Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's long jump

Women's Long jump at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Pictogram for Athletics
Venues	Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc
Dates	6 August (qualification) 7 August (final)
Competitors	34 from 24 nations
Winning distance	7.14
Medalists
Heike Drechsler  Germany Inessa Kravets  Unified Team Jackie Joyner-Kersee  United States

Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races

These are the official results of the women's long jump event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were a total of 35 participating athletes and one non starter. 6.75 metres to reach final or best 12.^[1]

Gold	Heike Drechsler  Germany
Silver	Inessa Kravets  Unified Team
Bronze	Jackie Joyner-Kersee  United States

• All results shown are in metres

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics.

World Record	7.52	Galina Chistyakova	Leningrad (URS)	June 11, 1988
Olympic Record	7.40	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	Seoul (KOR)	September 29, 1988

RANK	FINAL	DISTANCE
	Heike Drechsler (GER)	7.14 m
	Inessa Kravets (EUN)	7.12 m
	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	7.07 m
4.	Mirela Dulgheru (ROM)	6.71 m
5.	Irina Mushailova (EUN)	6.68 m
6.	Sharon Couch (USA)	6.66 m
7.	Sheila Echols (USA)	6.62 m
8.	Susen Tiedtke (GER)	6.60 m
9.	Flora Hyacinth (ISV)	6.52 m
10.	Agata Karczmarek (POL)	6.41 m
11.	Renata Nielsen (DEN)	6.06 m
DSQ	Nijolė Medvedeva (LTU)	6.76 m (4th)

• All athletes ( excluding top six ) promoted one place after drugs disqualification of Nijole Medvedeva

RANK	GROUP	Athlete	DISTANCE
1.	A	Heike Drechsler (GER)	7.08 m
2.	B	Irina Mushailova (EUN)	6.86 m
3.	A	Mirela Dulgheru (ROM)	6.83 m
4.	B	Inessa Kravets (EUN)	6.79 m
5.	B	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	6.75 m
6.	B	Susen Tiedtke (GER)	6.74 m
7.	A	Flora Hyacinth (ISV)	6.71 m
8.	A	Sharon Couch (USA)	6.64 m
9.	B	Renata Nielsen (DEN)	6.63 m
10.	B	Sheila Echols (USA)	6.55 m
11.	A	Agata Karczmarek (POL)	6.55 m
12.	A	Ljudmila Ninova-Rudoll (AUT)	6.53 m
13.	B	Ringa Ropa-Junnila (FIN)	6.52 m
14.	A	Yang Juan (CHN)	6.49 m
15.	B	Marieta Ilcu (ROM)	6.46 m
16.	B	Liu Shuzhen (CHN)	6.44 m
17.	B	Karen Botha (RSA)	6.43 m
18.	B	Antonella Capriotti (ITA)	'6.43 m
19.	A	Helga Radtke (GER)	6.42 m
20.	B	Jackie Edwards (BAH)	6.40 m
21.	A	Valentina Uccheddu (ITA)	6.40 m
22.	A	Tamara Malešev (IOP)	6.35 m
23.	B	Oluyinka Idowu (GBR)	6.29 m
24.	A	Dionne Rose (JAM)	6.22 m
25.	A	Li Yong-Ae (PRK)	6.17 m
26.	B	Joanne Wise (GBR)	5.87 m
27.	B	Natalia Toledo (PAR)	5.73 m
28.	B	Sonia Agbessi (BEN)	5.63 m
29.	A	Eunice Barber (SLE)	5.55 m
—	A	Larisa Bereznaya (EUN)	NM
—	B	Diane Guthrie-Gresham (JAM)	NM
—	A	Rita Ináncsi (HUN)	NM
—	A	Fiona May (GBR)	NM
—	B	Nicole Staines (AUS)	NM
—	A	Muyegbe Mubala (ZAI)	DNS
DISQ	B	Nijole Medvedeva (LTU)	6.71 m (7th)

Note: Guthrie-Gresham, Inancsi and Staines all had three fouls, while both Bereznaya and May had one foul before withdrawing from the rest of the competition due to injury.

• 1990 Women's European Championships Long Jump (Split)
• 1991 Women's World Championships Long Jump (Tokyo)
• 1993 Women's World Championships Long Jump (Stuttgart)
• 1994 Women's European Championships Long Jump (Helsinki)

• Official Report
• Results