1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	35 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 26, 1976 (qualifying) July 28, 1976 (final)
Medalists Rosemarie Ackermann ( GDR )   Sara Simeoni ( ITA )   Jordanka Blagoewa ( BUL )

The women's high jump at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 26th and 28th, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 35 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Rosemarie Ackermann from the GDR. She won ahead of the Italian Sara Simeoni and the Bulgarian Jordanka Blagoewa .

Brigitte Holzapfel and the 1972 Olympic champion , Ulrike Meyfarth , competed for the Federal Republic of Germany . Meyfarth surprisingly failed in the qualification, Holzapfel reached the finals and finished eleventh.
In addition to the winner Ackermann, Rita Kirst also took part for the GDR. You dropped out in the qualification.
Jumpers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	1.96 m	Rosemarie Ackermann ( GDR )	Dresden , GDR (now Germany )	May 8, 1976
Olympic record	1.92 m	Ulrike Meyfarth ( Federal Republic of Germany )	Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	4th September 1972

Conducting the competition

Olympic champion Rosemarie Ackermann, GDR during training

Ria Ahlers from the Netherlands took twelfth place in the final

The jumpers competed in two groups for a qualifying round on July 26th. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final on July 28th was 1.80 m. Since more than twelve athletes jumped this height, the final field was not filled any further.

Time schedule

July 26th, 10:00 am: Qualification
July 28th, 2:00 pm: Final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 26, 1976, from 10:00 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1.70 m	1.75 m	1.78 m	1.80 m	height	annotation
1	Brigitte Holzapfel	BR Germany	-	-	O	O	1.80 m
2	Galina Filatova	Soviet Union	-	O	O	O	1.80 m
	Joni Huntley	United States	O	O	-	O	1.80 m
4th	Ria Ahlers	Netherlands	O	O	O	O	1.80 m
	Jordanka Blagoewa	Bulgaria
	Marie-Christine Debourse	France
	Anne-Marie Pira	Belgium
	Sara Simeoni	Italy
	Tatiana Schljachto	Soviet Union
10	Cornelia Popa	Romania	O	xo	O	O	1.80 m
11	Rosemarie Ackermann	GDR	-	O	O	x o	1.80 m
12	Mária Mračnová	Czechoslovakia	O	O	O	x o	1.80 m
13	Milada Karbanová	Czechoslovakia	O	O	xo	x o	1.80 m
14th	Rita Kirst	GDR	xo	O	O	xxx	1.78 m
	Ulrike Meyfarth	BR Germany
16	Věra Bradáčová	Czechoslovakia	O	xx o	xxx		1.75 m
17th	Nadseja Marynenka	Soviet Union	O	xxx			1.70 m
ogV	Debbie Brill	Canada	-	xxx				without height

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1.70 m	1.75 m	1.78 m	1.80 m	height	annotation
1	Snežana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia	O	O	O	O	1.80 m
	Andrea Mátay	Hungary
	Julie White	Canada
4th	Louise Walker	Canada	O	xxo	O	O	1.80 m
5	Audrey Reid	Jamaica	O	O	O	x o	1.80 m
6th	Susann Sundkvist	Finland	O	xo	O	x o	1.80 m
	Annette Tånnander	Sweden
8th	Paula Girven	United States	O	O	xxo	x o	1.80 m
9	Donatella Bulfoni	Italy	O	O	xxx		1.75 m
10	Maria Luísa Betioli	Brazil	O	xx o	xxx		1.75 m
11	Mikiko Sone	Japan	O	xxx			1.70 m
	Pam Spencer	United States
	Astrid Tveit	Norway
14th	Moira Walls	Great Britain	x o	xxx			1.70 m
ogV	Denise Brown	Great Britain	xxx					without height
	Disa Gísladóttir	Iceland
	Giuseppina Grassi	San Marino

final

Date: July 28, 1976, 2:00 p.m.

