European Athletics Championships 1969 / Women's high jump

9th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's high jump
city	Athens
Stadion	Karaiskakis Stadium
Participants	23 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 16 (qualification) September 18 (final)
Medalists
gold	Milena Rezková ( TCH )
silver	Antonina Lasarewa ( URS )
bronze	Mária Mračnová ( TCH )

The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009

The women's high jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 16 and 18, 1969 at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .

In this competition the high jumpers from Czechoslovakia received two medals, gold and bronze. European champion was the 1968 Olympic champion Milena Rezková . She won ahead of Antonina Lasarewa from the Soviet Union. Bronze went to Mária Mračnová.

Records

Existing records

World record	1.91 m	Iolanda Balaș	Sofia , Bulgaria	June 16, 1961
European record
Championship record	1.83 m		EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 14, 1962

Record settings

The existing European Championship record of 1.83 m was set by four athletes in the finals of these European championships on September 18:

•  Milena Rezková
•  Antonina Lazareva
• Mária Mračnová
• Rita Schmidt

qualification

16th September 1969

23 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.74 m. Thirteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and entered the final two days later.

For some athletes it is known which qualification group they belonged to, for others it is not. Therefore the table below shows a general overview of the results from both groups.

space	Surname	nation	group	Height (m)
1	Rita Schmidt	GDR	A.	1.74
	Snežana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia	A.	1.74
	Barbara Inkpen	Great Britain	A.	1.74
	Dorothy Shirley	Great Britain	A.	1.74 PB
	Nina Bryntsewa	Soviet Union	A.	1.74 PB
	Antonina Lazareva	Soviet Union	A.	1.74
	Ilona Gusenbauer	Austria	B.	1.74
	Milena Rezková	Czechoslovakia	B.	1.74
	Ghislaine Barnay	France	B.	1.74 PB
	Jaroslava Valentová	Czechoslovakia	B.	1.74 SB
	Karin Schulze	GDR	A.	1.74
	Mária Mračnová	Czechoslovakia	A.	1.74
	Jordanka Blagoewa	Bulgaria	A.	1.74 SB
14th	Danuta Berezowska	Poland	k. A.	1.71 PB
15th	Magdolna Csábi	Hungary	k. A.	1.71 SB
16	Danuta Konowska	Poland	k. A.	1.71 SB
17th	Walentyna Kosyr	Soviet Union	B.	1.71 SB
18th	Nicole Denis	France	B.	1.71 PB
19th	Virginia Ioan	Romania	k. A.	1.71 SB
20th	Kari Karlsen	Sweden	k. A.	1.68 SB
21st	Anne Lise Wærness	Norway	k. A.	1.68 PB
22nd	Moira Walls	Great Britain	k. A.	1.65 SB
23	Beatrice calculator	Switzerland	B.	1.65 PB

final

Rita Schmidt, who was fifth in the Olympics in 1968 and later known as Rita Kirst, was fourth

September 18, 1969, 5:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Milena Rezková	Czechoslovakia	1.83 CRe
2	Antonina Lazareva	Soviet Union	1.83 CRe
3	Mária Mračnová	Czechoslovakia	1.83 CRe
4th	Rita Schmidt	GDR	1.83 CRe
5	Karin Schulze	GDR	1.77 PB
6th	Snežana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia	1.77 SB
7th	Ilona Gusenbauer	Austria	1.77 SB
8th	Barbara Inkpen	Great Britain	1.77 SB
9	Ghislaine Barnay	France	1.74 PBe
10	Jaroslava Valentová	Czechoslovakia	1.74 SBe
11	Dorothy Shirley	Great Britain	1.74 PBe
12	Nina Bryntsewa	Soviet Union	1.71
13	Jordanka Blagoewa	Bulgaria	1.68

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  Karin Schulze reached fifth place

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  The Olympic eighth of 1968 Ilona Gusenbauser came in seventh place - in 1971 she was European champion and world record holder, in 1972 there was the Olympic bronze medal

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  Tenth place for Jaroslava Valentová

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  The European eighth of 1966 Dorothy Shirley finished eleventh in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 15, 2019
• Women High Jump European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 15, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 15, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women High Jump European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 410 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 15, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on June 15, 2019
• 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 15, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed June 15, 2019