| Event: | Women's long jump |
| Games: | 1948 Summer |
| Dates: | August 4 (qualifying and final) |
| Competitors: | 26 |
| Nations: | 17 |
| Win Value: | 5.695 |
| Win Label: | Winning distance |
| Longnames: | yes |
| Gold: | Olga Gyarmati |
| Goldnoc: | HUN |
| Silver: | Noemí Simonetto |
| Silvernoc: | ARG |
| Bronze: | Ann-Britt Leyman |
| Bronzenoc: | SWE |
| Next: | 1952 |
The women's long jump event was, for the first time, part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 4, 1948. The final was won by Hungarian Olga Gyarmati.[1]
Prior to the competition, the existing World record was as follows.
| World record | 6.25 m | Leiden, Netherlands | 19 September 1943 |
Since it was the first time this event took place, the following new Olympic record was set during this competition:
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
| Date | Time | Round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 4 August 1948 | 11:00 | Qualifications | |||
| style=background:lemonchiffon | Wednesday, 4 August 1948 | style=background:lemonchiffon | 16:30 | style=background:lemonchiffon | Finals |
Qual. rule: qualification standard 5.30m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | align=left | 5.640 | OR | |||
| 2 | align=left | align=left | 5.610 | ||||
| 3 | align=left | align=left | 5.560 | ||||
| 4 | align=left | align=left | 5.470 | ||||
| 5 | align=left | align=left | 5.440 | ||||
| 6 | align=left | align=left | 5.435 | ||||
| 7 | align=left | align=left | 5.430 | ||||
| 8 | align=left | align=left | 5.360 | ||||
| 9 | align=left | align=left | 5.350 | ||||
| 10 | align=left | align=left | 5.300 | ||||
| 11 | align=left | align=left | 5.290 | ||||
| 11 | align=left | align=left | 5.290 | ||||
| 13 | align=left | align=left | 5.270 | ||||
| 14 | align=left | align=left | 5.235 | ||||
| 15 | align=left | align=left | 5.230 | ||||
| 16 | align=left | align=left | 5.220 | ||||
| 17 | align=left | align=left | 5.180 | ||||
| 17 | align=left | align=left | 5.180 | ||||
| 19 | align=left | align=left | 5.140 | ||||
| 20 | align=left | align=left | 5.120 | ||||
| 20 | align=left | align=left | 5.120 | ||||
| 22 | align=left | align=left | 5.060 | ||||
| 23 | align=left | align=left | 5.005 | ||||
| 24 | align=left | align=left | 4.950 | ||||
| 25 | align=left | align=left | 4.505 | ||||
| align=left | align=left |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Distance | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olga Gyarmati | 5.695 | OR | |||
| 5.600 | |||||
| 5.575 | |||||
| 4 | 5.570 | ||||
| 5 | 5.545 | ||||
| 6 | 5.495 | ||||
| 7 | 5.380 | ||||
| 8 | 5.350 | ||||
| 9 | 5.240 | ||||
| 10 | 5.195 | ||||
| 11 | 5.145 | ||||
| 12 | 4.845 |
Key: OR = Olympic record