• The women's long jump was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The qualification mark was set at 5.70 metres. Seven athletes...
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    long jump has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's long jump was introduced over fifty years...
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    At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, 33 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 9 for women. There were a total number of 720 participating...
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    The men's triple jump was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The event was also known at the time as the hop, step and jump...
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  • The women's high jump was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The qualification round mark was set at 1.58 metres. Just one...
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    Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The athletics program...
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    The men's long jump was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The qualifying stage and the final both were held on the second day...
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    The men's high jump was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-eight contestants from 19 nations met on the morning of the...
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    women. However, it was not until 1948 that the women's long jump was added to the Olympic athletics programme. There are five main components of the long...
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    the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's high jump was one of five events to feature on the first women's...
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  • 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...
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  • to the finals. All distances are listed in metres. Key: OR = Olympic record; NM = no mark "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's Long Jump"....
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    event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1956 Games were bronze medalist...
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    competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, held from 26 July to 11 August 2024. The country made its debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Indian...
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    2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 X 400 relay". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 June 2024. "Results, Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump". Olympedia...
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    2014-02-01. Athletics at the 1956 Summer Games: Women's 100 metres. Sports Reference.. Retrieved on 2014-02-01. Athletics at the 1960 Summer Games: Women's 100...
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      Host country Gold medals – 83 (1984 Summer Olympics), Olympic record Total medals – 231 (1904 Summer Olympics), Olympic record   Leading in that sport Updated...
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    present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's triple jump is one of the more recent additions to the programme...
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    twelfth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in 1952. However, China did not participate in the next seven games: 1956; the nation was absent...
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  • This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in athletics. nb Yekaterina Volkova of Russia was originally the 2008 women's steeplechase bronze...
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    medalist, Athletics, Women's long jump 2000 Summer Olympics, Relay team (Antonio Pettigrew, Jerome Young) – first place, gold medalists, Athletics, Men's...
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    Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the sparsely attended 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis and 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne (except the...
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  • The women's 4 × 100 metres relay was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. There were nine nations competing, with France, Poland...
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  • The women's 100 metres competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia was held at the Olympic Stadium on November 29–30. In the final...
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    The men's long jump at the 1952 Olympic Games took place on July 21 at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Twenty-seven athletes from 19 nations competed. The...
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    The women competed in the K-1 500 metres discipline. Alice Coachman won a gold medal in the women's high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics, marking the first...
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    multi-sport event. The men's 3000 metres steeplechase has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1920. The women's event is the most recent addition...
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    it every Summer Olympic Games since then. They have won two medals in the sport. Vilhjálmur Einarsson won silver i men's triple jump in 1956 and Vala...
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    Athletics and the World Athletics Indoor Championships, and is a common occurrence at track and field meets. The high jump was among the first events deemed...
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    Tara Davis-Woodhall (category Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics)
    women's long jump at the 2024 Summer Olympics and also a silver medal at the 2023 World Championships. In 2017, she set the American junior women's record...
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