European Athletics Championships 2018 / women high jump

discipline	Women's high jump
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Participants	25 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	August 8, 2018 (qualification) August 10, 2018 (final)
Medalists
gold	Marija Lassizkene ( ANA )
silver	Mirela Demirewa ( BUL )
bronze	Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch ( GER )

Berlin Olympic Stadium

The women's high jump at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 8th and 10th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

The European champion was the Russian Marija Lassizkene , who started under a neutral flag . The Bulgarian Mirela Demirewa won the silver medal. Bronze went to the German Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch .

Records

World record	Stefka Kostadinova	2.09 m	World Cup in Rome , Italy	August 30, 1987
European record
Championship record	Tia Hellebaut Wenelina Wenewa-Mateewa	2.03 m	EM in Gothenburg , Sweden	August 9, 2006
	Blanka Vlašić		EM in Barcelona , Spain	August 1, 2010

qualification

August 8, 2018, 6:25 p.m. CEST

Despite skipping 1.86 m, Ella Junnila from Finland was eliminated using the failed attempt rule

1.76 m was not enough for Estonian Eleriin Haas to be in the final

The Swede Sofie Skoog also dropped out with a skipped 1.86 m because of her two failed attempts

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height for direct entry into the final was 1.92 m. No jumper even approached this height, all athletes who had climbed 1.90 m assumed that this would be sufficient for the final qualification because they were among the twelve best. Eleven jumpers had crossed 1.90 m. In addition, there were three athletes who had mastered 1.86 m without any unsuccessful attempt and who were tied for twelfth place. In the end, these fourteen participants reached the final (highlighted in light green). Three other athletes were also 1.86 m tall, but were eliminated because they had failed attempts and were therefore not among the top twelve or, in this case, fourteen participants.

Group A

space	Athlete	country	1.76	1.81	1.86	1.90	1.92	Height (m)
01	Mirela Demirewa	Bulgaria	-	-	O	O	R.	1.90
02	Imke Onnen	Germany	-	O	O	xo	R.	1.90
	Ana Simic	Croatia	-	O	O	xo	R.	1.90
04th	Erika Kinsey	Sweden	O	O	O	xxo	R.	1.90
	Julia Levchenko	Ukraine	-	O	O	xxo	R.	1.90
	Alessia consolation	Italy	O	O	O	xxo	R.	1.90
07th	Oksana Okuneva	Ukraine	O	O	O	xxx		1.86
08th	Ella Junnila	Finland	xo	O	xxo	xxx		1.86
09	Nikki Manson	Great Britain	O	O	xxx			1.81
	Lada Pejchalová	Czech Republic	O	O	xxx			1.81
	Desirée Rossit	Italy	O	O	xxx			1.81
12	Claire Orcel	Belgium	xo	O	xx R			1.81
13	Eleriin Haas	Estonia	O	xxx				1.76

Group B

space	Athlete	country	1.76	1.81	1.86	1.90	Height (m)
01	Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch	Germany	-	O	O	O	1.90
	Morgan Lake	Great Britain	-	O	O	O	1.90
	Marija Lassizkene	Authorized Neutral Athletes	-	O	O	O	1.90
	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania	-	O	O	O	1.90
	Kateryna Tabaschnyk	Ukraine	-	O	O	O	1.90
06th	Michaela Hrubá	Czech Republic	O	O	O	xxx	1.86
	Karyna Taranda	Belarus	O	O	O	xxx	1.86
08th	Elena Vallortigara	Italy	O	O	xo	xxx	1.86
09	Sofie Skoog	Sweden	-	xo	xo	xxx	1.86
10	Daniela Stanciu	Romania	O	O	xxx		1.81
	Marija Vuković	Montenegro	-	O	xxx		1.81
12	Tonje Angelsen	Norway	O	xxo	xxx		1.81

final

August 10, 2018, 7:22 p.m. CEST

The closest favorites included the 2017 world champion Marija Lassizkene, who started under a neutral flag, the Ukrainian runner-up world champion from 2017 Julija Levtschenko and the Bulgarian Mirela Demirewa as runner-up in the 2016 Olympics and runner-up in Europe in 2016 . Airinė Palšytė from Lithuania, also Vice European Champion in 2016, and the German Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch also competed with good opportunities. Jungfleisch had always been just behind the medal positions at the major international championships in recent years.

