AthleticsAthletics world record
Long jump, women
7.52 m
24.67 ft
- Holder
- Galina Chistyakova
- Date
- Place
- Leningrad
- Standing since
- 1988 (38 years)
How the record evolved
The last record set in each decade, up to the current record (highlighted).
| Year | Record | Holder |
|---|---|---|
| 7.52 m | Galina Chistyakova | |
| 7.45 m | Galina Chistyakova (URS) | |
| 7.09 m | Vilma Bardauskiené (URS) | |
| 6.82 m | Viorica Viscopoleanu (ROU) | |
| 6.35 m | Elżbieta Krzesińska (POL) | |
| 6.25 m | Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) | |
| 6.12 m | Christel Schulz (GER) | |
| 5.98 m | Kinue Hitomi (JPN) |
Put them in order
Sort these records from the oldest to the most recent.
- 6.25 mFanny Blankers-Koen (NED)
- 5.98 mKinue Hitomi (JPN)
- 7.09 mVilma Bardauskiené (URS)
- 7.52 mGalina Chistyakova
What to remember
On June 11, 1988, at the Brothers Znamensky Memorial in Leningrad, Soviet jumper Galina Chistyakova landed at 7.52 m, with a following wind of 1.4 m/s. The long jump asks athletes to combine speed, strength and agility to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point; it already featured in the ancient Olympic Games.
The first women's record kept here dates from 1928: 5.98 m by Kinue Hitomi of Japan. Fanny Blankers-Koen reached 6.25 m in 1943, Viorica Viscopoleanu 6.82 m in 1968, and Vilma Bardauskiené went beyond seven metres for the first time in 1978, with 7.09 m. Chistyakova herself had jumped 7.45 m earlier in 1988. Over 60 years the mark grew by 25.8%.
Chistyakova represented the Soviet Union and later Slovakia. She won Olympic bronze in 1988 and the World Indoor title in 1989. That same year she also jumped 14.52 metres in the triple jump, a world record set before the international federation began ratifying that event for women.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of world records in athletics” (revision used 1378411308). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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