eugene oregon german olympic champion malaika mihambo continued her dominance in the womens long jump by soaring to a second successive world championship gold with a final leap of 712 metres in eugene oregon on sundaymihambo was on the brink of exiting the competition after faulting on her first and second jumps but recovered well to register a valid third attempt of 698mshe never looked back from that point moving into first place after crossing the sevenmetre mark on her fourth jump at hayward field and then finishing in style with her final attempttwo fault attempts at the beginning but this time it was different mihambo said i am having some technical issues just making the last two steps too long and then did faultsbut i knew that i can do it that i can make a valid third attempt that is what i did and after that there was no pressure i am ready for such situations and i know that i can do better and just had to push myselfworld and olympic bronze medallist ese brume of nigeria claimed silver with 702m while brazils leticia oro melo took bronze with 689m a personal besti was leading and wanted the gold but i am grateful because last time i got the bronze and i am silver now brume saidaustralias brooke buschkuehl who arrived in eugene with the biggest jump of the season of 713m finished fifth while 2019 silver medallist maryna bekhromanchuk ended in eighth place