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

The women's long jump at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships will be held at the Ataköy Athletics Arena on 10 and 11 March 2012.
The winning margin was 25 cm which as of July 2024 remains the greatest winning margin in the women's long jump at these championships.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Brittney Reese United States | Janay DeLoach United States | Shara Proctor Great Britain |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships :
| World record | Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 7.37 | Vienna, Austria | 13 February 1988 |
| Championship record | Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 7.10 | Indianapolis, United States | 7 March 1987 |
| World Leading | Olga Kucherenko (RUS) | 6.91 | Krasnodar, Russia | 29 January 2012 |
| African record | Chioma Ajunwa (NGR) | 6.97 | Erfurt, Germany | 5 February 1997 |
| Asian record | Yang Juan (CHN) | 6.82 | Beijing, China | 13 March 1992 |
| European record | Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 7.37 | Vienna, Austria | 13 February 1988 |
| North and Central American and Caribbean record | Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) | 7.13 | Atlanta, United States | 5 March 1994 |
| Oceanian Record | Nicole Boegman (AUS) | 6.81 | Barcelona, Spain | 12 March 1995 |
| South American record | Maurren Maggi (BRA) | 6.89 | Valencia, Spain | 9 March 1998 |

## Qualification standards

* Indoor
* 6.65

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| March 10, 2012 | 11:45 | Qualification |
| March 11, 2012 | 14:05 | Final |

## Results
### Qualification

Qualification standard: 6.75 m (Q) or at least best 8 qualified (q). 19 athletes from 15 countries participated. The qualification round started at 09:37 and ended at 11:46.
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
| 1 | Janay DeLoach | United States | 6.52 | 6.55 | 6.90 | 6.90 | Q, SB |
| 2 | Shara Proctor | Great Britain | 6.52 | 6.86 | | 6.86 | Q, NR |
| 3 | Brittney Reese | United States | 6.72 | x | 6.66 | 6.72 | q |
| 4 | Bianca Stuart | Bahamas | 6.59 | x | 6.70 | 6.70 | q |
| 5 | Darya Klishina | Russia | 6.56 | 6.65 | x | 6.65 | q |
| 6 | Viorica Țigău | Romania | x | 6.62 | 6.64 | 6.64 | q, SB |
| 7 | Veronika Shutkova | Belarus | x | 6.63 | 6.44 | 6.63 | q |
| 8 | Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova | Belarus | x | 6.60 | 6.62 | 6.62 | q |
| 9 | Karin Melis Mey | Turkey | x | 6.62 | x | 6.62 | |
| 10 | Yelena Sokolova | Russia | x | 6.58 | x | 6.58 | |
| 11 | Keila Costa | Brazil | 6.16 | 6.42 | 6.45 | 6.45 | SB |
| 12 | Irène Pusterla | Switzerland | 5.58 | 4.23 | 6.45 | 6.45 | |
| 13 | Nadja Käther | Germany | 6.40 | x | x | 6.40 | |
| 14 | Yuliya Tarasova | Uzbekistan | 6.37 | 6.24 | 6.34 | 6.37 | SB |
| 15 | Concepción Montaner | Spain | x | 6.37 | x | 6.37 | |
| 16 | Inna Ahkozova | Ukraine | 6.32 | 6.15 | 6.18 | 6.32 | |
| 17 | Cornelia Deiac | Romania | x | 6.16 | x | 6.16 | |
| 18 | Aiga Grabuste | Latvia | x | x | 6.08 | 6.08 | |
| 19 | Marestella Torres | Philippines | 5.98 | 5.94 | x | 5.98 | SB |
| | Lauma Grīva | Latvia | x | x | x | NM | |

### Final

8 athletes from 6 countries participated. The final started at 14:05 and ended at 15:15.
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
| | Brittney Reese | United States | x | x | 6.82 | 6.92 | 6.73 | 7.23 | 7.23 | CR, AR, WL |
| | Janay DeLoach | United States | x | 6.74 | 6.78 | 6.67 | 6.73 | 6.98 | 6.98 | SB |
| | Shara Proctor | Great Britain | x | x | 6.86 | 6.55 | 6.74 | 6.89 | 6.89 | NR |
| 4 | Darya Klishina | Russia | 6.70 | 6.85 | 6.44 | 6.53 | 6.71 | 6.78 | 6.85 | |
| 5 | Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova | Belarus | x | x | 6.48 | 6.64 | x | 4.65 | 6.64 | |
| 6 | Veronika Shutkova | Belarus | 6.58 | x | x | 6.63 | x | 6.55 | 6.63 | |
| 7 | Viorica Țigău | Romania | 6.34 | x | x | 6.09 | x | x | 6.34 | |
| 8 | Bianca Stuart | Bahamas | 4.71 | x | x | x | x | — | 4.71 | |