1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	40 athletes from 22 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	September 3, 1972 (qualification) September 4, 1972 (final)
Medalists Ulrike Meyfarth ( FRG )   Jordanka Blagoewa ( BUL )   Ilona Gusenbauer ( AUT )

The women's high jump at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 3rd and 4th, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 40 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Ulrike Meyfarth from the Federal Republic of Germany. The silver medal went to the Bulgarian Jordanka Blagoewa , the bronze went to the Austrian Ilona Gusenbauer .

In addition to the Olympic champion, Renate Gärtner and Ellen Mundinger , both of whom made it to the finals, also started for the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany . Mundinger came tenth, Gärtner took 14th place.
The GDR was represented by Rita Gildemeister , Rita Schmidt and Rosemarie Witschas . All three athletes reached the final. Schmidt was fifth, Witschas seventh and Gildemeister twelfth.
For Switzerland, Beatrixrechner and Doris Bisang started, both of whom failed in the qualification.
Jumpers from Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	1.92 m	Ilona Gusenbauer ( Austria )	Vienna , Austria	4th September 1971
Olympic record	1.90 m	Iolanda Balaș ( Romania )	Tokyo finals , Japan	October 15, 1964

Conducting the competition

The jumpers competed in two groups for a qualifying round on September 3rd. The qualifying height for the direct entry into the final, which took place on September 4th, was 1.76 m. Since more than twelve athletes jumped this height, the final field was not filled any further.

Time schedule

September 3, 10 a.m .: Qualification
September 4, 3 p.m .: Final

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the subsequent athletes in light green.

qualification

Date: September 3, 1972, from 10 a.m.

Group A

place	Surname	nation	1.60 m	1.65 m	1.70 m	1.73 m	1.76 m	height	annotation
1	Jordanka Blagoeva	Bulgaria	-	-	O	O	O	1.76 m
	Rita Gildemeister	GDR
	Ilona Gusenbauer	Austria
	Rita Schmidt	GDR
5	Ria Ahlers	Netherlands	-	O	O	O	O	1.76 m
	Renate Gardener	BR Germany
	Ulrike Meyfarth	BR Germany
	Ellen Mundinger	BR Germany
	Cornelia Popescu	Romania
	Audrey Reid	Jamaica
	Rosemarie Witschas	GDR
12th	Snežana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia	O	O	xxo	xxo	O	1.76 m
13th	Solveig Langkilde	Denmark	-	-	O	O	x o	1.76 m
14th	Erika Rudolf	Hungary	-	O	O	O	x o	1.76 m
15th	Alena Prosková	Czechoslovakia	O	O	O	O	x o	1.76 m
16	Milena Hübnerová	Czechoslovakia	O	xo	O	O	x o	1.76 m
	Milada Karbanová	Czechoslovakia	O	O	xo	O	x o
18th	Barbara Inkpen	Great Britain	O	O	xxo	O	x o	1.76 m
19th	Magdolna Komka	Hungary	-	O	O	O	xx o	1.76 m
20th	Breda Babošek	Yugoslavia	-	O	xo	O	xxx	1.73 m
21	Marima Rodríguez	Cuba	-	-	xxo	O	xxx	1.73 m
22nd	Antonina Lazareva	Soviet Union	-	O	O	x o	xxx	1.73 m
DNS	Galina Filatova	Soviet Union
	Margit Papp	Hungary

Group B

place	Surname	nation	1.60 m	1.65 m	1.70 m	1.73 m	1.76 m	height	annotation
1	Grith Ejstrup	Norway	-	-	O	O	O	1.76 m
2	Debbie Brill	Canada	-	O	O	O	O	1.76 m
	Sara Simeoni	Italy
4th	Andrea Bruce	Jamaica	-	O	O	O	x o	1.76 m
5	Rosaline Few	Great Britain	O	O	O	x o	xxx	1.73 m
6th	Beatrix calculator	Switzerland	-	xo	xo	x o	xxx	1.73 m
7th	Louise Hannah	Canada	O	O	O	xx o	xxx	1.73 m
8th	Penelope Dimmock	Great Britain	O	O	O	xxx		1.70 m
	Deanne Wilson	United States
10	Cindy Gilbert	United States	xo	O	xx o	xxx		1.70 m
11	Doris Bisang	Switzerland	O	O	xxx			1.65 m
	Michiyo Inaoka	Japan
13th	Roxana Vulescu	Romania	O	x o	xxx			1.65 m
	Mihoko Yama	Japan
15th	Lára Sveinsdóttir	Iceland	O	xxx				1.60 m
16	Sandi Goldsberry	United States	x o	xxx				1.60 m
ogV	Nnenna Njoku	Nigeria	xxx						without height
	Wu Yu-chih	Taiwan
DNS	Kari Karlsen	Norway
	María Luisa Vilca	Peru
	Ng Mei Chai	Malaysia

final

Date: September 4, 1972, 3 p.m.

