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
Medalists Angela Voigt ( GDR )   Kathy McMillan ( USA )   Lidija Alfejewa ( URS )

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

Olympic champion Angela Voigt, GDR

Heidemarie Wycisk, GDR, reached number seven

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
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

The Dutch Ciska Jansen failed in the qualification

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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 646 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 20, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 45, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 20, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 20, 2017