1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump
# 1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump

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)

Qualification Round :

| Group A | Group B |
| - | - |
| 03.09.1987 – ??:??h | 03.09.1987 – ??:??h |
| Final Round ||
| 04.09.1987 – 17:50h ||

## 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 | |