The final was contested by 23 athletes. The favorites were the Austrian world record holder and European champion from 1971 Ilona Gusenbauer, who jumped in the straddle technique , the Bulgarian Jordanka Blagoewa with a convincing Olympic season up to then and the British European Championship third from 1971 Barbara Inkpen.

The height of 1.85 m was mastered by seven jumpers, who now approached the next height. These were the only 16-year-old Ulrike Meyfarth, who had improved her personal best to 1.85 m shortly before the games in Munich , the three favorites Gusenbauer, Blagoewa and Inkpen, Sara Simeoni from Italy and the two GDR jumpers Rita Schmidt - later Rita Kirst - and Rosemarie Witschas - later Rosemarie Ackermann. At the next height of 1.88 m, four participants dropped out. Only Gusenbauer, Blagoewa and Meyfarth made it through, Blagoewa and Meyfarth in the first attempt, Gusenbauer in the second attempt. Meyfarth crossed 1.90 m in the second attempt, while Blagoewa and Gusenbauer failed. With 1.92 m, she even set Gusenbauer's world record in the first jump. The medals were distributed, completely unexpectedly Ulrike Meyfarth became Olympic champion, the silver medal went to Jordanka Blagoewa and the bronze went to Ilona Gusenbauer.

Ulrike Meyfarth became the youngest athlete to win a medal in an individual discipline. At the same time she was the first German - here German - Olympic champion in this discipline.

Jordanka Blagoewa and Ilona Gusenbauer won the first medals for their countries in the women's high jump .

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  Rita Schmidt, later Rita Kirst, from the GDR was fifth in the Olympics

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  GDR jumper Rosemarie Witschas, later world record holder and Olympic champion in 1976 under her name Rosemarie Ackermann, came in seventh here

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  The Canadian Deborah Brill came in eighth

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  Ria Ahlers from the Netherlands was 16.

place	Surname	nation	1.60 m	1.66 m	1.71 m	1.76 m	1.79 m	1.82 m	1.85 m	1.88 m	1.90 m	1.92 m	1.94 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Ulrike Meyfarth	BR Germany	-	-	O	O	O	O	O	O	xo	O	xxx	1.92 m	WRe / OR
2	Jordanka Blagoeva	Bulgaria	-	-	O	O	O	O	O	O	xxx			1.88 m
3	Ilona Gusenbauer	Austria	-	-	xo	xo	O	O	xxo	x o	xxx			1.88 m
4th	Barbara Inkpen	Great Britain	-	O	O	O	O	O	O	xxx				1.85 m
5	Rita Schmidt	GDR	-	-	O	O	O	O	x o	xxx				1.85 m
6th	Sara Simeoni	Italy	-	-	O	O	O	xo	x o	xxx				1.85 m
7th	Rosemarie Witschas	GDR	-	O	O	O	O	O	xx o	xxx				1.85 m
8th	Debbie Brill	Canada	-	-	O	O	O	O	xxx					1.82 m
9	Andrea Bruce	Jamaica	-	O	O	O	O	O	xxx					1.82 m
10	Ellen Mundinger	BR Germany	-	-	O	O	xo	O	xxx					1.82 m
11	Audrey Reid	Jamaica	-	-	O	xo	xo	O	xxx					1.82 m
12th	Grith Ejstrup	Denmark	-	-	O	O	O	x o	xxx					1.82 m
	Rita Gildemeister	GDR
14th	Renate Gardener	BR Germany	-	-	O	O	O	xx o	xxx					1.82 m
15th	Milena Hübnerová	Czechoslovakia	-	O	O	xo	O	xx o	xxx					1.82 m
16	Ria Ahlers	Netherlands	-	O	O	O	O	xxx						1.79 m
	Erika Rudolf	Hungary
18th	Alena Prosková	Czechoslovakia	-	-	xo	O	O	xxx						1.79 m
19th	Cornelia Popescu	Romania	-	O	O	O	xxx							1.76 m
20th	Snežana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia	O	O	O	O	xxx							1.76 m
21	Solveig Langkilde	Denmark	-	-	-	xx o	xxx							1.76 m
22nd	Milada Karbanová	Czechoslovakia	-	O	xo	xx o	xxx							1.76 m
23	Magdolna Komka	Hungary	-	-	O	xxx								1.71 m

literature

• Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , pp. 57-60

Videos

• Ulrike Meyfarth , Munich 1972, published on November 7, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on December 7, 2017
• Ulrike Meyfarth - atletismo , Munich 1972, published on September 22, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed on December 7, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed December 7, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 71, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 7, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 644 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 7, 2017
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 7, 2017 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 71, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 7, 2017 
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 7, 2017