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Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		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
30 km 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 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 10 and 11 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sue Reeve  England	Erica Hooker  Australia	June Griffith  Guyana

Results

Qualification

Held on 10 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Erica Hooker	Australia	6.16	q
	Lynette Jacenko	Australia	6.16	q
13	Jennifer Swanston	Barbados	5.52
	Charity Muhuhe	Kenya	DNS
	Hannah Bantamoi	Sierra Leone	DNS

Final

Held on 11 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Sue Reeve	England	6.59
	Erica Hooker	Australia	6.58
	June Griffith	Guyana	6.52
4	Susan Hearnshaw	England	6.40
5	Shonel Ferguson	Bahamas	6.24
6	Jeanette Yawson	Ghana	6.19
7	Ruth Howell	Wales	6.17
8	Lynette Jacenko	Australia	6.14
9	Jill Ross	Canada	6.07
10	Diane Jones-Konihowski	Canada	6.05
11	Noeline Hodgins	New Zealand	5.86
12	Esther Otieno	Kenya	5.84

References

1. "Results". Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2018-02-25.

• Final results (The Canberra Times)
• Australian results

• Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
• Long jump at the Commonwealth Games
• Women's sports in Edmonton