Athletics at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games – Women's long jump

Athletics at the 1974 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	women
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 1974 British Commonwealth Games was held on 29 and 31 January at the Queen Elizabeth II Park in Christchurch, New Zealand.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Modupe Oshikoya  Nigeria	Brenda Eisler  Canada	Ruth Martin-Jones  Wales

Qualification

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Held on 29 January.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Lyn Tillett	Australia	6.17	[2]
	Erica Nixon	Australia	6.13	[2]
	Susan New	Australia	5.78	[2]
13	Diane Konihowski	Canada	5.73
14	Kathy Otto	New Zealand	5.65
15	Josephine Ocran	Ghana	5.56
16	Beatrice Emodi	Nigeria	5.54
17	Torika Cavuka	Fiji	4.96
18	Laisa Taga	Fiji	4.60

Final

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Held on 31 January.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Modupe Oshikoya	Nigeria	6.46
	Brenda Eisler	Canada	6.38
	Ruth Martin-Jones	Wales	6.38
4	Myra Nimmo	Scotland	6.34
5	Lyn Tillett	Australia	6.30
6	Erica Nixon	Australia	6.25
7	Sheila Sherwood	England	6.21
8	Maureen Chitty	England	6.20
9	Pamela Hendren	New Zealand	6.11
10	Susan New	Australia	5.59
11	Susan Burnside	New Zealand	5.58
12	Ann Wilson	England	5.51