The top favorite was the world record holder and European champion from 1974 , Rosemarie Ackermann from the GDR. At the 1972 Olympic Games , she was seventh under the name Rosemarie Witschas. Her main competitor was the Italian Sara Simeoni, who had also been there in Munich and finished sixth. The Bulgarian Olympic bronze medalist from 1972, Jordanka Blagoewa, was able to qualify for the final here in Montreal and was again considered a medal contender alongside other participants such as the Czechoslovak Mária Mračnová and Brigitte Holzapfel from the Federal Republic of Germany. Ulrike Meyfarth, on the other hand, who surprisingly became Olympic champion in Munich, no longer had this shape and was in a crisis for a few years before she came back strengthened in 1982.

21 jumpers had mastered the qualification level. Eleven of them mastered the height of 1.87 m in the final. At 1.89 m, six other athletes were eliminated. It was 1.91 m that had to be taken to win a medal. Of the five remaining athletes so far, Mária Mračnová, who came fourth, and the American Joni Huntley in fifth, two other athletes were eliminated. Simeoni led to this height, so far she has not had a failed attempt. Ackermann was in second place with an error of 1.89 m. Blagoewa took third place in the intermediate ranking with a failed attempt over 1.91 m. The next height of 1.93 m meant a new Olympic record . Rosemarie Ackermann alone was able to cross the bar. So she became Olympic champion in front of Sara Simeoni and Jordanka Blagoewa, who had crossed 1.91 m. Ackermann then recorded three failed attempts at 1.97 m, which would have been a new world record height.

Rosemarie Ackermann was the GDR's first female Olympic champion in the women's high jump .
Sara Simeoni won the first Italian medal in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	1.70 m	1.75 m	1.78 m	1.81 m	1.84 m	1.87 m	1.89 m	1.91 m	1.93 m	1.97 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Rosemarie Ackermann	GDR	-	O	-	O	O	O	xo	O	x o	xxx	1.93 m	OR
2	Sara Simeoni	Italy	-	O	O	O	O	O	O	O	xxx		1.91 m
3	Jordanka Blagoewa	Bulgaria	-	-	O	O	O	O	O	x o	xxx		1.91 m
4th	Mária Mračnová	Czechoslovakia	-	O	-	O	O	O	O	xxx			1.89 m
5	Joni Huntley	United States	-	xo	O	xxo	O	O	x o	xxx			1.89 m
6th	Tatiana Schljachto	Soviet Union	O	O	O	O	O	O	xxx				1.87 m
7th	Annette Tånnander	Sweden	O	O	O	O	O	x o	xxx				1.87 m
8th	Cornelia Popa	Romania	-	-	O	O	O	xx o	xxx				1.87 m
9	Andrea Mátay	Hungary	-	O	O	O	O	xx o	xxx				1.87 m
10	Julie White	Canada	O	xo	O	O	O	xx o	xxx				1.87 m
11	Brigitte Holzapfel	BR Germany	-	-	-	xxo	O	xx o	xxx				1.87 m
12	Ria Ahlers	Netherlands	-	O	O	xo	O	xxx					1.84 m
	Snežana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia
	Galina Filatova	Soviet Union	-	O	xo	O	O	xxx
15th	Marie-Christine Debourse	France	-	O	-	O	x o	xxx					1.84 m
	Susann Sundkvist	Finland
17th	Anne-Marie Pira	Belgium	-	O	O	O	x o	xxx					1.84 m
18th	Paula Girven	United States	O	O	-	xxo	xx o	xxx					1.84 m
19th	Milada Karbanová	Czechoslovakia	-	O	xo	xx o	xxx						1.81 m
20th	Louise Walker	Canada	O	O	x o	xxx							1.78 m
21st	Audrey Reid	Jamaica	O	xo	x o	xxx							1.78 m

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 248f

Video

• MONTREAL OLYMPIC GAMES HIGHLIGHTS - Second Part - COLOR , area 5:05 min - 5:32 min published on July 21, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on December 20, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed December 20, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 42f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 20, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 644 (English) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive accessed) on December 20, 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 20, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 43, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 20, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference (English), accessed December 20, 2017