1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump

Events at the 1995 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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These are the official results of the

. There were 40 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday August 6, 1995. The qualification mark was set at 6.75 metres.

Medalists

Gold	Fiona May Italy (ITA)
Silver	Niurka Montalvo Cuba (CUB)
Bronze	Irina Mushailova Russia (RUS)

Schedule

• All times are
  UTC+1
  )

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
05.08.1995 – 16:00h	05.08.1995 – 16:00h
Final Round
06.08.1995 – 16:50h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1995 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Galina Chistyakova (URS)	7.52 m	June 11, 1988	Leningrad, Soviet Union
Event Record	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	7.36 m	September 4, 1987	Rome, Italy

Qualifying round

Qualifying mark: 6.75 metres

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1		Fiona May (ITA)	6.76w			6.76w
2		Heike Drechsler (GER)	6.50	6.70	x	6.70
3		Niurka Montalvo (CUB)				6.69
4		Irina Mushailova  (RUS)				6.63
5		Olena Khlopotnova (UKR)				6.63
6		Jackie Edwards (BAH)				6.59
7		Chantal Brunner (NZL)				6.53
8		Nicole Boegman (AUS)				6.51
9		Niki Xanthou (GRE)				6.50
10		Lyudmila Galkina (RUS)				6.49
11		Yao Weili (CHN)				6.49
12		Andrea Ávila (ARG)				6.39
13		Valentīna Gotovska (LAT)				6.32
14		Sharon Couch-Jewell  (USA)				6.30
15		Ksenija Predikaka (SLO)				6.30
16		Dionne Rose  (JAM)				6.07
17		Elma Muros-Posadas  (PHI)				6.01
18		Nilufar Yeasmin (BAN)				5.40
—	—	Tünde Vaszi (HUN)	x	x	x	NM
—	—	Pastora Chavez  (HON)	x	x	x	NM

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1		Olga Rublyova (RUS)				6.74
2		Inessa Kravets (UKR)	6.66	6.73		6.73
3		Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	6.33	6.73		6.73
4		Viktoriya Vershynina (UKR)				6.72
5		Agata Karczmarek (POL)				6.54
6		Valentina Uccheddu (ITA)				6.53
7		Marieke Veltman (USA)				6.50
8		Patience Itanyi (NGR)				6.46
9		Lacena Golding  (JAM)				6.45
10		Nadine Caster (FRA)				6.43
11		Renata Nielsen (DEN)				6.42
12		Claudia Gerhardt (GER)				6.40
13		Flora Hyacinth (ISV)				6.36
14		Ljudmila Ninova-Rudoll  (AUT)				6.32
15		Fatma Yuksel-Dulkan (TUR)				6.22
16		Beryl Larame  (SEY)				5.50
17		Deborah Rugama (NCA)				4.88
—	—	Heli Koivula  (FIN)	x	x	x	NM
—	—	Paraskevi Patoulidou  (GRE)	x	x	x	NM
—	—	Ana Liku  (TGA)	x	x	x	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fiona May (ITA)	6.93	X	6.87	X	6.64	6.98	6.98 m
	Niurka Montalvo (CUB)	6.42	X	6.70	6.62	X	6.86	6.86 m
	Irina Mushailova  (RUS)	6.75	6.52	6.82	X	6.76	6.83	6.83 m
4	Olga Rublyova (RUS)	6.61	6.65	6.78	6.77	6.68	6.31	6.78 m
5	Valentina Uccheddu (ITA)	X	6.76	X	X	6.74	6.40	6.76 m
6	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	6.74	X	6.69	6.25	6.59	6.46	6.74 m
7	Agata Karczmarek (POL)	X	5.57	6.71	5.96	6.71	6.56	6.71 m
8	Viktoriya Vershynina (UKR)	X	6.66	X	6.62	3.56	6.41	6.66 m
9	Heike Drechsler (GER)	X	X	6.64				6.64 m
10	Inessa Kravets (UKR)	X	6.57	X				6.57 m
11	Olena Khlopotnova (UKR)	X	6.53	6.31				6.53 m
12	Chantal Brunner (NZL)	X	X	6.43				6.43 m
—	Jackie Edwards (BAH)	X	X	X				NM

See also

• 1994 Women's European Championships Long Jump (Helsinki)
• 1998 Women's European Championships Long Jump (Budapest)
• 1996 Women's Olympic Long Jump (Atlanta)

References

• Results