2017 World Athletics Championships / Women's high jump

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's high jump
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Participants	30 athletes from 22 countries
Competition phase	August 10, 2017 (qualification) August 12, 2017 (final)
Medalists
gold	Marija Lassizkene ( ANA )
silver	Julia Levchenko ( UKR )
bronze	Kamila Lićwinko ( POL )

Presentation of the high jump finalists before the competition

The women's high jump at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , Great Britain , on August 10-12, 2017 .

World champion was the Russian Marija Lassizkene , starting under a neutral flag . She won ahead of the Ukrainian Yulia Levchenko . Bronze went to Kamila Lićwinko from Poland .

Records

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

qualification

Irina Gordejewa, who started under a neutral flag, failed in the qualification with 1.89 m

The Ukrainian Oksana Okunjewa was 1.89 m not enough for the final

The Italian Alessia Trost jumped 1.89 m and was eliminated

The Finn Linda Sandblom jumped 1.88 m, which was clearly too little for a final

August 10, 2017, August 2017, 7:10 p.m. local time (8:10 p.m. CEST )

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.94 m. No jumper even approached this height, all athletes who had managed 1.92 m assumed that this would be sufficient for the final qualification, because they were among the twelve best. In the end, twelve athletes reached the final with a jump of 1.92 m (highlighted in light green).

Group A

space	Athlete	country	1.80	1.85	1.89	1.92	Height (m)
1	Katarina Johnson-Thompson	Great Britain	O	O	xo	O	1.92
	Inika McPherson	United States	-	O	xo	O
3	Vashti Cunningham	United States	O	O	O	xo	1.92
	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania	O	O	O	xo
5	Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch	Germany	O	O	O	xxo	1.92
6th	Levern Spencer	St. Lucia	O	O	O	xxx	1.89
7th	Irina Gordeeva	Authorized Neutral Athletes	O	xo	O	xxx	1.89
8th	Kimberly Williamson	Jamaica	O	xxo	O	xxx	1.89
9	Oksana Okuneva	Ukraine	O	xxo	xxo	xxx	1.89
10	Erika Kinsey	Sweden	O	O	xxx		1.85
	Marija Vuković	Montenegro	O	O	xxx
12	Ana Simic	Croatia	O	xo	xxx		1.85
13	Tatiana Gousin	Greece	xo	xxo	xxx		1.85
14th	Erika Furlani	Italy	xo	xxx			1.80
NM	Nicola McDermott	Australia	xxx				without height

Group B

space	Athlete	country	1.80	1.85	1.89	1.92	Height (m)
1	Marija Lassizkene	Authorized Neutral Athletes	-	O	O	O	1.92
	Julia Levchenko	Ukraine	O	O	O	O
	Kamila Lićwinko	Poland	-	O	O	O
4th	Mirela Demirewa	Bulgaria	O	O	O	xo	1.92 SB
	Morgan Lake	Great Britain	O	O	O	xo	1.92
6th	Michaela Hrubá	Czech Republic	O	O	xo	xo	1.92
7th	Ruth Beitia	Spain	O	O	O	xxo	1.92
8th	Maruša Černjul	Slovenia	O	O	O	xxx	1.89
	Iryna Herashchenko	Ukraine	O	O	O	xxx
10	Sofie Skoog	Sweden	O	O	xo	xxx	1.89
11	Alessia consolation	Italy	O	O	xxo	xxx	1.89
12	Nadiya Dusanova	Uzbekistan	O	O	xxx		1.85
	Alyxandria Treasure	Canada	O	O	xxx
14th	Elizabeth Patterson	United States	O	xxx			1.80
15th	Linda Sandblom	Finland	xxo	xxx			1.80

final

August 12, 2017, 7:05 p.m. local time (8:05 p.m. CEST )

Some successful athletes from the last few years have not been here in London for various reasons . So missing the Croatian Blanka Vlasic , including double world champion of 2007 / 2009 and Olympic silver medalist from 2008 , the Russian Anna Tschitscherowa , world champion in 2011 and Olympic champion in 2012 , and the Russian world champion of 2015 Marija Kutschina . The Spaniard Ruth Beitia, Olympic champion in 2016 and double European champion of 2014 / 2016 was again among the favorites. However, she was already 38 years old and the question arose about the performance options at that age. The Bulgarian Olympic runner-up and vice European champion Mirela Demirewa as well as the Polish World Cup third from 2015 Kamila Lićwinko also competed with good opportunities. Airinė Palšytė from Lithuania, vice-European champion together with Demirewa, and Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch from Germany, who had achieved placings between five and seven in recent years at World and European Championships and the Olympic Games, were also among the favorites.

