Women Long Jump Athletics XVI Olympic Games Melbourne, Australia 1956 - Tuesday. 27th November - Gold Medal: Elzbieta Krzesińska, Poland
FinalDistance SO1.2.3.4.5.6.
1. Elzbieta KrzesińskaPOL Poland6.35m=WR26.206.35wXX6.02X
2. Willye WhiteUSA United States6.09m 55.965.916.065.955.966.09
3. Nadezhda DvalishviliURS Soviet Union6.07m 106.005.81X5.916.075.98
4. Erika FischGER Germany5.89m 95.89w5.625.755.635.49X
5. Marthe LambertFRA France5.88m 15.885.805.78X4.355.77
6. Valentina ShaprunovaURS Soviet Union5.85m 35.855.695.615.525.825.76
7. Beverly Dawn WeigelNZL New Zealand5.85m 85.855.664.69XX5.72
8. Nancy BorwickAUS Australia5.82m 45.715.825.47
9. Maria KusionPOL Poland5.79m
10.Helga HofmannGER Germany5.73m
11.Olga GyarmatiHUN Hungary5.66m
12.Genowefa MinickaPOL Poland5.64m

world Women Long Jump History

Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground. Capp.: 120,000. 19 competitors from 11 nations.
Krzesińska was favourite, on the basis of her 6.35 world record in August, and she led the qualifiers with 6.13. The second to jump in the final, the Pole quickly settled matters with a jump of 6.20; only Dvalishvili was able to reach 6.00 in response. Krzesińska made the position even clearer with her next jump, which was ratified as equalling her world record though the wind reading was +6.0! Only Dvalishvili and 17 year-old Willye White managed jumps beyond 6m, with White snatching silver from the Georgian with her last jump of 6.09.

Qualification

mark 5.70m
Not Qualified - 7 athletes
-. Dorothy Elsie KozakCAn Canada
-. Sheila HoskinGBR Great Britain
-. Erica May WillisAUS Australia
-. Yoshie TakahashiJPN Japan
-. Margaret JohnsonAUS Australia
-. Margaret Rejean MathewsUSA United States
-. Thelma Elizabeth HopkinsGBR Great Britain
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