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Sports > Olympics > The Olympic Games Summary > Summer Games: Gold Medals > Track and Field–Women

Summer Games Gold Medal Winners: Long Jump

1948	Olga Gyarmati, Hungary	18 ft 8.25 in
1952	Yvette Williams, New Zealand	20 ft 5.75 in
1956	Elzbieta Krzesinska, Poland	20 ft 9.75 in
1960	Vera Krepkina, USSR	20 ft 10.75 in
1964	Mary Rand, Great Britain	22 ft 2 in
1968	Viorica Ciscopoleanu, Romania	22 ft 4.5 in
1972	Heidemarie Rosendahl, West Germany	22 ft 3 in
1976	Angela Voigt, East Germany	22 ft. 0.5 in
1980	Tatiana Kolpakova, USSR	23 ft 2 in
1984	Anisoara Stanciu, Romania	22 ft 10 in
1988	Jackie Joyner-Kersee, United States	24 ft 3.5 in
1992	Heike Drechsler, Germany	23 ft 5.25 in
1996	Chioma Ajunwa, Nigeria	23 ft 4.5 in
2000	Heike Drechsler, Germany	22 ft 11.25 in
2004	Tatyana Lebedeva, Russia	23 ft 2.35 in
2008	Maurren Higa Maggi, Brazil	23 ft 1.16 in

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