Women Long Jump Athletics XIX Olympic Games Mexico 1968 - Monday 14th, October - Gold Medal: Viorica Viscopoleanu, Romania

Women Long Jump Athletics XIX Olympic Games Mexico 1968 - Monday 14th, October - Gold Medal: Viorica Viscopoleanu, Romania

Final		Distance	SO	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	age
1. Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.82m WR	6	6.82	X	6.64	6.54	6.52	6.57
2. Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	6.68m	5	6.60	X	6.50	6.59	6.68	6.61
3. Tatyana Talysheva	Soviet Union	6.66m	3	6.55	6.66	5.38	6.38	4.49	X
4. Burghild Wieczorek	East Germany	6.48m	4	X	6.48	6.45	6.33	6.42	6.25
5. Miroslawa Sarna	Poland	6.47m	10	6.47	X	4.98	6.44	6.31	6.45
6. Ingrid Becker	West Germany	6.43m	12	X	6.32	X	6.43	X	6.27
7. Berit Berthelsen	Norway	6.40m	13	6.38	6.40	6.27	6.22	X	6.32
8. Heidemarie Rosendahl	West Germany	6.40m	9	X	X	6.24	6.05	6.37	6.40
9. Violet Odogwu	Nigeria	6.23m		6.23	5.89	6.15
10.Martha Watson	United States	6.20m		6.20	X	6.06
11.Willye White	United States	6.08m		6.01	5.44	6.08
12.Maureen Barton	Great Britain	5.95m		5.93	X	5.95
13.Ann Wilson	Great Britain	5.90m		X	5.90	5.59
14.Barbel Lohnert	East Germany	4.49m		X	X	4.49

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` The medals were settled with the first six jumps of the opening round, as Talysheva jumped 6.55, to be followed by Sherwood with 6.60 and Viscopoleanu’s world record of 6.82. In the absence of Szewińska, concentrating on the 200m, the Romanian had been one of the favourites, but her world record was nevertheless startling. Talysheva reacted well with a personal best 6.66 in the second round, to move into silver medal position, which was recovered by Sherwood in the fifth round, who leapfrogged Talysheva by two places on the world all-time list to fourth with her 6.68. Wieczorek won the battle for the next tier with 6.48, although Rosendahl had jumped 6.54 in the qualifying round. Just eight centimetres covered fourth to eighth places.

Qualification Sunday 13.10

mark 6.30m 14 Athletes

Group A		Distance	1.	2.	3.
1. Heidemarie Rosendahl	West Germany	6.54m	X	6.54
2. Violet Odogwu	Nigeria	6.45m	6.45	6.09
3. Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	6.42m	6.42
4. Barbel Lohnert	East Germany	6.35m	6.35
5. Tatjana Talysheva	Soviet Union	6.34m	6.34	6.30	6.28
6. Maureen Barton	Great Britain	6.34m	6.27	X	6.34
7. Martha Watson	United States	6.30m	6.30	6.18	5.99
8. Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	6.19m	X	6.19	X
9. Eta Kispal	Hungary	5.98m	5.98	5.93	X
10.Mercedes Roman	Mexico	5.75m	5.75	X	5.72
11.Eva Cederstrom	Sweden	5.72m	X	5.57	5.72
12.Alice Anum	Ghana	5.61m	5.57	5.43	5.61
13.Jean Robotham	Costa Rica	4.75m	4.75	4.55	4.40
-. Sieglinde Ammann	SWI	NM	X	X	X
-. Nina Hansen	Denmark	DNS

Group B		Distance	1.	2.	3.
1. Berit Berthelsen	Norway	6.48m	6.32	6.48
2. Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.48m	6.48
3. Miroslawa Sarna	Poland	6.44m	6.32	6.44
4. Willye White	United States	6.42m	6.17	6.42
5. Ingrid Becker	West Germany	6.40m	6.25	6.40
6. Burghild Wieczorek	East Germany	6.30m	6.28	6.30	6.15
7. Ann Wilson	Great Britain	6.30m	6.10	5.85	6.30
8. Manon Bornholdt	West Germany	6.27m	6.27	6.09	X
9. Marcia Garbey	Cuba	6.14m	5.55	6.14	X
10.Elena Rings	Soviet Union	5.84m	X	5.84	X
11.Chun-Yue Lin	Taiwan	5.59m	5.23	X	5.59
-. Cecilia Sosa	SAL	NM	X	X	X
-. Joan Hendry	Canada	NM	X	X	X
-. Alicia Kaufmanas	Argentina	DNS

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Men 1500m
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Men Shot Put	Women Shot Put
Men Discus Throw	Women Discus Throw
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Men 20km Walk
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