WCH Tokyo 25 brushstroke (© World Athletics)
Last three sets of World Athletics Championships medallists
2023: 1 Ivana Vuleta/Spanović (SRB) – 7.14m, 2 Tara Davis Woodhall (USA) – 6.91m, 3 Alina Rotaru-Kottmann (ROU) – 6.88m
2022: 1 Malaika Mihambo (GER) – 7.12m, 2 Ese Brume (NGR) – 7.02m, 3 Leticia Melo (BRA) – 6.89m
2019: 1 Malaika Mihambo (GER) – 7.30m, 3 Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk (UKR) – 6.92m, 3 Ese Brume (NGR) – 6.91m
Last two sets of Olympic medallists
2020: 1 Malaika Mihambo (GER) – 7.00m, 2 Brittney Reese (USA) – 6.97m, 3 Ese Brume (NGR) – 6.97m
Longest winning jumps in World Athletics Championships history
7.36m (+0.4) – Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA), 1987
7.32m (0.0) – Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA), 1991
7.30m (-0.8) – Malaika Mihambo (GER), 2019
Shortest winning jump in World Athletics Championships history
6.82m (+0.1) – Brittney Reese (USA), 2011
Best marks on Japanese soil
7.32m (0.0) 1 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) - Tokyo (World Championships) 25.08.1991
7.29m (-0.2) 2 Heike Drechsler (GER) - Tokyo (World Championships) 25.08.1991
7.15m 1 Heike Drechsler (GER) - Maebashi 13.02.1994
Best marks on Asian soil
7.40m (0.9) 1 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) - Seoul (Olympics) 29.09.1988
7.32m (0.0) 1 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) - Tokyo (World Championships) 25.08.1991
7.30m (-0.8) 1 Malaika Mihambo (GER) - Doha (World Championships) 06.10.2019
Biggest winning margins
0.30m – 2009: Brittney Reese (USA) – 7.10m, Karin Melis Mey (TUR) – 6.80m
0.25m – 2003: Eunice Barber (FRA) – 6.99m, Tatyana Kotova (RUS) – 6.74m
Smallest winning margins
0.01m – 2001: Fiona May (ITA) – 7.02m, Tatyana Kotova (RUS) – 7.01m
0.02m – 2013: Brittney Reese (USA) – 7.01m, Blessing Okagbare (NGR) – 6.99m
0.02m – 2017: Brittney Reese (USA) – 7.02m, Darya Klishina (ANA/RUS) – 7.00m
Best mark by round
Qualification - 7.01m (+1.1) Chioma Ajunwa (NGR), 1997
Final - 7.36m (+0.4) Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA), 1987
Multiple winners
1983/93 - Heike Daute/Drechsler (GDR/GER)
1987/91 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)
1995/01 - Fiona May (ITA)
2009/11/13/17 - Brittney Reese (USA)
2019/22 - Malaika Mihambo (GER)
Winners by country
8 - United States
3 - Germany
2 - Italy
2 - Russia
1 - German Democratic Republic
1 - Spain
1 - France
1 - Serbia
Five historic facts
- 1983 world champion Heike Daute/Drechsler (GDR/GER) remains the youngest athlete to win a field event title in World Championships history at 18y/241d
- 15 of the 19 World Championships finals have been won with 7.00m-plus jumps. The last final that wasn’t was in 2011 when Brittney Reese (USA) won her second time with 6.82m
- Four World Championships finals have seen all three medallists break the 7.00m-barrier: 1983, 1987, 1991 and 2015
- Ivana Spanovic (SRB) became Serbia’s first ever world champion in any event with gold in 2023 with 7.14m.
- Alina Rotaru-Kottmann (ROU) won Romania’s first medal at the World Championships since 2009 when she won bronze in Budapest 2023
Potential storylines
- A new champion will be crowned as 2023 champion Ivana Spanović (SRB) is competing in the triple jump
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Esraa Owis (EGY) became the first Egyptian woman to qualify for a World Championships final in any event, qualifying 12th for the final with 6.60m
