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1999 World Championships in Athletics Sevilla, Spain

1999 7th IAAF World Championships - Seville - Men's Long Jump

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Host City: Seville, Spain

Format: Qualifying round (8.15 or top 12 to final) (Aug 26)

Dates: August 20–29, 1999

Nations participating: 201

Athletes participating: 1821

Main venue: Estadio Olímpico

Overview by IAAF

Pedroso won his third world outdoor title, but only after Spanish fans inside the packed stadium had been thrilled by Lamela, the man who gave Pedroso such a scare in the World Indoor Championships earlier in the year. He it was who led after the first round with 8.34 in reply to Pedroso’s 8.19 and Cankar’s 8.20. By the end of round 2 it could hardly have been much closer as Pedroso jumped 8.33 and Cankar 8.32 while Lamela fouled. But Pedroso is nothing if not a great competitor and in round 3 he went out to 8.56. Lamela fouled again but after losing second place to Cankar (8.36) in the fourth round he immediately responded with 8.40. For the first time in a global championship, four men went over 8.30 as Taurima – revealing some of the flair that would become more evident in Sydney 2000 – leapt an Australian record of 8.35 in the final round, 1cm behind Cankar. The highest-placed jumper from the USA, which had never previously been out of the medals in this event, was seventh. That was Texan Dilworth, who repeated his placing from Athens 1997.

These are the official results of the Men's Long Jump event at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Spain. There were a total number of 45 participating athletes, with the final held on Saturday 28 August 1999.

Long Jump

28 August

Men's Long Jump Final

26 year-old Ivan Pedroso (CUB) won his third consecutive title in this event jumping 8.56m. He has become the first man in the history of the Championships to obtain three long jump gold medals, leaving behind Carl Lewis ('83 and '87) and Mike Powell ('91 and '93). The Spaniard Yago Lamela took the silver medal, thus repeating his position at the 1999 World Indoor Championships (behind Pedroso). He jumped 8.40, 16 centimetres less than his personal best earlier this year.
After the first round Lamela headed the event, with 8.34, while Pedroso jumped only 8.19 and was third behind Gregor Cankar (SLO) with 8.20. In the second round Lamela made a foul and Pedroso and Cankar jumped 8.33 and 8.32. The third round was the decisive one. The Cuban jumped 8.56 and his rivals could not come near to his performance. For a few minutes Cankar took the second position with 8.36, but Lamela replied immediately with 8.40, both performances in the fourth round. The only good jump of the two last rounds was Lamela's last attempt of 8.39, which was not enough to change the podium arrangement: Pedroso, Lamela, Cankar.

