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Events at the 1987 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
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These are the official results of the women's long jump event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 29 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Friday 4 September 1987.

Medalists

Gold	Jackie Joyner-Kersee United States (USA)
Silver	Yelena Belevskaya Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze	Heike Drechsler East Germany (GDR)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	7.45	Dresden, East Germany	August 13, 1987
Championship Record	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	7.27	Helsinki, Finland	August 14, 1983

The following new world and championship records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Result	WR	CR
September 4	Final	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	7.36		CR

Final

Rank	Name	Result	Notes
	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	7.36	CR
	Yelena Belevskaya (URS)	7.14
	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	7.13
4	Helga Radtke (GDR)	7.01
5	Galina Chistyakova (URS)	6.99
6	Irina Valyukevich (URS)	6.89
7	Jennifer Inniss (USA)	6.80
8	Nicole Boegman (AUS)	6.63
9	Ljudmila Ninova-Rudoll (BUL)	6.50
10	Sylvia Khristova-Moneva (BUL)	6.45
11	Sheila Echols (USA)	6.39
12	Lene Demsitz (DEN)	6.11

Qualifying round

• Held on Thursday 1987-09-03

Pool 1

Rank	Name	Result	Notes
1	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	6.95	Q
2	Galina Chistyakova (URS)	6.86	Q
3	Irina Valyukevich (URS)	6.82	Q
4	Jennifer Inniss (USA)	6.75	Q
5	Sylvia Khristova-Moneva (BUL)	6.71	Q
6	Lene Demsitz (DEN)	6.58	Q
7	Ringa Ropo-Junnila (FIN)	6.55
8	Antonella Capriotti (ITA)	6.31
9	Wang Zhihui (CHN)	6.28
10	Madeline de Jesús (PUR)	6.20
11	Beatrice Utondu (NGR)	6.17
12	Carmen Sirbu (ROU)	6.00
13	See Huey Chan (SIN)	5.49
14	Jacqueline Ross (VIN)	5.29
	Eva Murková (TCH)	NM

Pool 2

Rank	Name	Result	Notes
1	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	6.86	Q
2	Sheila Echols (USA)	6.61	Q
3	Nicole Boegman (AUS)	6.60	Q
4	Ljudmila Ninova-Rudoll (BUL)	6.60	Q
5	Helga Radtke (GDR)	6.58	Q
6	Yelena Belevskaya (URS)	6.58	Q
7	Marieta Ilcu (ROU)	6.50
8	Sofiya Bozhanova (BUL)	6.43
9	Eva Karblom (SWE)	6.31
10	Vali Ionescu-Constantin (ROU)	6.30
11	Euphemia Huggins (TRI)	6.26
12	Eloína Echevarría (CUB)	6.23
13	Tracy Smith (CAN)	6.17
14	Sigal Gonen (ISR)	6.03

References

• Results

• Events at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics
• Long jump at the World Athletics Championships
• 1987 in women's athletics