European Athletics Championships 1958 / Women's high jump
6th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Women's high jump |
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Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
Participants | 11 athletes from 9 countries |
Competition phase | August 21 |
Medalists | |
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Iolanda Balaș ( ROM )
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Taissija Tschentschik ( URS )
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Dorothy Shirley ( GBR )
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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 |
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Poiana Brașov , Romania | July 31, 1958 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 1.67 m |
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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
August 21, 1958, 3:20 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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1 | Iolanda Balaș |
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1.77 CR |
2 | Taissija Tschentschik |
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1.70 SB |
3 | Dorothy Shirley |
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1.67 SB |
4th | Inge Kilian |
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1.67 PB |
5 | Galina Dolja |
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1.64 SB |
6th | Maj-Lena Lundström |
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1.61 PB |
7th | Reinelde Knapp |
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1.61 PB |
8th | Olga Gere |
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1.61 SB |
9 | Inga Söderlind |
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1.61 PB |
10 | Anka Abajieva |
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1.58 PB |
11 | Margareta Samuelsson |
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1.58 PB |
Bronze medalist Dorothy Shirley - here in a tracksuit at the 1960 Olympic Games
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
- ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed May 4, 2019