Men's long jump at the Commonwealth Games |
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Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games | ||
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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 |
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Road events | ||
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High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | |
Long jump | men | women |
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Shot put | men | women |
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Pentathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
The men's long jump event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 21 and 22 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland. [1]
Gold | Silver | Bronze |
Lynn Davies Wales | Phil May Australia | Alan Lerwill England |
Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
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1 | Phil May | Australia | 8.03w | q |
2 | Alan Lerwill | England | 7.78 | q |
3 | Geoff Hignett | England | 7.56 | q |
4 | Michael Ahey | Ghana | 7.54 | q |
5 | Lynn Davies | Wales | 7.45 | q |
6 | Dave Norris | New Zealand | 7.43 | q |
7 | George Ogan | Nigeria | 7.41 | q |
8 | Patrick Onyango Sumba | Kenya | 7.21 | q |
9 | Hamish Robertson | Scotland | 7.14 | q |
10 | Gwyn Williams | Wales | 7.09 | q |
11 | Abraham Munabi | Uganda | 7.07 | q |
12 | David Walker | Scotland | 7.05 | q |
13 | Granville Buckley | Antigua and Barbuda | 7.04 | |
14 | Sheikh Faye | Gambia | 7.02 | |
15 | Raphael Mlewa | Tanzania | 6.93 | |
16 | Peter Ndovi | Malawi | 6.92 | |
17 | Obed Gardiner | Bahamas | 6.88 | |
18 | Calvin Greenaway | Antigua and Barbuda | 6.84 | |
19 | Reynold Edwards | Antigua and Barbuda | 6.61 | |
20 | Jack Buga | Uganda | 6.57 | |
21 | Orlando Williams | Sierra Leone | 6.53 | |
22 | Don Miller | Bahamas | 6.50 | |
23 | Jerry Wisdom | Bahamas | 6.41 | |
Rick Cuttell | Canada | DNS | ||
Raymond Anthony | Grenada | DNS | ||
Labh Singh | India | DNS | ||
Mohinder Singh Gill | India | DNS | ||
John Kanondo | Tanzania | DNS |
Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
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Lynn Davies | Wales | 8.06 | ||
Phil May | Australia | 7.94 | [lower-alpha 1] | |
Alan Lerwill | England | 7.94 | [lower-alpha 2] | |
4 | Michael Ahey | Ghana | 7.78 | |
5 | Dave Norris | New Zealand | 7.64 | |
6 | David Walker | Scotland | 7.51 | |
7 | Geoff Hignett | England | 7.49 | |
8 | Hamish Robertson | Scotland | 7.37 | |
9 | George Ogan | Nigeria | 7.15 | |
10 | Gwyn Williams | Wales | 7.14 | |
11 | Patrick Onyango Sumba | Kenya | 7.10 | |
12 | Abraham Munabi | Uganda | 7.05 |
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