World Athletics Championships 1995 / women's high jump

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 11th (qualification) August 13th (final)
Medalists Stefka Kostadinowa ( BUL )   Alina Astafei ( GER )   Inha Babakowa ( UKR )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The women's high jump at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 11 and 13, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

The world champion was the Bulgarian world champion in 1987 , Olympic runner-up in 1988 , European champion in 1986 and world record holder Stefka Kostadinova . Second place went to the 1992 Olympic runner-up - at that time for Romania - Alina Astafei , who now started for Germany . As in 1991 - back then for the Soviet Union - the Ukrainian Inha Babakowa won the bronze medal.

Existing records

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

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

qualification

August 11, 1995, 9:40 a.m.

35 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.95 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five next-placed athletes who had jumped 1.93 m to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). The failed attempt rule was applied, so that four participants were eliminated who had mastered 1.93 m, but had too many failed attempts.

The jump heights in the two qualification groups were as follows:
1.75 - 1.80 - 1.85 - 1.90 - 1.93 - 1.95

The test series for the individual participants in the qualification groups are not listed in the sources.

Group A

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  Heike Henkel, Olympic champion in 1992 , world champion in 1991 and European champion in 1990 , was eliminated in the preliminary round with 1.93 m

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  Kajsa Bergqvist did not reach the final with her 1.90 m - her big time was yet to come

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Inha Babakowa	Ukraine	1.95
2	Victoria Feodorova	Russia	1.95
3	Amy Acuff	United States	1.93
	Tazzjana Scheutschyk	Belarus	1.93
	Svetlana Lessewa	Bulgaria	1.93
	Elena Topchina	Russia	1.93
7th	Wenelina Wenewa	Bulgaria	1.93
8th	Heike Henkel	Germany	1.93
9	Monica Iagăr	Romania	1.90
	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	1.90
11	Alica Javadova	Slovakia	1.90
12	Natalia Jonckheere	Belgium	1.85
	Silvia Costa	Cuba	1.85
	Alison Inverarity	Australia	1.85
15th	Svetlana Munkova	Uzbekistan	1.85
	Kaisa Gustafsson	Finland	1.85
17th	Heike Balck	Germany	1.80
18th	Irène Tiendrébéogo	Burkina Faso	1.80

Group B

With her 1.75 m Lea Haggett had no chance of reaching the final

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Tatiana Motkova	Russia	1.95
	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	1.95
	Alina Astafei	Germany	1.95
4th	Hanne Haugland	Norway	1.95
5	Nele Zilinskiené	Lithuania	1.95
6th	Tatyana Khramova	Belarus	1.93
7th	Sieglinde Cadusch	Switzerland	1.93
8th	Svetlana Zalevskaya	Kazakhstan	1.93
9	Tisha Waller	United States	1.90
10	Ioamnet Quintero	Cuba	1.90
11	Najuma Fletcher	Guyana	1.90
12	Pia Zinck	Denmark	1.90
13	Zuzana Hlavonová	Czech Republic	1.85
14th	Olga Bolsova	Moldova	1.85
15th	Connie Teaberry	United States	1.80
16	Monika Gollner	Austria	1.80
17th	Lea Haggett	Great Britain	1.75
DNS	Desiré du Plessis	South Africa

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

final

August 13, 1995, 3:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.90 m	1.93 m	1.96 m	1.99 m	2.01 m	2.03 m
1	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	2.01	-	O	O	O	O	O	xo	xxx
2	Alina Astafei	Germany	1.99	-	O	xo	O	O	O	xxx
3	Inha Babakowa	Ukraine	1.99	-	O	O	O	O	xo	xxx
4th	Tatiana Motkova	Russia	1.96	-	O	O	O	O	xxx
5	Tazzjana Scheutschyk	Belarus	1.96	-	O	xxo	O	O	xxx
6th	Hanne Haugland	Norway	1.96	-	O	xo	O	xo	xxx
7th	Svetlana Lessewa	Bulgaria	1.93	O	xo	O	O	xxx
8th	Amy Acuff	United States	1.93	O	O	xxo	xo	xxx
	Nele Zilinskiené	Lithuania	1.93	O	xxo	O	xo	xxx
10	Elena Topchina	Russia	1.93	Expiration not listed in the sources
11	Victoria Feodorova	Russia	1.90
12	Tatyana Khramova	Belarus	1.85

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  Stefka Kostadinova became world champion (here in 2012) , whose great successes ( World Cup title 1987 , European Championship title 1986 , Olympic silver 1988 ) date back to the second half of the 1980s

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  Vice world champion Alina Astafei, who meanwhile started for Germany, celebrated the second medal win of her career after Olympic silver in 1992 - at that time still for Romania

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  Amy Acuff finished eighth

Video

• World Championships in Athletics 1995 - Women's High Jump Final , video posted October 29, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed June 9, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on June 9, 2020
• Women High Jump Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) at todor66.com, accessed June 9, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women High Jump, Gothenborg 1995, p. 312 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 9, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 9, 2020