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Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's long jump

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}

{{Infobox Olympic event

|event = Women's long jump

|games = 2000 Summer

|image =

|caption =

|venue = Stadium Australia

|dates = 29 September 2000

|competitors =

|nations =

|win_label = Winning distance

|win_value = {{convert|6.99|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

|gold = Heike Drechsler

|goldNOC = GER

|silver = Fiona May

|silverNOC = ITA

|bronze = Tatyana Kotova

|bronzeNOC = RUS

|prev = 1996

|next = 2004

}}

{{AthleticsAt2000SummerOlympics}}

The Women's long jump competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia was held at the Stadium Australia on 29 September 2000.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/ATH/womens-long-jump.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173600/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/ATH/womens-long-jump.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Women's Long Jump |access-date=20 December 2017 |work=sports-reference.com}} The winning margin was 7cm.

In the final, German Heike Drechsler finished in first place, with a jump distance on {{convert|6.99|m|ftin}}. Italian Fiona May finished in second, while American Marion Jones claimed the third place.{{cite news |title=Drechsler shatters Jones' golden dream |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics2000/athletics-field/948159.stm |publisher=BBC Sport |date=29 September 2000 |access-date=16 August 2012}} On 5 October 2007, Jones admitted that she had taken performance-enhancing drugs.{{cite news |first=Amy |last=Shipley |title=Marion Jones admits to steroid use |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/04/AR2007100401666.html |work=The Washington Post |date=5 October 2007 |access-date=16 August 2012}} As a result, she was disqualified and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stripped her of bronze medal on 9 December.{{cite news |title=IOC reallocates Marion Jones' medals |url=http://www.olympic.org/content/news/media-resources/manual-news/1999-2009/20091/12/09/press-releaseioc-reallocates-marion-jones-medals/ |work=International Olympic Committee (IOC) |date=9 December 2009 |access-date=16 August 2012}} Russian Tatyana Kotova, who originally finished in fourth place, was instead awarded the bronze. Kotova was later found guilty of doping, but her Olympic results were unaffected.[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/athletics/2005-World-Athletics-Kotova-disqualified-Anjus-silver-turns-into-gold/articleshow/28762956.cms 2005 World Athletics: Kotova disqualified, Anju's silver turns into gold]

Schedule

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colspan="2"|Qualification Round
Group A

!Group B

27.09.2000 – 10:45h

|27.09.2000 – 10:45h

colspan="2"|Final Round
colspan="2"|29.09.2000 – 19:20h

Abbreviations

  • All results shown are in metres

class="wikitable" style=" text-align:center; font-size:110%;" width="35%"
bgcolor="ccffcc"| Qautomatic qualification
bgcolor="ddffdd"| qqualification by rank
DNSdid not start
NMno mark
ORolympic record
WRworld record
ARarea record
NRnational record
PBpersonal best
SBseason best
bgcolor="pink"|DSQdisqualification

Records

class="wikitable" style=" text-align:center; font-size:110%;" width="95%"
colspan="5"|Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record{{flagathlete|Galina Chistyakova|URS}}7.52 m11 June 1988{{flagicon|URS}} Leningrad, Soviet Union
Olympic Record{{flagathlete|Jackie Joyner-Kersee|USA}}7.40 m29 September 1988{{flagicon|KOR}} Seoul, South Korea

Qualifying

Held on Wednesday 27 September 2000.

The qualifying distance was 6.70m. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the longest jumps until a total of 12 qualifiers.

= Group A =

class="wikitable" width=70%
HeatOverallAthleteNationMark123QualRecord
bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

| 1

| 2

|align="left"| Fiona May

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|ITA|2000 Summer}}

|6.81

|6.48

6.656.81

|Q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|2

|5

|align="left"|Elva Goulbourne

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|JAM|2000 Summer}}

|6.68

|6.35

6.526.68

|q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|3

|8

|align="left"|Olena Shekhovtsova

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|UKR|2000 Summer}}

|6.65

|6.56

6.65x

|q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

| 4

| 9

|align="left"|Susen Tiedtke

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GER|2000 Summer}}

|6.65

|6.55

6.65x

|q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|5

|10

|align="left"|Lyudmila Galkina

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|RUS|2000 Summer}}

|6.62

|6.62

x6.31

| q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|6

|11

|align="left"|Jackie Edwards

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|BAH|2000 Summer}}

|6.60

|6.60

x6.47

| q

|

align="center"

