Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games – Women's long jump

Women's long jump at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Venue	Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh
Dates	25 July 1970
Medalists
Sheila Sherwood    England   Ann Wilson    England   Joan Hendry    Canada
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Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 mile walk	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
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's long jump event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 25 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland.^[1]

Final result

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	Sheila Sherwood	England	6.73	GR
	Ann Wilson	England	6.50
	Joan Hendry	Canada	6.28
4	Louise Stevenson	Scotland	6.23
5	Moira Walls	Scotland	6.20
6	Brenda Eisler	Canada	6.11
7	Barbara-Anne Barrett	England	6.11
8	Jean Jamieson	Scotland	6.02
9	Ruth Howell	Wales	6.00
10	Pamela Hendren	New Zealand	5.72
11	Alice Annum	Ghana	5.55
12	Emille Edet	Nigeria	5.11
13	Henrietta Carew	Sierra Leone	4.41
	Zetha Cofie	Ghana	NM
	Princess Small	Gambia	DNS
	Yvonne Saunders	Jamaica	DNS