Heike Gabriela Drechsler is a German former track and field athlete who represented East Germany and later Germany. One of the most successful long jumpers of all time, she is a former world record holder and ranks third on the all-time list with her legal best of 7.48 metres in 1988. Her marginally wind-assisted jump of 7.63 metres (+2.1) in 1992 at altitude in Sestriere, is still the furthest a woman has ever long jumped. She is the only woman who has won two Olympic gold medals in the long jump, winning in 1992 and 2000. Heike Drechsler set the women's long jump world record of 7.45 m in Dresden, East Germany on July 3, 1986. It stood 13 months, until Jackie Joyner-Kersee's 7.45 m on August 13, 1987 (equalling it). Wiki link