1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Long jump | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 30 athletes from 20 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Montreal Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 23, 1976 | ||||||||
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The women's long jump at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 23, 1976 at the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 30 athletes took part.
Angela Voigt from the GDR was Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Americans Kathy McMillan and Lidija Alfejewa from the Soviet Union.
In addition to the winner Voigt, Siegrun Siegl and Heidemarie Wycisk also competed for the GDR . Both reached the final. Siegl finished fourth and Wycisk seventh. Christa Striezel started
for the Federal Republic of Germany . You failed in the qualification.
Jumpers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 6.99 m | Siegrun Siegl ( GDR ) | Dresden , GDR (now Germany ) | May 19, 1976 |
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 July 23rd. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final in the afternoon of the same day 6.30 m. Since fewer than twelve athletes reached this distance, the final field was filled to twelve participants according to the next best distance.
Time schedule
July 23, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
July 23, 3:30 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )
The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
qualification
Date: July 23, 1976, from 10 a.m.
Group A
With Graziella Santini, a track and field athlete from San Marino took part in the Olympic Games for the first time.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Angela Voigt | GDR | 6.44 m | - | - | 6.44 m | |
2 | Siegrun Siegl | GDR | 5.89 m | 6.16 m | 6.42 m | 6.42 m | |
3 | Heidemarie Wycisk | GDR | 6.42 m | - | - | 6.42 m | |
4th | Jarmila Nygrýnová | Czechoslovakia | 6.41 m | - | - | 6.41 m | |
5 | Elena Vintilă | Romania | 5.61 m | 6.28 m | 6.16 m | 6.28 m | |
6th | Kathy McMillan | United States | x | 6.21 m | 6.25 m | 6.25 m | |
7th | Lilijana Panayotova | Bulgaria | 6.22 m | 6.17 m | 6.17 m | 6.22 m | |
8th | Anikó Milassin | Hungary | 5.93 m | 5.82 m | 6.22 m | 6.22 m | |
9 | Ana Alexander | Cuba | 6.11 m | x | 6.20 m | 6.20 m | |
10 | Ekaterina Nedewa | Bulgaria | x | 5.91 m | 6.16 m | 6.16 m | |
11 | Doina Spînu | Romania | 5.89 m | x | 6.06 m | 6.06 m | |
12 | Ilona Bruzsenyák | Hungary | 5.80 m | 6.02 m | x | 6.02 m | |
13 | Myra Nimmo | Great Britain | 5.90 m | x | 5.94 m | 5.94 m | |
14th | Miriama Tuisorisori | Fiji | 5.79 m | x | 5.49 m | 5.79 m | |
15th | Shonel Ferguson | Bahamas | 4.61 m | 5.17 m | 5.62 m | 5.62 m | |
16 | Graziella Santini | San Marino | x | x | 4.90 m | 4.90 m |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lidija Alfeyeva | Soviet Union | 6.54 m | - | - | 6.54 m | |
2 | Ildikó Erdélyi | Hungary | 6.24 m | 6.42 m | - | 6.42 m | |
3 | Diane Jones | Canada | 6.10 m | 6.24 m | 6.28 m | 6.28 m | |
4th | Sue Reeve | Great Britain | 6.17 m | 6.24 | 6.26 m | 6.26 m | |
5 | Sherron Walker | United States | 5.98 m | x | 6.20 m | 6.20 m | |
6th | Silvina Pereira da Silva | Brazil | 6.13 m | 6.06 m | 6.01 m | 6.13 m | |
7th | Maria Lambrou | Greece | 6.01 m | x | 6.13 m | 6.13 m | |
8th | Ciska Jansen | Netherlands | 6.10 m | x | 6.02 m | 6.10 m | |
9 | Christa Striezel | BR Germany | 6.09 m | 6.06 m | 6.07 m | 6.09 m | |
10 | Sumie Awara | Japan | 6.04 m | x | 5.92 m | 6.04 m | |
11 | Lyudmila Borsuk | Soviet Union | x | 4.89 m | 5.98 m | 5.98 m | |
12 | Martha Watson | United States | 5.93 m | 5.70 m | 5.83 m | 5.93 m | |
13 | Radojka Francoti | Yugoslavia | 5.83 m | 5.82 m | 5.63 m | 5.83 m | |
ogV | Eva Šuranová | Czechoslovakia | x | x | x | without space | |
DNS | Andrea Bruce | Jamaica | |||||
Johanna Kleindeter | Austria |
final
Date: July 23, 1976, 3:30 p.m.
