WCH Tokyo 25 facts and figures: men's long jump

Last three sets of World Athletics Championships medallists

2023: 1 Miltiádis Tentóglou (GRE) – 8.52m, 2 Wayne Pinnock (JAM) – 8.50m, 3 Tajay Gayle (JAM) – 8.27m
2022: 1 Wang Jianan (CHN) – 8.36m, 2 Miltiádis Tentóglou (GRE) – 8.32m, 3 Simon Ehammer (SUI) – 8.16m
2019: 1 Tajay Gayle (JAM) – 8.69m, 2 Jeffrey Henderson (USA) – 8.39m, 3 Juan Miguel Echevarría (CUB) – 8.34m

Last two sets of Olympic medallists

Longest winning jumps in World Athletics Championships history

8.95m (+0.3) –  Mike Powell (USA) – 8.95m, 1991
8.70m (+1.6) –  Iván Pedroso (CUB) – 8.70m, 1995
8.69m (+0.5) –  Tajay Gayle (JAM) – 8.69m, 2019

Shortest winning jump in World Athletics Championships history

8.32m (+0.5) – Dwight Phillips (USA), 2003

Best marks on Japanese soil

8.95m (0.3) 1 Mike Powell (USA) - Tokyo (World Championships) 30.08.1991
8.87m (-0.2) 2 Carl Lewis (USA) - Tokyo (World Championships 30.08.1991
8.66m (1.0) 1 Larry Myricks (USA) - Tokyo 23.09.1987 

*8.91w (3.0) 2 Carl Lewis (USA) - Tokyo (World Championships 30.08.1991

Best marks on Asian soil

8.95m (0.3) 1 Mike Powell (USA) - Tokyo (World Championships) 30.08.1991
8.87m (-0.2) 2 Carl Lewis (USA) - Tokyo (World Championships) 30.08.1991
8.72m (-0.2) 1 Carl Lewis (USA) - Seoul (Olympics) 26.09.1988

*8.91w (3.0) 2 Carl Lewis (USA) - Tokyo (World Championships 30.08.1991

Biggest winning margins

0.43m – 1993: Mike Powell (USA) – 8.59m, Stanislav Tarasenko (RUS) – 8.16m
0.40m – 1995: Iván Pedroso (CUB) – 8.70m, James Beckford (JAM) – 8.30m
0.30m – 2019: Tajay Gayle (JAM) – 8.69m, Jeffrey Henderson (USA) – 8.39m

​​Smallest winning margins

0.02m – 2023: Miltiádis Tentóglou (GRE) – 8.52m, Wayne Pinnock (JAM) – 8.50m
0.04m – 1991: Mike Powell (USA) – 8.95m, Carl Lewis (USA) – 8.91m
0.04m – 1997: Iván Pedroso (CUB) – 8.42m, Erick Walder (USA) – 8.38m
0.04m – 2003: Dwight Phillips (USA) – 8.32m, James Beckford (JAM) – 8.28m
0.04m – 2017: Luvo Manyonga (RSA) – 8.48m, Jarrion Lawson (USA) – 8.44m
0.04m – 2022: Wang Jianan (CHN) – 8.36m, Miltiádis Tentóglou (GRE) – 8.32m

Best mark by round

Qualification — 8.59m (+3.3) Dwight Phillips (USA), 2005
Final — 8.95m (+0.3) Mike Powell (USA), 1991

Multiple winners

1983/87 - Carl Lewis (USA)
1991/93 - Mike Powell (USA)
1995/97/99/01 - Iván Pedroso (CUB)
2003/05/09/11 - Dwight Phillips (USA)

Winners by country

8 - United States
4 - Cuba
1 - Panama
1 - Russia
1 - Great Britain
1 - South Africa
1 - Jamaica
1 - China 
1 - Greece

Five historic facts

Between 1983 and 2011, only five athletes won the men’s long jump title at the World Championships: Carl Lewis (1983, 1987), Mike Powell (1991, 1993), Iván Pedroso (1995, 1997, 1999, 2001), Dwight Phillips (2003, 2005, 2009, 2011) and Irving Saladino (2007). Since then, no jumper has won this title more than once 

• The 1991 World Championships in Tokyo is regarded as the greatest long jump final in history with Mike Powell setting the still-standing world record of 8.95m to beat Carl Lewis (8.91m) 
• With eight gold medals the United States (USA) is the most successful country in World Championships history although their last title dates back to Dwight Phillips in 2011 (and no medal at all since 2019.) The United States won clean sweeps in both 1983 and 1991
• Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE) won gold in Budapest in 2023 by two centimetres, the smallest winning margin in championship history. Tentoglou won Olympic gold in Tokyo in 2020 on countback, also the smallest winning margin in Olympic history  
• With gold in Budapest, Tentoglou held a full set of titles: Olympic, world indoor and outdoor, European indoor and outdoor 

Potential storylines

• Will there be a different winner of the men’s long jump title for the seventh successive World Championships?
• Can Tentoglou win his fourth global title from the last five global championships? He won gold for the first time at the Olympic Games in Tokyo
• Can Mattia Furlani (ITA) match or better Andrew Howe who won silver in the long jump in Osaka in 2007?
• Can Liam Adcock (AUS) become the first Australian winner of this title? Fabrice Lapierre won Australia’s last medal with silver in 2015
• Can Tajay Gayle (JAM) recapture the title he won for the first time in Doha in 2019?
• Simon Ehammer (SUI) has entered both the long jump and decathlon. Surprisingly, this will be the first time Ehammer has competed in the decathlon at the World Championships
• The automatic qualifying mark for the final is 8.15m