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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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