1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	34 athletes from 22 countries
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 23, 1952
Medalists Yvette Williams ( NZL )   Alexandra Tschudina ( URS )   Shirley Cawley ( GBR )

The women's long jump at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki was held on July 23, 1952. 34 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Yvette Williams from New Zealand . She won ahead of Alexandra Tschudina from the Soviet Union and the Briton Shirley Cawley .

Existing records

World record	6.25 m	Fanny Blankers-Koen ( Netherlands )	Leiden , Netherlands	September 19, 1943
Olympic record	5.69 m	Olga Gyarmati ( Hungary )	London finals , Great Britain	4th August 1948

Conducting the competition

Silver for Alexandra Tschudina (URS)

The Polish Maria Ilwicka failed in the qualification

On July 23, the participants competed in two groups for a qualifying round, the qualifying distance was 5.30 meters. All qualified athletes contested the final on the same day. The results achieved in this qualification were not counted for the final.
In the final, all participants initially had three attempts. The six best athletes could then make three more attempts.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

July 23, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
July 23, 4:50 p.m .: Final

qualification

Date: July 23, 1952, 10:00 a.m.

The order of the test series is unknown.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
01	Alexandra Tschudina	Soviet Union	5.77 m
02	Shirley Cawley	Great Britain	5.73 m
03	Verna Johnston	Australia	5.58 m
04th	Thelma Jones	Bermuda	5.55 m
05	Gladys Erbetta	Argentina	5.51 m
06th	Olga Gyarmati	Hungary	5.50 m
07th	Elżbieta Krzesińska	Poland	5.43 m
08th	Leni Hofknecht	BR Germany	5.41 m
09	Yvonne Curtet	France	5.36 m
10	Helena de Menezes	Brazil	5.33 m
11	Ursula Finger	Saarland	5.27 m
12	Suzanne Glotin	France	5.26 m
13	Lilián Buglia	Argentina	5.25 m
14th	Éliane Dudal	France	5.21 m
15th	Gretel Bollinger	Switzerland	5.14 m
16	Maria Ilwicka	Poland	5.09 m
17th	Phyllis Lightbourn-Jones	Bermuda	4.92 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
01	Yvette Williams	New Zealand	6.16 m	OR
02	Mabel Landry	United States	5.88 m
03	Nina Tyurkina	Soviet Union	5.77 m
04th	Wilhelmina Lust	Netherlands	5.63 m
05	Elfriede von Nitzsch	BR Germany	5.62 m
05	Maire Österdahl	Finland	5.62 m
07th	Irmgard Schmelzer	BR Germany	5.61 m
08th	Valentina Litujewa	Soviet Union	5.51 m
09	Adriana Millard	Chile	5.49 m
10	Greta Magnusson	Sweden	5.45 m
11	Constance Willoughby	Great Britain	5.44 m
12	Wanda dos Santos	Brazil	5.35 m
13	Dawn Josephs	Canada	5.34 m
13	Ayako Yoshikawa	Japan	5.34 m
15th	Tamar Metal	Israel	5.16 m
16	Kathleen Russell	Jamaica	5.10 m
ogV	Rosella Thorne	Canada	without space

Finale and final result

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	Note
1	Yvette Williams	New Zealand	x	x	5.90 m	6.24 m	6.11 m	5.99 m	6.24 m	OR
2	Alexandra Tschudina	Soviet Union	5.99 m	6.14 m	5.74 m	5.90 m	5.95 m	6.07 m	6.14 m
3	Shirley Cawley	Great Britain	5.92 m	x	5.53 m	5.46 m	5.78 m	5.82 m	5.92 m
4th	Irmgard Schmelzer	BR Germany	5.89 m	5.76 m	5.90 m	x	5.84 m	x	5.90 m
5	Wilhelmina Lust	Netherlands	5.68 m	5.65 m	5.79 m	x	5.81 m	x	5.81 m
6th	Nina Tyurkina	Soviet Union	5.61 m	5.81 m	5.76 m	5.52 m	x	x	5.81 m
7th	Mabel Landry	United States	x	x	5.75 m	not in the final of the six best jumpers			5.75 m
8th	Verna Johnston	Australia	5.51 m	5.60 m	5.74 m				5.74 m
9	Maire Österdahl	Finland	5.62 m	5.73 m	5.70 m				5.73 m
10	Olga Gyarmati	Hungary	5.48 m	5.67 m	5.60 m				5.67 m
11	Valentina Litujewa	Soviet Union	5.50 m	5.63 m	5.65 m				5.65 m
12	Elżbieta Krzesińska	Poland	5.65 m	5.40 m	5.55 m				5.65 m
13	Adriana Millard	Chile	5.58 m	5.56 m	5.59 m				5.59 m
14th	Elfriede von Nitzsch	BR Germany	x	5.57 m	x				5.57 m
15th	Leni Hofknecht	BR Germany	5.45 m	5.54 m	5.55 m				5.55 m
16	Ayako Yoshikawa	Japan	5.54 m	x	5.38 m				5.54 m
17th	Dawn Josephs	Canada	5.17 m	5.47 m	5.44 m				5.47 m
18th	Gladys Erbetta	Argentina	5.39 m	5.40 m	5.47 m				5.47 m
19th	Constance Willoughby	Great Britain	5.39 m	5.44 m	5.13 m				5.44 m
20th	Greta Magnusson	Sweden	5.37 m	5.43 m	5.40 m				5.43 m
21st	Wanda dos Santos	Brazil	5.36 m	5.30 m	5.21 m				5.36 m
22nd	Thelma Jones	Bermuda	5.33 m	5.27 m	5.31 m				5.33 m
23	Yvonne Curtet	France	5.28 m	4.94 m	5.09 m				5.28 m
24	Helena de Menezes	Brazil	x	4.98 m	4.66 m				4.98 m

Date: July 23, 1952, 4:50 p.m.

In the absence of world record holder Fanny Blankers-Koen, New Zealander Yvette Williams was a big favorite, especially when she became the first athlete to cross the six-meter mark at the Olympic Games in qualifying. But in the first three rounds, Alexandra Tschudina from the Soviet Union led, who also jumped 6.14 m over this mark. It was tight for Williams, she was injured in qualifying and her first two attempts in the final were invalid. With 5.90 m in the third attempt, she still reached the final of the best six. Only in the fourth round did Williams take the lead with another Olympic record . At 6.24 m, it was only an inch below the world record . Tschudina managed to jump over the six meters again in the last attempt, but she couldn't improve. The Briton Shirley Cawley won the bronze medal with 5.92 m. Just two centimeters behind, the German Irmgard Schmelzer reached fourth place.
Yvette Williams achieved the first Olympic victory for a New Zealand woman.

Note: The best size is printed in bold.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 106f

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed September 29, 2017
• Official report pp. 340–341, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 29, 2017
• Yvette Williams wins gold in the Long Jump 1952 , published August 4, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed September 29, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 646 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official report p. 266, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)