# 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's long jump

The men's long jump at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held 9-10 March 2012 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena.
Because the two leaders were tied for first place with jumps of 8.23 metres, they were split based on their second-best jumps which differed by 6 cm. This was the first time this had happened in the men's long jump at these championships. It would happen again twelve years later at the 2024 championships.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Mauro Vinícius da Silva Brazil | Henry Frayne Australia | Aleksandr Menkov Russia |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships :
| World record | Carl Lewis (USA) | 8.79 | New York City, United States | 27 January 1984 |
| Championship record | Iván Pedroso (CUB) | 8.62 | Maebashi, Japan | 7 March 1999 |
| World Leading | Aleksandr Menkov (RUS) | 8.24 | Moscow, Russia | 5 February 2012 |
| World Leading | Will Claye (USA) | 8.24 | Fayetteville, United States | 10 February 2012 |
| African record | Ignisious Gaisah (GHA) | 8.36 | Stockholm, Sweden | 2 February 2006 |
| Asian record | Su Xiongfeng (CHN) | 8.27 | Nanjing, China | 11 March 2010 |
| European record | Sebastian Bayer (GER) | 8.71 | Turin, Italy | 8 March 2009 |
| North and Central American and Caribbean record | Carl Lewis (USA) | 8.79 | New York City, United States | 27 January 1984 |
| Oceanian Record | Fabrice Lapierre (AUS) | 8.19 | Doha, Qatar | 12 March 2010 |
| South American record | Irving Saladino (PAN) | 8.42 | Paiania, Greece | 13 February 2008 |

## Qualification standards

* Indoor
* 8.15

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| March 9, 2012 | 18:20 | Qualification |
| March 10, 2012 | 18:50 | Final |

## Results
### Qualification

Qualification standard 8.00 m (Q) or at least best 8 qualified. 15 athletes from 14 countries participated. The qualification round started at 18:22 and ended at 19:09.
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
| 1 | Mauro Vinícius da Silva | Brazil | 7.93 | x | 8.28 | 8.28 | Q, WL, NR |
| 2 | Luis Felipe Méliz | Spain | 8.10 | | | 8.10 | Q, SB |
| 3 | Henry Frayne | Australia | 7.77 | 8.02 | | 8.02 | Q |
| 4 | Louis Tsatoumas | Greece | 8.00 | | | 8.00 | Q |
| 5 | Aleksandr Menkov | Russia | 7.80 | 7.98 | – | 7.98 | q |
| 6 | Ndiss Kaba Badji | Senegal | 7.88 | 7.93 | x | 7.93 | q |
| 7 | Will Claye | United States | x | 7.91 | – | 7.91 | q |
| 8 | Ignisious Gaisah | Ghana | 7.77 | 7.79 | 7.89 | 7.89 | q |
| 9 | Michel Tornéus | Sweden | x | 7.77 | 7.85 | 7.85 | |
| 10 | Tyrone Smith | Bermuda | 7.76 | x | 7.80 | 7.80 | |
| 11 | Eusebio Cáceres | Spain | 7.37 | 7.71 | 7.67 | 7.71 | |
| 12 | Alexandru Cuharenko | Moldova | 7.42 | 7.44 | 7.66 | 7.66 | |
| 13 | Supanara Sukhasvasti | Thailand | 7.14 | 7.43 | x | 7.43 | |
| 14 | Alper Kulaksız | Turkey | 7.42 | 7.15 | x | 7.42 | SB |
| 15 | Su Xiongfeng | China | x | 7.42 | – | 7.42 | SB |

### Final

8 athletes from 8 countries participated. The final started at 18:53 and ended at 20:02.
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
| | Mauro Vinícius da Silva | Brazil | 7.73 | x | x | 7.77 | 8.23 | 8.23 | 8.23 | |
| | Henry Frayne | Australia | 8.17 | x | x | x | 7.89 | 8.23 | 8.23 | AR |
| | Aleksandr Menkov | Russia | 8.12 | 8.22 | x | x | 8.10 | x | 8.22 | |
| 4 | Will Claye | United States | 7.78 | x | 7.98 | x | 8.04 | x | 8.04 | |
| 5 | Ndiss Kaba Badji | Senegal | 7.93 | x | x | 7.97 | x | x | 7.97 | SB |
| 6 | Louis Tsatoumas | Greece | 7.88 | x | x | x | 7.49 | 7.77 | 7.88 | |
| 7 | Ignisious Gaisah | Ghana | 7.76 | 7.70 | 7.83 | 7.75 | 7.86 | 7.85 | 7.86 | |
| 8 | Luis Felipe Méliz | Spain | x | x | x | x | x | 7.50 | 7.50 | |