Women Long Jump Athletics Olympic Games 2008 Beijing, China - Friday 22.08 - Gold Medal: Maurren Maggi, Brazil
Final
Team
Dist.
Q.
SO
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
1. Maurren Higa Maggi
BRA
7.04m
2.
9
7.04
X
X
X
6.73
X
2. Blessing Okagbare
NGR
6.91m
12.
12
6.91
6.62
6.79
6.70
6.83
X
3. Chelsea Hammond
JAM
6.79m
11.
11
6.79
6.68
6.51
X
6.64
6.59
4. Brittney Reese
USA
6.76m
1.
1
6.65
6.76
4.23
X
6.46
6.67
5. Oksana Udmurtova
RUS
6.70m
6.
6
6.69
6.70
6.67
6.61
6.65
6.49
6. Jade Johnson
GBR
6.64m
10.
8
6.51
6.64
6.40
6.59
6.43
X
7. Grace Upshaw
USA
6.58m
5.
7
6.58
X
6.52
X
X
X
8. Carolina Kluft
SWE
6.49m
4.
10
X
6.49
6.42
9.Tabia Charles
CAN
6.47m
8.
2
6.16
6.38
6.47
10.Keila Costa
BRA
6.43m
7.
4
X
X
6.43
11.Funmilayo Jimoh
USA
6.29m
9.
3
6.24
X
6.29
-. Tatyana Lebedeva
RUS
7.03m
3.
5
6.97
X
X
X
X
7.03
World record: 7.52m Galina Chistyakova, Soviet Union, Leningrad, Soviet Union, June 11, 1988
Olympic record: 7.40m Jackie Joyner-Kersee, United States, Seoul, South Korea, September 29, 1988
The big shock in the qualifying round was the elimination of world
leader Naide Gomes. The Portuguese had leapt 7.12 in 2008 and in
Beijing had two fouls in the range of 7m before managing only 6.29.
The top three positions in the final were settled by the end of the first
round, but this was not a competition with an obvious conclusion. To
begin with, it had commenced with a substitution. Ukrainian Lyudmila
Blonska qualified with 6.76, but failed a doping control test after appar-
ently winning silver in the heptathlon. As a result, Okagbare was
advanced to the final in place of Blonska, and rarely has an athlete
made so much of a second chance. Lebedeva (6.97) and Maggi (a sea-
sonal best of 7.04) had already determined the top medals when
Okagbare took her first round jump, a lifetime best of 6.91 to ensure
the bronze medal. Hammond, fourth placer with 6.79, also achieved
her best in the first round. All the jumpers, save one, had jumped their
furthest by the end of the second round.
Lebedeva, defending her title, soared to her best jump of the year –
7.03, to fail by the smallest possible margin. Maggi’s jump had been
perfect on the board, while Lebedeva had left 5.5cm to spare on her
7.03. The Russian accepted defeat graciously, but some other jumpers
were less than thrilled by Maggi’s win, the Brazilian having served a
two-year doping ban to 2005.
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