1995 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump

These are the official results of the Men's Long Jump event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 50 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups. The final was held on Saturday, August 12, 1995. The qualification mark was set at 8.05 metres.

Medalists

Gold	Iván Pedroso Cuba (CUB)
Silver	James Beckford Jamaica (JAM)
Bronze	Mike Powell United States (USA)

Schedule

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

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
11.08.1995 – 18:05h	11.08.1995 – 18:05h
Final Round
12.08.1995 – 17:40h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1995 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Mike Powell (USA)	8.95 m	August 30, 1991	Tokyo, Japan
Event Record

Qualifying round

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Mike Powell (USA)	8.25 m
2.	Ivaylo Mladenov (BUL)	8.16 m
3.	Georg Ackermann (GER)	8.13 m
4.	Bogdan Tudor (ROM)	8.06 m
5.	Geng Huang (CHN)	7.98 m
6.	Galin Georgiev (BUL)	7.93 m
7.	Vitaliy Kyrylenko (UKR)	7.87 m
8.	Nelson Ferreira (BRA)	7.87 m
9.	Sinisa Ergotic (CRO)	7.85 m
10.	Jaime Jefferson (CUB)	7.84 m
11.	Mattias Sunneborn (SWE)	7.67 m
12.	Roberto Coltri (ITA)	7.65 m
13.	Konstantin Sarnatskiy (UZB)	7.52 m
14.	Elmer Williams (PUR)	7.37 m
15.	Biliaminou Alao (BEN)	7.35 m (NR)
16.	Stanislav Tarasenko (RUS)	7.29 m
17.	Ellsworth Manuel (AHO)	2.38 m
—	Andreja Marinković (YUG)	NM
	Roland McGhee (USA)
	Roman Orlik (CZE)
	Musabbah Ali Saeed (UAE)
	Spyridon Vasdekis (GRE)
	Kirill Sosunov (RUS)
	Armen Martirosyan (ARM)
	Fred Salle (GBR)

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Iván Pedroso (CUB)	8.45m
2.	James Beckford (JAM)	8.24m
3.	Nobuharu Asahara (JPN)	8.08 m
4.	Andrey Ignatov (RUS)	8.04 m
5.	Franck Zio (BUR)	7.92 m
6.	Robert Emmiyan (ARM)	7.91 m
7.	Konstandinos Koukodimos (GRE)	7.91 m
	Kareem Streete-Thompson (USA)
9.	Milan Gombala (CZE)	7.88 m
10.	Cheikh Tidiane Toure (SEN)	7.85 m
10.	Andrew Owusu (GHA)	7.85 m
12.	Aleksandr Glavatskiy (BLR)	7.81 m
13.	Bogdan Tarus (ROM)	7.79 m
14.	Konstantin Krause (GER)	7.68 m
15.	Douglas de Souza (BRA)	7.63 m
16.	Vladimir Malyavin (TKM)	7.38 m
17.	Nikolay Antonov (BUL)	7.36 m
18.	Ricardo Valiente (PER)	7.31 m
19.	Baoting Huang (CHN)	7.29 m
20.	Modou Gai Pa (GAM)	2.17 m
—	Gregor Cankar (SLO)	NM
	Chih-Kuo Chao (TPE)
	Rogelio Sainz (MEX)
	Keita Cline (IVB)
	Obinna Eregbu (NGR)	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Iván Pedroso (CUB)	7.82	8.70	x	x	8.28	8.23	8.70 m
	James Beckford (JAM)	7.86	x	8.02	x	8.12	8.30	8.30 m
	Mike Powell (USA)	8.18	x	8.29	8.18	x	x	8.29 m
4	Georg Ackermann (GER)	7.91	7.95	x	8.14	x		8.14 m
5	Bogdan Tudor (ROM)							8.01 m
6	Konstandinos Koukodimos (GRE)	x	8.00	x	x			8.00 m
7	Huang Geng (CHN)							7.94 m
8	Ivaylo Mladenov (BUL)							7.93 m
9	Andrey Ignatov (RUS)	x	7.93					7.93 m
10	Franck Zio (BUR)							7.87 m
11	Robert Emmiyan (ARM)							7.77 m
12	Nobuharu Asahara (JPN)							7.77 m
13	Galin Georgiev (BUL)							7.72 m
14	Kareem Streete-Thompson (USA)	x	x	7.43				7.43 m

See also

• 1994 Men's European Championships Long Jump
• 1996 Men's Olympic Long Jump
• 1998 Men's European Championships Long Jump

References

• Results
• IAAF