| Host City: Beijing, China | Format: Qualifying round (8.15 or top 12 to final) (Aug 24) |
| Dates: 22 August 2015 — 30 August 2015 | |
| Nations participating: 205 | |
| Athletes participating: 1,781 | |
| | | Main venue: Beijing National Stadium
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| Overview by IAAF | | |
| Wang (18) led the competition after the first round with 8.14, which he improved to 8.18 in the second stanza. Rutherford quickly settled matters with a jump of 8.29, followed two rounds later with an 8.41 featuring a plasticine gap of only 1.5cm. The major change in the last two rounds came with Lapierre’s medal-winning efforts of 8.20 and then 8.24. Henderson – who qualified with 8.36 – had a miserable day, managing one valid jump of 7.95. His compatriots fared much worse. Hartfield fouled out in the final while Dendy went out in qualifying. For Rutherford it gave him a full house of championships – World, Olympic, Commonwealth and European – the fifth to complete such a collection only available to Britons and Cypriots. |
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