The women's long jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 21 and 23 August.
In the final, Olympic champion Maurren Higa Maggi took the early lead as the first jumper in the competition.
In 2017, silver medalist Lebedeva's 2008 Olympic doping sample was retested and found positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).
Ordinarily, a doping violation is followed by a two year ban which would include this championship.
Key: DNS = Did not start, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place Key: NR = National record, SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)