Medal count by country in the Women's Long Jump at the Summer Olympics 1948-2020

The Women's Long Jump has been a regular event at the Summer Olympics since its introduction in 1948. Since then, athletes representing the United States and Germany have won the most gold medals, each with three in total, while athletes representing the Soviet Union have won the most medals overall, with a total of ten. When the totals of athletes representing Germany, East Germany and West Germany are combined, then German athletes have won the most gold medals, with six in total, and when Russia and the Soviet Union's total medals are combined then they total at fifteen. Heike Drechsler is the most successful athlete in this competition, winning two gold medals for Germany in 1992 and 2000, to go with the silver medal she won for East Germany in 1988. Two athletes have been stripped of medals won in this event, these were the U.S.' Marion Jones, who was stripped of the bronze medal she won in 2000 (along with four other medals), and Russia's Tatyana Lebedeva, who was stripped of the silver medal she won in 2008 (although her gold medal in the 2004 event remains unaffected).