lesueur
Éloyse Lesueur
Éloyse Lesueur is a French long jumper.-Achievements:-References:...

 
6.67 Q 6.67
3 Maurren Higa Maggi  6.65 Q 6.65
4 Concepción Montaner
Concepción Montaner
Concepción Montaner is a Spanish long jumper.She took the gold medal the World Junior Championships in 2000. At the 2006 World Indoor Championships she came close to her first major international senior medal, when she finished fourth with 6.76 metres - the same result as the bronze medalist Naide...

 
6.65 Q 6.31 6.45 6.64
5 Irina Simagina
Irina Simagina
Irina Alekseyevna Simagina is a Russian long jumper.She won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was then more or less away from the international scene the next two seasons. She did not start at the 2005 World Championships, despite having entered the competition, and gave birth to...

 
6.60 Q 6.60
6 Ineta Radēviča
Ineta Radevica
Ineta Radēviča is a Latvian athlete, competing in the long jump and triple jump.Radēviča won the bronze medal in the 2003 European U-23 championship. She has also won two NCAA championships, while competing for the University of Nebraska. In the 2004 Summer Olympics, she was 13th in the triple...

 
6.52 q 6.50 6.40 6.52
7 Janice Josephs
Janice Josephs
Janice Josephs is a South African heptathlete.She finished nineteenth at the 2004 Summer Olympics and fifth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the latter in a personal best score of 6181 points. On the regional level she won a silver medal at the 2004 African Championships and the gold at the 2006...

 
6.51 PB q 5.85 X 6.51
8 Keila Costa
Keila Costa
Keila da Silva Costa is a Brazilian long jumper and triple jumper. She has competed in two Olympic Games, 2004 and 2008, and has reached the final round both there and in World Championships and World Indoor Championships. She is the South American record holder in triple jump with 14.57 metres,...

 
6.41 SB q 6.12 6.28 6.41
9 Denisa Šcerbová
Denisa Šcerbová
Denisa Rosolová, née Ščerbová is a Czech athlete. Her main event is the long jump, but she competes also in heptathlon. Her best are 6.68 m in the long jump and 5,828 points in the heptathlon...

 
6.37 X 6.35 6.37
10 Olga Kucherenko
Olga Kucherenko
Olga Kucherenko is a Russian long jumper.She won the bronze medal at the 2009 European Indoor Championships. She also competed at the 2008 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final. Her personal best jump is 7.13 metres, achieved in May 2010 in Sochi. She has 6.87 metres on the indoor...

 
6.32 6.30 4.60 6.32
11 Lela V. Nelson  6.31 X 6.31 X
12 Kumiko Ikeda
Kumiko Ikeda
is a Japanese long jumper.She won bronze medals at the 2000 World Junior Championships and the 2001 Summer Universiade, and finished eleventh at the 2001 World Championships. On the regional level she won a bronze medal at the 2005 Asian Championships and gold at the 2006 Asian Games.Her personal...

 
6.17 SB 6.17 X 6.07

Final

Pos |Athlete |Country |Mark |Attempts
1 2 3 4 5 6
Naide Gomes
Naide Gomes
Enezaide do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes, OIH, is a Portuguese heptathlete, born in São Tomé and Príncipe. She is also a top-class competitor in the long jump, and she competed in 100 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics...

 
7.00 WL X 6.82 X 6.87 7.00 X
Maurren Higa Maggi  6.89 AR 6.74 6.80 6.89 X 6.73 X
Irina Simagina
Irina Simagina
Irina Alekseyevna Simagina is a Russian long jumper.She won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was then more or less away from the international scene the next two seasons. She did not start at the 2005 World Championships, despite having entered the competition, and gave birth to...

 
6.88 X X X 6.84 6.85 6.88
4 Éloyse Lesueur
Éloyse Lesueur
Éloyse Lesueur is a French long jumper.-Achievements:-References:...

 
6.60 6.47 X 6.49 6.52 X 6.60
5 Concepción Montaner
Concepción Montaner
Concepción Montaner is a Spanish long jumper.She took the gold medal the World Junior Championships in 2000. At the 2006 World Indoor Championships she came close to her first major international senior medal, when she finished fourth with 6.76 metres - the same result as the bronze medalist Naide...

 
6.57 6.57 X X 6.56 6.48 6.15
6 Ineta Radēviča
Ineta Radevica
Ineta Radēviča is a Latvian athlete, competing in the long jump and triple jump.Radēviča won the bronze medal in the 2003 European U-23 championship. She has also won two NCAA championships, while competing for the University of Nebraska. In the 2004 Summer Olympics, she was 13th in the triple...

 
6.54 6.36 X 6.40 6.34 6.54 6.46
7 Keila Costa
Keila Costa
Keila da Silva Costa is a Brazilian long jumper and triple jumper. She has competed in two Olympic Games, 2004 and 2008, and has reached the final round both there and in World Championships and World Indoor Championships. She is the South American record holder in triple jump with 14.57 metres,...

 
6.48 SB 6.26 6.42 6.36 6.37 6.48 6.14
8 Janice Josephs
Janice Josephs
Janice Josephs is a South African heptathlete.She finished nineteenth at the 2004 Summer Olympics and fifth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the latter in a personal best score of 6181 points. On the regional level she won a silver medal at the 2004 African Championships and the gold at the 2006...

6.25 6.26 6.29 6.39 6.38 6.30
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