1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump

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These are the official results of the Men's Long Jump event at the 1997 IAAF World Championships in Athens, Greece. There were a total number of 39 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Tuesday August 5, 1997.

Medalists[]

Gold Cuba Iván Pedroso
Cuba (CUB)
Silver United States Erick Walder
United States (USA)
Bronze Russia Kirill Sosunov
Russia (RUS)

Qualifying round[]

  • Held on Sunday 1997-08-03
RANK GROUP A DISTANCE
1.  Maurice Wignall (JAM) 8.09 m
2.  Erick Walder (USA) 8.05 m
3.  Nelson Ferreira (BRA) 8.00 m
4.  Lao Jianfeng (CHN) 7.99 m
5.  Bogdan Tudor (ROM) 7.98 m
6.  Kirill Sosunov (RUS) 7.96 m
7.  Masaki Morinaga (JPN) 7.93 m
8.  Carlos Calado (POR) 7.92 m
9.  Olexiy Lukashevych (UKR) 7.90 m
10.  Konstantinos Koukodimos (GRE) 7.87 m
11.  Tomas Bardauskas (LTU) 7.75 m
12.  Grzegorz Marciniszyn (POL) 7.69 m
13.  Raúl Fernández (ESP) 7.62 m
14.  Elston Shaw (BLZ) 7.21 m
15.  Victor Shabangu (SWZ) 7.18 m
16.  Richard Duncan (CAN) 7.17 m
17.  Joe Greene (USA) 7.15 m
 Gregor Cankar (SLO) NM
 Kader Klouchi (FRA)


RANK GROUP B DISTANCE
1.  Iván Pedroso (CUB) 8.11 m
2.  Cheikh Tidiane Touré (SEN) 8.09 m
3.  James Beckford (JAM) 8.03 m
4.  Kevin Dilworth (USA) 7.96 m
5.  Aleksandr Glavatskiy (BLR) 7.94 m
6.  Emmanuel Bangué (FRA) 7.93 m
7.   (CHN) 7.92 m
8.  Nobuharu Asahara (JPN) 7.88 m
9.  Bogdan Tarus (ROM) 7.87 m
10.  Mattias Sunneborn (SWE) 7.72 m
11.   (YUG) 7.70 m
12.  Younes Moudrik (MAR) 7.66 m
13.  Robert Emmiyan (ARM) 7.65 m
14.  Andrey Ignatov (RUS) 7.64 m
15.   (GRE) 7.63 m
16.  Hee-Jun SUNG (KOR) 7.63 m
17.  Keita Cline (IVB) 7.23 m
18.   (TPE) 7.05 m
 Dimitrios Chatzopoulos (GRE) NM
 Krzysztof Łuczak (POL)

Final[]

Rank Athlete Attempts Distance Note
1 2 3 4 5 6
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Iván Pedroso (CUB) 8.42 X X X X 7.60 8.42 m
Silver medal icon.svg  Erick Walder (USA) 8.29 8.15 8.29 8.36 8.30 8.38 8.38 m
Bronze medal icon.svg  Kirill Sosunov (RUS) 8.04 7.89 8.05 8.12 7.83 8.18 8.18 m
4  James Beckford (JAM) X 8.07 7.92 8.14 6.62 7.85 8.14 m
5  Nelson Ferreira (BRA) 7.97 X 8.04 X 6.63 X 8.04 m
6  Aleksandr Glavatskiy (BLR) 7.98 6.99 7.90 8.03 X X 8.03 m
7  Cheikh Tidiane Touré (SEN) 7.81 7.98 7.92 7.98 7.98 7.91 7.98 m
8  Kevin Dilworth (USA) 7.88 X X X X X 7.88 m
9  Masaki Morinaga (JPN) 7.70 7.72 7.86 7.86 m
10  Lao Jianfeng (CHN) 7.76 X 7.59 7.76 m
11  Bogdan Tudor (ROM) 7.66 7.51 7.65 7.66 m
 Maurice Wignall (JAM) X X X NM

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