European Athletics Championships 1974 / Women's high jump
11th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Women's high jump |
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Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
Participants | 20 athletes from 13 countries |
Competition phase | September 6th (qualification) September 8th (final) |
Medalists | |
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Rosemarie Witschas ( GDR )
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Milada Karbanová ( TCH )
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Sara Simeoni ( ITA )
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The women's high jump at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 6th and 8th, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .
The European champion was the GDR athlete Rosemarie Witschas , better known by her later name Rosemarie Ackermann. With her victory she set a new world record. Second place went to the Czechoslovak Milada Karbanová . Bronze went to the Italian Sara Simeoni .
Records
Existing records
World record | 1.94 m |
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Zagreb , Yugoslavia (now Croatia ) | September 24, 1972 |
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East Berlin (now Berlin ), GDR (now Germany ) | August 24, 1974 | ||
European record |
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Zagreb , Yugoslavia (now Croatia ) | September 24, 1972 | |
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East Berlin (now Berlin ), GDR (now Germany ) | August 24, 1974 | ||
EM record | 1.87 m |
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EM Helsinki , Finland | August 12, 1971 |
Record improvement
European champion Rosemarie Witschas improved the existing championship record in the final on September 8th by eight centimeters to 1.95 m.
With that she also set a new world record.
qualification
September 6, 1974, 9:00 a.m.
Twenty participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.80 m. Fifteen athletes jumped this mark (highlighted in light blue) and contested the final two days later, only five high jumpers were eliminated.
space | Surname | nation | group | Height (m) |
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1 | Milena Hübnerová |
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A. | 1.80 |
Rosemarie Witschas |
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A. | 1.80 | |
Sara Simeoni |
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B. | 1.80 | |
Rita Kirst |
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B. | 1.80 | |
Virginia Ioan |
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B. | 1.80 | |
Mária Mračnová |
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B. | 1.80 | |
Galina Filatova |
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A. | 1.80 | |
Barbara Lawton |
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B. | 1.80 SB | |
Ulrike Meyfarth |
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A. | 1.80 | |
Karin Wagner |
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B. | 1.80 | |
Marie-Christine Debourse |
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B. | 1.80 | |
Milada Karbanová |
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A. | 1.80 | |
Tamara Galka |
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B. | 1.80 PB | |
Ruth Watt |
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B. | 1.80 PB | |
Annemieke Bouma |
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A. | 1.80 | |
16 | Astrid Tveit |
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k. A. | 1.78 SB |
17th | Valerie Harrison |
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1.78 PB | |
18th | Grith Ejstrup |
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1.75 SB | |
19th | Stanka Valkanova |
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1.75 PB | |
20th | Ann-Ewa Karlsson |
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1.70 |
final
September 8, 1974, 4:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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1 | Rosemarie Witschas |
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1.95 WR |
2 | Milada Karbanová |
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1.91 NO |
3 | Sara Simeoni |
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1.89 NO |
4th | Rita Kirst |
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1.89 PB |
5 | Milena Hübnerová |
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1.86 PB |
6th | Galina Filatova |
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1.86 SB |
7th | Ulrike Meyfarth |
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1.83 SB |
8th | Mária Mračnová |
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1.83 SB |
9 | Marie-Christine Debourse |
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1.83 SB |
10 | Annemieke Bouma |
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1.83 PB |
11 | Karin Wagner |
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1.83 PB |
12 | Virginia Ioan |
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1.80 |
13 | Tamara Galka |
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1.75 |
14th | Ruth Watt |
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1.70 |
Barbara Lawton |
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1.70 |
Marie Christine Debourse, in 1971 pentathlon eleven and eliminated in the high jump in the qualification, came in ninth
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 22, 2019
- European Championship 1974 Rome, Women High Jump on todor66.com, accessed July 22, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 22, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women High Jump European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 426 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 22, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 22, 2019
- 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 22, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ a b IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed July 22, 2019