Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's long jump

Women's long jump
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Women's long jump; at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	August 4 (qualifying and final)
Competitors	26 from 17 nations
Winning distance	5.695 OR
Medalists
	1952 →

The women's long jump event was, for the first time, part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 4, 1948. The final was won by Hungarian Olga Gyarmati.^[1]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World record was as follows.

World record	Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)	6.25 m	Leiden, Netherlands	19 September 1943

Since it was the first time this event took place, the following new Olympic record was set during this competition:

Date	Event	Athlete	Time	Notes
4 August	Final	Olga Gyarmati (HUN)	5.695	OR

Date	Time	Round
Wednesday, 4 August 1948	11:00	Qualifications
Wednesday, 4 August 1948	16:30	Finals

Qual. rule: qualification standard 5.30m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Yvonne Chabot-Curtet	France	5.640	Q OR
2	Kathleen Russell	Jamaica	5.610	Q
3	Noemí Simonetto de Portela	Argentina	5.560	Q
4	Ann-Britt Leyman	Sweden	5.470	Q
5	Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs	Netherlands	5.440	Q
6	Vinton Beckett	Jamaica	5.435	Q
7	Olga Gyarmati	Hungary	5.430	Q
8	Neeltje Karelse	Netherlands	5.360	Q
9	Maria Oberbreyer	Austria	5.350	Q
10	Ilse Steinegger	Austria	5.300	Q
11	Judy Canty	Australia	5.290	q
11	Emma Reed	United States	5.290	q
13	Kaisa Parviainen	Finland	5.270
14	Silvana Pierucci	Italy	5.235
15	Phyllis Lightbourn-Jones	United States	5.230
16	Elaine Silburn	Canada	5.220
17	Henryka Słomczewska-Nowak	Poland	5.180
17	Jean Walraven	United States	5.180
19	Margaret Erskine	Great Britain	5.140
20	Lorna Lee	Great Britain	5.120
20	Gertrudes Morg	Brazil	5.120
22	June Maston	Australia	5.060
23	Joan Shepherd	Great Britain	5.005
24	Marguerite Martel	France	4.950
25	Milly Ludwig	Luxembourg	4.505
-	Lillian Young	United States	NM

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	Olga Gyarmati	Hungary	5.695	OR
	Noemí Simonetto	Argentina	5.600
	Ann-Britt Leyman	Sweden	5.575
4	Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs	Netherlands	5.570
5	Neeltje Karelse	Netherlands	5.545
6	Kathleen Russell	Jamaica	5.495
7	Judy Canty	Australia	5.380
8	Yvonne Chabot-Curtet	France	5.350
9	Maria Oberbreyer	Austria	5.240
10	Ilse Steinegger	Austria	5.195
11	Vinton Beckett	Jamaica	5.145
12	Emma Reed	United States	4.845

Key: OR = Olympic record

^ "Athletics at the 1948 London Summer Games: Women's Long Jump". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2017.

Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.