1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	33 athletes from 19 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	August 31, 1972
Medalists Heide Rosendahl ( FRG )   Diana Jorgowa ( BUL )   Eva Šuranová ( TCH )

The women's long jump at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on August 31, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 33 athletes took part in the first decision in athletics of this Olympic Games.

Olympic champion was Heide Rosendahl from the Federal Republic of Germany. The silver medal went to Bulgarian Diana Jorgowa , bronze went to Czechoslovakian Eva Šuranová .

In addition to the Olympic champion, Heidi Schüller and Ingrid Mickler , formerly Ingrid Becker , also started for the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany . Mickler retired without a valid attempt in qualification. Schüller reached the final and was fifth.
The GDR was represented by Angelika Liebsch , Margrit Olfert - formerly Margrit Herbst - and Kristina Albertus . Albertus failed in the qualification. Olfert was eighth in the final, Liebsch 13. Meta Antenen and Sieglinde Ammann started
for Switzerland . Ammann was eliminated in the qualification, Antenen finished sixth in the final. Jumpers from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	6.84 m	Heide Rosendahl ( Federal Republic of Germany )	Turin , Italy	3rd September 1971
Olympic record	6.82 m	Viorica Viscopoleanu ( Romania )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	October 14, 1968

Conducting the competition

The jumpers competed in two groups for a qualifying round on August 31st. The qualifying distance for direct entry into the final, which took place in the afternoon of the same day, was 6.30 m. Since more than twelve athletes reached this distance, the final field was not filled any further.

In the final, each athlete initially had three attempts. The best eight participants were then given three more attempts.

Time schedule

August 31, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification

August 31, 3:30 p.m .: Final

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: August 31, 1972, from 10 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Eva Šuranová	Czechoslovakia	6.38 m	-	-	6.38 m
2	Heidi Schüller	BR Germany	6.21 m	6.32 m	-	6.32 m
3	Diana Jorgowa	Bulgaria	6.32 m	-	-	6.32 m
4th	Elena Vintilă	Romania	6.30 m	-	-	6.30 m
5	Erica Nixon	Australia	6.16 m	6.27 m	5.42 m	6.27 m
6th	Sieglinde Ammann	Switzerland	6.26 m	6.13 m	6.04 m	6.26 m
7th	Lyubov Ilyina	Soviet Union	x	6.25 m	x	6.25 m
8th	Modupe Oshikoya	Nigeria	x	6.22 m	x	6.22 m
9	Odette Ducas	France	x	x	6.16 m	6.16 m
10	Hiroko Yamashita	Japan	6.13 m	6.06 m	6.14 m	6.14 m
11	Brenda Eisler	Canada	5.61 m	6.08 m	6.10 m	6.10 m
12	Martha Watson	United States	5.86 m	6.09 m	6.09 m	6.09 m
13	Kristina Albertus	GDR	x	6.09 m	x	6.09 m
14th	Ruth Martin-Jones	Great Britain	x	5.93 m	x	5.93 m
15th	Lin Chun-yu	Taiwan	5.50 m	x	x	5.50 m
ogV	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	x	x	x		without space
	Ingrid Mickler	BR Germany

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Angelika Liebsch	GDR	6.69 m	-	-	6.69 m
2	Heide Rosendahl	BR Germany	6.62 m	-	-	6.62 m
3	Margrit Olfert	GDR	6.27 m	6.52 m	-	6.52 m
4th	Meta antennas	Switzerland	6.41 m	-	-	6.41 m
5	Willye White	United States	6.23 m	6.39 m	-	6.39 m
6th	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.39 m	-	-	6.39 m
7th	Ilona Bruzsenyák	Hungary	6.28 m	x	6.37 m	6.37 m
8th	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	6.33 m	-	-	6.33 m
9	Marcia Garbey	Cuba	6.32 m	-	-	6.32 m
10	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	6.31 m	-	-	6.31 m
11	Maureen Chitty	Great Britain	6.25 m	x	6.26 m	6.26 m
12	Martha Watson	United States	5.86 m	6.09 m	6.09 m	6.09 m
13	Debbie Van Kiekebelt	Canada	5.88 m	5.79 m	6.07 m	6.07 m
14th	Radojka Francoti	Yugoslavia	6.02 m	5.53 m	x	6.02 m
15th	Lyn Tillett	Australia	5.99 m	5.90 m	5.97 m	5.99 m
16	Kim Attlesey	United States	5.80 m	x	5.62 m	5.80 m
17th	Audrey Chikani	Zambia	4.29 m	5.17 m	4.64 m	5.17 m
DNS	Irena Szewińska	Poland

final

Date: August 31, 1972, 3:30 p.m.

