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)
Medalists Ulrike Meyfarth ( FRG )   Sara Simeoni ( ITA )   Joni Huntley ( USA )

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
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
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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 798 , accessed on January 14, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 266, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018