European Athletics Championships 2002 / Women's high jump

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	21 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 9th (qualification) August 11th (final)
Medalists Kajsa Bergqvist ( SWE )   Marina Kupzowa ( RUS )   Olga Kaliturina ( RUS )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The women's high jump at the European Athletics Championships in 2002 was held on August 9th and 11th, 2002 in the Munich Olympic Stadium.

In this competition, the Russian high jumpers won two medals, silver and bronze. Kajsa Bergqvist won the European championship in 2000 and third in the Swedish Olympics in 2000 and third in the World Cup in 2001 . Marina Kupzowa took second place ahead of Olga Kaliturina .

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 European Championship record, which has existed since 1982 , remained unchanged at these European Championships.

qualification

August 9, 2002

21 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for direct entry into the final was 1.92 m. No athlete even approached this height after it was clear that 1.90 m was sufficient for participation in the finals. The final two days later was contested by the twelve high jumpers who jumped 1.90 m in qualification (highlighted in light green).

Group A

Iva Straková was eliminated from the qualification with 1.87 m

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Iryna Mychaltchenko	Ukraine	1.90
	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	1.90
	Viktoria Seryogina	Russia	1.90
4th	Kathryn Holinski	Germany	1.90
	Anna Ksok	Poland	1.90
6th	Thóra Győrffy	Hungary	1.90
7th	Olga Kaliturina	Russia	1.90
	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	1.90
9	Marta Mendía	Spain	1.87
10	Iva Straková	Czech Republic	1.87
11	Lucie Finez	France	1.78

Group B

Barbora Lalákovás 1.83 m was not enough for the final

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Ruth Beitia	Spain	1.90
2	Oana Pantelimon	Romania	1.90
	Susan Jones	Great Britain	1.90
4th	Marina Kupzowa	Russia	1.90
5	Nevena Lendjel	Croatia	1.87
6th	Elena Herzenberg	Germany	1.87
7th	Ina Gliznuţa	Moldova	1.87
8th	Maria Melová	Slovakia	1.83
9	Barbora Laláková	Czech Republic	1.83
10	Candeğer Kılınçer	Turkey	1.78

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid

final

August 11, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1.80 (m)	1.85 (m)	1.89 (m)	1.92 (m)	1.94 (m)	1.96 (m)	1.98 (m)	2.00 (m)
1	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	1.98	-	O	O	O	O	O	xxo	x–
2	Marina Kupzowa	Russia	1.92	O	O	O	xxo	-	-	xx–	x
3	Olga Kaliturina	Russia	1.89	O	O	O	xxx
4th	Oana Pantelimon	Romania	1.89	O	xo	O	xxx
5	Anna Ksok	Poland	1.89	O	O	xo	xxx
	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	1.89	O	O	xo	xxx
7th	Susan Jones	Great Britain	1.89	O	O	xxo	xxx
	Kathryn Holinski	Germany	1.89	O	O	xxo	xxx
9	Iryna Mychaltchenko	Ukraine	1.89	xo	O	xxo	xxx
10	Viktoria Seryogina	Russia	1.85	O	xo	xxx
11	Ruth Beitia	Spain	1.85	O	xxo	xxx
12	Thóra Győrffy	Hungary	1.80	xo	xxx

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  European champion Kajsa Bergqvist, she was Olympic third in 2000 and third in the 2001 World Cup - in 2005 she crowned her career with the world championship title

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  Oana Pantelimon came in fourth

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  Blanka Vlašić finished fifth - her great successes, including two World Cup titles, were still in the future

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  Ruth Beitia was twelfth - three European championship titles followed between 2012 and 2016 and an Olympic gold medal in 2016

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 4, 2019
• European Championship 2002 Munich, Women High Jump on todor66.com, accessed on November 4, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 4, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women High Jump European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 487 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 4, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 4, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on November 4, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed November 4, 2019