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The Men'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 2011 World Championships in Athletics

2011 World Championships in Athletics

The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011....

 was held at the Daegu Stadium on September 1 and 2

Defending champion Dwight Phillips

Dwight Phillips

Dwight Phillips is an American athlete and a four-time world champion in the long jump...

 had not done well early in the season, only finishing tenth in the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

The USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships is an annual track and field competition organized by USA Track & Field, which serves as the American national championships for the sport...

. But as defending champion, he was given the automatic entry into the meet. On his qualifying jump he showed the first sign of life, jumping a season best 8.32 to lead qualifying. Of the rest of the field, only Mitchell Watt

Mitchell Watt

Mitchell Watt, is an Australian track & field athlete. His main event is the long jump and holds the current Oceania record for the long jump – 8.54m...

 achieved an automatic qualifier. Will Claye

Will Claye

Will Claye is an American track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump and has a personal record of 17.50 meters. He won bronze medal in 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea....

 achieved a rare feat by qualifying for final in both the Long Jump and Triple Jump

Triple jump

The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

.

In the final, Phillips almost matched his qualifying jump with an 8.31 to take the early lead. Ngonidzashe Makusha

Ngonidzashe Makusha

Ngonidzashe Makusha is a Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper. He is the national record holder over 100m and Long Jump for Zimbabwe with 9.89s and 8.40m respectively. Both performances achieved during the 2011 NCAA Division I Championships in Des Moines, Iowa where he completed the 100m long...

 came close with an 8.29 in the same round. Mitchell Watt

Mitchell Watt

Mitchell Watt, is an Australian track & field athlete. His main event is the long jump and holds the current Oceania record for the long jump – 8.54m...

 bested the early leaders with an 8.33 in the second round, but not before Phillips had jumped an 8.45 to separate from the field. Nobody was able to improve after that.

After the event, Phillips celebrated by showing his assigned bib number 1111, significant for his first place finish in four World Championships.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Dwight Phillips Dwight Phillips Dwight Phillips is an American athlete and a four-time world champion in the long jump... '	Mitchell Watt Mitchell Watt Mitchell Watt, is an Australian track & field athlete. His main event is the long jump and holds the current Oceania record for the long jump – 8.54m... '	Ngonidzashe Makusha Ngonidzashe Makusha Ngonidzashe Makusha is a Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper. He is the national record holder over 100m and Long Jump for Zimbabwe with 9.89s and 8.40m respectively. Both performances achieved during the 2011 NCAA Division I Championships in Des Moines, Iowa where he completed the 100m long... '

Records

Prior to the competition, the established records were as follows.

World record		8.95	Tokyo Tokyo , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family... , Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	30 August 1991
Championship record		8.95	Tokyo, Japan	30 August 1991
World leading		8.54	Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area... , Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	29 July 2011
African record		8.50	Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan... , Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	4 July 2009
Asian Record		8.48	Sotteville Sotteville Sotteville is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.... , France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	2 July 2006
North, Central American and Caribbean record		8.95	Tokyo, Japan	30 August 1991
South American record		8.73	Hengelo Hengelo Hengelo is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel. The city lies along the motorways A1/E30 and A35 and it has a station for the International Amsterdam – Hannover – Berlin service.-Traffic and transport:... , Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...	24 May 2008
European record		8.86	Tsaghkadzor, 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....	22 May 1987
Oceanian record		8.54	Stockholm, Sweden	29 July 2011

Qualification standards

A standard	B standard
8.20	8.10

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
September 1, 2011	11:35	Qualification
September 2, 2011	19:20	Final

