1999 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump

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.

Medalists edit

Gold   Iván Pedroso
Cuba (CUB)
Silver   Yago Lamela
Spain (ESP)
Bronze   Gregor Cankar
Slovenia (SLO)

Schedule edit

Qualification Round
Group A Group B
26.08.1999 – 18:50h 26.08.1999 – 18:50h
Final Round
28.08.1999 – 19:05h

Abbreviations edit

  • 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

Qualification edit

  • Held on Thursday 26 August 1999
RANK GROUP A DISTANCE
1.   Gregor Cankar (SLO) 8.23 m
2.   Yago Lamela (ESP) 8.15 m
3.   Kevin Dilworth (USA) 8.09 m
4.   Hussein Taher Al-Sabee (KSA) 8.06 m
5.   Ciaran McDonagh (IRL) 8.00 m
6.   Emmanuel Bangué (FRA) 7.92 m
7.   Younés Moudrik (MAR) 7.91 m
8.   Shane Hair (AUS) 7.90 m
9.   Konstantinos Koukodimos (GRE) 7.90 m
10.   Roman Shchurenko (UKR) 7.89 m
11.   Kofi Amoah Prah (GER) 7.86 m
12.   Luis Méliz (CUB) 7.85 m
13.   Ivaylo Mladenov (BUL) 7.83 m
14.   Erick Walder (USA) 7.80 m
15.   Nelson Carlos Ferreira Jr. (BRA) 7.71 m
16.   Danial Jahac (YUG) 7.68 m
17.   Richard Duncan (CAN) 7.65 m
18.   Sung Hee-Jun (KOR) 7.62 m
19.   Chen Jing (CHN) 7.61 m
20.   Mark Anthony Awere (GHA) 7.60 m
21.   Daisuke Watanabe (JPN) 7.41 m
22.   Nathan Morgan (GBR) 7.31 m
RANK GROUP B DISTANCE
1.   Iván Pedroso (CUB) 8.16 m
2.   Huang Le (CHN) 7.94 m
3.   Erik Nijs (BEL) 7.93 m
4.   Jai Taurima (AUS) 7.92 m
5.   Hatem Mohamed Mersal (EGY) 7.90 m
6.   Nikolay Atanasov (BUL) 7.86 m
7.   Shigeru Tagawa (JPN) 7.78 m
8.   Aleksey Lukashevich (UKR) 7.77 m
9.   Cheikh Tidiane Touré (FRA) 7.76 m
10.   Kareem Streete-Thompson (CAY) 7.75 m
11.   Carlos Calado (POR) 7.75 m
12.   Bogdan Tarus (ROM) 7.74 m
13.   Ian Lowe (CAN) 7.72 m
14.   Nicola Trentin (ITA) 7.70 m
15.   Andrey Ignatov (RUS) 7.66 m
16.   Konstantin Krause (GER) 7.61 m
17.   Kader Klouchi (FRA) 7.57 m
18.   Savante Stringfellow (USA) 7.39 m
19.   Gable Garenamotse (BOT) 7.28 m
20.   Abdurahman Al-Nubi (QAT) 7.15 m
  Mattias Sunneborn (SWE) DNS
  Armen Martirosyan (ARM) DNS
  Masaki Morinaga (JPN) DNS

Final edit

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

References edit