World Athletics Championships 1999 / women's high jump

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	33 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 27 (qualifying) August 29 (final)
Medalists Inha Babakowa ( UKR )   Jelena Jelessina ( RUS )   Swetlana Lapina ( RUS )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The women's high jump at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 27 and 29, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

In this competition, Russian high jumpers won two medals, silver and bronze. It won the vice world champion of 1997 , two-time World Cup -Third ( 1991 / 1995 ) and Olympic bronze medalist from 1996 Inha Babakova from the Ukraine . Second place went to the European Championship third from 1990 and vice world champion from 1991 Jelena Jelessina . When they won medals in 1990 and 1991, Inha Babakowa and Jelena Jelessina were still at the start for what was then the Soviet Union . Bronze went to Swetlana Lapina .

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.

A national record was set:
1.89 m - Kärt Siilats ( Estonia ), qualification, group A on August 27th

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

qualification

August 27, 1999, 6:55 pm

33 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.94 m. After seven athletes had already made one or two unsuccessful attempts over 1.94 m, it became clear that exactly thirteen high jumpers had mastered 1.92 m (highlighted in light green). The jury decided that the qualification could be canceled at this point and that all thirteen athletes were qualified for the final with a skipped 1.92 m.

Group A

Nicole Forrester was eliminated from the qualification with her 1.80 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1.75 m	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.89 m	1.92 m	1.94 m
1	Inha Babakowa	Ukraine	1.92	-	O	O	O	O	x
	Tisha Waller	United States	1.92	-	O	O	O	O	x
	Elena Gulyayeva	Russia	1.92	-	O	O	O	O	x
4th	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	1.92	-	O	O	O	xxo	xx
5	Hestrie Cloete	South Africa	1.89	-	O	O	O	xxx
	Wenelina Wenewa	Bulgaria	1.89	O	O	O	O	xxx
	Irina Mikhalchenko	Ukraine	1.89	-	O	O	O	xxx
8th	Karol Jenkins	United States	1.89	-	O	O	xo	xxx
	Nele Zilinskiené	Lithuania	1.89	-	O	O	xo	xxx
10	Olga Bolsova	Moldova	1.89	-	O	xo	xo	xxx
11	Irène Tiéndrebeogo	Burkina Faso	1.89	O	O	xxo	xo	xxx
12	Kärt Siilats	Estonia	1.89 NO	xo	xxo	xo	xo	xxx
13	Linda Horvath	Austria	1.85	O	O	O	xxx
14th	Yoko Ota	Japan	1.85	-	xo	O	xxx
15th	Niki Bakogianni	Greece	1.85	-	O	xo	xxx
16	Tatyana Efimenko	Kyrgyzstan	1.80	-	O	xxx
	Nicole Forrester	Canada	1.80	O	O	xxx

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1.75 m	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.89 m	1.92 m	1.94 m
1	Hanne Haugland	Norway	1.92	-	O	O	O	O	-
	Wita Stjopina	Ukraine	1.92	-	O	O	O	O	x
	Zuzana Hlavonová	Czech Republic	1.92	-	O	O	O	O
4th	Jelena Jelessina	Ukraine	1.92	-	O	xo	O	O
5	Amewu Mensah	Germany	1.92	O	O	O	O	xo
6th	Svetlana Lapina	Russia	1.92	-	O	O	xxo	xo
7th	Amy Acuff	United States	1.92	-	O	O	O	xxo	x
8th	Monica Dinescu	Romania	1.92	-	O	O	xxo	xxo	x
9	Svetlana Zalevskaya	Kazakhstan	1.92	-	xo	O	xxo	xxo	x
10	Marta Mendía	Spain	1.89	O	O	xo	xo	xxx
11	Miki Imai	Japan	1.89	-	xo	O	xxo	xxx
12	Lucie Finez	France	1.85	O	O	O	xxx
13	Nevena Lendjel	Croatia	1.85	xo	O	O	xxx
14th	Tazzjana Scheutschyk	Belarus	1.85	-	O	xo	xxx
15th	As long as Witteveen	Argentina	1.85	O	O	xxo	xxx
16	Ina Gliznuța	Moldova	1.85	O	xo	xxo	xxx
DNS	Donata Jancewicz	Poland

final

August 29, 1999, 6:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1.85 m	1.90 m	1.93 m	1.96 m	1.99 m	2.01 m
1	Inha Babakowa	Ukraine	1.99	O	O	O	O	O	xxx
2	Jelena Jelessina	Ukraine	1.99	O	O	O	O	xo	xxx
3	Svetlana Lapina	Russia	1.99	O	O	xxo	xxo	xxo	xxx
4th	Tisha Waller	United States	1.96	O	O	O	O	xxx
	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	1.96	O	O	O	O	xxx
	Zuzana Hlavonová	Czech Republic	1.96	O	O	O	O	xxx
7th	Wita Stjopina	Ukraine	1.96	O	O	xxo	O	xxx
8th	Svetlana Zalevskaya	Kazakhstan	1.93	O	O	O	xxx
9	Amy Acuff	United States	1.93	O	xxo	O	x–	xx
10	Hanne Haugland	Norway	1.93	O	O	xo	xxx
	Monica Dinescu	Romania	1.93	O	O	xo	xxx
12	Elena Gulyayeva	Russia	1.93	O	O	xxo	xxx
NM	Amewu Mensah	Germany	ogV	xxx

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  Kajsa Bergqvist was fourth here without a medal - in the further course of her career she won several titles and medals

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  Wita Stjopina came in seventh

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  The ninth placed Amy Acuff

Video

• Women's High Jump World Athletics Champs Seville 1999 on youtube.com, accessed July 28, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
• Women High Jump Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 28, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women High Jump, Seville 1999, p. 312f (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 28, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 28, 2020