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Sports > Olympics > Summer Olympics Through The Years > Event-by-Event > Track & Field > Women's Olympic Track & Field

Long Jump

Year		Distance
1948	Olga Gyarmati, HUN	18- 8¹/4
1952	Yvette Williams, NZE	20- 5³/4	OR
1956	Elzbieta Krzesinska, POL	20-10	=WR
1960	Vyera Krepkina, USSR	20-10³/4	OR
1964	Mary Rand, GBR	22- 2¹/4	WR
1968	Viorica Viscopoleanu, ROM	22- 4¹/2	WR
1972	Heidemarie Rosendahl, W. Ger	22- 3
1976	Angela Voigt, E. Ger	22- 0³/4
1980	Tatyana Kolpakova, USSR	23- 2	OR
1984	Anisoara Cusmir-Stanciu, ROM	22- 10
1988	Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA	24- 3¹/4	OR
1992	Heike Drechsler, GER	23- 5¹/4
1996	Chioma Ajunwa, NGR	23- 4¹/2
2000	Heike Drechsler, GER	22- 11¹/4
2004	Tatyana Lebedeva, RUS	23-2¹/2

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Women's Olympic Track & Field

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