1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | high jump | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 31 athletes from 25 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Centennial Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 1, 1996 (qualification) August 3, 1996 (final) |
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The women's high jump at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was played on August 1 and 3, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 31 athletes took part.
The Bulgarian Stefka Kostadinova became Olympic champion . She won ahead of Greek Niki Bakogianni and Ukrainian Inha Babakowa .
Alina Astafei , who won silver for Romania in 1992 , started for Germany . Since 1995 she was allowed to start for Germany. She qualified for the finals and finished fifth.
The Swiss Sieglinde Cadusch was eliminated in the qualification.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion in 1992 | Heike Henkel ( Germany ) | 2.02 m | Barcelona 1992 |
World Champion 1995 | Stefka Kostadinowa ( Bulgaria ) | 2.01 m | Gothenburg 1995 |
European champion in 1994 | Britta Bilač ( Slovenia ) | 2.00 m | Helsinki 1994 |
Pan American Champion 1995 | Ioamnet Quintero ( Cuba ) | 1.94 m | Mar del Plata 1995 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1995 | María del Carmen García ( Cuba ) | 1.80 m | Guatemala City 1995 |
South America Champion 1995 | Orlane dos Santos ( Brazil ) | 1.80 m | Manaus 1995 |
Asian champion 1995 | Swetlana Zalewskaja ( Kazakhstan ) | 1.89 m | Jakarta 1995 |
African champion 1996 | Irène Tiendrébéogo ( Burkina Faso ) | 1.84 m | Yaoundé 1996 |
Oceania champion 1994 | Carmen Hunter ( Australia ) | 1.77 m | Auckland 1994 |
Existing records
World record | 2.09 m | Stefka Kostadinowa ( Bulgaria ) | Rome , Italy | August 30, 1987 |
Olympic record | 2.03 m | Louise Ritter ( USA ) | Final from Seoul , South Korea | September 30, 1988 |
Note: All times are Atlanta local time ( UTC − 5 ).
qualification
August 1, 1996, 9:30 a.m.
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.95 m. No jumper even approached this height, all athletes who had climbed 1.93 m assumed that this would be sufficient for the final qualification because they were among the twelve best. In the end, fourteen athletes reached the final with a jump of 1.93 m (highlighted in light green).
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1.75 m | 1.80 m | 1.85 m | 1.90 m | 1.93 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Inha Babakowa | Ukraine | - | - | O | O | O | 1.93 m | |
Niki Bakogianni | Greece | - | O | O | O | O | |||
Antonella Bevilacqua | Italy | - | O | O | O | O | |||
Elena Gulyayeva | Russia | - | O | O | O | O | |||
Stefka Kostadinova | Bulgaria | - | O | O | O | O | |||
Tisha Waller | United States | O | O | O | O | O | |||
Svetlana Zalevskaya | Kazakhstan | - | O | O | O | O | |||
8th | Olga Bolșova | Moldova | - | O | xo | O | x o | 1.93 m | |
9 | Condinitha Teaberry | United States | O | xo | O | xx o | xxx | 1.90 m | |
10 | Sieglinde Cadusch | Switzerland | O | O | O | xxx | 1.85 m | ||
Deborah Marti | Great Britain | O | O | O | xxx | ||||
12 | Natasha Alleyne | Trinidad and Tobago | O | xo | xx o | xxx | 1.85 m | ||
13 | Juana Rosario | Dominican Republic | O | O | xxx | 1.80 m | |||
14th | Joanne Jennings | Great Britain | O | O | xxx | 1.80 m | |||
15th | Svetlana Munkowa | Uzbekistan | O | xx o | xxx | 1.80 m | |||
16 | Irène Tiendrébéogo | Burkina Faso | xx o | xxx | 1.75 m | ||||
DNS | Coralea Cline | Czechoslovakia | |||||||
Sigrid Kirchmann | Austria |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1.75 m | 1.80 m | 1.85 m | 1.90 m | 1.93 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Alina Astafei | Germany | - | O | O | O | O | 1.93 m | |
Hanne Haugland | Norway | - | O | O | O | O | |||
Tatiana Motkova | Russia | O | O | O | O | O | |||
Nelė Žilinskienė | Lithuania | - | O | O | O | O | |||
5 | Britta Bilač | Slovenia | - | O | O | O | x o | 1.93 m | |
6th | Zuzana Kováčiková | Czech Republic | O | O | xo | xo | xx o | 1.93 m | |
7th | Tatiana Khramova | Belarus | - | O | O | O | xxx | 1.90 m | |
8th | Kajsa Bergqvist | Sweden | O | O | xo | O | xxx | 1.90 m | |
9 | Lea Haggett | Great Britain | - | xo | O | x o | xxx | 1.90 m | |
10 | Ioamnet Quintero | Cuba | - | O | O | xx o | xxx | 1.90 m | |
11 | Yulia Lyachova | Russia | - | O | O | xxx | 1.85 m | ||
Wita Stjopina | Ukraine | - | O | O | xxx | ||||
13 | Ina Gliznuța | Moldova | O | xo | O | xxx | 1.85 m | ||
14th | Amy Acuff | United States | O | O | x o | xxx | 1.85 m | ||
Alica Javadová | Slovakia | - | O | x o | xxx | ||||
16 | Wenelina Wenewa | Bulgaria | xxo | xx o | xxx | 1.80 m | |||
ogV | Alison Inverarity | Australia | - | - | xxx | without height |
final
August 3, 1996, 6:30 p.m.