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 8.15 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	Dwight Phillips Dwight Phillips Dwight Phillips is an American athlete and a four-time world champion in the long jump...		8.32			8.32	Q, SB
2	A	Mitchell Watt Mitchell Watt Mitchell Watt, is an Australian track & field athlete. His main event is the long jump and holds the current Oceania record for the long jump – 8.54m...		6.43	8.15		8.15	Q
3	A	Christian Reif Christian Reif Christian Reif is a German long jumper.He finished ninth at the 2007 World Championships. He had previously competed at the 2007 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final....			8.13		8.13	q
4	B	Ngonidzashe Makusha Ngonidzashe Makusha Ngonidzashe Makusha is a Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper. He is the national record holder over 100m and Long Jump for Zimbabwe with 9.89s and 8.40m respectively. Both performances achieved during the 2011 NCAA Division I Championships in Des Moines, Iowa where he completed the 100m long...		8.05	7.83	8.11	8.11	q
5	B	Sebastian Bayer Sebastian Bayer Sebastian Bayer is a German long jumper best known for having history's second longest indoor long jump.-Career:He won the silver medal at the 2005 European Junior Championships...		8.11			8.11	q
6	B	Marcos Chuva			8.10		8.10	q
7	B	Will Claye Will Claye Will Claye is an American track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump and has a personal record of 17.50 meters. He won bronze medal in 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea....		7.83	7.94	8.09	8.09	q
8	A	Aleksandr Menkov Aleksandr Menkov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Menkov is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in the long jump.He set a personal best jump of 8.16 metres in June 2009 in Kemerovo. He won the gold medal at the 2009 European Junior Championships, and competed at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the...		8.07			8.07	q
9	A	Yahya Berrabah Yahya Berrabah Yahya Berrabah is a Moroccan long jumper.He finished seventh at the 2002 African Championships. At the 2006 African Championships he finished eighth in the long jump and seventh in the triple jump. He won the gold medal at the 2008 African Championships...			8.03	8.05	8.05	q
10	B	Luvo Manyonga		7.77	7.72	8.04	8.04	q
11	A	Kim Deok-Hyeon Kim Deok-Hyeon Kim Deok-Hyeon is a South Korean triple jumper.He won bronze medals at the 2005 Asian Championships and the 2006 Asian Games, the gold medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade, the silver medal at the 2007 Asian Championships and finished ninth at the 2007 World Championships...		7.86	7.99	8.02	8.02	q, SB
12	A	Chris Tomlinson Chris Tomlinson Christopher George Tomlinson is an English long jumper.Tomlinson began competing for Middlesbrough AC at the age of 10, mostly over 100m and 200m. He attended Nunthorpe Secondary School and to this day holds many of its year group records for triple and long jump...		7.95	7.84	8.02	8.02	q
13	A	Marquise Goodwin Marquise Goodwin Marquise Goodwin is a sprinter and jumper for the University of Texas track team and also competes in football as a wide receiver...		7.92	7.78	8.02	8.02
14	B	Louis Tsatoumas Louis Tsatoumas Louis Tsatoumas is a Greek long jumper.He won his first major senior medal in 2007 at the European Indoor Athletics Championships, where he claimed the silver medal behind an Italian record-breaking Andrew Howe. On 2 June 2007 in Kalamata Tsatoumas jumped 8.66 metres, achieving a personal...		8.01	7.89		8.01
15	B	Greg Rutherford Greg Rutherford Gregory James "Greg" Rutherford is an English athlete from Milton Keynes who competes in long jump and 100 metres. His home club is Marshall Milton Keynes AC.Rutherford competed in the 2006 Commonwealth Games for England...		8.00			8.00
15	A	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena Godfrey Khotso Mokoena Godfrey Khotso Mokoena is a South African athlete who specializes in the long jump and triple jump.-Early Life and Family:...				8.00	8.00
17	A	Ignisious Gaisah Ignisious Gaisah Ignisious Gaisah is a Ghanaian athlete competing in the long jump.Gaisah currently lives and trains in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He came to the Netherlands in 2001 and soon flabbergasted everyone at his local club by saying his personal best was 7,85 metres and started proving it as well. He...			7.92	7.78	7.92
18	B	Eusebio Cáceres Eusebio Cáceres Eusebio Cáceres is a Spanish track and field athlete who specialises in the long jump.He began competing in a wide variety of events at the start of his junior career, including the decathlon. He won the long jump bronze medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics...		7.60	7.90	7.91	7.91
19	B	Tyrone Smith Tyrone Smith (athlete) Tyrone Smith is a professional Bermudian born long jumper.Tyrone grew up in the Chicago suburb of North Chicago where he attended NCCHS and Novak-King Middle School. At NCCHS he was a member of the Track and Field team as well as the Football team...			7.79	7.91	7.91
20	A	Damar Forbes				7.91	7.91
21	B	Fabrice Lapierre Fabrice Lapierre Fabrice Lapierre is a Mauritian-born Australian long jumper.Lapierre placed 4th at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany, behind another Australian, Mitchell Watt, who took the bronze...		7.80	7.89	7.76	7.89
22	B	Irving Saladino Irving Saladino Irving Jahir Saladino Aranda is a Panamanian long jumper. He is the current Olympic champion, and Panama's first and only Olympic gold medallist.Saladino was born in Colón, Panama....				7.84	7.84
23	A	Luis Méliz Luis Méliz Luis Felipe Méliz Linares is a male long jumper. He represents Spain. He originally represented Cuba, but obtained Spanish citizenship on 28 December 2007....		7.80	7.69	7.82	7.82
24	A	Robert Crowther Robert Crowther Robert Crowther is an Australian long jumper. His personal best is 8.05 metres, achieved at the 2011 Australian Athletics Championships in Melbourne. In a recent survey conducted by the IAAF, Robbie was voted the sexiest man in track and field .-Achievements:-References:...		7.74	7.64	7.67	7.74
25	B	Raymond Higgs			7.72		7.72
26	A	Jorge McFarlane Jorge McFarlane Jorge Armando McFarlane Olazábal is a Peruvian athlete competing in the 110 metres hurdles and long jump events...				7.66	7.66
27	A	Michel Tornéus Michel Tornéus Michel Tresor Komesha Tornéus is a Swedish long jumper.He competed at the 2009 European Indoor Championships, the 2009 World Championships and the 2010 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final....			7.62	7.65	7.65
28	A	Salim Sdiri Salim Sdiri Salim Sdiri is a French long jumper of Tunisian descent. His personal best jump is 8.42 metres, achieved in June 2009 in Pierre-Bénite, which is the current French national record...		7.49	7.58	7.48	7.58
29	B	Lin Ching-Hsuan		7.30			7.30
30	B	Kristinn Torfason		5.52	6.25	7.17	7.17
31	B	Trevell Quinley Trevell Quinley Trevell Quinley is an American long jumper and competitor in the 2008 Summer Olympics.He won the bronze medal at the 2002 World Junior Championships...		7.09			7.09
32	B	Su Xiongfeng Su Xiongfeng Su Xiongfeng is a Chinese track and field athlete who competes in the long jump. He became the Asian champion at the 2011 Asian Championships and was the silver medallist at the 2010 Asian Games...		7.03			7.03
	B	Henry Dagmil Henry Dagmil Henry Dagmil is a Filipino long jumper. His personal best jump is 7.99 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Los Angeles. He finished fifth at the 2006 Asian Games. He also competed at the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final.-Achievements:-References:...
	A	Mohamed Fathalla Difallah
	A	Povilas Mykolaitis Povilas Mykolaitis Povilas Mykolaitis is a Lithuanian long jumper. His personal record is 8.15 metres, reached at 2011 in Kaunas, which also is national record....
	B	Stanley Gbagbeke

