World Athletics Championships 1993 / women's high jump

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	37 athletes from 29 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 19 (qualification) August 21 (final)
Medalists Ioamnet Quintero ( CUB )   Silvia Costa ( CUB )   Sigrid Kirchmann ( AUT )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The women's high jump at the 1993 World Athletics Championships was held on August 19 and 21, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition, the Cuban high jumpers achieved a double victory. World champion was Ioamnet Quintero , who was third in the 1992 Olympics . She won against Silvia Costa , who at the Pan American Games ( 1983 / 1987 won) two silvers. Bronze went to the Austrian Sigrid Kirchmann .

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.

qualification

August 19, 1993, 10:20 a.m.

37 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.93 m. After ten athletes jumped this mark, no other athlete had to tackle this height. The final field was filled with the next placed athletes to initially twelve jumpers. However, four athletes in eleventh place were tied even after the failed attempt rule was applied, so that not two but four participants who jumped 1.90 m (light blue background) reached the final on the day after next in addition to the directly qualified jumpers (light green background).

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Hanne Haugland	Norway	1.93
	Jelena Rodina	Russia	1.93
3	Silvia Costa	Cuba	1.93
4th	Sigrid Kirchmann	Austria	1.90
	Britta Bilač	Slovenia	1.90
6th	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	1.90
	Tazzjana Scheutschyk	Belarus	1.90
8th	Heike Balck	Germany	1.87
9	Sue Ellen Rembao	United States	1.87
10	Andrea Baumert	Germany	1.87
11	Thordis Gisladóttir	Iceland	1.84
12	Sabrina De Leeuw	Belgium	1.84
13	Krisztina Solti	Hungary	1.84
14th	Niki Bakogianni	Greece	1.84
15th	Joanne Jennings	Great Britain	1.80
	Charmaine Weavers	South Africa	1.80
17th	Šárka Nováková	Czech Republic	1.80
18th	Sharon Foley	Ireland	1.75
NM	Ina Gliznuța	Moldova	ogV

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Galina Astafei	Romania	1.93
	Ioamnet Quintero	Cuba	1.93
	Elena Topchina	Russia	1.93
4th	Svetlana Zalevskaya	Kazakhstan	1.93
5	Valentina Gotovska	Latvia	1.93
	Antonella Bevilacqua	Italy	1.93
7th	Tanya Hughes	United States	1.93
8th	Katarzyna Majchrzak	Poland	1.90
9	Heike Henkel	Germany	1.90
10	Nelė Žilinskienė	Lithuania	1.90
11	Orlane dos Santos	Brazil	1.87
	Connie Teaberry	United States	1.87
13	Olga Bolshova	Moldova	1.87
14th	Judit Kovács	Hungary	1.84
	Lucienne N'Da	Ivory Coast	1.84
16	Desislava Aleksandrowa	Bulgaria	1.80
17th	Megumi Satô	Japan	1.75
18th	Orla Venter	Namibia	1.75
DNS	Debbie Marti	Great Britain

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

final

August 21, 1993, 4:40 p.m.

space

Surname

nation

Result (noun)

1.80 m

1.85 m

1.88 m

1.91 m

1.94 m

1.97 m

1.99 m

2.01 m

2.05 m

1

Ioamnet Quintero

Cuba

1.99

-

O

-

O

O

xxo

xo

-

xxx

2

Silvia Costa

Cuba

1.97

-

O

-

O

O

O

xx–

x

3

Sigrid Kirchmann

Austria

1.97

-

O

O

O

O

xo

xx–

x

4th

Galina Astafei

Romania

1.94

-

O

O

O

O

xxx

Jelena Rodina

Russia

1.94

-

O

O

O

O

xxx

6th

Antonella Bevilacqua

Italy

1.94

-

O

O

O

xxo

xxx

7th

Tanya Hughes

United States

1.91

O

O

O

O

xxx

8th

Valentina Gotovska

Latvia

1.91

O

xxo

xo

O

xxx

9

Katarzyna Majchrzak

Poland

1.88

Expiration not listed in the sources

Hanne Haugland

Norway

1.88

11

Svetlana Zalevskaya

Kazakhstan

1.88

Elena Topchina

Russia

1.88

Britta Bilač

Slovenia

1.88

DNS

Heike Henkel

Germany

• 

  Galina Astafei, second in the 1992 Olympics, took fourth place - she started here for Romania, and then from 1995 for Germany

• 

  The defending champion, Olympic champion in 1992 and reigning European champion Heike Henkel had to do without a start in the final

Video

• World Championships in Athletics 1993 - High Jump Women , video posted September 26, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed May 20, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 20, 2020
• Women High Jump Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 20, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women High Jump, Stuttgart 1993, p. 311f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 20, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 20, 2020