European Athletics Championships 1958 / Women's high jump

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's high jump
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	11 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	August 21
Medalists
gold	Iolanda Balaș ( ROM )
silver	Taissija Tschentschik ( URS )
bronze	Dorothy Shirley ( GBR )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The women's high jump at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 21, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

European champion was the Romanian Iolanda Balaș , who began to dominate for a decade with her first success at an international championship. She won before Taissija Tschentschik from the USSR. The British Dorothy Shirley won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	1.81 m	Iolanda Balaș	Poiana Brașov , Romania	July 31, 1958
European record
Championship record	1.67 m	Thelma Hopkins	EM Bern , Switzerland	August 28, 1954

Record improvement

European champion Iolanda Balaș improved the EM record in the final on August 21 by ten centimeters to 1.77 m.  

execution

With only eleven participants, a qualification was not necessary. So all athletes entered the final together.

final

Using her own shear technique, which was actually out of date, especially in later years of her career, Iolanda Balaș won her first major title here

August 21, 1958, 3:20 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Iolanda Balaș	Romania	1.77 CR
2	Taissija Tschentschik	Soviet Union	1.70 SB
3	Dorothy Shirley	Great Britain	1.67 SB
4th	Inge Kilian	Germany	1.67 PB
5	Galina Dolja	Soviet Union	1.64 SB
6th	Maj-Lena Lundström	Sweden	1.61 PB
7th	Reinelde Knapp	Austria	1.61 PB
8th	Olga Gere	Yugoslavia	1.61 SB
9	Inga Söderlind	Sweden	1.61 PB
10	Anka Abajieva	Bulgaria	1.58 PB
11	Margareta Samuelsson	Sweden	1.58 PB

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  Vice European Champion Taissija Tschentschik

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  Bronze medalist Dorothy Shirley - here in a tracksuit at the 1960 Olympic Games

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  Maj-Lena Lundström finished sixth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 at european-athletics.org, accessed May 4, 2019
• Women High Jump European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed May 4, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 4, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 4, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on May 4, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed May 4, 2019