Womens LJ Madrid Lebedeva 7,15!

[Speedster]

Thompson has been out with a knee injury for a lot the year, hopefully she will improve as the season progresses. She has always done pretty well at major champs.

[Tristan]

thanks, pela2, for some reason i thought it was a long time ago.

i wonder when was the last time a woman jumped 7.50 m?

why is the rest of the world so far behind russia, i wonder?

[midnightsun]

well, only the WR holder has jumped 7.50 with legal wind, to be exact Galina Chistyakova 7.52 in 1988.

Heike Drechsler had a wind and altitude-aided 7.63(not sure about the exact centimeter) in the 90s


Eldy, I believe that jump was measured 7.15 from toe to sand

[Andrea_T]

Drechsler did indeed do 7.63, with a 2.01 wind, rounded up to 2.1.

[nikko84]

Kotova did 7.42 in Eurocup (2002 or 2003)

[Mennisco]

Drechsler did indeed do 7.63, with a 2.01 wind, rounded up to 2.1.

Still the only woman to have exceeded 25 feet!

[eldrick]

worth noting though, that marion's take-off speed/angle, with ideal technique ->

~ 7.70 - 7.80m

[gh]

Drechsler did indeed do 7.63, with a 2.01 wind, rounded up to 2.1.

And 2050m of altitude.

[eldrick]

Drechsler did indeed do 7.63, with a 2.01 wind, rounded up to 2.1.

And 2050m of altitude.

if gh ( who's "allergic" to contact with his casio ) wants a rough estimate of her "basic" jump :

in here :

http://myweb.lmu.edu/jmureika/track/wind/w200b.html

find "60m" function

put in 7.00s ( for her likely 60m ability )

convert to a basic 60m time with +2.01/2050m

square that

divide that into 7.62

you get a "basic" lj figure to put onto the table...

[trackworld]

Kotova did 7.42 in Eurocup (2002 or 2003)

Hmmmm. I remember seeing that result on the Eurosport round-up of the meet and spat out whatever I was drinking. I know that many people here feel that this was an officiating error ? I mean, many say the jump was nowhere near 7.42m when looking at the markings besides the pit

[nikko84]

For Kotova i didn't know that.............
Hope you weren't drinking alcohol

[Matt]

Disagree on Kotova - the jump was during the European Cup that year and the BBC commentators believed she was close to the world record. It was a 7.42.

Just watched Tsatoumas' 8.66 on youtube - unless the markings are wrong, it looks more like 8.35 to 8.45.

[Andrea_T]

The conditions at the European Cup that year were superb and the wind perfect. Kotova's always had great potential but she's never quite lived up to it, but that day showed what she was capable off at her very best.
If you watch the Athens Olympics again you can see on Kotova's 7.05 jump she lost about 12cm compared to Lebedeva's and Simigina's near pefect toe-to-board jumps. She could have been Olympic champ!

Chistyakova was reported to have gone over 7.70m in training in 88. Igor Ter-Ovanesyan said in 87 he believed Drechsler would be the first woman to jump over 8m if she could successfully convert her speed into a better trajectory and elevation as her angle was too low. Drechsler always believed 7.70 was possible, but 8m was obviously pie in the sky and Igor had probably had too much vodka that day. Besides, converting sub 11 speed into the right jump isnt easy, just ask Marion.

[Powell]

Just watched Tsatoumas' 8.66 on youtube - unless the markings are wrong, it looks more like 8.35 to 8.45.

If you've only seen the one jump out of the entire competition, there's no way you can make that call. TV nearly always shows the jumps at some sort of an angle introducing paralax error, so they look either shorter or longer compared to the markings than they really are.

If you watched other jumps shot from the same camera, you could tell whether the difference between the apparent distance compared to the markings and the actual measurements is consistent.

[trackworld]

Just watched Tsatoumas' 8.66 on youtube - unless the markings are wrong, it looks more like 8.35 to 8.45.

If you've only seen the one jump out of the entire competition, there's no way you can make that call. TV nearly always shows the jumps at some sort of an angle introducing paralax error, so they look either shorter or longer compared to the markings than they really are.

If you watched other jumps shot from the same camera, you could tell whether the difference between the apparent distance compared to the markings and the actual measurements is consistent.

I really get annoyed when that happens. I mean I could be watching a World or National/Area Record and think that's ' just a good performance '. I am grateful for coverage (we get a lot over here in the UK than the majority of the world, certainly much more than the USA), but things that like are quite annoying