1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Women)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | high jump | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 17 athletes from 20 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Helsinki Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 27, 1952 | ||||||||
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The women's high jump at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki was held on July 27, 1952. 17 athletes took part.
The South African Esther Brand became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the British Sheila Lerwill and Alexandra Tschudina from the Soviet Union.
Existing records
World record | 1.72 m |
Sheila Lerwill ( Great Britain )
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London , UK | July 7, 1951 |
Olympic record | 1.68 m |
Alice Coachman ( USA )
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London , UK | August 7, 1948 |
Dorothy Tyler ( Great Britain )
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Conducting the competition
The participants started the competition on July 27th at 3:20 pm. There was no qualifying round.
Course of the competition and final result
Date: July 27, 1952, 3:20 p.m.
The European champion and world record holder Sheila Lerwill was the favorite. Her strongest competitors were the South African Esther Brand and the Soviet Russian Alexandra Tschudina. These three then made the medals among themselves. They were the only ones who made the 1.61 m height. Tschudina took the lead at 1.63 m, she jumped the height in the first attempt, Brand in the second and Lerwill in the third. At 1.65 m, Tschudina failed and remained on the bronze rank. With her successful jump over this height in the second attempt, Brand now took the lead, but Lerwill stayed in the race and followed in the third attempt. Brand jumped the next height of 1.67 m in the third attempt, Lerwill tore the bar three times and won the silver medal. Brand had 1.69 mm applied, but failed at this height. She became Olympic champion with a skipped 1.67 m.
Esther Brand won the gold medal in athletics for South Africa. At the same time, it was the first gold medal given by a South African woman.
Alexandra Tschudina won the first medal for the Soviet Union in the women's high jump .
space | Surname | nation | 1.35 m | 1.40 m | 1.45 m | 1.50 m | 1.55 m | 1.58 m | 1.61 m | 1.63 m | 1.65 m | 1.67 m | 1.69 m | result | annotation |
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1 | Esther Brand |
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- | O | O | O | O | O | O | xo | xo | xx o | xxx | 1.67 m | |
2 | Sheila Lerwill |
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- | O | - | xo | O | O | O | xxo | xx o | xxx | 1.65 m | ||
3 | Alexandra Tschudina |
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- | - | O | O | O | O | xo | O | xxx | 1.63 m | |||
4th | Thelma Hopkins |
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- | - | - | O | O | O | xxx | 1.58 m | |||||
5 | Olga Modrachová |
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- | O | O | O | O | O | xxx | 1.58 m | |||||
6th | Feodora Schenk |
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- | - | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 1.58 m | |||||
7th | Nina Kosova |
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- | - | O | O | O | xx o | xxx | 1.58 m | |||||
Dorothy Tyler |
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9 | Gunhild Larking |
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- | O | O | O | O | xxx | 1.55 m | ||||||
10 | Alice Whitty |
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O | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 1.55 m | ||||||
11 | Galina Ganeker |
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- | - | O | xo | x o | xxx | 1.55 m | ||||||
12 | Deyse de Castro |
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- | - | - | O | xxx | 1.50 m | |||||||
13 | Dawn Josephs |
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O | O | O | O | xxx | 1.50 m | |||||||
14th | Solveig Ericsson |
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- | O | xo | O | xxx | 1.50 m | |||||||
15th | Seija Pöntinen |
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- | O | O | xx o | xxx | 1.50 m | |||||||
16 | Sisko Heikkilä |
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O | O | xxx | 1.40 m | |||||||||
17th | Tamar Metal |
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O | x o | xxx | 1.40 m |
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 106
Web links
- SportsReference high jump , accessed September 29, 2017
- Official report p. 342, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 29, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 644 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Official report p. 266, engl. (PDF)
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)