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Events at the 1991 World Championships
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
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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These are the official results of the Women's Long Jump event at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. There were a total of 31 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday August 25, 1991.

Medalists

Gold	Jackie Joyner-Kersee United States (USA)
Silver	Heike Drechsler Germany (GER)
Bronze	Larysa Berezhna Soviet Union (URS)

Schedule

• All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Records

World Record	Galina Chistyakova (URS)	7.52	Leningrad, Soviet Union	11 June 1988
Championship Record	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	7.36	Rome, Italy	4 September 1987

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	7.32	x	-	x	-	7.11	7.32 m
	Heike Drechsler (GER)	7.09	7.16	7.29	6.99	7.08	6.94	7.29 m
	Larysa Berezhna (URS)	7.11	6.92	x	6.86	6.81	6.91	7.11 m
4	Yelena Sinchukova (URS)	6.84	6.95	7.00	6.68	7.04	6.90	7.04 m
5	Susen Tiedtke (GER)	6.55	6.65	6.63	x	6.77	6.74	6.77 m
6	Marieta Ilcu (ROM)	6.55	x	6.70	6.70	6.68	6.72	6.72 m
7	Ljudmila Ninova (AUT)	x	6.72	6.33	x	x	x	6.72 m
8	Yelena Belevskaya (URS)	6.49	6.54	6.68	x	6.41	6.69	6.69 m
9	Ringa Ropo-Junnila (FIN)	6.45	6.56	6.63				6.63 m
10	Jackie Edwards (BAH)	6.21	6.33	6.37				6.37 m
11	Christy Opara-Thompson (NGR)	6.05	6.28	6.22				6.28 m
12	Oluyinka Idowu (GBR)	6.05	6.16	5.99				6.16 m

Qualifying round

• Held on Saturday 1991-08-24

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	6.91 m
2.	Larysa Berezhna (URS)	6.87 m
3.	Susen Tiedtke (GER)	6.85 m
4.	Yelena Sinchukova (URS)	6.80 m
5.	Christy Opara-Thompson (NGR)	6.68 m
6.	Ringa Ropo-Junnila (FIN)	6.66 m
6.	Jackie Edwards (BAH)	6.66 m
8.	Liu Shuzhen (CHN)	6.57 m
9.	Yang Juan (CHN)	6.56 m
10.	Fiona May (GBR)	6.54 m
11.	Valentina Uccheddu (ITA)	6.48 m
12.	Iva Prandzheva (BUL)	6.30 m
13.	Jayne Moffitt (NZL)	6.29 m
14.	Tamara Malesev (YUG)	6.27 m
15.	Flora Hyacinth (ISV)	6.17 m

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Heike Drechsler (GER)	6.87 m
2.	Ljudmila Ninova (AUT)	6.79 m
3.	Marieta Ilcu (ROM)	6.77 m
4.	Yelena Belevskaya (URS)	6.70 m
5.	Oluyinka Idowu (GBR)	6.63 m
6.	Helga Radtke (GER)	6.62 m
7.	Nicole Boegman (AUS)	6.57 m
8.	Wang Chunfang (CHN)	6.55 m
9.	Agata Karczmarek (POL)	6.55 m
10.	Sheila Echols (USA)	6.47 m
11.	Cindy Greiner (USA)	6.41 m
12.	Wang Shu-Hwa (TPE)	6.38 m
13.	Diane Guthrie-Gresham (JAM)	6.37 m
—	Solange Ostiana (AHO)	NM
—	Ragne Kytölä (FIN)	NM
—	Renata Nielsen (DEN)	NM

See also

• 1988 Women's Olympic Long Jump (Seoul)
• 1990 Women's European Championships Long Jump (Split)
• 1992 Women's Olympic Long Jump (Barcelona)
• 1993 Women's World Championships Long Jump (Stuttgart)

References

• Results

• Events at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics
• Long jump at the World Athletics Championships
• 1991 in women's athletics