Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's long jump

All jumpers reaching 6.30 m (20 ft 8 in) and the top 12 including ties advanced to the final round. All qualifiers are shown in blue. All heights are in metres.

Overall Qualifying

Overall	Athlete	Nationality	Group	Mark	1	2	3
1	Angelika Liebsch	East Germany	B	6.69	6.69	–	-
2	Heide Rosendahl	West Germany	B	6.62	6.62	–	–
3	Margrit Olfert	East Germany	B	6.52	6.27	6.52	–
4	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	B	6.41	6.41	–	–
5	Willye White	United States	B	6.39	6.23	6.39	–
6	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	B	6.39	6.39	–	–
7	Eva Šuranová	Czechoslovakia	A	6.38	6.38	-	-
8	Ilona Bruzsenyá	Hungary	B	6.37	6.28	x	6.37
9	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	B	6.33	6.33	–	–
10	Heidi Schüller	West Germany	A	6.32	6.21	6.32	–
11T	Diana Yorgova	Bulgaria	A	6.32	6.32	-	-
11T	Marcia Garbey	Cuba	B	6.32	6.32	–	–
13	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	B	6.31	6.31	–	–
14	Elena Vintilă	Romania	A	6.30	6.30	–	–
15	Erica Nixon	Australia	A	6.27	6.16	6.27	5.42
16	Maureen Chitty	Great Britain	B	6.26	6.25	x	6.26
17	Sieglinde Ammann	Switzerland	A	6.26	6.26	6.13	6.04
18	Lyubov Ilyina	Soviet Union	A	6.25	x	6.25	x
19	Modupe Oshikoya	Nigeria	A	6.22	x	6.22	x
20	Odette Ducas	France	A	6.16	x	x	6.16
21	Hiroko Yamashita	Japan	A	6.14	6.13	6.06	6.14
22	Brenda Eisler	Canada	A	6.10	5.61	6.08	6.10
23	Martha Watson	United States	A	6.09	5.86	6.09	6.09
24	Debbie Van Kiekebelt	Canada	B	6.07	5.88	5.79	6.07
25	Radojka Francoti	Yugoslavia	B	6.02	6.02	5.53	x
26	Kristina Albertus	East Germany	A	6.01	x	6.01	x
27	Lyn Tillett	Australia	B	5.99	5.99	5.90	5.97
28	Ruth Martin-Jones	Great Britain	A	5.93	x	5.93	x
29	Kim Attlesey	United States	B	5.80	5.80	x	5.62
30	Lin Chun-Yu	Republic of China	A	5.50	5.50	x	x
31	Audrey Chikani	Zambia	B	5.17	4.29	5.17	4.64
–	Ingrid Mickler	West Germany	A	NM	x	x	x
–	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	A	NM	x	–	–
–	Irena Szewinska	Poland	B	DNS

At the end of three jobs the top eight received another three jumps. The remaining were eliminated from medal contention.

Overall	Athlete	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Heide Rosendahl	West Germany	6.78	6.78	6.76	6.69	6.52	6.73	6.71
	Diana Yorgova	Bulgaria	6.77	6.43	6.12	6.62	6.77	6.53	x
	Eva Šuranová	Czechoslovakia	6.67	6.51	6.60	x	6.67	x	6.27
4	Marcia Garbey	Cuba	6.52	6.26	6.52	3.96	5.94	x	x
5	Heidi Schüller	West Germany	6.51	6.32	6.18	6.51	x	x	6.25
6	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	6.49	x	6.49	x	6.16	6.39	x
7	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.48	6.43	6.48	6.48	6.44	6.35	6.44
8	Margrit Olfert	East Germany	6.46	6.42	x	6.34	6.46	6.30	x
9	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	6.41	6.41	x	6.40
10	Ilona Bruzsenyák	Hungary	6.39	6.39	x	6.36
11	Willye White	United States	6.27	6.01	6.27	x
12	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	6.24	6.19	6.24	6.02
13	Angelika Liebsch	East Germany	6.23	x	6.23	6.07
14	Elena Vintilă	Romania	6.13	6.06	6.01	6.13

Key: NM = no mark; DNS = did not start; x = fault; T = tied

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