1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's long jump

The men's long jump event at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 7–8.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Iván Pedroso Cuba	Kirill Sosunov Russia	Joe Greene United States

Results

Qualification

Qualification: 7.95 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	Kirill Sosunov	Russia	7.38	7.78	8.30	8.30	Q, PB
2	B	Joe Greene	United States	x	7.78	8.17	8.17	Q, SB
3	B	Yevgeniy Tretyak	Russia	7.57	7.80	8.13	8.13	Q
4	B	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	8.12			8.12	Q
5	B	Gregor Cankar	Slovenia	x	x	8.04	8.04	Q
6	A	Romuald Ducros	France	x	7.98	x	7.98	Q, PB
7	B	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	7.71	7.87	7.95	7.95	Q
8	B	Aleksandr Glavatskiy	Belarus	7.85	7.95		7.95	Q
9	B	James Beckford	Jamaica	7.95			7.95	Q
10	B	Spyros Vasdekis	Greece	7.75	7.68	7.92	7.92	q
11	A	Erick Walder	United States	7.88	7.92	x	7.92	q
12	B	Carlos Calado	Portugal	7.47	7.80	7.85	7.85	q, NR
13	A	Cheikh Touré	Senegal	7.54	7.73	7.84	7.84
14	A	Nobuharu Asahara	Japan	7.41	7.83	7.80	7.83
15	A	Mattias Sunneborn	Sweden	7.62	7.81	7.81	7.81
16	A	Bogdan Țăruș	Romania	7.63	7.75	7.70	7.75
17	A	Dimitrios Chatzopoulos	Greece	7.71	x	7.71	7.71
18	A	Yevgeniy Semenyuk	Ukraine	7.41	7.69	7.54	7.69
19	A	Krzysztof Łuczak	Poland	7.60	x	7.64	7.64
20	B	Huang Geng	China	7.35	7.59	x	7.59
21	A	Nélson Carlos Ferreira	Brazil	7.48	x	7.58	7.58
22	A	Yang Chao	China	7.57	7.57	x	7.57
23	A	Konstantin Krause	Germany	7.27	7.56	x	7.56
24	B	Younès Moudrik	Morocco	5.21	7.49	x	7.49	NR
25	A	Franck Zio	Burkina Faso	x	7.49	x	7.49
25	B	Olivier Borderan	France	x	x	7.49	7.49
27	B	Robert Emmiyan	Armenia	7.42	x	7.44	7.44
28	A	Pedro García	Cuba	7.34	x	x	7.34
29	A	Hatem Mersal	Egypt	6.70	6.95	7.26	7.26
30	A	Shirak Poghosyan	Armenia	7.21	x	x	7.21
31	B	Raúl Fernández	Spain	7.14	7.18	x	7.18
32	A	Pa Modou Gai	Gambia	6.94	7.16	6.83	7.16
33	B	Josue M'Bon	Republic of the Congo	6.98	6.96	6.97	6.98
34	A	Ellsworth Manuel	Netherlands Antilles	6.67	x	6.94	6.94
35	B	Esteve Martín	Andorra	6.85	x	x	6.85
36	B	Nai Hui-fang	Chinese Taipei	6.83	x	x	6.83
37	B	Norberto Nsue Ondo	Equatorial Guinea	x	x	5.77	5.77	NR
38	B	Igor Streltsov	Ukraine	5.29	–	–	5.29

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Iván Pedroso	Cuba	8.48	–	–	–	8.51	8.46	8.51	=CR
	Kirill Sosunov	Russia	8.23	–	–	8.00	–	8.41	8.41	PB
	Joe Greene	United States	7.95	–	7.99	8.13	8.22	8.41	8.41	PB
4	Erick Walder	United States	7.97	8.01	8.16	8.17	8.24	8.14	8.24	SB
5	James Beckford	Jamaica	8.17	–	8.13	–	–	8.11	8.17	SB
6	Yevgeniy Tretyak	Russia	8.12	–	7.98	8.10	–	8.11	8.12
7	Gregor Cankar	Slovenia	–	8.02	–	7.83	7.90	–	8.02
8	Spyros Vasdekis	Greece	–	7.99	7.79	–	7.88	7.95	7.99
9	Aleksandr Glavatskiy	Belarus	–	7.89	7.98				7.98
10	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	7.91	–	7.94				7.94
11	Carlos Calado	Portugal	7.50	–	7.45				7.50
12	Romuald Ducros	France	7.31	–	–				7.31