Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's long jump

Women's long jump at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Date	July 23, 1952
Competitors	34 from 22 nations
Winning distance	6.24 OR
Medalists
Yvette Williams  New Zealand Aleksandra Chudina  Soviet Union Shirley Cawley  Great Britain

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
10 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The Women's long jump at the 1952 Olympic Games took place on July 23 at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Yvette Williams from New Zealand won the gold medal and set a new Olympic record.^[1]

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)	6.25 m	Leiden, Netherlands	19 September 1943
Olympic record	Olga Gyarmati (HUN)	5.69 m	London, United Kingdom	4 August 1948

The following new Olympic records was set during this competition.

Date	Event	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
23 July	Final	Yvette Williams (NZL)	6.24 m	OR

Qualifying Performance 5.30 advance to the Final.

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	Mark
1	B	Yvette Williams	New Zealand	6.16 OR
2	B	Mabel Landry	United States	5.88
3	A	Aleksandra Chudina	Soviet Union	5.77
4	B	Nina Tyurkina	Soviet Union	5.77
5	A	Shirley Cawley	Great Britain	5.73
6	B	Wilhelmina Lust	Netherlands	5.63
7	B	Elfriede von Nitzsch	Germany	5.62
7	B	Maire Österdahl	Finland	5.62
9	B	Irmgard Schmelzer	Germany	5.61
10	A	Verna Johnston	Australia	5.58
11	A	Thelma Jones	Bermuda	5.55
12	A	Gladys Erbetta	Argentina	5.51
13	B	Valentina Lituyeva	Soviet Union	5.51
14	A	Olga Gyarmati	Hungary	5.50
15	B	Adriana Millard	Chile	5.49
16	B	Greta Magnusson	Sweden	5.45
17	B	Constance Willoughby	Great Britain	5.44
18	A	Elżbieta Krzesińska	Poland	5.43
19	A	Leni Hofknecht	Germany	5.41
20	A	Yvonne Chabot-Curtet	France	5.36
21	B	Wanda dos Santos	Brazil	5.35
22	B	Dawn Josephs	Canada	5.34
22	B	Ayako Yoshikawa	Japan	5.34
24	A	Helena de Menezes	Brazil	5.33
25	A	Ursel Finger	Saar	5.27
26	A	Suzanne Glotin	France	5.26
27	A	Lilián Buglia	Argentina	5.25
28	A	Éliane Dudal	France	5.21
29	B	Tamara Metal	Israel	5.16
30	A	Gretel Bolliger	Switzerland	5.14
31	B	Kathleen Russell	Jamaica	5.10
32	A	Maria Piątkowska	Poland	5.09
33	A	Phyllis Lightbourn-Jones	Bermuda	4.92
	B	Rosella Thorne	Canada	NM

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result
	Yvette Williams	New Zealand	x	x	5.90	6.24	6.11	5.99	6.24 OR
	Aleksandra Chudina	Soviet Union	5.99	6.14	5.74	5.90	5.95	6.07	6.14
	Shirley Cawley	Great Britain	5.92	x	5.53	5.46	5.78	5.82	5.92
4	Irmgard Schmelzer	Germany	5.89	5.76	5.90	x	5.84	x	5.90
5	Wilhelmina Lust	Netherlands	5.68	5.65	5.79	x	5.81	x	5.81
6	Nina Tyurkina	Soviet Union	5.61	5.81	5.76	5.52	x	x	5.81
7	Mabel Landry	United States	x	x	5.75				5.75
8	Verna Johnston	Australia	5.51	5.60	5.74				5.74
9	Maire Österdahl	Finland	5.62	5.73	5.70				5.73
10	Olga Gyarmati	Hungary	5.48	5.67	5.60				5.67
11	Valentina Lituyeva	Soviet Union	5.50	5.63	5.65				5.65
12	Elżbieta Krzesińska	Poland	5.65	5.40	5.55				5.65
13	Adriana Millard	Chile	5.58	5.56	5.59				5.59
14	Elfriede von Nitzsch	Germany	x	5.57	x				5.57
15	Leni Hofknecht	Germany	5.45	5.54	5.55				5.55
16	Ayako Yoshikawa	Japan	5.54	x	5.38				5.54
17	Dawn Josephs	Canada	5.17	5.47	5.44				5.47
18	Gladys Erbetta	Argentina	5.39	5.40	5.47				5.47
19	Constance Willoughby	Great Britain	5.39	5.44	5.13				5.44
20	Greta Magnusson	Sweden	5.37	5.43	5.40				5.43
21	Wanda dos Santos	Brazil	5.36	5.30	5.21				5.36
22	Thelma Jones	Bermuda	5.33	5.27	5.31				5.33
23	Yvonne Chabot-Curtet	France	5.28	4.94	5.09				5.28
24	Helena de Menezes	Brazil	x	4.98	4.66				4.98

NM — No Mark

• Official Olympic Report, la84.org.