|7

|13

|align="left"|Yelena Kashcheyeva

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|KAZ|2000 Summer}}

|6.57

|6.42

x6.57

|

|

align="center"

|8

|16

|align="left"|Erica Johansson

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|SWE|2000 Summer}}

|6.53

|6.53

x6.49

|

|

align="center"

|9

|17

|align="left"|Niki Xanthou

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GRE|2000 Summer}}

|6.50

|6.50

xx

|

|

align="center"

|10

|18

|align="left"|Yingnan Guan

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|CHN|2000 Summer}}

|6.48

|x

x6.48

|

|

align="center"

|11

|20

|align="left"|Shana Williams

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|USA|2000 Summer}}

|6.44

|6.24

6.286.44

|

|

align="center"

|12

|21

|align="left"|Chantal Brunner

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|NZL|2000 Summer}}

|6.42

|6.14

6.426.31

|

|

align="center"

|13

|23

|align="left"|Zita Ajkler

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|HUN|2000 Summer}}

|6.36

|6.35

6.36x

|

|

align="center"

|14

|24

|align="left"|Maurren Higa Maggi

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|BRA|2000 Summer}}

|6.35

|6.35

6.28x

|

|

align="center"

|15

|26

|align="left"|Lissette Cuza

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|CUB|2000 Summer}}

|6.25

|x

6.196.25

|

|

align="center"

|16

|30

|align="left"|Elena Bobrovskaia

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|KGZ|2000 Summer}}

|6.19

|5.94

6.196.03

|

|

align="center"

|17

|32

|align="left"|Flora Hyacinth

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|ISV|2000 Summer}}

|6.08

|6.08

x5.89

|

|

align="center"

|18

|33

|align="left"|Mónica Falcioni

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|URU|2000 Summer}}

|6.05

|6.05

6.045.96

|

|SB

align="center"

|

|

|align="left"|Concepción Montaner

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|ESP|2000 Summer}}

|NM

|x

xx

|

|

align="center"

|

|

|align="left"|Françoise Mbango

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|CMR|2000 Summer}}

|DNS

|

|

|

= Group B =

class="wikitable" width=70%
HeatOverallAthleteNationMark123QualRecord
bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|1

|1

|align="left"|Heike Drechsler

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GER|2000 Summer}}

|6.84

|6.84

|Q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|2

|3

|align="left"|Dawn Burrell

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|USA|2000 Summer}}

|6.77

|x

6.686.77

|Q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|3

|4

|align="left"|Tünde Vaszi

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|HUN|2000 Summer}}

|6.70

|x

x6.70

|Q

|SB

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|4

|6

|align="left"|Tatyana Kotova

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|RUS|2000 Summer}}

|6.66

|6.41

6.664.21

|q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|5

|7

|align="left"|Olga Rublyova

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|RUS|2000 Summer}}

|6.65

|6.62

x6.65

|q

|

align="center"

|6

|12

|align="left"|Jo Wise

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GBR|2000 Summer}}

|6.59

|6.39

6.546.59

|

|SB

align="center"

|7

|14

|align="left"|Viktoriya Vershynina

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|UKR|2000 Summer}}

|6.56

|6.46

6.566.47

|

|

align="center"

|8

|15

|align="left"|Bronwyn Thompson

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|AUS|2000 Summer}}

|6.55

|6.55

x6.21

|

|

align="center"

|9

|19

|align="left"|Valentīna Gotovska

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|LAT|2000 Summer}}

|6.47

|6.44

x6.47

|

|

align="center"

|10

|22

|align="left"|Lacena Golding

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|JAM|2000 Summer}}

|6.39

|6.37

6.396.39

|

|

align="center"

|11

|25

|align="left"|Patience Itanyi

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|NGR|2000 Summer}}

|6.33

|6.33

6.226.12

|

|

align="center"

|12

|27

|align="left"|Viorica Țigău

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|ROM|2000 Summer}}

|6.25

|x

x6.25

|

|

align="center"