Six athletes were still in the competition with a jump height of 1.97 m. Jungfleisch, the Ukrainian Julija Levtschenko and Marija Lassizkene, who started under a neutral flag, were without any failure on their accounts. The two Britons Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Morgan Lake were burdened with one missed jump each, Lićwinko with two missed jumps. Of the co-favorites, Beitia had already failed at 1.92 m, which put her in twelfth place. Demirewa and Palšytė took seventh place with a jump of 1.92 m.

Lassizkene and Levtschenko were now successful with their first jump at 1.97 m. Lićwinko jumped the height on the third attempt. The other three remaining athletes failed three times each. Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch was fourth, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Morgan Lake finished fifth. Now 1.99 m was laid. Levchenko and Lićwinko both made it the first time. Lassizkene saved her remaining jumps after a failed attempt for the next height. She mastered the now required 2.01 m with her first jump. Levchenko followed suit on her second attempt, while Lićwinko saved her last remaining jump after failing twice at 2.01m.

The decision was made at 2.03 m. Lassizkene jumped the height on her first attempt. Kamila Lićwinko tore 2.03 m in her last remaining attempt and won bronze. Julija Levchenko tried three times in vain and won silver. Marija Lassizkene now had 2.08 m hung up, but it was too high for her here. She was the new world champion and at the same time won the only gold medal of the athletes starting under a neutral flag.

space	Athlete	country	1.84	1.88	1.92	1.95	1.97	1.99	2.01	2.03	2.08	Height (m)
	Marija Lassizkene	Authorized Neutral Athletes	O	O	O	O	O	x–	O	O	xxx	2.03
	Julia Levchenko	Ukraine	O	O	O	O	O	O	xo	xxx		2.01 PB
	Kamila Lićwinko	Poland	O	O	xo	xo	xxo	O	xx–	x		1.99 SB
4th	Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch	Germany	O	O	O	O	xxx					1.95
5	Katarina Johnson-Thompson	Great Britain	O	O	xo	O	xxx					1.95 SB
	Morgan Lake	Great Britain	O	O	O	xo	xxx					1.95
7th	Mirela Demirewa	Bulgaria	O	O	O	xxx						1.92 SB
	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania	O	O	O	xxx						1.92
9	Inika McPherson	United States	-	xo	O	xxx						1.92
10	Vashti Cunningham	United States	O	O	xxo	xxx						1.92
11	Michaela Hrubá	Czech Republic	O	xo	xxo	xxx						1.92
12	Ruth Beitia	Spain	O	O	xxx							1.88

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  World champion Marija Lassizkene, neutral athlete

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  Vice world champion Julia Levchenko, Ukraine

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  Bronze medalist Kamila Lićwinko, Poland

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  The German Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch came fourth

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  The British Katarina Johnson-Thompson took fifth place

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  Morgan Lake, another British woman, also finished fifth

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  Shared seventh place for the Bulgarian Mirela Demirewa

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  Airinė Palšytė came in seventh place

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  The American Inika McPherson came in ninth

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  Vashti Cunningham, the second American in this final, was tenth

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  The Czech Michaela Hrubá took eleventh place

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  The 2016 Olympic champion Ruth Beitia from Spain had to be content with twelfth place here

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, women high jump on the IAAF website , accessed on December 17, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 17, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 17, 2018

Videos

• WCH London 2017 Highlights - High Jump - Women - Final - Lasitskene on youtube.com, published August 13, 2017, accessed December 17, 2018
• Julija Levtschenko 2.01 m - Women High Jump Final - IAAF World Championships 2017 on youtube.com, published on August 13, 2017, accessed on December 17, 2018
• Kamila Licwinko 1.99 m - World Championship 2017, High jump, bronze medal on youtube.com, published on August 13, 2017, accessed on December 17, 2018