World Athletics Championships 1997 / women's high jump

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	26 athletes from 20 countries
venue	Athens
place	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 8th (qualification) August 10th (final)
Medalists
gold	Hanne Haugland ( NOR )
silver	Olga Kaliturina ( RUS )
	Inha Babakowa ( UKR )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

The women's high jump at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 8 and 10, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

The medals were only awarded after a jump-off, after three high jumpers had been tied even after using the rule of failed attempts. The Norwegian Hanne Haugland became world champion . Silver went to the two equally placed athletes Olga Kaliturina from Russia and Inha Babakowa from Ukraine . Inha Babakowa had already won three bronze medals in the previous years: at the 1996 Olympic Games, as well as at the 1991 World Championships (at that time for the Soviet Union ) and 1995 .

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.

Two records were set.

• South American record: 1.92 m - Solange Witteveen ( Argentina ), qualification, Group A on August 8th
• National record: 1.94 m - Pia Zinck ( Denmark ), qualification, group A on August 8th

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

qualification

August 8, 1997, 7:30 p.m.

26 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.94 m. Thirteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field, consisting of at least twelve jumpers, was then complete and did not have to be filled any further.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.89 m	1.92 m	1.94 m
1	Alina Astafei	Germany	1.94	-	O	O	O	O
	Hanne Haugland	Norway	1.94	-	O	O	O	O
	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	1.94	O	O	O	O	O
	Hestrie Storbeck	South Africa	1.94	O	O	O	O	O
5	Inha Babakowa	Ukraine	1.94	-	xo	O	O	O
	Olga Kaliturina	Russia	1.94	O	O	O	xo	O
7th	Tatiana Motkova	Russia	1.94	O	O	xo	xo	O
8th	Pia Zinck	Denmark	1.94 NO	O	O	O	O	xxo
9	Niki Bakogianni	Greece	1.92	O	O	O	xo	xxx
10	As long as Witteveen	Argentina	1.92 SRe	O	xo	O	xxo	xxx
11	Angela Bradburn-Spangler	United States	1.89	O	xo	O	xxx
12	Tatyana Khramova	Belarus	1.85	O	O	xxx
NM	Oksana Mayboroda	Kyrgyzstan	ogV	xxx

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.89 m	1.92 m	1.94 m
1	Yulia Lyachova	Russia	1.94	O	O	O	O	O
2	Heike Balck	Germany	1.94	O	O	O	xo	O
3	Britta Bilač	Slovenia	1.94	O	O	xo	O	xo
4th	Monica Iagăr	Romania	1.94	O	O	O	O	xxo
5	Antonella Bevilacqua	Italy	1.94	O	O	O	xo	xxo
6th	Amy Acuff	United States	1.92	O	O	O	O	xxx
7th	Çigdem Arslan	Turkey	1.89	O	O	O	xxx
8th	Debbie Marti	Great Britain	1.89	O	O	xo	xxx
9	Zuzana Hlavonová	Czech Republic	1.85	xo	O	xxx
10	Erin Aldrich	United States	1.80	xo	xxx
	Ina Gliznuța	Moldova	1.80	xo	xxx
12	Daniela Rath	Germany	1.80	xxo	xxx
NM	Irène Tiendrébéogo	Burkina Faso	ogV	xxx

High jumpers eliminated from group B in qualification:

• 

  Amy Acuff - 1.92 m

• 

  Erin Aldrich - 1.80 m

final

August 10, 1997, 6:00 p.m.

After the jump height of 1.99 m could not be jumped by anyone with the regular three attempts, Hanne Haugland, Olga Kaliturina and Inha Babakowa, who were now tied in the competition up to 1.96 m without failed attempts, went into a jump-off. Hanne Haugland was the only one to jump the 1.99 m again and was thus world champion. Olga Kaliturina and Inha Babakowa took second place together. Julija Lyachowa came after the correctly applied failed attempt rule with also skipped 1.96 m in the thankless fourth place. She had only reached the last altitude on the third attempt.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1.85 m	1.90 m	1.93 m	1.96 m	1.99 m
1	Hanne Haugland	Norway	1.96 - in the jump-off: 1.99	O	O	O	O	xxxo
2	Olga Kaliturina	Russia	1.96	O	O	O	O	xxxx
	Inha Babakowa	Ukraine	1.96	O	O	O	O	xxxx
4th	Yulia Lyachova	Russia	1.96	O	O	xxo	xxo	xxx
5	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	1.93	O	xo	xo	xxx
	Tatiana Motkova	Russia	1.93	O	xo	xo	xxx
7th	Antonella Bevilacqua	Italy	1.93	O	O	xxo	xxx
	Alina Astafei	Germany	1.93	O	O	xxo	xxx
	Britta Bilač	Slovenia	1.93	O	O	xxo	xxx
10	Hestrie Storbeck	South Africa	1.90	O	O	xxx
	Heike Balck	Germany	1.90	O	O	xxx
12	Pia Zinck	Denmark	1.90	O	xxo	xxx
13	Monica Iagăr	Romania	1.85	O	xxx

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  Kajsa Bergqvist was tied for fifth place - her big time would come later

• 

  Alina Astafei, 1995 vice world champion and 1992 Olympic silver medalist, came in seventh place

Video links

• Women's High Jump Final - 1997 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed July 5, 2020
• Women's High Jump Qualifying - 1997 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed July 5, 2020

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 9, 2020
• Women High Jump Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed July 5, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women High Jump, Athens 1997, p. 312 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 5, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 5, 2020