1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | high jump | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 29 athletes from 17 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 9, 1984 (qualifying) August 10, 1984 (final) |
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The women's high jump at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 9-10, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 29 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Ulrike Meyfarth from the Federal Republic of Germany. She won ahead of the Italian Sara Simeoni and the American Joni Huntley .
In addition to the Olympic champion, Brigitte Holzapfel and Heike Redetzky also competed for the Federal Republic of Germany . Both reached the final. Redetzky was twelfth, Holzapfel fifteenth.
Jumpers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion in 1980 | Sara Simeoni ( Italy ) | 1.97 m | Moscow 1980 |
World Champion 1983 | Tamara Bykowa ( Soviet Union ) | 2.01 m | Helsinki 1983 |
European champion 1982 | Ulrike Meyfarth ( Federal Republic of Germany ) | 2.02 m | Athens 1982 |
Pan American Champion 1983 | Coleen Sommer ( USA ) | 1.91 m | Caracas 1983 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1983 | Victoria Despaigne ( Cuba ) | 1.78 m | Havana 1983 |
South American champion 1983 | Orlane dos Santos ( Brazil ) | 1.80 m | Santa Fe 1983 |
Asian champion 1983 | Zheng Dazhen ( People's Republic of China ) | 1.84 m | Kuwait 1983 |
African champion 1982 | Fernande Agnentchoué ( Gabon ) | 1.67 m | Cairo 1982 |
Existing records
World record | 2.07 m | Lyudmila Andonova ( Bulgaria ) | Berlin , FR Germany (now Germany ) | July 20, 1984 |
Olympic record | 1.97 min | Sara Simeoni ( Italy ) | Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia ) | July 26, 1980 |
qualification
Date: August 9, 1984
For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualifying height for direct entry into the final was 1.90 m. Since fifteen jumpers mastered this height, the final field was not filled up any further.
Group A
place | Surname | nation | 1.70 m | 1.75 m | 1.80 m | 1.84 m | 1.87 m | 1.90 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Maryse Éwanjé-Épée | France | - | - | O | O | O | O | 1.90 m | |
Christine Stanton | Australia | |||||||||
3 | Heike Redetzky | BR Germany | O | O | O | O | O | O | 1.90 m | |
4th | Debbie Brill | Canada | - | - | O | xo | O | O | 1.90 m | |
Yang Wenqin | People's Republic of China | |||||||||
6th | Louise Ritter | United States | - | - | O | O | xxo | x o | 1.90 m | |
7th | Niculina Vasile | Romania | - | O | O | O | O | xx o | 1.90 m | |
8th | Brigitte Holzapfel | BR Germany | O | O | O | O | xo | xx o | 1.90 m | |
9 | Lidija Lapajne | Yugoslavia | - | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 1.87 m | |
10 | Megumi Sato | Japan | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 1.84 m | ||
11 | Judy Simpson | Great Britain | - | O | O | xx o | xxx | 1.84 m | ||
12th | Brigitte Rougeron | France | - | xo | O | xx o | xxx | 1.84 m | ||
13th | Laura Agront | Puerto Rico | O | O | O | xxx | 1.80 m | |||
14th | Þórdís Gísladóttir | Iceland | O | O | O | x xxx | 1.80 m | |||
15th | Yen-Chiu Liu | Chinese Taipei | x o | xxx | 1.70 m |
Group B
place | Surname | nation | 1.70 m | 1.75 m | 1.80 m | 1.84 m | 1.87 m | 1.90 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Sara Simeoni | Italy | - | - | O | O | O | O | 1.90 m | |
2 | Ulrike Meyfarth | BR Germany | - | O | O | O | O | O | 1.90 m | |
3 | Pam Spencer | United States | - | O | O | O | xo | O | 1.90 m | |
4th | Joni Huntley | United States | - | O | xo | xo | O | O | 1.90 m | |
5 | Diana Elliott | Great Britain | - | O | O | O | O | x o | 1.90 m | |
6th | Vanessa Browne | Australia | - | O | O | xo | xo | x o | 1.90 m | |
7th | Zheng Dazhen | People's Republic of China | - | O | O | O | O | xx o | 1.90 m | |
8th | Hisayo Fukumitsu | Japan | O | O | O | xo | x o | xxx | 1.87 m | |
9 | Ge ping | People's Republic of China | - | xo | xxo | xx o | xxx | 1.84 m | ||
10 | Christine Soetewey | Belgium | - | O | O | xxx | 1.80 m | |||
11 | Liliana Arigoni | Argentina | - | O | x o | xxx | 1.80 m | |||
12th | Isabel Mosún | Spain | O | O | xxx | 1.75 m | ||||
13th | Brigitte Reid | Canada | O | xxx | 1.70 m | |||||
Constance Senghor | Senegal | |||||||||
DNS | Marjon Wijnsma | Netherlands |
final
Date: August 10, 1984
Fifteen athletes had qualified for the final. The starting field included three jumpers each from the Federal Republic of Germany and the USA as well as two each from Australia and the People's Republic of China. There was also one athlete each from Great Britain, Italy, Canada, Romania and France.
