1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Stadio Olimpico
Competition phase	August 30, 1960
Medalists Wera Krepkina ( URS )   Elżbieta Krzesińska ( POL )   Hildrun Claus ( GER )

World record holder Hildrun Claus (all-German team) won the bronze medal

The women's long jump at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was held on August 31, 1960 at the Stadio Olimpico . 39 athletes took part in the first athletics decision of these Olympic Games.

Olympic champion was Wera Krepkina from the Soviet Union. She won ahead of Elżbieta Krzesińska from Poland and Hildrun Claus from Germany .

Two other German jumpers were also able to qualify for the final. Renate Junker was fourth, two centimeters behind, while Helga Hoffmann was sixth. Jumpers from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	6.40 m	Hildrun Claus ( GDR )	Erfurt , GDR (now Germany )	August 7, 1960
Olympic record	6.35 m	Elżbieta Krzesińska ( Poland )	Melbourne finals , Australia	November 27, 1956

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on August 31. The required qualification width was 5.80 m. For all qualified jumpers the final took place in the afternoon of the same day. Each participant was initially entitled to three attempts. The best six athletes were then able to complete three more attempts.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The best widths are printed in bold. With the same distance, the second best distance decided the placement.

Time schedule

August 31, 9:00 a.m .: Qualification

August 31, 3:45 p.m .: Final

qualification

Joke Bijleveld (NED) qualified for the final and finished seventh

The Polish Maria Chojnacka finished eleventh in the final

Date: August 31, 1960, 9:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Mary Rand	United Kingdom	x	6.33 m	-	6.33 m
2	Hildrun Claus	Germany	6.21 m	-	-	6.21 m
3	Wera Krepkina	Soviet Union	6.14 m	-	-	6.14 m
4th	Elżbieta Krzesińska	Poland	6.13 m	-	-	6.13 m
5	Beverly Weigel	New Zealand	x	6.12 m	-	6.12 m
6th	Willye White	United States	6.07 m	-	-	6.07 m
7th	Renate Junker	Germany	6.00 m	-	-	6.00 m
8th	Helen Frith	Australia	5.98 m	-	-	5.98 m
9	Madeleine Thétu	France	5.74 m	5.96 m	-	5.74 m
10	Maria Chojnacka	Poland	5.95 m	-	-	5.95 m
11	Maria Kusion	Poland	5.92 m	-	-	5.92 m
12	Helga Hoffmann	Germany	5.62 m	x	5.90 m	5.90 m
13	Joke Bijleveld	Netherlands	5.90 m	-	-	5.90 m
14th	Fumiko Ito	Japan	5.71 m	5.88 m	-	5.88 m
15th	Brita Johansson	Finland	5.65 m	5.84 m	-	5.84 m
16	Lyudmyla Radchenko	Soviet Union	5.70 m	5.83 m	-	5.83 m
17th	Christina Persighetti	United Kingdom	5.82 m	-	-	5.82 m
18th	Norma Croker	Australia	5.80 m	-	-	5.80 m
	Valentina Schaprunowa	Soviet Union
20th	Akiko Fukuda	Japan	5.78 m	x	x	5.78 m
21st	Piera Tizzoni	Italy	5.63 m	x	5.65 m	5.65 m
22nd	Vlasta Přikrylová	Czechoslovakia	5.64 m	5.57 m	x	5.64 m
23	Sylvia Mitchell	Australia	5.47 m	5.20 m	5.60 m	5.60 m
24	Visitación Badana	Philippines	5.38 m	5.59 m	x	5.59 m
25th	Lin Chau-Tai	Taiwan	5.51 m	4.54	5.10 m	5.51 m
26th	Yasuko Kimura	Japan	x	x	5.45 m	5.45 m
27	Sally McCallum	Canada	4.97 m	x	5.22 m	5.22 m
28	Ilana Karaszyk	Israel	4.78 m	4.92 m	5.08 m	5.08 m
29	Aycan Oil	Turkey	4.97 m	4.92 m	4.84 m	4.97 m
ogV	Annie Smith	United States	x	x	x		without space

final

Date: August 31, 1960, 3:45 p.m.

