1948 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	26 athletes from 17 countries
Competition location	Wembley Stadium
Competition phase	4th August 1948
Medalists Olga Gyarmati ( HUN )   Noëmi Simonetto ( ARG )   Ann-Britt Leyman ( SWE )

The women's long jump at the 1948 Olympic Games in London was played on August 4, 1948 at Wembley Stadium . 26 athletes took part in the Olympic debut of this discipline of women's athletics.

The first Olympic champion was the Hungarian Olga Gyarmati . She won ahead of the Argentine Noëmi Simonetto and the Swede Ann-Britt Leyman .

Existing records

• World record : 6.25 m - Fanny Blankers-Koen ( Netherlands ), Leiden , September 19, 1943
• There was not yet an Olympic record for the long jump , as this competition was held in London for the first time.

Conducting the competition

The participants entered a qualifying round on August 4th. The qualification distance required was 5.30 meters. All jumpers who managed this distance qualified for the final on the same day. If less than 12 athletes have made the distance, the final field was filled up to 12 athletes based on the distances.

qualification

August 4, 1948, 11 a.m.

Note: The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The qualifiers who did not make the required distance but were still able to qualify are highlighted in light green. Only the best is recorded. The order and length of further attempts in qualification are unknown. It was measured in the British system (feet, inches), so half a centimeter is also given

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Yvonne Curtet	France	5.640 m	OR
2	Kathleen Russell	Jamaica	5.610 m
3	Noëmi Simonetto	Argentina	5,560 m
4th	Ann-Britt Leyman	Great Britain	5.470 m
5	Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs	Netherlands	5.440 m
6th	Vinton Beckett	Jamaica	5.435 m
7th	Olga Gyarmati	Hungary	5.430 m
8th	Neeltje Karelse	Netherlands	5,360 m
9	Maria Oberbreyer	Austria	5,350 m
10	Ilse Steinegger	Austria	5,300 m
11	Judy Canty	Australia	5,290 m
11	Emma Reed	United States	5,290 m
13	Kaisa Parviainen	Finland	5,270 m
14th	Silvana Pierucci	Italy	5.235 m
15th	Phyllis Lightbourn-Jones	Bermuda	5.230 m
16	Elaine Silburn	Canada	5,220 m
17th	Henryka Słomczewska-Nowak	Poland	5.180 m
17th	Jean Walraven	United States	5.180 m
19th	Margaret Erskine	Great Britain	5.140 m
20th	Lorna Lee	Great Britain	5.120 m
20th	Gertrudes Morg	Brazil	5.120 m
22nd	June Maston	Australia	5.120 m
23	Joan Shepherd	Great Britain	5.005 m
24	Marguerite Martel	France	4,950 m
25th	Milena Ludwig	Luxembourg	4.505 m
ogV	Lillian Young	United States

Noëmi Simonetto, the first Argentine medalist

final

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Olga Gyarmati	Hungary	5.695 m	OR
2	Noëmi Simonetto	Argentina	5,600 m
3	Ann-Britt Leyman	Sweden	5.575 m
4th	Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs	Netherlands	5,570 m
5	Neeltje Karelse	Netherlands	5.545 m
6th	Kathleen Russell	Jamaica	5.495 m
7th	Judy Canty	Australia	5,380 m
8th	Yvonne Curtet	France	5,350 m
9	Maria Oberbreyer	Austria	5.240 m
10	Ilse Steinegger	Austria	5.195 m
11	Vinton Beckett	Jamaica	5.145 m
12	Emma Reed	United States	4,845 m

August 4, 1948, 4:30 p.m.

Note: The test series are unknown. Only the best scores are transmitted. It was measured in the British system (feet, inches), so half a centimeter is also given.

The top favorite, world record holder Fanny Blankers-Koen , had decided not to take part in the long jump in London, as the competition took place on the same day as the final over 100 meter hurdles . So there was no clear favorite in the competition, which was finally won by the Hungarian Olga Gyarmati ahead of the Argentine Noëmi Simonetto. The bronze medal went to Ann-Britt Leyman from Sweden. The achieved distances were not high class. The world record was more than half a meter above Gyarmati's victory range.

Noëmi Simonetto won the first Argentine woman medal in Olympic athletics. It was also the first medal for a woman from South America in this discipline.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 47f

Web links

• SportsReference long jump , accessed August 24, 2017
• Official report p. 282, engl. (PDF), accessed on August 24, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 646 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report "Athletic Timetable" p. 241, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)