European Athletics Championships 1958 / Women's long jump

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of women
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	16 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	August 21 (qualifying) August 22 (final)
Medalists
gold	Liesel Jakobi ( GER )
silver	Valentina Litujewa ( URS )
bronze	Nina Protschenko ( URS )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The women's long jump at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 21 and 22, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

With silver and bronze there were two medals for the Soviet Union in this competition. The German long jumper Liesel Jakobi became European champion . She won before Valentina Litujewa . Bronze went to Nina Protschenko.

Records

Existing records

World record	6.35 m	Elżbieta Krzesińska	Budapest , Hungary OS Melbourne , Australia	August 20, 1956 November 27, 1956
European record
Championship record	6.04 m	Jean Desforges	EM Bern , Switzerland	August 26, 1954

Record improvements

The existing EM record has been improved twice:

• 6.13 - Marthe Djian, qualifying on August 21
• 6.14 - Liesel Jakobi , final on August 22nd 

qualification

August 21, 1958, 9.45 a.m.

The sixteen participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 5.60 m. Fourteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and entered the final on the following day.
As in other competitions, given the few athletes who were eliminated - there were two here - the question arises why qualifications were scheduled at all.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Marthe Djian	France	6.13 CR / NO
2	Maria Ciastowska	Poland	5.96
3	Erika fish	Germany	5.95 PB
4th	Liesel Jakobi	Germany	5.93
5	Helga Hoffmann	Germany	5.82 SB
6th	Zlata Rozkošná	Czechoslovakia	5.83 PB
7th	Nina Protschenko	Soviet Union	5.78
8th	Aida Chuiko	Soviet Union	5.72
9	Teresa Wieczorek	Poland	5.69 PB
10	Maria Chojnacka	Poland	5.68
11	Sheila Hoskin	Great Britain	5.68
12	Jean Whitehead	Great Britain	5.67
13	Inga Broberg	Sweden	5.62
14th	Valentina Litujewa	Soviet Union	5.61
15th	Annie Segouffin	France	5.51 PB
16	Reinelde Knapp	Austria	5.35 PB

final

Sixth place for Maria Chojnacka, later Maria Piątkowska - ninth in the pentathlon

August 22, 1958, 4:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Liesel Jakobi	Germany	6.14 CR
2	Valentina Litujewa	Soviet Union	6.00 PB
3	Nina Protschenko	Soviet Union	5.99 PB
4th	Aida Chuiko	Soviet Union	5.99 PB
5	Maria Ciastowska	Poland	5.97 PB
6th	Maria Chojnacka	Poland	5.97 PB
7th	Helga Hoffmann	Germany	5.85
8th	Inga Broberg	Sweden	5.85 PB
9	Jean Whitehead	Great Britain	5.84 PB
10	Marthe Djian	France	5.83
11	Zlata Rozkošná	Czechoslovakia	5.78
12	Erika fish	Germany	5.72
13	Teresa Wieczorek	Poland	5.63
14th	Sheila Hoskin	Great Britain	5.56

The European champion Liesel Jakobi had the following series in the final: 5.99 m - x - 5.63 m - 5.85 m - x - 6.14 m. So
she won the European Championship title with her last jump.
The French Marthe Djian, who had set a new national record in the qualification with 6.13 m, remained in the final with 5.83 m well below this distance and finished the competition in tenth place.

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  Inga Broberg reached eighth place

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  Erika Fisch - in the photo as a sprinter ( third from right ), came twelfth

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  Teresa Wieczorek, later Teresa Ciepły, took thirteenth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 at european-athletics.org, accessed May 4, 2019
• Women Long Jump European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed May 4, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 4, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, long jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 4, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on May 4, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. Long jump women , accessed April 20, 2019