World Athletics Championships 2015 / women's high jump

World Athletics Championships 2015
discipline	Women's high jump
city	Beijing
place	Beijing National Stadium
Participants	30 athletes from 23 countries
Competition phase	August 27, 2015 (qualification) August 29, 2015 (final)
Medalists
gold	Marija Kutschina ( RUS )
silver	Blanka Vlašić ( CRO )
bronze	Anna Chicherova ( RUS )

Beijing National Stadium

The women's high jump at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place on August 27 and 29, 2015 in Beijing , People's Republic of China .

The Russian Marija Kutschina was world champion ahead of the Croatian Blanka Vlašić . Anna Tschitscherowa , like the winner from Russia, won the bronze medal.

Records

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

qualification

August 27, 2015, 9:35 a.m. local time (3:35 a.m. CEST )

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height was 1.94 m. Since no jumper even approached this height after it became clear that 1.92 m would be sufficient for the final qualification, the final field was recruited from the thirteen best athletes of both groups - highlighted in light green.

Group A

1.89 m was not enough for the Briton Morgan Lake to participate in the final

The Lithuanian Airinė Palšytė jumped 1.89 m in qualification and was eliminated

space	Athlete	country	1.80	1.85	1.89	1.92	Height (m)
01	Levern Spencer	St. Lucia	O	O	O	O	1.92
	Doreen Amata	Nigeria	O	O	O	O
	Anna Chicherova	Russia	-	O	O	O
	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	-	O	O	O
	Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch	Germany	O	O	O	O
06th	Morgan Lake	Great Britain	O	O	O	xxx	1.89
	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania	O	O	O	xxx
08th	Erika Kinsey	Sweden	O	xo	O	xxx	1.89
09	Lissa Labiche	Seychelles	O	xo	xxo	xxx	1.89
10	Iryna Herashchenko	Ukraine	xo	O	xxx		1.85
11	Eleriin Haas	Estonia	O	xxo	xxx		1.85
12	Zheng Xingjuan	People's Republic of China	O	xxx			1.80
13	Wenelina Wenewa-Mateewa	Bulgaria	xo	xxx			1.80
NM	Chaunté Lowe	United States	xxx				without height
	Valentina Liaschenko	Georgia	xxx

Group B

The Swede Sofie Skoog was eliminated from the qualification with a skipped 1.89 m

space	Athlete	country	1.80	1.85	1.89	1.92	Height (m)
01	Ana Simic	Croatia	O	O	O	O	1.92
	Ruth Beitia	Spain	-	O	O	O
	Maria Kuchina	Russia	O	O	O	O
04th	Kamila Lićwinko	Poland	-	O	xo	O	1.92
	Eleanor Patterson	Australia	-	O	xo	O
06th	Jeanelle Scheper	St. Lucia	O	O	xxo	O	1.92
07th	Mirela Demirewa	Bulgaria	O	xo	O	xxo	1.92
08th	Svetlana Radzivil	Uzbekistan	O	O	xo	xxo	1.92
09	Sofie Skoog	Sweden	O	O	O	xxx	1.89
	Oksana Okuneva	Ukraine	O	O	O	xxx
11	Oldriška Marešová	Czech Republic	O	O	xo	xxx	1.89
	Isobel Pooley	Great Britain	O	O	xo	xxx
13	Priscilla Frederick	Antigua and Barbuda	O	O	xxx		1.85
14th	Julia Levchenko	Ukraine	O	xo	xxx		1.85
15th	Barbara Szabó	Hungary	O	xxx			1.80

final

August 29, 2015, 6:30 p.m. local time (12:30 p.m. CEST )

A strong field of high jumpers competed in this competition. Among the favorites, the Spanish double European champion belonged from 2012 / 2014 and WM -Third of 2013 Ruth Beitia, the Croatian double world champion of 2007 / 2009 and Olympic silver medalist from 2008 Blanka Vlasic, the Russian world champion in 2011 and Olympic champion in 2012 Anna Tschitscherowa, the Russian vice European Champion 2014 Marija Kutschina and the Croatian European Championship third from 2014 Ana Šimić.

At the jump height of 1.97 m, there were six athletes in the competition: Tschitscherowa, Kutschina, Tschitscherowa, the Polish Kamila Lićwinko, the German Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch, Vlašić and Beitia. The two Russians, the Polish and the German had not missed any misses, Beitia and Vlašić each one. Only Tschitscherowa and Jungfleisch tore the new height with their first attempt, the other four took 1.97 m the first time. Tschitscherowa was then successful with her second jump, while Jungfleisch played poker and saved her two remaining attempts for the next height. At 1.99 m there were still six jumpers. Except for young meat, everyone mastered this height with just one jump each. But Jungfleisch was also successful with the last attempt she had left.

The next step was 2.01 m. Kutschina kept her clean slate here too, except that Vlašić jumped 2.01 m the first time. For the Russian, this meant a new personal best. Chicherova was then successful with her second jump, while 2.01 m was too high for the three other athletes here in Beijing . They had 1.99 m and due to the rule of failure, Kamila Lićwinko came in fourth, Ruth Beitia was fifth and Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch sixth.

The competition was decided at the next height. All three remaining jumpers tried in vain on the now 2.03 m. Marija Kutschina was world champion ahead of Blanka Vlašić. Anna Tschitscherowa took third place.

space	Athlete	country	1.88	1.92	1.95	1.97	1.99	2.01	2.03	Height (m)
	Maria Kuchina	Russia	O	O	O	O	O	O	xxx	2.01 PB
	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	O	xo	O	O	O	O	xxx	2.01 SB
	Anna Chicherova	Russia	O	-	O	xo	O	xo	xxx	2.01
04th	Kamila Lićwinko	Poland	O	O	O	O	O	xxx		1.99
05	Ruth Beitia	Spain	O	O	xo	O	O	xxx		1.99
06th	Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch	Germany	O	O	O	x—	xo	xxx		1.99 PB
07th	Jeanelle Scheper	St. Lucia	O	O	xxx					1.92
08th	Eleanor Patterson	Australia	xo	O	xxx					1.92
09	Svetlana Radzivil	Uzbekistan	O	xxx						1.88
	Ana Simic	Croatia	O	xxx
	Mirela Demirewa	Bulgaria	O	xxx
12	Doreen Amata	Nigeria	xo	xxx						1.88
	Levern Spencer	St. Lucia	xo	xxx

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  Vice World Champion Blanka Vlašić, Croatia

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  Bronze medalist Anna Chicherova, Russia

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  Fourth place for Kamila Lićwinko from Poland

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  The Spaniard Ruth Beitia took fifth place in the final

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  The German Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch came in sixth place

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  Split ninth place for the Croatian Ana Šimić

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  The Bulgarian Mirela Demirewa finished ninth like Ana Šimić

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  Levern Spencer from St. Lucia finished in twelfth place

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2015 World Championships, women high jump on the IAAF website (English), accessed on November 11, 2018
• Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 11, 2018
• Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 11, 2018

Video

• 2015 Beijing - World Championship - High Jump - Women on youtube.com, published August 30, 2015, accessed November 11, 2018