Tie

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If there is a tie for the final place(s) for the next round of a long-jump competition, all competitors who are tied with each other progress to the next round regardless. In the case of any tie at the end of the entire competition, competitors’ second-best jumps will be decisive. If there is still a tie, then it is the third-best jump that counts, and so on.

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