19 participants had qualified for the final. The favorites were the world record holder Hildrun Claus and the 1956 Olympic champion , Elżbieta Krzesińska, from Poland. The British Mary Rand also moved into the group of medal candidates after her 6.33 m in qualification.

After the first round of the finals, the Soviet athlete Wera Krepkina, better known as a sprinter and co-owner of the world record over 100 meters since 1958, led. This was followed by Claus, the German Renate Junker, Krzesińska, Krepkina's compatriot Ljudmyla Radtschenko and the third German participant Helga Hoffmann. The Dutch Joke Bijleveld and Hoffmann both had 6.11 m. Since Bijleveld had two unsuccessful attempts, while Hoffmann had 6.02 m as the next best distance, the German could continue, the Dutch woman was eliminated in seventh place. For Mary Rand, the best in the qualification, things didn't go so well in this final. Her 6.01 m was only ninth in the end.

In the second final round, Krepkina extended her lead with the new Olympic record of 6.37 m. Krzesińska now jumped 6.37 m and displaced Claus to third place. Even the improvement of the Pole to 6.27 m in the last round did not change the order. Renate Junker also improved. She jumped 6.19 m, which was not enough for a bronze medal. Junkers were two inches missing.

Wera Krepkina jumped to the first Soviet Olympic victory in the women's long jump .

Hildrun Claus won the first German medal in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Wera Krepkina	Soviet Union	6.17 m	6.01 m	6.22 m	6.37 m OR	6.17 m	x	6.37 m	OR
2	Elżbieta Krzesińska	Poland	x	6.17 m	x	6.25 m	x	6.27 m	6.27 m
3	Hildrun Claus	Germany	6.21 m	6.18 m	x	x	6.13 m	6.11 m	6.21 m
4th	Renate Junker	Germany	6.17 m	5.94 m	6.05 m	6.19 m	6.11 m	6.10 m	6.19 m
5	Lyudmyla Radchenko	Soviet Union	5.99 m	6.00 m	6.16 m	5.83 m	5.91 m	5.90 m	6.16 m
6th	Helga Hoffmann	Germany	6.02 m	5.88 m	6.11 m	x	x	6.09 m	6.11 m
7th	Joke Bijleveld	Netherlands	6.11 m	x	x	not in the final of the six best jumpers			6.11 m
8th	Valentina Schaprunowa	Soviet Union	6.01 m	5.95 m	5.77 m				6.01 m
9	Mary Rand	United Kingdom	x	x	6.01 m				6.01 m
10	Beverly Weigel	New Zealand	5.98 m	5.81 m	5.91 m				5.98 m
11	Maria Chojnacka	Poland	5.98 m	5.67 m	5.86 m				5.98 m
12	Fumiko Ito	Japan	5.82 m	5.98 m	5.74 m				5.98 m
13	Maria Kusion	Poland	5.86 m	5.50 m	x				5.86 m
14th	Madeleine Thétu	France	5.73 m	5.85 m	5.83 m				5.85 m
15th	Norma Croker	Australia	5.82 m	5.64 m	5.75 m				5.82 m
16	Willye White	United States	5.77 m	x	5.28 m				5.77 m
17th	Helen Frith	Australia	x	5.62 m	5.61 m				5.62 m
18th	Brita Johansson	Finland	5.57 m	5.56 m	5.52 m				5.57 m
19th	Christina Persighetti	United Kingdom	5.46 m	5.42 m	5.57 m				5.57 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede : The History of Olympic Athletics. 1st edition. Volume 2: 1948-1968. Verlag Bartels & Wernitz, Berlin 1969, p. 227f.

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed October 22, 2017
• Official report pp. 201–204, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 646 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 63 at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017.
3. ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 203 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017.
4. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 204 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017.
5. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)