|13

|28

|align="left"|Yelena Pershina

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|KAZ|2000 Summer}}

|6.24

|6.24

x6.22

|

|

align="center"

|14

|29

|align="left"|Sofia Schulte

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GER|2000 Summer}}

|6.23

|6.15

x6.23

|

|

align="center"

|15

|31

|align="left"|Andrea Ávila

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|ARG|2000 Summer}}

|6.11

|6.11

x6.07

|

|

align="center"

|16

|34

|align="left"|Despoina Papavasilaki

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GRE|2000 Summer}}

|5.86

|x

x5.86

|

|

align="center"

|

|

|align="left"|Guo Chunfang

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|CHN|2000 Summer}}

|NM

|x

xx

|

|

align="center"

|

|

|align="left"|Luciana Santos

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|BRA|2000 Summer}}

|NM

|x

xx

|

|

align="center"

|

|

|align="left"|Anna Tarasova

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|KAZ|2000 Summer}}

|NM

|x

xx

|

|

=Overall Qualifying=

class="wikitable sortable" width=70%
OverallAthleteNationGroupMark123QualRecord
bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|1

|align="left"|Heike Drechsler

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GER|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.84

|6.84

|Q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|2

|align="left"| Fiona May

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|ITA|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.81

|6.48

6.656.81

|Q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|3

|align="left"|Dawn Burrell

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|USA|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.77

|x

6.686.77

|Q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|4

|align="left"|Tünde Vaszi

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|HUN|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.70

|x

x6.70

|Q

|SB

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|5

|align="left"|Elva Goulbourne

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|JAM|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.68

|6.35

6.526.68

|q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|6

|align="left"|Tatyana Kotova

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|RUS|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.66

|6.41

6.664.21

|q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|7

|align="left"|Olga Rublyova

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|RUS|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.65

|6.62

x6.65

|q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|8

|align="left"|Olena Shekhovtsova

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|UKR|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.65

|6.56

6.65x

|q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|9

|align="left"|Susen Tiedtke

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GER|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.65

|6.55

6.65x

|q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|10

|align="left"|Lyudmila Galkina

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|RUS|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.62

|6.62

x6.31

| q

|

bgcolor = "eeffdd" align="center"

|11

|align="left"|Jackie Edwards

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|BAH|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.60

|6.60

x6.47

| q

|

align="center"

|12

|align="left"|Jo Wise

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GBR|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.59

|6.39

6.546.59

|

|SB

align="center"

|13

|align="left"|Yelena Kashcheyeva

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|KAZ|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.57

|6.42

x6.57

|

|

align="center"

|14

|align="left"|Viktoriya Vershynina

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|UKR|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.56

|6.46

6.566.47

|

|

align="center"

|15

|align="left"|Bronwyn Thompson

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|AUS|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.55

|6.55

x6.21

|

|

align="center"

|16

|align="left"|Erica Johansson

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|SWE|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.53

|6.53

x6.49

|

|

align="center"

|17

|align="left"|Niki Xanthou

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GRE|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.50

|6.50

xx

|

|

align="center"

|18

|align="left"|Yingnan Guan

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|CHN|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.48

|x

x6.48

|

|

align="center"

|19

|align="left"|Valentīna Gotovska

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|LAT|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.47

|6.44

x6.47

|

|

align="center"

|20

|align="left"|Shana Williams

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|USA|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.44

|6.24

6.286.44

|

|

align="center"

|21

|align="left"|Chantal Brunner

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|NZL|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.42

|6.14

6.426.31

|

|

align="center"

|22

|align="left"|Lacena Golding

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|JAM|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.39

|6.37

6.396.39

|

|

align="center"

|23

|align="left"|Zita Ajkler

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|HUN|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.36

|6.35

6.36x

|

|

align="center"

|24

|align="left"|Maurren Higa Maggi

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|BRA|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.35

|6.35

6.28x

|

|

align="center"

|25

|align="left"|Patience Itanyi

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|NGR|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.33

|6.33

6.226.12

|

|

align="center"

|26

|align="left"|Lissette Cuza

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|CUB|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.25

|x

6.196.25

|

|

align="center"

