European Athletics Championships 1946 / women's long jump

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of women
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Participants	14 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	August 23 (qualification / final)
Medalists
gold	Gerda Koudijs ( NED )
silver	Lidija Gaile ( URS )
bronze	Valentina Vasilyeva ( URS )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The women's long jump at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 23, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .

Two medals, silver and bronze, went to participants from the Soviet Union. The European champion was Gerda Koudijs from the Netherlands . She won ahead of Lidija Gaile . Valentina Vasilyeva came in third place .

Existing records

World record	6.25 m	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Leiden , Netherlands	September 19, 1943
European record
Championship record	5.88 m	Irmgard Praetz	EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 17, 1938

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

August 23, 1946

The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 5.00 m. Eleven athletes reached or exceeded this distance. The field of finalists was not increased to twelve participants as it is today. The distances achieved in the qualification were not counted for the final result like today.

However, there are inconsistencies that appear equally in the sources used here. In fact, eleven long jumpers are named who exceeded or reached the required distance in qualification. In fact, eleven athletes who took part in the final are also named. There are, however, two differences in name. The athletes Stanisława Walasiewicz (tenth) and Dora Gardner (eleventh) who are listed in the qualification and who have qualified for the final do not appear in the results table for the final. Instead, there are two jumpers, silver medalist Lidija Gaile and eleventh-placed Milly Ludwig, who are not mentioned in the qualification.

The nine jumpers who undisputedly reached the final are marked in light blue.

Stanislawa Walasiewicz - it's not quite clear whether it is excreted in tenth in qualifying or whether they may not even on the long jump competition

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Gerda Koudijs	Netherlands	5.42
2	Valentina Vasilyeva	Soviet Union	5.40
3	Greta Magnusson	Sweden	5.38 PB
4th	Aslaug Solheim	Norway	5.24 PB
5	Amelia Piccinini	Italy	5.21
6th	Anne Iversen	Denmark	5.20
7th	Edith Øieren	Norway	5.14 PB
8th	Ulla-Britt Althin	Sweden	5.13
9	Ilona Fekete	Hungary	5.10
10	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Poland	5.00 SB
11	Dora Gardner	Great Britain	5.00 PB
12	Joyce Judd	Great Britain	4.77 PB
13	Kathleen Dyer	Great Britain	4.50 PB
14th	Aashild Brandvold	Norway	4.26 PB

final

August 23, 1946

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Gerda Koudijs	Netherlands	5.67 PB
2	Lidija Gaile	Soviet Union	5.66 PB
3	Valentina Vasilyeva	Soviet Union	5.63 PB
4th	Amelia Piccinini	Italy	5.28 PB
5	Anne Iversen	Denmark	5.25 PB
6th	Ulla-Britt Althin	Sweden	5.24 PB
7th	Greta Magnusson	Sweden	5.21
8th	Ilona Fekete	Hungary	5.16 PB
9	Aslaug Solheim	Norway	5.06
10	Edith Øieren	Norway	4.92
11	Milly Ludwig	Luxembourg	4.91 PB

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  Frequent starter Gerda Koudijs - she became European champion in the long jump

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  Greta Magnusson ( center ) - also a participant over 100 meters - reached the final and came in seventh

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 25, 2019
• Women Long Jump European Championship 1946 Oslo on todor66.com, accessed March 25, 2019
• III European Championship, Oslo 1946 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1946, long jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on March 25, 2019
• 3rd European Athletics Championships 1946 in Oslo, Norway from ifosta.de, accessed on March 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women , accessed March 25, 2019
2. ↑ European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 on the homepage of European Athletics , accessed on March 25, 2019
3. ↑ Women Long Jump European Championship 1946 Oslo on todor66.com, accessed March 25, 2019