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Russians clean up in long jump
Athens - Tatyana Lebedeva led a Russian sweep of the medals in the long jump, relegating Marion Jones to fifth place in her only individual event of the Athens Games.
Lebedeva, who won a bronze in the triple jump four days earlier, leaped 7.07 metres to take the gold. Irina Simagina was second with a jump of 7.05 and Tatyana Kotova won the bronze, also with 7.05.
Jones, who won bronze in the long jump at the 2000 Sydney Games, had a best leap of 6.85 - and it was wind-aided.
Jones was trying to do in a few hours what few elite athletes can achieve in a lifetime - win two Olympic medals, one on the track and one on the field.
After finishing the long jump, she had an hour's break before running in the US 4x100-metre relay team in that final.
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