European Athletics Championships 1971 / Women's high jump

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's high jump
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	33 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	August 11 (qualification) August 12 (final)
Medalists
gold	Ilona Gusenbauer ( AUT )
silver	Cornelia Popescu ( ROU )
	Barbara Inkpen ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The high jump women in the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 11 and 12 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

The Austrian Ilona Gusenbauer became the European champion . The silver medal was awarded twice in this competition, namely to the Romanian Cornelia Popescu and to the British Barbara Inkpen . There was no bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	1.91 m	Iolanda Balaș	Sofia , Bulgaria	June 16, 1961
European record
Championship record	1.83 m	Iolanda Balaș	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 14, 1962
		Milena Rezková	EM Athens , Greece	18th September 1969
		Antonina Lazareva
		Mária Mračnová
		Rita Schmidt

Record improvement

European champion Ilona Gusenbauer improved the existing EM record in the final on August 12 by four centimeters to 1.87 m.  

qualification

The pentathlon eleventh of the European Championships in 1969 Marie Christine Debourse was two centimeters short of the final

Fifteen-year-old Ulrike Meyfarth (here in 2012) could not qualify for the finals here - she became Olympic champion in 1972 and 1984 , and European champion in 1982

August 11, 11:00 a.m.

33 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.73 m. This height was crossed by 27 athletes (highlighted in light blue), who competed in the final on the following day. This number was clearly too high in view of the timing of the final, the qualification mark should have been set a little higher.

For all participants who reached the final, the qualification groups are given and listed here, the group is missing for the other high jumpers.

space	Surname	nation	group	Height (m)
1	Milena Hübnerová	Czechoslovakia	A.	1.73
	Solveig Langkilde	Denmark	A.	1.73
	Vera Gavrilova	Soviet Union	A.	1.73
	Breda Babošek	Yugoslavia	B.	1.73
	Rita Schmidt	GDR	B.	1.73
	Grith Ejstrup	Denmark	B.	1.73
	Marjan Ackermans-Thomas	Netherlands	A.	1.73
	Valentina Chulkova	Soviet Union	B.	1.73
	Barbara Inkpen	Great Britain	B.	1.73
	Danuta Konowska	Poland	B.	1.73
	Magdolna Komka	Hungary	A.	1.73
	Gloria Garrido	France	A.	1.73
	Beatrix calculator	Switzerland	A.	1.73
	Karen Mack	BR Germany	B.	1.73
	Linda Hedmark	Sweden	A.	1.73
	Annemieke Bouma	Netherlands	B.	1.73
	Renate Gardener	BR Germany	B.	1.73
	Kari Karlsen	Norway	B.	1.73
	Antonina Lazareva	Soviet Union	A.	1.73
	Milada Karbanová	Czechoslovakia	A.	1.73
	Sara Simeoni	Italy	B.	1.73
	Roswitha Emonts guest	Belgium	B.	1.73
	Ilona Gusenbauer	Austria	A.	1.73
	Snežana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia	A.	1.73
	Alena Prosková	Czechoslovakia	A.	1.73
	Cornelia Popescu	Romania	B.	1.73
	Doris Bisang	Switzerland	A.	1.73
28	Marie-Christine Debourse	France	k. A.	1.71
	Erika Rudolf	Hungary		1.71
30th	Vanja Paleka	Yugoslavia		1.68
	Ulrike Meyfarth	BR Germany		1.68
	Ruth Watt	Great Britain		1.68
33	Florence Picaut	France		1.65
	Silvia Massenz	Italy		1.65
	Isabella Pigato	Italy		1.65

final

European champion Ilona Gusenbauer - she improved the more than ten-year-old world record of the Romanian Iolanda Balaş in September 1971 by one centimeter to 1.92 m and was third in the 1972 Olympic Games

Rita Schmidt, later Rita Kirst, repeated her fourth EM rank from  1969

August 12, 1971, 5:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Ilona Gusenbauer	Austria	1.87 CR
2	Cornelia Popescu	Romania	1.85
	Barbara Inkpen	Great Britain	1.85 NO
4th	Rita Schmidt	GDR	1.83
5	Milena Hübnerová	Czechoslovakia	1.83
6th	Renate Gardener	BR Germany	1.81
7th	Milada Karbanová	Czechoslovakia	1.78
8th	Snežana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia	1.78
9	Sara Simeoni	Italy	1.78 NO
10	Karen Mack	BR Germany	1.78
11	Kari Karlsen	Norway	1.75
12	Danuta Konowska	Poland	1.77
13	Valentina Chulkova	Soviet Union	1.75
14th	Solveig Langkilde	Denmark	1.77
15th	Antonina Lazareva	Soviet Union	1.75
16	Magdolna Komka	Hungary	1.75
	Breda Babošek	Yugoslavia	1.75
18th	Grith Ejstrup	Denmark	1.70
	Alena Prosková	Czechoslovakia	1.70
	Vera Gavrilova	Soviet Union	1.70
21st	Annemieke Bouma	Netherlands	1.70
	Gloria Garrido	France	1.70
23	Linda Hedmark	Sweden	1.70
24	Beatrix calculator	Switzerland	1.70
25th	Doris Bisang	Switzerland	1.70
26th	Marjan Ackermans-Thomas	Netherlands	1.65
27	Roswitha Emonts guest	Belgium	1.65

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  Annemieke Bouma reached the shared place 21

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  Marjan Ackermans-Thomas took 26th place

Web links

• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Women High Jump on todor66.com, accessed July 5, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 5, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women High Jump European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 418 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 5, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on July 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed July 5, 2019