1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Long Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	21 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 30, 1980 (qualifying) July 31, 1980 (final)
Medalists Tatiana Kolpakowa ( URS )   Brigitte Wujak ( GDR )   Tetjana Skatschko ( URS )

The women's long jump at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 30 and 31, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 21 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Tatiana Kolpakowa from the Soviet Union. She won ahead of Brigitte Wujak from the GDR and Tetjana Skatschko , also from the Soviet Union.

Other participants from the GDR were Sigrid Heimann and Sigrun Siegl . Both reached the final. Siegl was fifth, Heimann seventh.
Jumpers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Existing records

World record	7.09 m	Vilma Bardauskienė ( Soviet Union )	Prague , Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic )	August 29, 1978
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 30th. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final on July 31 was 6.50 m. Since fewer than twelve athletes reached this distance, the final field was filled to twelve or in this case thirteen participants after the next best distance - in the end there were two jumpers with the same distance behind eleventh place. Since the rule of the better second best distance does not apply in qualifying for the final, both athletes reached the final.

Time schedule

July 30th, 10:00 am: Qualification
July 31st, 6:50 pm: Final

Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

qualification

Date: July 30, 1980, from 10 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Tatiana Kolpakova	Soviet Union	6.70 m	-	-	6.70 m
2	Susan Hearnshaw	Great Britain	x	6.66 m	-	6.66 m
3	Brigitte Wujak	GDR	6.65 m	-	-	6.65 m
4th	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	6.58 m	-	-	6.58 m
5	Sigrun Siegl	GDR	6.53 m	-	-	6.53 m
6th	Jennifer Innis	Guyana	6.26 m	6.36 m	6.44 m	6.44 m
7th	Mária Pap	Hungary	6.41 m	6.25 m	6.28 m	6.41 m
8th	Maria Lambrou	Greece	x	6.37 m	x	6.37 m
9	Ekaterina Nedewa	Bulgaria	x	x	5.83 m	5.83 m
10	Nguyễn Thị Hoàng Na	Vietnam	5.30 m	5.35 m	5.23 m	5.35 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Lidija Alfeyeva	Soviet Union	6.78 m	-	-	6.78 m
2	Sigrid Heimann	GDR	6.71 m	-	-	6.71 m
3	Anna Włodarczyk	Poland	x	6.58 m	-	6.58 m
4th	Tetjana Skachko	Soviet Union	6.56 m	-	-	6.56 m
5	Lidija Gusheva	Bulgaria	6.35 m	6.56 m	-	6.56 m
6th	Sue Reeve	Great Britain	x	6.43 m	6.48 m	6.48 m
7th	Barbara Wojnar-Baran	Poland	6.40 m	6.15 m	6.44 m	6.44 m
8th	Margit Papp	Hungary	6.32 m	x	x	6.32 m
9	Dorothy Scott	Jamaica	x	5.83 m	x	5.83 m
DNS	Estella Meheux	Sierra Leone
	Dia Toutounji	Syria

final

Silver medalist Brigitte Wujak, GDR

Date: July 31, 1980, 6.80 p.m.

Due to the Olympic boycott, the US jumpers were missing. But also the world record holder Vilma Bardauskienė , the first woman to jump over seven meters, could not compete in Moscow due to an injury. So there was no clear favorite for this competition. A duel between the athletes of the USSR and the GDR was expected.

The final was characterized by constant changes of position and was of extremely high quality. In lap one Tetjana Skatschko, USSR, took the lead and set a new Olympic record with her 6.96 m . Behind them were Brigitte Wujak, former Brigitte Künzel, from the GDR with 6.88 m and Tatjana Kolpakowa, USSR, who had jumped 6.84 m. In the second round nothing changed at the top, but the Polish Anna Włodarczyk came within an inch of Kolpakowa. With her third attempt, Skatschko extended her lead to 7.01 m. It was the first ever 7-meter jump at the Olympic Games. On lap four, Kolpakowa jumped within an inch of the width of Wujak. In the next round Włodarczyk improved to third place with a jump over 6.88 m, Wujak maintained second place due to the better second distance. The last attempt was exciting. First, the former world record holder Sigrun Siegl from the GDR improved to fifth place. Włodarczyk reached 6.95 m, with which they now took second place behind the leading Skatschko. Skatschko couldn't improve with her last jump. Then Wujak took the lead with 7.04 m and looked almost like the Olympic champion. But Tatiana Kolpakowa, who had previously only been fourth, improved to 7.06 m in the last attempt, which was two centimeters more than the best distance up to that point and thus the Olympic victory. Brigitte Wujak won the silver medal, and the long leading Tetjana Skatschko stayed bronze. All three had surpassed the 7-meter mark and fourth-placed Anna Włodarczyk was not far below with 6.95 m.

In total there were three jumps over seven meters by three different athletes. The then valid Olympic record of the Romanian Viorica Viscopoleanu of 6.82 m was beaten eleven times. Even if Vilma Bardauskienė's world record was not quite achieved, this was the long jump competition of the highest quality in track and field history at the time. With the length of the previous Olympic record, only seventh place would have been achieved here.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Tatiana Kolpakova	Soviet Union	6.84 m	6.81 m	6.72 m	6.87 m	6.73 m	7.06 m OR	7.06 m	OR
2	Brigitte Wujak	GDR	6.88 m	6.68 m	6.81 m	6.87 m	6.81 m	7.04 m OR	7.04 m
3	Tetjana Skachko	Soviet Union	6.96 m OR	6.89 m	7.01 m OR	6.01 m	6.56 m	6.64 m	7.01 m
4th	Anna Włodarczyk	Poland	6.56 m	6.83 m	x	x	6.88 m	6.95 m	6.95 m
5	Sigrun Siegl	GDR	x	6.68 m	x	x	6.65 m	6.87 m	6.87 m
6th	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	6.79 m	6.46 m	6.38 m	6.83 m	6.71 m	6.76 m	6.83 m
7th	Sigrid Heimann	GDR	6.71 m	6.71 m	6.65 m	6.68 m	6.68 m	6.69 m	6.71 m
8th	Lidija Alfeyeva	Soviet Union	x	6.71 m	6.07 m	x	x	x	6.71 m
9	Susan Hearnshaw	Great Britain	x	6.42 m	6.50 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			6.50 m
10	Sue Reeve	Great Britain	6.20 m	6.46 m	x				6.46 m
11	Barbara Wojnar-Baran	Poland	x	6.33 m	6.28 m				6.33 m
12	Lidija Gusheva	Bulgaria	6.24 m	6.23 m	6.22 m				6.24 m
13	Jennifer Innis	Guyana	5.88 m	5.71 m	6.10 m				6.10 m

Web links

• SportsReference Long Jump , accessed January 4, 2018
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 88f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 4, 2018

Video

• 1980 Olympics Women's Long Jump , published August 31, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed January 4, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 646 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 4, 2018
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 4, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b} Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 4, 2018
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed January 4, 2018