European Athletics Championships 1982 / women's high jump

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's high jump
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Participants	19 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	September 7th (qualification) September 8th (final)
Medalists
gold	Ulrike Meyfarth ( FRG )
silver	Tamara Bykowa ( URS )
bronze	Sara Simeoni ( ITA )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The women's high jump at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 7th and 8th, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

The German Olympic champion from 1972 Ulrike Meyfarth became European champion . She set a new world record in the final. Second place went to Tamara Bykowa from the Soviet Union. The Italian defending champion, Olympic champion from 1980 and previous world record holder Sara Simeoni won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	2.01 m	Sara Simeoni	Brescia , Italy	4th August 1978
			EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	September 8, 1978
European record	2.01 m	Sara Simeoni	Brescia , Italy	4th August 1978
			EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	September 8, 1978
EM record	2.01 m	Sara Simeoni	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	September 8, 1978

Record improvement

European champion Ulrike Meyfarth improved the existing championship record in the final on September 8th by one centimeter to 2.02 m. At the same time she set a new world record.

qualification

September 7, 1982

19 participants took part in the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.88 m. Exactly twelve athletes achieved this value (highlighted in light blue). These high jumpers contested the final on the following day.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Tamara Bykowa	Soviet Union	1.88
	Ulrike Meyfarth	BR Germany	1.88
	Andrea Bienias	GDR	1.88
	Emese Béla	Hungary	1.88
	Maryse Éwanjé-Épée	France	1.88 SB
	Susanne Lorentzon	Sweden	1.88 SB
	Sara Simeoni	Italy	1.88
	Gaby Meier	Switzerland	1.88
	Katalin Sterk	Hungary	1.88
	Barbara Simmonds	Great Britain	1.88
	Jutta Kirst	GDR	1.88
	Lyudmila Zhechewa	Bulgaria	1.88
13	Christine Soetewey	Belgium	1.85 SB
	Astrid Tveit	Norway	1.85
	Sandra Dini	Italy	1.85 SB
	Brigitte Holzapfel	BR Germany	1.85 SB
	Lidija Benedetič	Yugoslavia	1.85 SB
18th	Þórdís Gísladóttir	Iceland	1.80 SB
19th	Alexandra Batatoli	Greece	1.70 PB

final

September 8, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Ulrike Meyfarth	BR Germany	2.02 WR
2	Tamara Bykowa	Soviet Union	1.97
3	Sara Simeoni	Italy	1.97
4th	Gaby Meier	Switzerland	1.94 PB
5	Jutta Kirst	GDR	1.94
6th	Lyudmila Zhechewa	Bulgaria	1.91 PB
	Andrea Bienias	GDR	1.91 SB
8th	Katalin Sterk	Hungary	1.91 SB
9	Emese Béla	Hungary	1.88
10	Maryse Éwanjé-Épée	France	1.88 SBe
11	Barbara Simmonds	Great Britain	1.88
12	Susanne Lorentzon	Sweden	1.88 SBe

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  Ten years after her Olympic victory , Ulrike Meyfarth became European champion with a world record - in 1984 she won Olympic gold again

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  Andrea Bienias, formerly Andrea Reichstein, reached sixth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 26, 2019
• European Championship 1982 Athens, Women High Jump on todor66.com, accessed August 26, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 26, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women High Jump European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 442 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 26, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 26, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 26, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed August 26, 2019