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1926 Women's World Games – long jump

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Long jump
at the 1926 Women's World Games
Gold medal winner Japanese Kinue Hitomi during the event.
VenueSlottsskogsvallen
LocationGothenburg, Sweden
Winning score5.50 m WR
Medalists
gold medal    Japan
silver medal    Great Britain
bronze medal    Czechoslovakia
← 1922
1930 →

The long jump event at the 1926 Women's World Games in Gothenburg at the Slottsskogsvallen was the second time the long jump was held at Women's World Games.

Japanese Kinue Hitomi won the event with in a new world record of 5.50 meter. Behind her British Muriel Gunn finished second and Czechoslovak Zdena Smolová finished third.[1]

This was the standing world record (in metres) prior to the 1926 Women's World Games.[2]

World record  Muriel Gunn (GBR) 5.485 London, United Kingdom 2 August 1926 [2]
Rank Name Nationality Distance (m) Notes
1 Kinue Hitomi  Japan 5.50 WR
2 Muriel Gunn  Great Britain 5.44
3 Zdena Smolová  Czechoslovakia 5.26[3] or 5.28
4 Asta Plathino  Sweden 5.16
5 Zinaida Liepiņa  Latvia 5.00 [4][5]
6 ? ? ?
7 Wacława Sadkowska  Poland 4.77 [6]
8 Märta Johansson  Sweden ?
9 Lucienne Laudré-Viel  France 4.63 [7]
10 Léontine Stevens  Belgium 4.51 [8]
11 Hanna Jędrzejewska  Poland 4.47 [9][10]
12 Geneviève Laloz  France 4.41 [11]
Josephine Matthews (?)  Great Britain ?

Source:[1]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Svenska dagbladets Årsbok 1926 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Svenska Dagbladet. 1927. p. 217-218. Retrieved 13 June 2024 – via runeberg.org.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009" (PDF). Monte Carlo: IAAF Media & Public Relations Department. 2009. p. 646. Archived from the original (pdf) on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
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  4. "Latvijas Olimpiskās komitejas profils". Olimpiade.lv. Archived from the original on 28 September 2012.
  5. Latvijs sporta lepnums 100 (in Lithuanian). Latvija 100. p. 30 – via fliphtml5.com.
  6. Kurzyński, Henryk; Rachwalski, Maciej; Socha, Andrzej; Wołejko, Tadeusz (2008). Historia polskiej kobiecej lekkoatletyki w okresie międzywojennym (in Polish). Warsaw: Komisja Statystyczna PZLA. p. 382-383.
  7. "LUCIENNE LAUDRE". French Athletics (in French).
  8. "De vrouwenspelen van Ghotemburg" (in Dutch). Sportwereld. 31 August 1926. p. 4. Retrieved 17 June 2024 – via uurl.kbr.be.
  9. Kurzyński, Henryk; Rychwalski, Maciej; Socha, Andrzej; Wołejko, Tadeusz (2008). Historia polskiej kobiecej lekkoatletyki w okresie międzywojennym (in Polish). Warsaw: Komisja Statystyczna PZLA. p. 320-321.
  10. Encyklopedia (statystyczna) polskiej lekkiej atletyki: 1919-1994 (in Polish). Warszawa: PZLA. 1994. p. 248. ISBN 83-902509-0-X.
  11. "GENEVIEVE LALOZ". French Athletics (in French).

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