Athletics at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Men's long jump

Athletics at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 yd	men	women
220 yd	men	women
440 yd	men
880 yd	men
1 mile	men
3 miles	men
6 miles	men
80 m hurdles		women
120 yd hurdles	men
440 yd hurdles	men
4 × 110 yd relay	men	women
4 × 440 yd relay	men
Road events
Marathon	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
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The men's long jump event at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was held on 22 July at the Cardiff Arms Park in Cardiff, Wales.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Paul Foreman  Jamaica	Jamaica	Muhammad Ramzan Ali  Pakistan

Results[]

Qualification[]

Qualifying distance: 23 ft (7.01 m)

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
?	Ian Tomlinson	Australia	23 ft 7+3⁄4 in (7.21 m)	Q[2]
17	Gabuh Piging	North Borneo	22 ft 11+1⁄2 in (7.00 m)
18		Australia	22 ft 9+1⁄4 in (6.94 m)
19	Maurice Rich	Australia	22 ft 9 in (6.93 m)
20		Northern Ireland	22 ft 7+1⁄2 in (6.90 m)
21		Northern Ireland	22 ft 0+1⁄2 in (6.72 m)
22		Sierra Leone	21 ft 11+3⁄4 in (6.70 m)
23		Wales	21 ft 8+1⁄2 in (6.62 m)
24	Dennis Cakebread	England	21 ft 6 in (6.55 m)
25	Hector Hogan	Australia	21 ft 5 in (6.53 m)
26		Trinidad and Tobago	21 ft 3 in (6.48 m)
27	J. Agbo	Ghana	21 ft 2 in (6.45 m)
28		Sarawak	21 ft 0+3⁄4 in (6.42 m)
29		Ceylon	20 ft 7 in (6.27 m)
30		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	19 ft 5+1⁄2 in (5.93 m)
		Scotland	NM
	Mohinder Singh	India	DNS
	T. E. Patel	Mauritius	DNS
		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	DNS
	Joe Goddard	Trinidad and Tobago	DNS

Final[]

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Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Paul Foreman	Jamaica	24 ft 6+1⁄4 in (7.47 m)
		Jamaica	24 ft 6+1⁄4 in (7.47 m)
	Muhammad Ramzan Ali	Pakistan	24 ft 0+1⁄2 in (7.33 m)
4	Ian Tomlinson	Australia	23 ft 11+1⁄2 in (7.30 m)
5	Roy Cruttenden	England	23 ft 10+1⁄2 in (7.28 m)
6	Roy Williams	New Zealand	23 ft 10 in (7.26 m)
7		Canada	23 ft 5+3⁄4 in (7.16 m)
8	Dave Norris	New Zealand	23 ft 5+1⁄2 in (7.15 m)
9	Keith Parker	England	23 ft 3+1⁄4 in (7.09 m)
10		Nigeria	23 ft 2+3⁄4 in (7.08 m)
11	Ken Wilmshurst	England	23 ft 2+1⁄2 in (7.07 m)
12	Ram Mehar	India	23 ft 1 in (7.04 m)
13	Lawrence Ogwang	Uganda	22 ft 10+3⁄4 in (6.98 m)
14	Karim Olowu	Nigeria	22 ft 10+1⁄2 in (6.97 m)
15	Desmond Luke	Sierra Leone	22 ft 10+1⁄4 in (6.97 m)
16		Wales	21 ft 3 in (6.48 m)

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