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Times held	19
Total participants	447
Total countries	106

Participants

Year	Event	Status	Participants	NOCs
1948	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	26	17
1952	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	34	22
1956	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	19	11
1960	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	30	18
1964	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	31	20
1968	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	27	19
1972	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	33	19
1976	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	30	19
1980	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	19	11
1984	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	23	17
1988	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	30	20
1992	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	35	23
1996	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	48	35
2000	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	39	25
2004	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	39	28
2008	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	42	33
2012	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	30	22
2016	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	38	26
2020	Long Jump, Women	Olympic	30	23

Medal winners

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1948	Olga Gyarmati	HUN	Noemí Simonetto de Portela	ARG	Ann-Britt Leyman	SWE
1952	Yvette Williams	NZL	Aleksandra Chudina	URS	Shirley Cawley	GBR
1956	Elżbieta Krzesińska	POL	Willye White	USA	Nadezhda Dvalishvili	URS
1960	Vera Krepkina	URS	Elżbieta Krzesińska	POL	Hildrun Claus	GER
1964	Mary Rand	GBR	Irena Kirszenstein	POL	Tatyana Shchelkanova	URS
1968	Viorica Viscopoleanu	ROU	Sheila Sherwood	GBR	Tatyana Talysheva	URS
1972	Heide Rosendahl	FRG	Diana Yorgova	BUL	Eva Šuranová	TCH
1976	Angela Voigt	GDR	Kathy McMillan	USA	Lidiya Alfeyeva	URS
1980	Tatyana Kolpakova	URS	Brigitte Wujak	GDR	Tatyana Skachko	URS
1984	Anișoara Stanciu-Cușmir	ROU	Valy Ionescu	ROU	Sue Hearnshaw	GBR
1988	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	USA	Heike Drechsler	GDR	Halyna Chystiakova	URS
1992	Heike Drechsler	GER	Inesa Kravets	EUN	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	USA
1996	Chioma Ajunwa	NGR	Fiona May	ITA	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	USA
2000	Heike Drechsler	GER	Fiona May	ITA	Tatyana Kotova	RUS
2004	Tatyana Lebedeva	RUS	Irina Simagina	RUS	Tatyana Kotova	RUS
2008	Maurren Maggi	BRA	Blessing Okagbare	NGR	Chelsea Hammond	JAM
2012	Brittney Reese	USA	Yelena Sokolova	RUS	Janay DeLoach	USA
2016	Tianna Bartoletta	USA	Brittney Reese	USA	Ivana Španović	SRB
2020	Malaika Mihambo	GER	Brittney Reese	USA	Ese Brume	NGR

Medals by country

NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
United States	USA	3	4	3	10
Germany	GER	3	0	1	4
Soviet Union	URS	2	1	6	9
Romania	ROU	2	1	0	3
Russian Federation	RUS	1	2	2	5
East Germany	GDR	1	2	0	3
Poland	POL	1	2	0	3
Great Britain	GBR	1	1	2	4
Nigeria	NGR	1	1	1	3
Brazil	BRA	1	0	0	1
Hungary	HUN	1	0	0	1
New Zealand	NZL	1	0	0	1
West Germany	FRG	1	0	0	1
Italy	ITA	0	2	0	2
Argentina	ARG	0	1	0	1
Bulgaria	BUL	0	1	0	1
Unified Team	EUN	0	1	0	1
Czechoslovakia	TCH	0	0	1	1
Jamaica	JAM	0	0	1	1
Serbia	SRB	0	0	1	1
Sweden	SWE	0	0	1	1

Top medallists

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Heike Drechsler	GDR GER	2	1	0	3
Brittney Reese	USA	1	2	0	3
Elżbieta Duńska-Krzesińska	POL	1	1	0	2
Jackie Joyner-Kersee	USA	1	0	2	3
Mary Bignal-Rand	GBR	1	0	0	1
Angela Voigt	GDR	1	0	0	1
Heide Rosendahl	FRG	1	0	0	1
Olga Gyarmati	HUN	1	0	0	1
Chioma Ajunwa	NGR	1	0	0	1
Yvette Williams	NZL	1	0	0	1
Anișoara Stanciu-Cușmir	ROU	1	0	0	1
Viorica Viscopoleanu	ROU	1	0	0	1
Vera Kalashnikova-Krepkina	URS UKR	1	0	0	1
Tatyana Kolpakova	KGZ URS	1	0	0	1
Maurren Maggi	BRA	1	0	0	1
Tatyana Lebedeva	RUS	1	0	0	1
Tianna Madison-Bartoletta	USA	1	0	0	1
Malaika Mihambo	GER	1	0	0	1