European Athletics Championships 2016 / Women's high jump

23rd European Athletics Championships
discipline		high jump
gender		Women
Attendees		26 athletes from 20 countries
venue		Amsterdam
Competition location		Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase		July 6th (qualification) July 7th (final)
Medalists
	Ruth Beitia ( ESP )
	Mirela Demirewa ( BUL )
	Airinė Palšytė ( LTU )

The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam

The women's high jump at the 2016 European Athletics Championships was held on July 6th and 7th, 2016 in the Olympic Stadium in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam .

The European champion was the Spanish World Cup third in 2013, Ruth Beitia , who won her third European title in a row here after 2012 and 2014 . The silver medal was awarded twice because of equality of height and equality even after the failed attempt rule, namely to the Bulgarian Mirela Demirewa and Airinė Palšytė from Lithuania .

Existing records

World record	2.09 m	Stefka Kostadinova	Rome , Italy	August 30, 1987
European record
EM record	2.03 m	Tia Hellebaut	EM Gothenburg , Sweden	August 11, 2006
		Wenelina Wenewa
		Blanka Vlašić	EM Barcelona , Spain	August 1, 2010

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

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

qualification

July 6, 2016, 11:00 a.m.

26 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for direct entry into the final was 1.92 m. Four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled to twelve jumpers with the eight next-placed athletes, some of whom did not even complete their attempts after it was clear that their jumped height was sufficient (highlighted in light green). All athletes who had mastered 1.89 m in the second attempt at the latest were in the final the next day.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1.70 m	1.75 m	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.89 m	1.92 m
1	Michaela Hrubá	Czech Republic	1.92	-	-	O	O	O	O
	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania	1.92	-	-	O	O	O	O
3	Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch	Germany	1.89	-	-	O	O	O	xx–
	Barbara Szabó	Hungary	1.89	-	-	O	O	O	xx–
	Alessia consolation	Italy	1.89	-	O	O	O	O	xx–
6th	Oksana Okuneva	Ukraine	1.89	-	O	O	O	xo	xx–
	Desirée Rossit	Italy	1.89	O	O	O	O	xo	xx–
8th	Maruša Černjul	Slovenia	1.89	-	xo	O	O	xo	xx–
9	Yulia Chumachenko	Ukraine	1.85	-	O	O	O	xxx
10	Eleriin Haas	Estonia	1.85	-	O	O	xo	xxx
	Katarina Mögenburg	Norway	1.85	-	O	O	xo	xxx
12	Erika Kinsey	Sweden	1.85	-	O	O	xxo	xxx
13	Valentina Liaschenko	Georgia	1.80	O	O	O	xxx

High jumpers eliminated from group A in qualification:

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  Eleriin Haas - shared tenth place with 1.85 m

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  Katarina Mögenburg (right) - shared tenth place with 1.85 m

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  Erika Kinsey - twelfth with 1.85 m

Group B

Linda Sandblom needed three attempts for her 1.89 m as fifth in group B and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1.70 m	1.75 m	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.89 m	1.92 m
1	Ruth Beitia	Spain	1.92	-	-	-	O	xo	O
2	Mirela Demirewa	Bulgaria	1.92	-	-	O	O	xo	xxo
3	Sofie Skoog	Sweden	1.89	-	O	O	O	O	xxx
	Nafissatou Thiam	Belgium	1.89	-	-	O	O	O	x–
5	Linda Sandblom	Finland	1.89	-	O	O	xxo	xxo	xxx
6th	Ana Simic	Croatia	1.89	-	-	xo	xxo	xxo	xxx
7th	Erika Furlani	Italy	1.85	-	O	xo	O	xxx
	Isobel Pooley	Great Britain	1.85	-	O	xo	O	xxx
9	Iryna Herashchenko	Ukraine	1.85	-	-	O	xo	xxx
	Marija Vuković	Montenegro	1.85	-	O	O	xo	xxx
11	Anna Iljuštšenko	Estonia	1.80	-	-	O	xxx
12	Ma'ayan Shahaf	Israel	1.80	O	O	xo	xxx
13	Claudia Guri	Andorra	1.75	O	xxo	xxx

High jumpers eliminated from group B in qualification:

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  Ana Šimić - sixth place with 1.89 m in the third attempt

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  Isobel Pooley - shared seventh place with 1.85 m

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  Iryna Herashchenko - shared ninth place with 1.85 m

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  Anna Iljuštšenko - eleventh place with 1.80 m

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  Ma'ayan Shahaf - twelfth place with 1.80 m

final

Ruth Beitia, third in the 2013 World Cup , was European champion for the third time in a row

July 7, 2016, 5:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1.84 m	1.89 m	1.93 m	1.96 m	1.98 m	2.00 m
1	Ruth Beitia	Spain	1.98	O	O	xo	O	O	xxx
2	Mirela Demirewa	Bulgaria	1.96	O	O	O	O	xxx
	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania	1.96	O	O	O	O	xxx
4th	Nafissatou Thiam	Belgium	1.93	O	xo	xo	xxx
5	Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch	Germany	1.93	O	O	xxo	xxx
6th	Oksana Okuneva	Ukraine	1.89	O	O	xxx
	Desirée Rossit	Italy	1.89	O	O	xxx
	Alessia consolation	Italy	1.89	O	O	xxx
9	Maruša Černjul	Slovenia	1.89	O	xo	xxx
	Sofie Skoog	Sweden	1.89	O	xo	xxx
11	Barbara Szabó	Hungary	1.89	xxo	xo	xxx
12	Michaela Hrubá	Czech Republic	1.84	O	xxx

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  Vice European Champion Mirela Demirewa

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  Vice European Champion Airinė Palšytė

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  The EM -Third of 2014 in the heptathlon Nafissatou Thiam went to high jump and finished fourth

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  Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch came in fifth place

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  Oksana Okunjewa finished sixth

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  Alessia Trost finished sixth

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  Sofie Skoog - in shared ninth place

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  Eleventh place for Barbara Szabó

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  The twelfth-placed Michaela Hrubá

Video

• High Jump Women / Final / 07 Jul / European Athletics Championships 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 10, 2020

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016 at european-athletics.org, accessed on March 10, 2020
• European Championship 2016 Amsterdam, Women High Jump on todor66.com, accessed on March 10, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2016 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 10, 2020
• 23rd European Athletics Championships 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands from ifosta.de, accessed on March 10, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed March 10, 2020