 Galina Chistyakova had set the still standing world record just a few months earlier, breaking up a log jam.Heike Drechsler had set the world record, improved it to 7.45m two years earlier and subsequently equalled her record two weeks later.Jackie Joyner-Kersee equalled the record the following year, the Chistyakova equalled it again earlier in the same competition where she set the new record at .