World Athletics Championships 1991 / women's high jump

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	29 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (qualification) August 31st (final)
Medalists Heike Henkel ( GER )   Jelena Jelesina ( URS )   Inha Babakowa ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

After winning the EM title last year , Heike Henkel, formerly Heike Redetzky, was now world champion

The women's high jump at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 29 and 31, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

With silver and bronze, the Soviet high jumpers won two medals in this competition. The reigning European champion Heike Henkel , formerly Heike Redetzky, from Germany became world champion . She won Jelena Jelesina before the European Championship third in 1991 . Bronze went to Inha Babakowa .

Existing records

World record	2.09 m	Stefka Kostadinova	World Cup in Rome , Italy	August 30, 1987
World championship record

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

In the final on August 31, world champion Heike Henkel set a new German record with 2.05 m.

qualification

August 29, 1991, 10:20 am

29 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for direct entry into the final was 1.92 m. But this height did not even have to be approached. After completing the 1.90 m jumps, six jumpers were still in the competition. Another six had jumped 1.88 m. So the twelve best sought were found, who played the final two days later (highlighted in light green).

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Alison Inverarity	Australia	1.90
2	Jelena Jelesina	Soviet Union	1.88
3	Tamara Bykowa	Soviet Union	1.88
4th	Šárka Nováková	Czechoslovakia	1.88
5	Heike Balck	Germany	1.88
6th	Svetlana Lessewa	Bulgaria	1.86
7th	Yolanda Henry	United States	1.83
	Donata Jancewicz	Poland	1.83
	Megumi Sato	Japan	1.83
10	Tisha Waller	United States	1.83
11	Lucienne N'da	Ivory Coast	1.79
12	Wenelina Wenewa	Bulgaria	1.79
13	Þórdís Gísladóttir	Iceland	1.79
14th	Leslie Estwick	Canada	1.75

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Heike Henkel	Germany	1.90
	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	1.90
	Inha Babakowa	Soviet Union	1.90
4th	Birgit Kähler	Germany	1.90
5	Beata Hołub	Poland	1.90
6th	Vanessa Ward	Australia	1.88
7th	Judit Kovács	Hungary	1.88
8th	Orlane dos Santos	Brazil	1.86
9	Debbi Marti	Great Britain	1.86
10	Sue Ellen Rembao	United States	1.86
11	Tania Murray	New Zealand	1.79
12	Jana Brenkusová	Czechoslovakia	1.79
13	Sigrid Kirchmann	Austria	1.75
14th	Margarida Moreno	Andorra	1.70
NM	Vermilita Phillip	St. Kitts and Nevis	ogV

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

final

August 31, 1991, 4:00 p.m.

space

Surname

nation

Result (noun)

1.84 m

1.87 m

1.90 m

1.93 m

1.96 m

1.98 m

2.00

2.02

2.05

2.07

1

Heike Henkel

Germany

2.05 DR

-

O

-

O

-

O

O

O

O

xxx

2

Jelena Jelesina

Soviet Union

1.98

O

O

O

O

O

xo

xx–

x

3

Inha Babakowa

Soviet Union

1.96

O

O

O

O

O

xxx

4th

Beata Hołub

Poland

1.96

O

O

xo

xxo

xo

xxx

5

Birgit Kähler

Germany

1.93

O

O

O

O

xxx

6th

Stefka Kostadinova

Bulgaria

1.93

O

xo

O

O

xxx

7th

Tamara Bykowa

Soviet Union

1.93

O

O

xo

xxo

xxx

8th

Judit Kovács

Hungary

1.90

O

O

O

xxx

9

Šárka Nováková

Czechoslovakia

1.90

Expiration not listed in the sources

10

Vanessa Ward

Australia

1.90

11

Alison Inverarity

Australia

1.87

12

Heike Balck

Germany

1.84

Video

• Heike Henkel High Jump World Championships Tokyo 1991 , video published May 9, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed May 3, 2020
• Women High Jump Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed May 3, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women High Jump, Tokyo 1991, p. 311 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 3, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 3, 2020