World Athletics Championships 1983 / Women's high jump

Athletics World Championships 2019
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	34 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (qualification) August 9th (final)
Medalists Tamara Bykowa ( URS )   Ulrike Meyfarth ( FRG )   Louise Ritter ( USA )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's high jump at the 1983 World Athletics Championships took place on August 7th and 9th, 1983 in Helsinki , Finland .

34 athletes from 23 countries took part in the competition. The gold medal was won by the 1982 vice European champion Tamara Bykowa from the Soviet Union with a height of 2.01 meters. Silver went to the German Olympic champion from 1972 , reigning European champion and world record holder Ulrike Meyfarth with 1.99 meters. The bronze medal went to the American Louise Ritter with 1.95 meters.

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Ulrike Meyfarth	2.02 m	European Championships in Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982
World championship record	There were still no World Cup records, the event was held for the first time.

Eight jumpers had set the World Cup record in qualification to 1.90 m. In the final on August 9th, the new world champion Tamara Bykowa from the Soviet Union set the world championship record, which is now valid for at least four years, with 2.01 m .

qualification

August 7, 1983

34 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualifying height was 1.90 m to move directly into the final. Eight athletes made this mark, they are highlighted in light blue. The remaining jumpers who were allowed to take part in the final - the number of athletes should be at least twelve - are those with the highest jumped height below the qualification height (1.87 m), they are highlighted in light green. These 1.87 m were mastered by ten participants, so that a total of eighteen athletes contested the final two days later.

Group A

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Kerstin Brandt	German Democratic Republic	1.90 CR
	Tamara Bykowa	Soviet Union	1.90 CR
	Coleen summer	United States	1.90 CR
	Susanne Helm	German Democratic Republic	1.90 CR
5	Christine Soetewey	Belgium	1.87
	Katalin Sterk	Hungary	1.87
	Minna Vehmasto	Finland	1.87
	Zheng Dazhen	People's Republic of China	1.87
9	Sara Simeoni	Italy	1.84
	Gillian Evans	United Kingdom	1.84
	Gaby Meier	Switzerland	1.84
	Brigitte Reid	Canada	1.84
13	Thordis Gisladóttir	Iceland	1.80
	Megumi Sato	Japan	1.80
	Christine Stanton	Australia	1.80
16	Iona Smith	Anguilla	1.50

Group B

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Ulrike Meyfarth	BR Germany	1.90 CR
	Louise Ritter	United States	1.90 CR
	Andrea Bienias	German Democratic Republic	1.90 CR
	Debbie Brill	German Democratic Republic	1.90 CR
5	Olga Juha	Hungary	1.87
	Larissa Kositsyna	Soviet Union	1.87
	Maryse Éwanjé-Épée	France	1.87
	Vanessa Browne	Australia	1.87
	Silvia Costa	Cuba	1.87
	Yang Wenqin	People's Republic of China	1.87
11	Niculina Vasile	Romania	1.84
12	Emese Bela	Hungary	1.80
	Susanne Lorentzon	Sweden	1.80
	Megumi Sato	Japan	1.80
	Lidija Lapajne	Yugoslavia	1.80
16	Hisayo Fukumitsu	Japan	1.75
17th	Kawther Akremi	Tunisia	1.70
	Klodeta Gjini	Albania	1.70

Legend

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

-	Omitted height
x	Failed attempt
O	Skipped height

final

August 9, 1983

space	Athlete	country	1.75	1.80	1.84	1.88	1.92	1.95	1.97	1.99	2.01	2.03	Height (m)
	Tamara Bykowa	Soviet Union	-	O	O	O	O	O	O	xo	O	xxx	2.01 CR
	Ulrike Meyfarth	BR Germany	-	O	O	O	O	xo	xo	O	x–	xx	1.99
	Louise Ritter	United States	-	O	O	O	xo	x o	xxx				1.95
4th	Coleen summer	United States	-	O	O	O	xo	xx o	xxx				1.95
5	Kerstin Brandt	German Democratic Republic	-	O	xo	xxo	x o	xxx					1.92
6th	Debbie Brill	Canada	-	O	O	O	xxx						1.88
7th	Susanne Helm	German Democratic Republic	-	O	O	x o	xxx						1.88
8th	Olga Juha	Hungary	O	O	xo	x o	xxx						1.88
9	Vanessa Browne	Australia	Test series not listed in the sources										1.88
10	Silvia Costa	Cuba											1.84
	Andrea Bienias	German Democratic Republic											1.84
12	Maryse Éwanjé-Épée	France											1.84
	Katalin Sterk	Hungary											1.84
	Minna Vehmasto	Finland											1.84
15th	Christine Soetewey	Belgium											1.84
16	Yang Wenqin	People's Republic of China											1.84
17th	Larissa Kositsyna	Soviet Union											1.80
18th	Zheng Dazhen	People's Republic of China											1.80

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  Ulrike Meyfarth became vice world champion (here in 2016) , 1972 Olympic champion, reigning European champion and world record holder

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  Debbie Brill, who has competed for many years, came in sixth

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  Susanne Helm, later Susanne Beyer, came in seventh place

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  Andrea Bienias, formerly Andrea Reichstein, reached tenth place

Video links

• Helsinki 1983 women high jump on youtube.com, accessed April 13, 2020
• The first world Championships in athletics. Finland. Helsinki 1983. High jump. Women. Meyfarth U on youtube.com, accessed April 13, 2020
• The first world Championships in athletics. Finland. Helsinki 1983. High jump. Women. Bykova T. URS on youtube.com, accessed April 13, 2020

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 1983 World Cup on the IAAF website , accessed on April 13, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 310f, English), accessed on April 13, 2020
• Results at todor66.com , accessed April 13, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 13, 2020