The Women's long jump at the 1952 Olympic Games took place on July 23 at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Yvette Williams from New Zealand won the gold medal and set a new Olympic record.[1]
Women's long jump at the Games of the XV Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Date | July 23 | |||||||||
Competitors | 34 from 22 nations | |||||||||
Winning distance | 6.24 OR | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Records
editPrior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) | 6.25 m | Leiden, Netherlands | 19 September 1943 |
Olympic record | Olga Gyarmati (HUN) | 5.69 m | London, United Kingdom | 4 August 1948 |
The following new Olympic records was set during this competition.
Date | Event | Athlete | Zeit | OR | WR |
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23 July | Final | Yvette Williams (NZL) | 6.24 m | OR |
Results
editQualifying round
editQualifying Performance 5.30 advance to the Final.
Final
editRank | Athlete | Nationality | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Result |
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Yvette Williams | Neuseeland | x | x | 5.90 | 6.24 | 6.11 | 5.99 | 6.24 OR | |
Aleksandra Chudina | Soviet Union | 5.99 | 6.14 | 5.74 | 5.90 | 5.95 | 6.07 | 6.14 | |
Shirley Cawley | Great Britain | 5.92 | x | 5.53 | 5.46 | 5.78 | 5.82 | 5.92 | |
4 | Irmgard Schmelzer | Deutschland | 5.89 | 5.76 | 5.90 | x | 5.84 | x | 5.90 |
5 | Wilhelmina Lust | Niederlande | 5.68 | 5.65 | 5.79 | x | 5.81 | x | 5.81 |
6 | Nina Tyurkina | Soviet Union | 5.61 | 5.81 | 5.76 | 5.52 | x | x | 5.81 |
7 | Mabel Landry | Vereinigte Staaten | x | x | 5.75 | 5.75 | |||
8 | Verna Johnston | Australien | 5.51 | 5.60 | 5.74 | 5.74 | |||
9 | Maire Österdahl | Finnland | 5.62 | 5.73 | 5.70 | 5.73 | |||
10 | Olga Gyarmati | Ungarn | 5.48 | 5.67 | 5.60 | 5.67 | |||
11 | Valentina Lituyeva | Soviet Union | 5.50 | 5.63 | 5.65 | 5.65 | |||
12 | Elżbieta Krzesińska | Polen | 5.65 | 5.40 | 5.55 | 5.65 | |||
13 | Adriana Millard | Chile | 5.58 | 5.56 | 5.59 | 5.59 | |||
14 | Elfriede von Nitzsch | Deutschland | x | 5.57 | x | 5.57 | |||
15 | Leni Hofknecht | Deutschland | 5.45 | 5.54 | 5.55 | 5.55 | |||
16 | Ayako Yoshikawa | Japan | 5.54 | x | 5.38 | 5.54 | |||
17 | Dawn Josephs | Kanada | 5.17 | 5.47 | 5.44 | 5.47 | |||
18 | Gladys Erbetta | Argentinien | 5.39 | 5.40 | 5.47 | 5.47 | |||
19 | Constance Willoughby | Great Britain | 5.39 | 5.44 | 5.13 | 5.44 | |||
20 | Greta Magnusson | Schweden | 5.37 | 5.43 | 5.40 | 5.43 | |||
21 | Wanda dos Santos | Brasilien | 5.36 | 5.30 | 5.21 | 5.36 | |||
22 | Thelma Jones | Bermuda | 5.33 | 5.27 | 5.31 | 5.33 | |||
23 | Yvonne Chabot-Curtet | Frankreich | 5.28 | 4.94 | 5.09 | 5.28 | |||
24 | Helena de Menezes | Brasilien | x | 4.98 | 4.66 | 4.98 |
NM — No Mark
References
edit- ^ "Athletics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Women's Long Jump". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
External links
edit- Official Olympic Report, la84.org.