Athletics at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Women's long jump

Women's long jump at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Venue	Perry Lakes Stadium
Date	1 December 1962 (1962-12-01)
Competitors	10 from 6 nations
Winning distance	20 ft 6+3⁄4 in (6.27 m)
Medalists
Pam Kilborn    Australia   Helen Frith    Australia   Janet Knee    Australia
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Athletics at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 yd	men	women
220 yd	men	women
440 yd	men
880 yd	men	women
1 mile	men
3 miles	men
6 miles	men
80 m hurdles		women
120 yd hurdles	men
440 yd hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 110 yd relay	men	women
4 × 440 yd relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
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The women's long jump at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme was held at the Perry Lakes Stadium on Saturday 1 December 1962.

The event was won by 23-year-old Australian Pam Kilborn with a jump of 20 ft 6+3⁄4 in (6.27 m). Kilborn won by one inch ahead of her fellow countrywomen Helen Frith, her training partner and Janet Knee. Bickle's jump was well ahead of the games record set by Yvette Williams of New Zealand set in Vancouver eight years prior but due to the tailwind could not be ratified.^[1]

This was one five events at the 1962 Games where Australia won the clean sweep of medals. The others were the women's high jump, the men's 440 yard freestyle, men's 1650 yard freestyle and the men's 220 yard butterfly.

World record	Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS)	21 ft 3 in (6.48 m)	Moscow, Soviet Union	16 July 1961
Commonwealth record
Games record	Yvette Williams (NZL)	19 ft 11+1⁄2 in (6.08 m)	Vancouver, Canada	7 August 1954	[2]

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Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Pam Kilborn	Australia	20 ft 6+3⁄4 in (6.27 m)
	Helen Frith	Australia	20 ft 5+3⁄4 in (6.24 m)
	Janet Knee	Australia	20 ft 1+1⁄4 in (6.13 m)
4	Eva Kampe	Australia	19 ft 3+3⁄4 in (5.89 m)
5	Sheila Sherwood	England	19 ft 3+1⁄4 in (5.87 m)
6	Thelma Hopkins	Northern Ireland	18 ft 9+1⁄4 in (5.72 m)
7	Pat Nutting	England	18 ft 4 in (5.59 m)
8	Janette Neil	Scotland	17 ft 10 in (5.44 m)
9	Christiana Boateng	Ghana	17 ft 1+1⁄4 in (5.21 m)
10	Dorothy Yates	Jamaica	16 ft 4+1⁄2 in (4.99 m)