For many of the finalists, the competition was over at 1.94 m. Only five athletes managed this jump height and were able to tackle the following 1.96 m. Until then, the Ukrainian Kateryna Tabaschnyk, Lassizkene and Jungfleisch had remained without any failure. Palšytė tore once at 1.87 m, Demirewa once at 1.94 m. The Bulgarian skipped the following amount. Only young meat was successful with the first jump. Palšytė and Lassizkene took 1.96 m each in the second attempt. Tabaschnyk, on the other hand, tore the height three times and was eliminated. In the intermediate standings, Jungfleisch was now ahead, she still had no failed attempt. Lassizkene had one false jump on her account, Palšytė had two. Demirewa was meanwhile fifth with a jump of 1.94 m. She was still behind Tabaschnyk, who had already been eliminated, but, unlike the Ukrainian, was still in the competition.

Now 1.98 m was played and the decision was made about the medals. Demirewa wanted to save energy and was the only participant to skip this amount. Lassizkene mastered 1.98 m in the first attempt and thus took the lead, because both Palšytė and Jungfleisch had three missed jumps each. The German was sure to have a medal. Whether it would be silver or bronze depended on Demirewa's performance. For Palšytė, the situation was even more uncertain. She was now third, but just like Jungfleisch, she was dependent on whether Demirewa would take another height.

The next jump height - 2.00 m were placed - brought a decision about the distribution of ranks three to five. First, Lassizkene jumped the new height on the second attempt. Demirewa was then successful with her third and final jump. So Lassizkene continued to lead the competition, Demirewa had at least silver for sure. Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch was the winner of the bronze medal. Fourth and fifth place went to Airinė Palšytė and Kateryna Tabaschnyk.

Now the decision about the title of European champion was still pending. Lassizkene and Demirewa left out the following 2.02 m, so that the next jump height was 2.04 m. This time this height was too high for both jumpers, both tore three times each. Marija Lassizkene was the new European champion. As in 2016, Mirela Demirewa won the silver medal.

space	Athlete	country	1.82	1.87	1.91	1.94	1.96	1.98	2.00	2.02	2.04	Height (m)
	Marija Lassizkene	Authorized Neutral Athletes	-	O	O	O	xo	O	xo	-	xxx	2.00
	Mirela Demirewa	Bulgaria	-	O	O	xo	-	-	xxo	-	xxx	2.00 PBe
	Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch	Germany	O	O	O	O	O	xxx				1.96 SBe
4th	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania	O	xo	O	O	xo	xxx				1.96 SB
5	Kateryna Tabaschnyk	Ukraine	O	O	O	O	xxx					1.94
6th	Michaela Hrubá	Czech Republic	O	xxo	O	xxx						1.91 SB
7th	Morgan Lake	Great Britain	O	O	xo	xxx						1.91
8th	Alessia consolation	Italy	O	O	xxo	xxx						1.91 SBe
9	Julia Levchenko	Ukraine	O	xo	xxo	xxx						1.91
10	Oksana Okuneva	Ukraine	O	O	xxx							1.87
	Ana Simic	Croatia	O	O	xxx							1.87
12	Karyna Taranda	Belarus	xo	xo	xxx							1.87
13	Erika Kinsey	Sweden	O	xxo	xxx							1.87
14th	Imke Onnen	Germany	xxo	xxx								1.82

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  European champion Marija Lassizkene, neutral athlete

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  Vice European Champion Mirela Demirewa, Bulgaria

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  Bronze medalist Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch, Germany

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  Airinė Palšytė from Lithuania came fourth

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  Sixth place for the Czech Michaela Hrubá

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  Morgan Lake was seventh

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  The Italian Alessia Trost came in eighth

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  Julia Levchenko came in ninth place

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  Oksana Okunjewa, another Ukrainian in this final, came in tenth place

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  The Croatian Ana Šimić was also tenth

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  The Swede Erika Kinsey took thirteenth place

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  The German Imke Onnen reached the final and was fourteenth there

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 21, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 21, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 21, 2019

Video

• Women's high jump / European Athletics Championships 2018 on youtube.com, published September 1, 2018, accessed January 21, 2019