Women's Long jump - Athletics |
Women's Long jump 2008 |
* Tatyana Lebedeva RUS disqualified from the competition for doping in accordance with International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)’s decision of January 2017 after retesting her samples from the 2008 Olympics. ** Hrysopiyi Devetzi disqualified for an anti-doping rule violation according to IOC Disciplinary Commissions desicion of November 10 2016. *** Lyudmila Blonska UKR disqualified from the competition for doping in accordance with Athletics Integrity Unit's “Global List of Ineligible Persons”. Lifetime banned and results annulled from 16.08.2008.
Event Format: Athletes competed in a qualifying round followed by the final. Top twelve and ties in the qualifying round and all those reaching the announced qualification limit advanced to the final. In the final all finalists were given three tries. The top eight were then given three more. Event facts: Women's Long jump competition was held at the Beijing National Stadium and 42 athletes participated in the event. |