Fourteen athletes had qualified for the final, none of them had skipped the required qualification level, all of them had reached this final via their placements. Two Russian women met one athlete each from Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and the USA.
The reigning world champion and world record holder Stefka Kostadinowa from Bulgaria was considered the favorite . Other medal contenders were runner-up world champion Alina Astafei from Germany, who was second in the 1992 Olympics when she started for Romania, and Inha Babakowa , who was third in the Ukrainian World Cup .
In the final, five jumpers were eliminated at the fifth height - 1.96 m, and two more at 1.99 m. When the 2.01 m was put up, six athletes were still in the race: the Russian Tatiana Motkowa and Astafei, who had both torn 1.99 m once and saved their further attempts for the next height, the Greek Niki Bakogianni and the Russian Jelena Guljajewa, who were both burdened with two failed attempts each, but had skipped 1.99 m, as well as Babakowa and Kostadinowa, who both had no failed jumps so far. 2.01 m were then too high for Jelena Guljajewa - in the end result fourth - Alina Astafei and Tatjana Motkowa - in the end together with the Lithuanian Nelė Žilinskienė on a shared fifth place. In the battle for the medals, there were now only three athletes left in the race: Kostadinova, Babakowa and Bakogianni. Inha Babakowa failed three times at 2.03 m, so she won the bronze medal. The other two high jumpers, on the other hand, managed 2.03 m, Kostadinowa in the first and Bakogianni in the third attempt. With this height they had set Louise Ritter's Olympic record of 1988 . At 2.05 m, the Greek broke the bar three times, so Niki Bakogianni had won the silver medal as an underdog. Stefka Kostadinowa jumped the new Olympic record high in the second attempt and thus became Olympic champion for the first time in her third participation. Her three attempts at the world record height of 2.10 m remained in vain.
The Italian Antonella Bevilacqua originally came fourth with 1.99 m. Before the Atlanta Games, she had been found to have ephedrine and pseudoephedrine in doping tests. Bevilacqua then blamed Chinese slimming pills. The Italian federation granted her a start permit for the Olympic Games. In an IAAF sports court case , her license was subsequently withdrawn and her results were canceled.
Stefka Kostadinova was the first Bulgarian Olympic champion in the women's high jump .
Niki Bakogianni won the first Greek medal in this discipline, Inha Babakowa won the first medal for Ukraine, which was participating as an independent nation for the first time.
space | Surname | nation | 1.80 m | 1.85 m | 1.90 m | 1.93 m | 1.96 m | 1.99 m | 2.01 m | 2.03 m | 2.05 m | 2.10 m | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Stefka Kostadinova | Bulgaria | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 2.05 m | OR |
2 | Niki Bakogianni | Greece | O | O | xo | O | O | xo | xo | xx o | xxx | 2.03 m | ||
3 | Inha Babakowa | Ukraine | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | xxx | 2.01 m | |||
4th | Elena Gulyayeva | Russia | - | O | O | O | xo | x o | xxx | 1.99 m | ||||
5 | Alina Astafei | Germany | - | O | O | O | O | x-- | xx | 1.96 m | ||||
Tatiana Motkova | Russia | - | O | O | O | O | x-- | xx | ||||||
Nelė Žilinskienė | Lithuania | O | O | O | O | O | xxx | |||||||
8th | Hanne Haugland | Norway | - | O | xxo | xo | O | xxx | 1.96 m | |||||
9 | Britta Bilač | Slovenia | O | O | O | O | xxx | 1.93 m | ||||||
Tisha Waller | United States | O | O | O | O | xxx | ||||||||
11 | Olga Bolșova | Moldova | O | O | xo | x o | xxx | 1.93 m | ||||||
Zuzana Kováčiková | Czech Republic | O | xo | O | x o | xxx | ||||||||
13 | Svetlana Zalevskaya | Kazakhstan | O | O | xo | xx o | xxx | 1.93 m | ||||||
DOP | Antonella Bevilacqua | Italy | O | O | O | O | O | O | xxx |
literature
- Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 50
Web links
- SportsReference high jump , accessed March 14, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 89, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 14, 2018
Video
- Women's High Jump Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published June 22, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 14, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 798 , accessed on March 14, 2018
- ↑ a b Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 89, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 14, 2018