Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games – Men's long jump

Athletics at the 1970 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
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 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]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lynn Davies  Wales	Phil May  Australia	Alan Lerwill  England

Results[]

Qualification[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
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		Scotland	7.14	q
10		Wales	7.09	q
11	Abraham Munabi	Uganda	7.07	q
12		Scotland	7.05	q
13		Antigua and Barbuda	7.04
14		Gambia	7.02
15		Tanzania	6.93
16		Malawi	6.92
17		Bahamas	6.88
18	Calvin Greenaway	Antigua and Barbuda	6.84
19		Antigua and Barbuda	6.61
20		Uganda	6.57
21		Sierra Leone	6.53
22		Bahamas	6.50
23	Jerry Wisdom	Bahamas	6.41
	Rick Cuttell	Canada	DNS
		Grenada	DNS
	Labh Singh	India	DNS
	Mohinder Singh Gill	India	DNS
		Tanzania	DNS

Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Lynn Davies	Wales	8.06
	Phil May	Australia	7.94	[a]
	Alan Lerwill	England	7.94	[b]
4	Michael Ahey	Ghana	7.78
5	Dave Norris	New Zealand	7.64
6		Scotland	7.51
7	Geoff Hignett	England	7.49
8		Scotland	7.37
9	George Ogan	Nigeria	7.15
10		Wales	7.14
11	Patrick Onyango Sumba	Kenya	7.10
12	Abraham Munabi	Uganda	7.05

References[]

• Qualification results (p11)
• Final results (p9)
• Australian results