Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's long jump

These are the official results of the Women's long jump event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on 31 August.

Women's long jump at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany
Date	31 August 1972
Competitors	33 from 19 nations
Winning distance	6.78
Medalists
Heide Rosendahl  West Germany Diana Yorgova  Bulgaria Eva Šuranová  Czechoslovakia

Qualifying

All jumpers reaching 6.30 m (20 ft 8 in) and the top 12 including ties advanced to the final round. All qualifiers are shown in blue. All heights are in metres.

Overall Qualifying

Overall	Athlete	Nationality	Group	Mark	1	2	3
1	Angelika Liebsch	East Germany	B	6.69	6.69	–	-
2	Heide Rosendahl	West Germany	B	6.62	6.62	–	–
3	Margrit Olfert	East Germany	B	6.52	6.27	6.52	–
4	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	B	6.41	6.41	–	–
5	Willye White	United States	B	6.39	6.23	6.39	–
6	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	B	6.39	6.39	–	–
7	Eva Šuranová	Czechoslovakia	A	6.38	6.38	-	-
8	Ilona Bruzsenyá	Hungary	B	6.37	6.28	x	6.37
9	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	B	6.33	6.33	–	–
10	Heidi Schüller	West Germany	A	6.32	6.21	6.32	–
11T	Diana Yorgova	Bulgaria	A	6.32	6.32	-	-
11T	Marcia Garbey	Cuba	B	6.32	6.32	–	–
13	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	B	6.31	6.31	–	–
14	Elena Vintilă	Romania	A	6.30	6.30	–	–
15	Erica Nixon	Australia	A	6.27	6.16	6.27	5.42
16	Maureen Chitty	Great Britain	B	6.26	6.25	x	6.26
17	Sieglinde Ammann	Switzerland	A	6.26	6.26	6.13	6.04
18	Lyubov Ilyina	Soviet Union	A	6.25	x	6.25	x
19	Modupe Oshikoya	Nigeria	A	6.22	x	6.22	x
20	Odette Ducas	France	A	6.16	x	x	6.16
21	Hiroko Yamashita	Japan	A	6.14	6.13	6.06	6.14
22	Brenda Eisler	Canada	A	6.10	5.61	6.08	6.10
23	Martha Watson	United States	A	6.09	5.86	6.09	6.09
24	Debbie Van Kiekebelt	Canada	B	6.07	5.88	5.79	6.07
25	Radojka Francoti	Yugoslavia	B	6.02	6.02	5.53	x
26	Kristina Albertus	East Germany	A	6.01	x	6.01	x
27	Lyn Tillett	Australia	B	5.99	5.99	5.90	5.97
28	Ruth Martin-Jones	Great Britain	A	5.93	x	5.93	x
29	Kim Attlesey	United States	B	5.80	5.80	x	5.62
30	Lin Chun-Yu	Republic of China	A	5.50	5.50	x	x
31	Audrey Chikani	Zambia	B	5.17	4.29	5.17	4.64
–	Ingrid Mickler	West Germany	A	NM	x	x	x
–	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	A	NM	x	–	–
–	Irena Szewinska	Poland	B	DNS

Final

At the end of three jobs the top eight received another three jumps. The remaining were eliminated from medal contention.

Overall	Athlete	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Heide Rosendahl	West Germany	6.78	6.78	6.76	6.69	6.52	6.73	6.71
	Diana Yorgova	Bulgaria	6.77	6.43	6.12	6.62	6.77	6.53	x
	Eva Šuranová	Czechoslovakia	6.67	6.51	6.60	x	6.67	x	6.27
4	Marcia Garbey	Cuba	6.52	6.26	6.52	3.96	5.94	x	x
5	Heidi Schüller	West Germany	6.51	6.32	6.18	6.51	x	x	6.25
6	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	6.49	x	6.49	x	6.16	6.39	x
7	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.48	6.43	6.48	6.48	6.44	6.35	6.44
8	Margrit Olfert	East Germany	6.46	6.42	x	6.34	6.46	6.30	x
9	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	6.41	6.41	x	6.40
10	Ilona Bruzsenyák	Hungary	6.39	6.39	x	6.36
11	Willye White	United States	6.27	6.01	6.27	x
12	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	6.24	6.19	6.24	6.02
13	Angelika Liebsch	East Germany	6.23	x	6.23	6.07
14	Elena Vintilă	Romania	6.13	6.06	6.01	6.13

Key: NM = no mark; DNS = did not start; x = fault; T = tied

External links

• Official report