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Dwight Phillips Dwight Phillips Dwight Phillips is an American athlete and a four-time world champion in the long jump...		8.31	8.45					8.45	SB
	Mitchell Watt Mitchell Watt Mitchell Watt, is an Australian track & field athlete. His main event is the long jump and holds the current Oceania record for the long jump – 8.54m...			8.33	4.90	7.79		8.06	8.33
	Ngonidzashe Makusha Ngonidzashe Makusha Ngonidzashe Makusha is a Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper. He is the national record holder over 100m and Long Jump for Zimbabwe with 9.89s and 8.40m respectively. Both performances achieved during the 2011 NCAA Division I Championships in Des Moines, Iowa where he completed the 100m long...		8.29	8.15	8.14	8.00	8.07		8.29
	Yahya Berrabah Yahya Berrabah Yahya Berrabah is a Moroccan long jumper.He finished seventh at the 2002 African Championships. At the 2006 African Championships he finished eighth in the long jump and seventh in the triple jump. He won the gold medal at the 2008 African Championships...		8.03	8.23					8.23
	Luvo Manyonga		8.21		7.82				8.21
	Aleksandr Menkov Aleksandr Menkov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Menkov is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in the long jump.He set a personal best jump of 8.16 metres in June 2009 in Kemerovo. He won the gold medal at the 2009 European Junior Championships, and competed at the 2009 World Championships without reaching the...		7.74	8.19			8.07		8.19
	Christian Reif Christian Reif Christian Reif is a German long jumper.He finished ninth at the 2007 World Championships. He had previously competed at the 2007 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final....		7.90	8.19		7.98		7.97	8.19
	Sebastian Bayer Sebastian Bayer Sebastian Bayer is a German long jumper best known for having history's second longest indoor long jump.-Career:He won the silver medal at the 2005 European Junior Championships...		8.17	8.06	8.13	8.04	7.91	8.02	8.17	SB
	Will Claye Will Claye Will Claye is an American track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump and has a personal record of 17.50 meters. He won bronze medal in 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea....		8.08	7.98	8.10				8.10
10	Marcos Chuva		8.05		7.99				8.05
11	Chris Tomlinson Chris Tomlinson Christopher George Tomlinson is an English long jumper.Tomlinson began competing for Middlesbrough AC at the age of 10, mostly over 100m and 200m. He attended Nunthorpe Secondary School and to this day holds many of its year group records for triple and long jump...		7.86		7.87				7.87

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Kim Deok-Hyeon

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External links

• Long jump results at IAAF website