Final

1

Iván Pedroso

CUB

17 Dec 72

8.56

1.1

2

Yago Lamela

ESP

24 Jul 77

8.40

0.6

3

Gregor Cankar

SLO

25 Jan 75

8.36

1.6

4

Jai Taurima

AUS

26 Jun 72

8.35

0.7

5

Shane Hair

AUS

24 Oct 75

8.24

1.9

6

Huang Le

CHN

25 Sep 77

8.01

0.5

7

Kevin Dilworth

USA

14 Feb 74

8.00

1.4

8

Younès Moudrik

MAR

1 Oct 77

7.99

1.6

9

Emmanuel Bangué

FRA

21 Jul 71

7.94

1.5

10

Ciaran McDonagh

IRL

20 May 76

7.90

0.8

11

Erik Nijs

BEL

27 Jul 73

7.83

0.3

12

Hussein Taher Al-Sabee

KSA

14 Nov 79

7.62

0.8

	Final 19.05h	Team	Dist.	1	2	3	4	5	6

1	*Ivan Pedroso*	CUB	8.56m	8.19	8.33	8.56	-	5.74	-
2	*Yago Lamela*	ESP	8.40m	8.34	X	X	8.40	8.09	8.39
3	*Gregor Cankar*	SLO	8.36m	8.20	8.32	8.09	8.36	8.07	X
4	*Jai Taurima*	AUS	8.35m	X	8.12	X	X	X	8.35
5	*Shane Hair*	AUS	8.24m	X	7.89	7.99	8.24	8.11	6.10
6	*Le Huang*	CHN	8.01m	7.95	7.70	8.01	7.96	-	-
7	*Kevin Dilworth*	USA	8.00m	7.99	8.00	7.88	7.75	7.98	7.87
8	*Younes Moudrik*	MAR	7.99m	7.68	7.99	7.71	7.71	X	7.76
9	*Emmanuel Bangue*	FRA	7.94m	7.94	7.84	X
10	*Ciaran McDonagh*	IRL	7.90m	7.90	7.72	X
11	*Erik Nijs*	BEL	7.83m	7.81	X	7.83
12	*Hussein Taher Al-Sabee*	KSA	7.62m	7.62	X	6.67

Men Long Jump - Qualification

Great surprises in this event with the non-qualification of well-known athletes in this discipline like the American Eric Walder, second in Athens, the Portuguese Carlos Calado, or Kareem Streete-Thompson (CAY). Defending champion and season leader, Ivan Pedroso (CUB), assured his qualification with the 8,16 he jumped in his first attempt, only one centimetre over the qualifying mark. Yago Lamela (ESP), who was second in the indoor World Championships in Maebashi, had problems to qualify, jumping two fauls in his first attempts and flying to 8,15 in the third one. The best mark of this qualification was for the Slovene Gregor Cankar, fourth in Maebashi, who jumped 8,23 in his third attempt. Only three men (Pedroso, Lamela and Cankar) flew over the qualifying 8,15. The last man to qualify jumped 7,90.

