European Athletics Championships 1974 / Women's high jump

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's high jump
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	20 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 6th (qualification) September 8th (final)
Medalists
gold	Rosemarie Witschas ( GDR )
silver	Milada Karbanová ( TCH )
bronze	Sara Simeoni ( ITA )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

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	Jordanka Blagoewa	Zagreb , Yugoslavia (now Croatia )	September 24, 1972
		Rosemarie Witschas	East Berlin (now Berlin ), GDR (now Germany )	August 24, 1974
European record		Jordanka Blagoewa	Zagreb , Yugoslavia (now Croatia )	September 24, 1972
		Rosemarie Witschas	East Berlin (now Berlin ), GDR (now Germany )	August 24, 1974
EM record	1.87 m	Ilona Gusenbauer	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)
1	Milena Hübnerová	Czechoslovakia	A.	1.80
	Rosemarie Witschas	GDR	A.	1.80
	Sara Simeoni	Italy	B.	1.80
	Rita Kirst	GDR	B.	1.80
	Virginia Ioan	Romania	B.	1.80
	Mária Mračnová	Czechoslovakia	B.	1.80
	Galina Filatova	Soviet Union	A.	1.80
	Barbara Lawton	Great Britain	B.	1.80 SB
	Ulrike Meyfarth	BR Germany	A.	1.80
	Karin Wagner	BR Germany	B.	1.80
	Marie-Christine Debourse	France	B.	1.80
	Milada Karbanová	Czechoslovakia	A.	1.80
	Tamara Galka	Soviet Union	B.	1.80 PB
	Ruth Watt	Great Britain	B.	1.80 PB
	Annemieke Bouma	Netherlands	A.	1.80
16	Astrid Tveit	Norway	k. A.	1.78 SB
17th	Valerie Harrison	Great Britain		1.78 PB
18th	Grith Ejstrup	Denmark		1.75 SB
19th	Stanka Valkanova	Bulgaria		1.75 PB
20th	Ann-Ewa Karlsson	Sweden		1.70

final

European champion Rosemarie Witschas with her first major international success - later she set several other world records as Rosemarie Ackermann and was the first woman to master the 2-meter mark in 1977 - she became Olympic champion in 1976 and vice-European champion in 1978

September 8, 1974, 4:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Rosemarie Witschas	GDR	1.95 WR
2	Milada Karbanová	Czechoslovakia	1.91 NO
3	Sara Simeoni	Italy	1.89 NO
4th	Rita Kirst	GDR	1.89 PB
5	Milena Hübnerová	Czechoslovakia	1.86 PB
6th	Galina Filatova	Soviet Union	1.86 SB
7th	Ulrike Meyfarth	BR Germany	1.83 SB
8th	Mária Mračnová	Czechoslovakia	1.83 SB
9	Marie-Christine Debourse	France	1.83 SB
10	Annemieke Bouma	Netherlands	1.83 PB
11	Karin Wagner	BR Germany	1.83 PB
12	Virginia Ioan	Romania	1.80
13	Tamara Galka	Soviet Union	1.75
14th	Ruth Watt	Great Britain	1.70
	Barbara Lawton	Great Britain	1.70

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  Rita Kirst repeated her fourth European Championship place, which she had occupied in 1971 as Rita Schmidt, in 1968 and 1972 she was fifth in the Olympics

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  The 1972 Olympic champion Ulrike Meyfarth (here in 2017) reached seventh place and got into a phase of several years with weaker results, then she became European champion in 1982 and Olympic champion in 1984

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  Marie Christine Debourse, in 1971 pentathlon eleven and eliminated in the high jump in the qualification, came in ninth

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  Annemieke Bouma was tenth in this final

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

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed July 22, 2019