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Long Jump Women
OLYMPIC RECORD EVOLUTION Long Jump Women
ATHLETE
NAME
SCORE
OLYMPIC GAME
DATE
COUNTRY
DISTANCE
[meters]
1948
Curtet Yvonne
5.64
London 1948
04 AUGUST
Olga GYARMATI
5.69
London 1948
04 AUGUST
HUN
1952
Williams Yvette
6.16
Helsinki 1952
23 JULY
Williams Yvette
6.24
Helsinki 1952
23 JULY
1956
Krzesinska Elzbieta
6.35
Melbourne / Stockholm 1956
27 NOVEMBER
1960
Krepkina Vera
6.37
Rome 1960
31 AUGUST
1964
Rand Mary
6.76
Tokyo 1964
14 OCTOBER
1968
Viorica VISCOPOLEANU
6.82
Mexico 1968
14 OCTOBER
ROU
1980
Kolpakova Tatyana
7.06
Moscow 1980
31 JULY
1988
Jackie JOYNER-KERSEE
7.27
Seoul 1988
24 SEPTEMBER
USA
Jackie JOYNER-KERSEE
7.4
Seoul 1988
29 SEPTEMBER
USA
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New Olympic Record
7.4m
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Olympic medallists
Gold medals
Brittney REESE
Lena MALKUS
Maurren Higa MAGGI
Tatyana LEBEDEVA
Heike DRECHSLER
Chioma AJUNWA
Jackie JOYNER-KERSEE
Anisoara CUSMIR-STANCIU
Tatiana KOLPAKOVA
Angela VOIGT
Heidemarie ROSENDAHL
Viorica VISCOPOLEANU
Mary Denise BIGNAL-RAND
Vera KOLASHNIKOVA-KREPKINA
Elzbieta DUNSKA-KRZESINSKA
Yvette Winefred WILLIAMS
Olga GYARMATI
Silver medals
Elena SOKOLOVA
Alina ROTARU
Tatyana LEBEDEVA
Irina SIMAGINA
Fiona MAY
Inessa KRAVETS
Heike DRECHSLER
Valeria (Vali) IONESCU
Brigitte WUJAK
Catherine Laverne MCMILLAN
Diana CHRISTOVA-YORGOVA
Sheila Hilary PARKIN-SHERWOOD
Irena SZEWINSKA
Elzbieta DUNSKA-KRZESINSKA
Willie B. WHITE
Aleksandra CHUDINA
Noemi SIMONETTO DE PORTELA
Bronze medals
Janay DELOACH
Letristan PLEDGER
Blessing OKAGBARE
Tatyana KOTOVA
Jackie JOYNER-KERSEE
Galina CHISTYAKOVA
Susan HEARNSHAW
Tatiana SKACHKO
Lidia ALFEEVA
Eva SURANOVA
Tatyana TALYSHEVA
Tatyana SHCHELKANOVA
Hildrun CLAUS-LAUFER
Nadezhda KHNYKINA-DVALISHVILI
Shirley CAWLEY
Ann-Britt LEYMAN