The world record holder Heide Rosendahl was seen as the favorite . Her main competitors were the Bulgarian Diana Jorgowa, who had improved significantly in the Olympic year, the Swiss Meta Antenen, vice European champion from 1971 , and the German European champion from 1971 and five- match Olympic champion from 1968 , Ingrid Mickler, while the long jump Olympic champion from 1968, Viorica Viscopolean not more quite the shape of their peak. Mickler, however, already retired from qualifying with three invalid attempts.

In the final, Rosendahl put up 6.78 m in the first attempt and remained just six centimeters below her own world record. In the course of the competition she had three more attempts of more than 6.70 m, the gap to her competitors was initially large. But in passage four, Jorgowa came within a centimeter, and it got exciting again. The Bulgarian could not improve in her last two jumps and so the medals were distributed. Heide Rosendahl won her first gold medal, there was a second for her as the final runner in the German 4 x 100 meter relay . Silver went to Diana Jorgowa, bronze to Czechoslovak Eva Šuranová, who achieved her best length of 6.67 m like Jorgowa in the fourth attempt. Behind them were the Cuban Marcia Garbey in fourth, the German jumper Heidi Schüller in fifth and Meta Antenen in sixth.

US athlete Willye White competed at the Olympic Games for the fifth time. In 1956 in Melbourne she won the silver medal, here in Munich she was eleventh.

Heide Rosendahl was the first German - here German - Olympic champion in the long jump .

Eva Šuranová managed to win the first Czechoslovak medal in this discipline.

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  The German Olympic champion Heide Rosendahl on a postage stamp issued in 1972 by the emirate Umm al-Qaiwain

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  The Olympic eighth Margrit Olfert, former Margrit Herbst, GDR

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  For the GDR long jumper Kristina Albertus, the qualification was over

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Heide Rosendahl	BR Germany	6.78 m	6.76 m	6.69 m	6.52 m	6.73 m	6.71 m	6.78 m
2	Diana Jorgowa	Bulgaria	6.43 m	6.12 m	6.62 m	6.77 m	6.53 m	x	6.77 m
3	Eva Šuranová	Czechoslovakia	6.51 m	6.60 m	x	6.67 m	x	6.27 m	6.67 m
4th	Marcia Garbey	Cuba	6.26 m	6.52 m	3.96 m	5.94 m	x	x	6.52 m
5	Heidi Schüller	BR Germany	6.32 m	6.18 m	6.51 m	x	x	6.25 m	6.51 m
6th	Meta antennas	Switzerland	x	6.49 m	x	6.16 m	6.39 m	x	6.49 m
7th	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.43 m	6.48 m	6.48 m	6.44 m	6.35 m	6.44 m	6.48 m
8th	Margrit Olfert	GDR	6.42 m	x	6.34 m	6.46 m	6.30 m	x	6.46 m
9	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	6.41 m	x	6.40 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			6.41 m
10	Ilona Bruzsenyák	Hungary	6.39 m	x	6.36 m				6.39 m
11	Willye White	United States	6.01 m	6.27 m	x				6.27 m
12	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	6.19 m	6.24 m	6.02 m				6.24 m
13	Angelika Liebsch	GDR	x	6.23 m	6.07 m				6.23 m
14th	Elena Vintilă	Romania	6.06 m	6.01 m	6.13 m				6.13 m

literature

• Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 58f

Video

• ✘ MÜNCHEN 1972 (HEIDE ROSENDAHL) Weitsprung (private recordings) , Munich 1972, published on June 1, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on December 7, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed December 7, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 72, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 7, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 646 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 7 December 2017
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 7, 2017 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 72, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 7, 2017 
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 7, 2017