Due to the Olympic boycott, the world champion Tamara Bykowa from the Soviet Union and the world record holder Lyudmila Andonova from Bulgaria were absent . However, here in Los Angeles it was to be assumed that there would be high-class competition. The favorites were the Italian Olympic champion from 1980 Sara Simeoni and the European champion from 1982 Ulrike Meyfarth from the Federal Republic of Germany, who had already become Olympic champion in 1972 .
Six of the finalists reached the height of 1.94 m, besides Simeoni and Meyfarth also the American Joni Huntley, the French Maryse Éwanjé-Épée, the Canadian Debbie Brill and the Australian Vanessa Browne. Browne, Éwanjé-Épée and Brill failed at the next height of 1.97 m, for which the three other jumpers each needed two attempts. 2.00 m was then too high for Joni Huntley, who thus became a bronze medalist. Simeoni and Meyfarth skipped the height on the first attempt. Meyfarth then reached 2.02 m with the first jump, here Simeoni failed. Ulrike Meyfarth, who was now the Olympic champion, had the world record height of 2.07 m set, but tore three times. With the Olympic record height of 2.02 m, she had won gold again twelve years after her victory in Munich . Sara Simeoni jumped 2.00 m, three centimeters higher than when she won the Olympic Games in Moscow and won the silver medal.
Sara Simeoni won her third medal in a row after silver in 1976 and gold in 1980 , making her the most successful high jumper at the Olympic Games.
place | Surname | nation | 1.75 m | 1.80 m | 1.85 m | 1.88 m | 1.91 m | 1.94 m | 1.97 m | 2.00 m | 2.02 m | 2.07 m | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Ulrike Meyfarth | BR Germany | - | O | O | O | O | O | xo | O | O | xxx | 2.02 m | OR |
2 | Sara Simeoni | Italy | - | O | O | - | O | O | xo | O | xxx | 2.00 m | ||
3 | Joni Huntley | United States | - | O | xo | O | O | xo | x o | xxx | 1.97 m | |||
4th | Maryse Éwanjé-Épée | France | - | O | O | O | O | O | xxx | 1.94 m | ||||
5 | Debbie Brill | Canada | - | O | O | O | xxo | O | xxx | 1.94 m | ||||
6th | Vanessa Browne | Australia | O | O | xxo | xo | O | x o | xxx | 1.94 m | ||||
7th | Zheng Dazhen | People's Republic of China | - | O | O | O | O | xxx | 1.91 m | |||||
8th | Louise Ritter | United States | - | O | xo | xo | O | xxx | 1.91 m | |||||
9 | Diana Elliott | Great Britain | - | O | O | O | xxx | 1.88 m | ||||||
Yang Wenqin | People's Republic of China | |||||||||||||
11 | Pam Spencer | United States | - | - | O | - | xxx | 1.85 m | ||||||
12th | Heike Redetzky | BR Germany | - | O | O | xxx | 1.85 m | |||||||
Christine Stanton | Australia | |||||||||||||
Niculina Vasile | Romania | - | O | O | - | xxx | ||||||||
15th | Brigitte Holzapfel | BR Germany | O | O | O | xxx | 1.85 m |
literature
- Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 50f
Web links
- SportsReference high jump , accessed January 14, 2018
- Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 266, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
Video
- 16 days of glory - Womens high jump - part 2 , published April 27, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed January 14, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 798 , accessed on January 14, 2018
- ↑ a b Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 266, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018