European Athletics Championships 1990 / women's high jump

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 30th (qualification) August 31st (final)
Medalists Heike Henkel ( FRG )   Biljana Petrović ( YUG )   Jelena Jelessina ( URS )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The women's high jump at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held on August 30 and 31, 1990 in the Poljud Stadium in Split .

The German high jumper Heike Henkel , formerly Heike Redetzky , became European champion . She won in front of the Yugoslav Biljana Petrović . Bronze went to Jelena Jelessina from the USSR.

Existing records

World record	2.09 m	Stefka Kostadinova	Rome , Italy	August 30, 1987
European record
EM record	2.02 m	Ulrike Meyfarth	EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

August 31, 1990, 6:15 p.m.

Eighteen participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.91 m. None of the high jumpers even approached this height, because the question of participation in the finals had already been clarified after the test series over 1.88 m. Exactly twelve athletes had exceeded this mark (highlighted in light green) and contested the final on the following day.

Group A

Here Alina Astafei failed in the qualification, in 1992 she won the Olympic silver

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Biljana Petrovic	Yugoslavia	1.88
	Valentina Gotovskaya	Soviet Union
	Andrea Arens	BR Germany
	Svetlana Lessewa	Bulgaria
	Olga Turchak	Soviet Union
	Jana Brenkusová	Czechoslovakia
	Sigrid Kirchmann	Austria
8th	Níki Bakoyiánni	Greece	1.84
9	Alina Astafei	Romania	1.80

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Heike Balck	GDR	1.88
	Heike Henkel	BR Germany
	Jelena Jelessina	Soviet Union
	Judit Kovács	Hungary
	Hanne Haugland	Norway
6th	Nikoletta Gavera	Greece	1.84
	Sabine Bramhoff	BR Germany
8th	Lea Haggett	Great Britain	1.80
9	Maryse Éwanjé-Épée	France	1.75

final

European champion Heike Henkel (here in 2018) won her first major international title here - she became an Olympic champion in 1992

August 31, 1990, 6:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Heike Henkel	BR Germany	1.99
2	Biljana Petrovic	Yugoslavia	1.96
3	Jelena Jelessina	Soviet Union	1.96
4th	Sigrid Kirchmann	Austria	1.89
5	Heike Balck	GDR	1.89
	Judit Kovács	Hungary	1.89
7th	Valentina Gotovskaya	Soviet Union	1.89
8th	Hanne Haugland	Norway	1.89
9	Svetlana Lessewa	Bulgaria	1.89
10	Olga Turchak	Soviet Union	1.85
11	Jana Brenkusová	Czechoslovakia	1.85
12	Andrea Arens	BR Germany	1.80

Video

• 3094 European Track & Field 1990 High Jump Women Heike Henkel , published on February 13, 2016 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 19, 2019

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Championship 1990 Split, Women High Jump on todor66.com, accessed September 18, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 18, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women High Jump European Championship 1990 Split, p. 458 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 18, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 18, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 18, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed September 18, 2019