Qualification

26 August

Gregor Cankar

SLO

25 Jan 75

8.23

-0.2

Q

Iván Pedroso

CUB

17 Dec 72

8.16

1.2

Q

Yago Lamela

ESP

24 Jul 77

8.15

-0.1

Q

Kevin Dilworth

USA

14 Feb 74

8.09

0.3

q

Hussein Taher Al-Sabee

KSA

14 Nov 79

8.06

-0.7

q

Ciaran McDonagh

IRL

20 May 76

8.00

0.3

q

Huang Le

CHN

25 Sep 77

7.94

0.1

q

Erik Nijs

BEL

27 Jul 73

7.93

-0.5

q

Emmanuel Bangué

FRA

21 Jul 71

7.92

-0.2

q

Jai Taurima

AUS

26 Jun 72

7.92

0.8

q

Younès Moudrik

MAR

1 Oct 77

7.91

-0.2

q

Konstadínos Koukodímos

GRE

14 Sep 69

7.90

-0.2

Shane Hair

AUS

24 Oct 75

7.90

0.0

q

Hatem Mersal

EGY

20 Jan 75

7.90

0.9

Roman Shchurenko

UKR

14 Sep 76

7.89

-0.3

Kofi Amoah Prah

GER

20 Dec 74

7.86

0.3

Luis Felipe Méliz

CUB

11 Aug 79

7.85

-0.3

Ivaylo Mladenov

BUL

9 Oct 73

7.83

-0.2

Erick Walder

USA

5 Nov 71

7.80

0.2

Nikolai Atanasov

BUL

11 Dec 74

7.80

0.3

Shigeru Tagawa

JPN

22 Nov 75

7.78

-0.6

Oleksiy Lukashevych

UKR

11 Jan 77

7.77

-0.2

Cheikh Tidiane Touré

FRA

25 Jan 70

7.76

0.3

Carlos Calado

POR

5 Oct 75

7.75

0.6

Kareem Streete-Thompson

CAY

30 Mar 73

7.75

0.2

Ian Lowe

CAN

23 Feb 73

7.72

1.3

Nélson Carlos Ferreira

BRA

1 Jan 73

7.71

-0.8

Nicola Trentin

ITA

20 Jun 74

7.70

1.3

Danial Jahic

YUG

1 Jul 79

7.68

-0.4

Andrey Ignatov

RUS

3 Feb 68

7.66

0.6

Richard Duncan

CAN

25 Dec 73

7.65

0.1

Sung Hee-Joon

KOR

8 Jun 74

7.62

0.6

Chen Jing

CHN

10 Mar 76

7.61

-0.3

Konstantin Krause

GER

8 Oct 67

7.61

-0.4

Mark Anthony Awere

GHA

16 Jul 71

7.60

-0.4

Kader Klouchi

FRA

1 Jun 69

7.57

-0.1

Daisuke Watanabe

JPN

29 May 75

7.41

-0.1

Savanté Stringfellow

USA

6 Nov 78

7.39

-0.4

Nathan Morgan

GBR

30 Jun 78

7.31

Gable Garenamotse

BOT

30 Jun 79

7.28

Abdulrahman S. Al-Nubi

QAT

17 Oct 79

7,15

2.2

Masaki Morinaga

JPN

27 Mar 72

DNS

Armen Martirosyan

ARM

6 Aug 69

DNS

Mattias Sunneborn

SWE

27 Sep 70

DNS

	*Group A*	*Team*	*Dist.*	1	2	3
1	*Gregor Cankar*	SLO	8.23m	X	X	8.23
2	*Yago Lamela*	ESP	8.15m	X	X	8.15
3	*Kevin Dilworth*	USA	8.09m	7.72	X	8.09
4	*HusseinTaher Al-Sabee*	KSA	8.06m	X	7.73	8.06
5	*Ciaran McDonagh*	IRL	8.00m	7.91	8.00	-
6	*Emmanuel Bangue*	FRA	7.92m	7.87	7.92	7.83
7	*Younes Moudrik*	MAR	7.91m	7.59	7.91	X
8	*Shane Hair*	AUS	7.90m	7.84	7.90	7.85
9	*Konstantinos Koukodimos*	GRE	7.90m	7.90	X	7.77
10	*Roman Shchurenko*	UKR	7.89m	7.73	7.89	7.88
11	*Kofi Amoah Prah*	GER	7.86m	X	7.86	X
12	*Luis Meliz*	CUB	7.85m	7.85	-	-
13	*Ivaylo Mladenov*	BUL	7.83m	7.83	7.53	7.66
14	*Erick Walder*	USA	7.80m	X	7.68	7.80
15	*Nelson Carlos Ferreira Jr*	BRA	7.71m	7.71	7.53	X
16	*Danial Jahic*	YUG	7.68m	7.68	X	X
17	*Richard Duncan*	CAN	7.65m	X	7.23	7.65
18	*Hee-Jun Sung*	KOR	7.62m	7.50	7.62	5.92
19	*Jing Chen*	CHN	7.61m	7.53	7.61	7.61
20	*Mark Anthony Awere*	GHA	7.60m	X	7.60	7.47
21	*Daisuke Watanabe*	JPN	7.41m	X	7.41	7.33
22	*Nathan Morgan*	GBR	7.31m	X	7.31	-
	*Group B*	*Team*	*Dist.*	1	2	3
1	*Ivan Pedroso*	CUB	8.16m	8.16
2	*Le Huang*	CHN	7.94m	7.94	7.69
3	*Erik Nijs*	BEL	7.93m	7.81	7.69
4	*Jai Taurima*	AUS	7.92m	7.92	X	X
5	*Hatem Mohamed Mersal*	EGY	7.90m	7.90	7.80
6	*Nikolay Atanasov*	BUL	7.86m	7.80	7.86	7.24
7	*Shigeru Tagawa*	JPN	7.78m	7.62	7.78	X
8	*Aleksey Lukashevich*	UKR	7.77m	7.67	7.77	7.64
9	*Tidiane Toure Cheikh*	FRA	7.76m	X	7.66	7.76
10	*Kareem Streete-Thompson*	CAY	7.75m	X	7.72	7.75
11	*Carlos Calado*	POR	7.75m	7.75	7.58	X
12	*Bogdan Tarus*	ROM	7.74m	7.71	7.74	X
13	*Ian Lowe*	CAN	7.72m	6.01	X	7.72
14	*Nicola Trentin*	ITA	7.70m	7.43	7.68	7.70
15	*Andrey Ignatov*	RUS	7.66m	7.66	7.42	X
16	*Konstantin Krause*	GER	7.61m	7.61	X	7.42
17	*Kader Klouchi*	FRA	7.57m	7.57	X	7.36
18	*Savante Stringfellow*	USA	7.39m	7.39	7.36	7.39
19	*Gable Garenamotse*	BOT	7.28m	7.27	7.28	6.93
20	*Abdurahman Al-Nubi*	QAT	7.15m	7.15	6.79	-
-	*Mattias Sunneborn*	SWE	DNS
-	*Armen Martirosyan*	ARM	DNS
-	*Masaki Morinaga*	JPN	DNS

