European Athletics Championships 1950 / women's high jump

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's high jump
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Participants	10 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	26th of August
Medalists
gold	Sheila Alexander ( GBR )
silver	Dorothy Tyler ( GBR )
bronze	Galina Ganeker ( URS )

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The women's high jump at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held on August 26, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

There was a double British victory in this competition. Sheila Alexander became European champion . She won before the Olympic runner-up in 1936 - then under her name Dorothy Odam - and in 1948 Dorothy Tyler . Bronze went to Galina Ganeker from the Soviet Union.

Existing records

World record	1.71 m	Fanny Blankers-Koen	Amsterdam , Netherlands	May 30, 1943
European record
EM record	1.64 m	Ibolya Csák	EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 18, 1938
		Nelly van Balen-Blanken
		Feodora to Solms

The EM record that has existed since the first European Championships for women remained unchanged at these European Championships.

final

August 26, 1950

The ten participants went to the final together

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Sheila Alexander	Great Britain	1.63 SB
2	Dorothy Tyler	Great Britain	1.63 SB
3	Galina Ganeker	Soviet Union	1.63 PB
4th	Anne Knudsen	Denmark	1.60 PB
5	Bertha Crowther	Great Britain	1.55
6th	Anne-Marie Colchen	France	1.50 SB
7th	Simone Peironne	France	1.50 SB
8th	Berta Sablatnig	Italy	1.45 SB
9	Jozefa Dierick	Belgium	1.40 PB
	Anita Roussel	France	1.40 PB

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  Dorothy Tyler ( right ) after her silver medal at the Olympic Games 1936 together with Elfriede Kaun ( left ) and Olympic champion Ibolya Csák

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  Defending champion Anne-Marie Colchen reached sixth place this time with a height ten centimeters lower than four years ago

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on April 1, 2019
• Women High Jump European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed April 1, 2019
• IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 1, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on April 1, 2019
• 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on April 1, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed April 1, 2019