In May of the Olympic year two GDR athletes had improved Heide Rosendahl's world record . First, Angela Voigt, fourth at the 1974 European Championships under her name Angela Schmalfeld, jumped 6.92 m. Ten days later, Siegrun Siegl, formerly Siegrun Thon, set the record of 6.99 m. So these two were favored here in Montreal for the Olympic gold. Other medal contenders were actually the two first place winners of the last European Championships, Ilona Bruzsenyák from Hungary and the Czechoslovak Eva Šuranová. But both presented themselves well below their normal form and were eliminated in the qualification. The performances in these elimination competitions were overall not very convincing. Lidija Alfejewa from the USSR managed the longest jump with just 6.54 m. Only six jumpers reached the actual qualifying distance of 6.30 m.
In the final, co-favorite Voigt took the lead in the first round with 6.72 m. Siegl and the Hungarian Ildikó Szabó followed tied - both initially had 6.51 m. In the fourth round Alfejewa improved to second place with 6.60 m, but in her fifth attempt the US jumper Kathy McMillan countered with 6.66 m and displaced Alfejewa to third. That was the final result, in the last round nothing changed in this order. Angela Voigt was Olympic champion ahead of Kathy McMillan and Lidija Alfejewa. World record holder Siegrun Siegl, who two days later was to become Olympic champion in the pentathlon in a dramatic competition , had to be satisfied with fourth place ahead of Ildikó Szabó. Overall, the level was somewhat weaker than at the two previous Olympic Games in Mexico City and Munich . So also remained Viorica Viscopoleanus Olympic record of 6.82 meters in 1968 untouched.
Angela Voigt won the GDR's first Olympic victory in the women's long jump .
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Angela Voigt | GDR | 6.72 m | x | 6.50 m | 6.53 m | x | 6.57 m | 6.72 m | |
2 | Kathy McMillan | United States | x | 6.31 m | 6.43 m | 6.47 m | 6.66 m | x | 6.66 m | |
3 | Lidija Alfeyeva | Soviet Union | 6.46 m | x | 6.34 m | 6.60 m | 6.46 m | 6.39 m | 6.60 m | |
4th | Siegrun Siegl | GDR | 6.51 m | 6.36 m | 6.59 m | 4.87 m | 6.55 m | 6.57 m | 6.59 m | |
5 | Ildikó Erdélyi | Hungary | 6.51 m | 6.51 m | 6.57 m | 6.40 m | 6.47 m | x | 6.57 m | |
6th | Jarmila Nygrýnová | Czechoslovakia | 6.04 m | 6.15 m | 6.54 m | x | 6.36 m | 6.50 m | 6.54 m | |
7th | Heidemarie Wycisk | GDR | 6.21 m | 6.39 m | 6.38 m | x | 6.37 m | 6.05 m | 6.39 m | |
8th | Elena Vintilă | Romania | 6.38 m | 6.36 m | x | 6.18 m | 6.31 m | x | 6.38 m | |
9 | Sue Reeve | Great Britain | 6.27 m | 6.06 m | x | not in the final of the eight best jumpers |
6.27 m | |||
10 | Anikó Milassin | Hungary | 5.88 m | 6.19 m | 6.01 m | 6.19 m | ||||
11 | Diane Jones | Canada | 6.13 m | 5.93 m | 6.04 m | 6.13 m | ||||
ogV | Lilijana Panayotova | Bulgaria | x | x | x | without space |
literature
- Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 248f
Web links
- SportsReference long jump , accessed December 20, 2017
- Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 44f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 20, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 646 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 20, 2017
- ↑ a b Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 45, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 20, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 20, 2017