|27

|align="left"|Viorica Țigău

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|ROM|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.25

|x

x6.25

|

|

align="center"

|28

|align="left"|Yelena Pershina

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|KAZ|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.24

|6.24

x6.22

|

|

align="center"

|29

|align="left"|Sofia Schulte

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GER|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.23

|6.15

x6.23

|

|

align="center"

|30

|align="left"|Elena Bobrovskaia

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|KGZ|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.19

|5.94

6.196.03

|

|

align="center"

|31

|align="left"|Andrea Ávila

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|ARG|2000 Summer}}

| B

|6.11

|6.11

x6.07

|

|

align="center"

|32

|align="left"|Flora Hyacinth

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|ISV|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.08

|6.08

x5.89

|

|

align="center"

|33

|align="left"|Mónica Falcioni

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|URU|2000 Summer}}

| A

|6.05

|6.05

6.045.96

|

|SB

align="center"

|34

|align="left"|Despoina Papavasilaki

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GRE|2000 Summer}}

| B

|5.86

|x

x5.86

|

|

align="center"

|

|align="left"|Concepción Montaner

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|ESP|2000 Summer}}

| A

|NM

|x

xx

|

|

align="center"

|

|align="left"|Guo Chunfang

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|CHN|2000 Summer}}

| B

|NM

|x

xx

|

|

align="center"

|

|align="left"|Luciana Santos

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|BRA|2000 Summer}}

| B

|NM

|x

xx

|

|

align="center"

|

|align="left"|Anna Tarasova

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|KAZ|2000 Summer}}

| B

|NM

|x

xx

|

|

align="center"

|

|align="left"|Françoise Mbango

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|CMR|2000 Summer}}

| B

|DNS

|

|

|

Final

class="wikitable" width=70%
RankAthleteNationMark123456Record
align="center"

|{{gold01}}

|align="left"|Heike Drechsler

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GER|2000 Summer}}

|6.99

|6.48

|x

|6.99

|6.79

|x

|x

|SB

align="center"

|{{silver02}}

|align="left"|Fiona May

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|ITA|2000 Summer}}

|6.92

|6.76

|6.82

|6.92

|6.72

|6.73

|6.72

|

align="center"

|{{bronze03}}

|align="left"|Tatyana Kotova

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|RUS|2000 Summer}}

|6.83

|X

|6.76

|6.83

|X

|X

|6.73

|

align="center"

|4

|align="left"|Olga Rublyova

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|RUS|2000 Summer}}

|6.79

|X

|6.79

|X

|6.79

|X

|X

|

align="center"

|5

|align="left"|Susen Tiedtke

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|GER|2000 Summer}}

|6.74

|X

|6.52

|6.74

|X

|4.94

|X

|

align="center"

|6

|align="left"|Jackie Edwards

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|BAH|2000 Summer}}

|6.59

|6.59

|6.52

|6.51

|6.31

|6.35

|6.42

|

align="center"

|7

|align="left"|Tünde Vaszi

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|HUN|2000 Summer}}

|6.59

|6.32

|X

|6.59

|X

|X

|X

|

align="center"

|8

|align="left"|Lyudmila Galkina

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|RUS|2000 Summer}}

|6.56

|6.42

|6.56

|6.05

|

|

|

|

align="center"

|9

|align="left"|Elva Goulbourne

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|JAM|2000 Summer}}

|6.43

|X

|6.43

|6.20

|

|

|

|

align="center"

|10

|align="left"|Dawn Burrell

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|USA|2000 Summer}}

|6.38

|X

|X

|6.38

|

|

|

|

align="center"

|11

|align="left"|Olena Shekhovtsova

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|UKR|2000 Summer}}

|6.37

|X

|X

|6.37

|

|

|

|

bgcolor = "pink" align="center"

|DSQ

|align="left"|Marion Jones

|align="left"|{{flagIOC|USA|2000 Summer}}

|6.92

|X

|6.68

|X

|6.92

|X

|X

|

See also

References

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120614162831/http://todor66.com/olim/2000/Athletics/Women_Long_Jump.html Results]
  • Source: Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics available at https://web.archive.org/web/20080522105330/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm

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