1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	27 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 15, 1964
Medalists Iolanda Balaș ( ROU )   Michele Brown ( AUS )   Taissija Tschentschik ( URS )

The high jump women in 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was on 15 October 1964 at the National Olympic Stadium held. 27 athletes took part.

The Romanian Iolanda Balaş was Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Australian Michele Brown and Taissija Tschentschik from the Soviet Union.

Two Germans and two Austrians started, jumpers from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part. The Germans Gerda Kupferschmied and Karin Rüger as well as the Austrian Ulla Flegel reached the final. Here Rüger finished ninth and coppersmith twelfth. Flegel remained without a valid attempt. The Austrian Liese Sykora was eliminated in the qualification.

Existing records

World record	1.91 m	Iolanda Balaș ( Romania )	Sofia , Bulgaria	July 16, 1961
Olympic record	1.85 m		Final of Rome , Italy	September 8, 1960

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on October 15. With a jump of 1.70 meters you were automatically qualified. Should fewer than twelve starters manage this level of qualification, the starting field for the finals on the afternoon of the same day would be filled with the next best jumpers up to twelve participants.

Time schedule

October 15, 10 a.m .: Qualification
October 15, 2 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

The best valid attempt is shown in bold.
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

qualification

Olympic champion Iolanda Balaș from Romania

Date: October 15, 1964, 10:00 a.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, 20–23 ° C, 48–60% humidity

space	Surname	nation	1.55 m	1.60 m	1.65 m	1.68 m	1.70 m	height	annotation
1	Iolanda Balaș	Romania	-	-	O	-	O	1.70 m
	Michele Brown	Australia
	Dianne Gerace	Canada
4th	Frances Slaap	Great Britain	-	O	O	-	O	1.70 m
5	Jarosława Bieda	Poland	-	O	O	O	O	1.70 m
	Aída dos Santos	Brazil
7th	Robyn Woodhouse	Australia	O	O	O	O	O	1.70 m
8th	Olga Gere-Pulic	Yugoslavia	-	xo	xo	O	O	1.70 m
9	Eleanor Montgomery	United States	-	-	O	xxo	O	1.70 m
10	Taissija Tschentschik	Soviet Union	-	O	O	O	xx o	1.70 m
11	Gerda Coppersmith	Germany	O	O	xo	xo	x o	1.70 m
12	Karin Rüger	Germany	O	O	xo	O	xxx	1.68 m
13	Terri Brown	United States	-	-	O	x o	xxx	1.68 m
14th	Ulla Flegel	Austria	xo	O	xxo	x o	xxx	1.68 m
15th	Leena Kaarna	Finland	O	O	xo	xx o	xxx	1.68 m
16	Galina Kostenko	Soviet Union	O	O	O	xxx		1.65 m
	Gwenda Matthews	Great Britain
18th	Amelia Okoli	Nigeria	-	xo	O	xxx		1.65 m
19th	Estelle Baskerville	United States	O	O	x o	xxx		1.65 m
	Michal Lamdani	Israel
21st	Liese Sykora	Austria	xo	xxo	xx o	xxx		1.65 m
22nd	Linda Knowles	Great Britain	O	O	xxx			1.60 m
23	Mitsuko Torii	Japan	O	x o	xxx			1.60 m
24	Lolita Lagrosas	Philippines	O	xxx				1.55 m
ogV	Nazli Bayat Makou	Iran	xxx						without height
	Tipapan Leenasen	Thailand

final

Date: October 15, 1964, 2 p.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, 18–24 ° C, 42–67% humidity

The Romanian Iolanda Balaş was the clear favorite of the athletics competitions at these games. She has been unbeaten since 1957. She had improved the world record twelve times, becoming European champion in 1958 and 1962 and Olympic champion in 1960 . Her world record was now 1.91 m. No other female jumper had managed even 1.80 m before.
As expected, no opponent could keep up in the final. Iolanda Balaş won easily with 1.90 m - that was an Olympic record - and failed only at 1.92 m. Silver went to Michele Brown from Australia, who tore 1.82 m three times. However, she was the first jumper to Balaș who managed to master the height of 1.80 m. Third was Taissija Tschentschik from the USSR with a jump of 1.78 m.

Michele Brown won the first Australian medal in the women's high jump .

Note: The heights in the table below are in meters.

space

Surname

nation

1.55

1.60

1.65

1.68

1.71

1.74

1.76

1.78

1.80

1.82

1.86

1.90

1.92

Bottom line

annotation

1

Iolanda Balaș

Romania

-

-

O

-

O

-

O

O

O

O

O

O

xxx

1.90 m

OR

2

Michele Brown

Australia

-

-

O

-

O

-

O

xo

x o

xxx

1.80 m

3

Taissija Tschentschik

Soviet Union

-

-

O

O

xo

O

xxo

O

xxx

1.78 m

4th

Aída dos Santos

Brazil

-

O

O

O

O

O

xxx

1.78 m

5

Dianne Gerace

Canada

-

-

O

-

O

xxx

1.71 m

6th

Frances Slaap

Great Britain

-

-

O

O

O

xxx

1.71 m

7th

Olga Gere-Pulic

Yugoslavia

-

O

O

O

O

xxx

1.71 m

8th

Eleanor Montgomery

United States

-

-

xo

xo

O

xxx

1.71 m

9

Karin Rüger

Germany

-

O

xo

xo

x o

xxx

1.71 m

10

Jarosława Bieda

Poland

-

O

O

xo

xx o

xxx

1.71 m

11

Robyn Woodhouse

Australia

O

O

O

xo

xx o

xxx

1.71 m

12

Gerda Coppersmith

Germany

-

O

O

O

xxx

1.68 m

13

Leena Kaarna

Finland

O

xo

x o

-

xxx

1.65 m

ogV

Terri Brown

United States

-

-

xxx

without height

Ulla Flegel

Austria

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 301–303

Video

• Olympic games 1964, Tokyo, athletics, high jump women , published September 4, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed October 30, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed October 30, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 98f engl. (PDF), accessed October 30, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 644 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 30 October 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 30, 2017 
3. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 98 (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed October 30, 2017 
4. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 99 (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed October 30, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 30, 2017