Valentina Mikhaylovna Lituyeva (Russian: Валентина Михайловна Литуева; 11 February 1930 – 4 April 2008)[1] was a Soviet track and field athlete who competed in the long jump.

[3] Fellow Soviet athlete Aleksandra Chudina topped the world rankings that year,[4] but in her absence at the 1950 European Athletics Championships Lituyeva won the long jump easily, nearly twenty centimetres ahead of the runner-up Wilhelmina Lust of the Netherlands.

[5] Lituyeva missed the 1951 season but returned for the 1952 Summer Olympics and managed to place eleventh in the final.

She won a bronze medal and the level of competition was high, with Galina Vinogradova taking the title with one of the best jumps that year.

She remained at a high standard until her last season in 1959, jumping beyond six metres each year and setting a career best of 6.10 m (20 ft 0 in) in Moscow in 1958.