European Athletics Championships 1978 / Women's high jump

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's high jump
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Participants	23 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	August 30th (qualification) August 31st (final)
Medalists
gold	Sara Simeoni ( ITA )
silver	Rosemarie Ackermann ( GDR )
bronze	Brigitte Holzapfel ( FRG )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The high jump women in the 1978 European Athletics Championships was on 30 and 31 August 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.

It won the Italian Olympic runner-up in 1976 and European Championship third in 1974 Sara Simeoni , who equalized her own world record in the final. Second place went to the 1976 Olympic champion, Rosemarie Ackermann from the GDR, who became European champion in 1974 under her name Rosemarie Witschas. Bronze went to the German high jumper Brigitte Holzapfel .

Records

Existing records

World record	2.01 m	Sara Simeoni	Brescia , Italy	4th August 1978
European record
EM record	1.95 m	Rosemarie Witschas	EM Rome , Italy	September 8, 1974

Record improvement

European champion Sara Simeoni improved the existing championship record in the final on September 8th by six centimeters to 2.01 m. In doing so, she also equalized her own world record.  

qualification

August 30, 1978, 10:15 a.m.

23 participants started the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.85 m. Since only eleven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to at least twelve jumpers. Three athletes were tied in twelfth place and thus reached the final (highlighted in light green). Ultimately, 1.83 m was enough for participation in the finals.

Mirjam van Laar was eliminated from the qualification with 1.75 m

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Brigitte Holzapfel	BR Germany	1.85
	Annette Harnack	BR Germany	1.85 SB
	Kristina Nitzsche	GDR	1.85
	Sara Simeoni	Italy	1.85
	Urszula Kielan	Poland	1.85 SB
	Milada Karbanová	Czechoslovakia	1.85 SB
	Rosemarie Ackermann	GDR	1.85
	Jutta Kirst	GDR	1.85
	Ulrike Meyfarth	BR Germany	1.85
	Snezana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia	1.85 PB
	Larisa Klimentenok	Soviet Union	1.85 PB
12	Andrea Mátay	Hungary	1.83
	Astrid Tveit	Norway	1.83 SB
	Mária Mračnová	Czechoslovakia	1.83 SB
15th	Annette Tånnander	Sweden	1.80
	Grith Ejstrup	Sweden	1.80 SB
17th	Mirjam van Laar	Netherlands	1.75 SB
	Marta Rehorovská	Czechoslovakia	1.75 PB
	Danuta Bulkowska	Poland	1.75 SB
	Gilian Hitchen	Great Britain	1.75 PB
	Cornelia Popa	Romania	1.75 SB
22nd	Anne-Maria Pira	Belgium	1.70 SB
	Sandra Dini	Italy	1.70 SB

final

The defending champion and Olympic champion from 1976 Rosemarie Ackermann, one of the last straddle jumpers, became vice European champion

August 31, 1978

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Sara Simeoni	Italy	2.01 WRe
2	Rosemarie Ackermann	GDR	1.99 SB
3	Brigitte Holzapfel	BR Germany	1.95 BRe
4th	Jutta Kirst	GDR	1.93 SB
5	Ulrike Meyfarth	BR Germany	1.91
6th	Andrea Mátay	Hungary	1.85 SB
7th	Snezana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia	1.85 PBe
8th	Urszula Kielan	Poland	1.85 SBe
9	Annette Harnack	BR Germany	1.80
10	Astrid Tveit	Norway	1.80
11	Kristina Nitzsche	GDR	1.80
12	Larisa Klimentenok	Soviet Union	1.80
13	Mária Mračnová	Czechoslovakia	1.80
14th	Milada Karbanová	Czechoslovakia	1.80

The test series of the two high jumpers, who were by far the first, were as follows:

	1.75 m	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.88 m	1.91	1.93	1.95	1.97	1.99	2.01	2.03
Sara Simeoni	-	O	O	-	O	O	O	xo	O	xo	xxx
Rosemarie Ackermann	O	O	O	O	O	O	O	O	xo	xxx

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  The 1972 Olympic champion Ulrike Meyfarth (here in 2012) finished fifth - in 1982 she became European champion and 1984 Olympic champion

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  Urszula Kielan (on the photo in 2012) came in eighth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 12, 2019
• European Championship 1978 Prague, Women High Jump on todor66.com, accessed August 12, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 12, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women High Jump European Championship 1978 Praha, p. 434 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 12, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 12, 2019
• 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on August 12, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed August 12, 2019