Startlist

Group A 26 AUG 1999 18:50

Order / Lane	Bib	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	PB	SB 1999
1	1295	Gregor Cankar	SLO	8.40	8.28i
2	854	Daisuke Watanabe	JPN	8.12	8.12
3	613	Kofi Amoah Prah	GER	8.15	8.15
4	170	Ivaylo Mladenov	BUL	8.33	8.10
5	547	Nathan Morgan	GBR	8.11	7.99
6	55	Shane Hair	AUS	8.15	8.15
7	452	Emmanuel Bangué	FRA	8.25	8.15
8	1516	Erick Walder	USA	8.74	8.35i
9	374	Yago Lamela	ESP	8.56	8.56
10	1436	Roman Shchurenko	UKR	8.30	8.30
11	1546	Danijal Jahic	SCG	8.18	8.18
12	631	Mark Anthony Awere	GHA	8.04	8.04
13	292	Luis Felipe Méliz	CUB	8.14	8.14
14	1458	Kevin Dilworth	USA	8.47	7.98i
15	897	Hussein Taher Al-Sabee	KSA	8.00	8.00
16	979	Younés Moudrik	MAR	8.20	8.20
17	158	Nélson Carlos Ferreira	BRA	8.36	8.20
18	892	Hee-jun Sung	KOR	8.01	8.00
19	734	Ciaran McDonagh	IRL	7.95	7.95
20	234	Jin Chen	CHN	8.15	8.15
21	658	Konstadínos Koukodímos	GRE	8.36	8.09
22	206	Richard Duncan	CAN	8.15	8.15

Group B 26 AUG 1999 18:50

Order / Lane	Bib	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	PB	SB 1999
1	351	Hatem Mohamed Mersal	EGY	8.31	8.31
2	481	Kader Klouchi	FRA	8.30	8.12
3	101	Erik Nijs	BEL	8.25	7.99
4	212	Ian Lowe	CAN	8.12	8.12
5	1433	Olexiy Lukashevych	UKR	8.16	8.16
6	850	Shigeru Tagawa	JPN	8.15	8.15
7	293	Iván Pedroso	CUB	8.71	8.62i
8	1186	Abdulrahman Faraj Al-Nubi	QAT	8.11
9	221	Kareem Streete-Thompson	CAY	8.63	8.15
10	236	Le Huang	CHN	8.21	8.21
11	801	Nicola Trentin	ITA	8.07	8.07
12	1368	Mattias Sunneborn	SWE	8.21	7.77
13	499	Cheikh Tidiane Touré	FRA	8.46	8.18
14	1169	Carlos Calado	POR	8.36	8.34
15	1195	Bogdan Tarus	ROU	8.29	8.26i
16	144	Gable Garenamotse	BOT	7.97	7.97
17	604	Konstantin Krause	GER	8.27	8.21
18	167	Nikolai Atanasov	BUL	8.09i	8.09i
19	63	Jai Taurima	AUS	8.32	8.19
20	1505	Savanté Stringfellow	USA	8.12	8.12
21	30	Armen Martirosyan	ARM	8.20	7.99
22	1236	Andrey Ignatov	RUS	8.34	8.14
23	842	Masaki Morinaga	JPN	8.25	8.09