2019 World Athletics Championships – Women's long jump

Throughout the 2019 season, only 3 athletes were able to jump over 7 metres, led by Malaika Mihambo who had been there in 6 out of 10 competitions. One of the others was defending champion Brittney Reese, who didn't make it out of the qualifying round, leaving Ese Brume as Mihambo's strongest challenger.

On the first jump of the competition, Brume jumped 6.83m, then third up Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk came close to Brume with a 6.81m. At the end of the round, Abigail Irozuru jumped 6.64m to take over third place. Brume opened the second round by expanding her lead with a 6.91m. After two rounds Mihambo was languishing in seventh place with a 6.52m, which would ultimately prove to be inadequate to qualify for the final three jumps. On her third jump she went 7.30 m (23 ft 11 ¹⁄₄ in). It was her personal best and more than 20 cm beyond the personal best of everyone else in the field. Later in the competition, she had two more jumps that would have won the competition, the last equalling her previous world leading jump 7.16m. Those standing remained until near the end of the fifth round when Bekh-Romanchuk jumped 6.92m to take silver by a centimetre.

Before the competition records were as follows:[2]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	7.52	Galina Chistyakova	URS	11 Jun 1988	Leningrad, Soviet Union
Championship	7.36	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	USA	4 Sep 1987	Rome, Italy
World leading	7.16	Malaika Mihambo	GER	4 Aug 2019	Berlin, Germany
African	7.12	Chioma Ajunwa	NGR	2 Aug 1996	Atlanta, United States
Asian	7.01	Yao Weili	CHN	5 Jun 1993	Jinan, China
NACAC	7.49	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	USA	22 May 1994	New York City, United States
				31 Jul 1994	Sestriere, Italy
South American	7.26	Maurren Higa Maggi	BRA	26 Jun 1999	Bogotá, Colombia
European	7.52	Galina Chistyakova	URS	11 Jun 1988	Leningrad, Soviet Union
Oceanian	7.05	Brooke Stratton	AUS	12 Mar 2016	Perth, Australia

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:[3]