Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's long jump

Athletics at the 1956 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
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
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

These are the official results of the Women's Long Jump event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The qualification mark was set at 5.70 metres. Seven athletes didn't surpass that distance in the morning heats.

Final classification

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	DISTANCE
	Elżbieta Krzesińska (POL)	6.35 m
	Willye White (USA)	6.09 m
	Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili (URS)	6.07 m
4.	Erika Fisch (EUA)	5.89 m
5.	Marthe Lambert (FRA)	5.88 m
6.	Valentina Shaprunova (URS)	5.85 m
7.	Beverly Weigel (NZL)	5.85 m
8.	Nancy Borwick (AUS)	5.82 m
9.	Maria Kusion (POL)	5.79 m
10.	Helga Hofmann (EUA)	5.73 m
11.	Olga Gyarmati (HUN)	5.66 m
12.	Genowefa Minicka (POL)	5.64 m
—	Dorothy Kozak (CAN)	DNQ
—	Sheila Hoskin (GBR)	DNQ
—	Erica Willis (AUS)	DNQ
—	Yoshie Takahashi (JPN)	DNQ
—	Margaret Johnson (AUS)	DNQ
—	Margaret Matthews (USA)	DNQ
—	Thelma Hopkins (GBR)	DNQ

References

• Official Report
• Results