1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	20 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 25, 1980 (qualification) July 26, 1980 (final)
Medalists Sara Simeoni ( ITA )   Urszula Kielan ( POL )   Jutta Kirst ( GDR )

The women's high jump at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 25 and 26, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. Twenty athletes took part.

The Italian Sara Simeoni became Olympic champion . She won ahead of Urszula Kielan from Poland and Jutta Kirst from the GDR.

In addition to the medalist Kirst, Rosemarie Ackermann and Andrea Reichstein also competed for the GDR . Both reached the final. Ackermann was fourth, Reichstein sixth.

Jumpers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Existing records

World record	2.01 m	Sara Simeoni ( Italy )	Brescia , Italy	4th August 1978
Olympic record	1.93 m	Rosemarie Ackermann ( GDR )	Final of Montreal , Canada	July 28, 1976

Conducting the competition

Two GDR jumpers in conversation: Rosemarie Ackermann (r.) - in the end fourth - and Andrea Reichstein (l.), Who came in sixth

The jumpers competed in two groups for a qualifying round on July 25th. The qualification height for direct entry into the final on July 26th was 1.88 m. Since exactly twelve athletes jumped this height, the final field was not filled any further.

Time schedule

July 25, 10:40 a.m .: Qualification

July 26, 6 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )

The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 25, 1980, from 10:40 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1.70 m	1.75 m	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.88 m	height	annotation
1	Rosemarie Ackermann	GDR	-	O	O	O	O	1.88 m
	Urszula Kielan	Poland
	Andrea Mátay	Hungary
	Marina Syssoyeva	Soviet Union
5	Louise Miller	Great Britain	-	O	O	xo	O	1.88 m
6th	Tamara Bykowa	Soviet Union	-	O	O	O	x o	1.88 m
	Jutta Kirst	GDR
	Sara Simeoni	Italy
9	Andrea Reichstein	GDR	-	O	O	O	xx o	1.88 m
10	Elżbieta Krawczuk	Poland	-	O	O	O	xxx	1.85 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1.70 m	1.75 m	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.88 m	height	annotation
1	Christine Stanton	Australia	O	O	O	O	O	1.88 m
2	Christine Soetewey	Belgium	-	O	xo	O	O	1.88 m
3	Cornelia Popa	Romania	-	xo	O	xo	x o	1.88 m
4th	Danuta Bułkowska	Poland	O	O	O	O	xxx	1.85 m
5	Susanne Lorentzon	Sweden	O	O	O	x o	xxx	1.85 m
6th	Jordanka Blagoewa	Bulgaria	-	O	O	xxx		1.80 m
	Marina Serkowa	Soviet Union
8th	Ann-Ewa Karlsson	Sweden	O	xo	O	xxx		1.80 m
9	Lidija Benedetič	Yugoslavia	-	O	x o	xxx		1.80 m
ogV	Dia Toutounji	Syria	xxx						without height

final

Date: July 26, 1980, 6:00 p.m.

A duel was expected between the Olympic champion Rosemarie Ackermann from the GDR and the Italian world record holder Simeoni, who were the top favorites in any case, even without an Olympic boycott. Another candidate for a medal was Ackermann's team colleague Jutta Kirst, who finished fourth at the last European Championships in 1978 . The third of these EM Brigitte Holzapfel from the Federal Republic of Germany would certainly have been a candidate here, but had to pass because of the boycott.

In the final, seven athletes remained in the race after jumping 1.91 m. Four of them, including surprisingly Ackermann, failed at the height of 1.94 m. Simeoni, Urszula Kielan from Poland and Kirst competed for the medals. Simeoni and Kielan jumped the height of 1.94 m in the first round, Kirst needed two attempts. The following 1.97 m was too high for Kielan and Kirst, Simeoni, on the other hand, took this Olympic record height with her second attempt. With that the medals were distributed. Urszula Kielan won silver, Jutta Kirst bronze because of the higher number of failed attempts. Olympic champion Sara Simeoni set the new world record height of 2.02 m, but tore the bar three times.

Sara Simeoni was the first Italian Olympic champion in the high jump .

Urszula Kielan won the first medal for Poland in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	1.75 m	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.88 m	1.91 m	1.94 m	1.97 m	2.02 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Sara Simeoni	Italy	-	O	O	-	O	O	x o	xxx	1.97 m	OR
2	Urszula Kielan	Poland	-	O	-	O	O	O	xxx		1.94 m
3	Jutta Kirst	GDR	O	O	xo	O	xxo	x o	xxx		1.94 m
4th	Rosemarie Ackermann	GDR	O	O	O	O	O	xxx			1.91 m
5	Marina Syssoyeva	Soviet Union	-	O	O	O	x o	xxx			1.91 m
6th	Andrea Reichstein	GDR	O	O	O	O	x o	xxx			1.91 m
	Christine Stanton	Australia
8th	Cornelia Popa	Romania	-	O	O	O	xxx				1.88 m
9	Tamara Bykowa	Soviet Union	-	O	O	x o	xxx				1.88 m
10	Andrea Mátay	Hungary	-	-	O	xxx					1.85 m
11	Louise Miller	Great Britain	xo	O	O	xxx					1.85 m
12	Christine Soetewey	Belgium	O	O	xxx						1.80 m

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed January 3, 2018
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 86f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 3, 2018

Video

• 1980 Moscow Olympic Games Athletics , range 17:05 min - 17:17 min, published on June 21, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on January 3, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 645 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 3, 2018
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 3, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b} Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 87, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 3, 2018
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed January 3, 2018