European Athletics Championships 1990 / women's high jump
15th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | high jump | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
venue | Split | ||||||||
Competition location | Poljud Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 30th (qualification) August 31st (final) |
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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
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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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) |
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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
August 31, 1990, 6:15 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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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
- ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed September 18, 2019