2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	37 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 28, 2000 (qualification) September 30, 2000 (final)
Medalists Jelena Jelessina ( RUS )   Hestrie Cloete ( RSA )   Kajsa Bergqvist ( SWE ) Oana Pantelimon ( ROM )

The women's high jump at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 28 and 30, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 37 athletes took part.

The Russian Jelena Jelessina became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the South African Hestrie Cloete . Two bronze medals were awarded. One went to the Swede Kajsa Bergqvist , the other to the Romanian Oana Pantelimon .

With Amewu Mensah , a German took part in the competition. She reached the final and was eighth.
The Austrian Linda Horvath was eliminated in the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1996	Stefka Kostadinowa ( Bulgaria )	2.05 m	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Inha Babakowa ( Ukraine )	1.99 m	Seville 1999
European Champion 1998	Monica Iagăr-Dinescu ( Romania )	1.97 m	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Solange Witteveen ( Argentina )	1.88 m	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999	Karen Beautle ( Jamaica )	1.79 m	Bridgetown 1999
South America Champion 1999	Luciane Dambacher ( Brazil )	1.87 m	Bogotá 1999
Asian Champion 2000	Bobby Aloysius ( India )	1.83 m	Jakarta 2000
African champion 2000	Hind Bounouar ( Morocco )	1.75 m	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Tatum Rickard ( New Zealand )	1.68 m	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	2.09 m	Stefka Kostadinowa ( Bulgaria )	Rome , Italy	August 30, 1987
Olympic record	2.05 m		Atlanta Final , USA	August 3, 1996

Remarks:

• All times are based on local time in Sydney ( UTC + 10 ).
• All heights are given in meters (m).

qualification

September 28, 2000, 9:45 am
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height for direct entry into the final was 1.94 m. Since thirteen athletes jumped this height (highlighted in light blue), the final field was not filled any further.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1.80	1.85	1.89	1.92	1.94	height	annotation
1	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	-	O	O	O	O	1.94
	Jelena Jelessina	Russia	O	O	O	O	O
	Wita Palamar	Ukraine	O	O	O	O	O
	Svetlana Salevskaya	Kazakhstan	O	O	O	O	O
5	Wenelina Wenewa	Bulgaria	O	O	O	xxo	O	1.94
6th	Oana Pantelimon	Romania	O	xxo	xo	O	xx o	1.94
7th	Ioamnet Quintero	Cuba	O	O	O	O	xxx	1.92
8th	Svetlana Lapina	Russia	O	O	xo	x o	xxx	1.92
9	Miki Imai	Japan	O	O	xxo	x o	xxx	1.92
10	Thóra Győrffy	Hungary	O	O	O	xxx		1.89
11	Nelė Žilinskienė	Lithuania	O	O	x o	xxx		1.89
12	Marta Mendía	Spain	O	xo	x o	xxx		1.89
13	Ina Gliznuța	Moldova	O	xo	xx o	xxx		1.89
14th	Erin Aldrich	United States	O	O	xxx			1.85
15th	Alison Inverarity	Australia	x o	xxx				1.80
16	Agni Charalambous	Cyprus	xx o	xxx				1.80
ogV	Karen Beautle	Jamaica	xxx						without height
	Christina Kaltschewa	Bulgaria	xxx
	Līga Kļaviņa	Latvia	xxx

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1.80	1.85	1.89	1.92	1.94	height	annotation
1	Inha Babakowa	Ukraine	O	O	O	O	O	1.94
	Hestrie Cloete	South Africa	O	O	O	O	O
	Amewu Mensah	Germany	O	O	O	O	O
	Eleonora Milusheva	Bulgaria	O	O	O	O	O
5	Zuzana Hlavoňová	Czech Republic	xxo	O	O	xo	O	1.94
	Monica Iagăr-Dinescu	Romania	O	O	xo	xxo	O
7th	Yoko Ota	Japan	xo	O	xo	xo	xx o	1.94
8th	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	O	O	O	xx o	xxx	1.92
9	Hanne Haugland	Norway	O	O	O	xxx		1.89
10	As long as Witteveen	Argentina	O	xo	O	xxx		1.89
11	Karol Damon	United States	O	xxo	xx o	xxx		1.89
12	Linda Horvath	Austria	xo	xxo	xx o	xxx		1.89
13	Marina Kupzowa	Russia	O	O	xxx			1.85
14th	Olga Bolșova	Moldova	O	x o	xxx			1.85
15th	Iryna Mychaltchenko	Ukraine	O	xx o	xxx			1.85
16	Tazzjana Scheutschyk	Belarus	xo	xx o	xxx			1.85
17th	Amy Acuff	United States	O	xxx				1.80
18th	Niki Bakogianni	Greece	xx o	xxx				1.80
ogV	Tatiana Efimenko	Kyrgyzstan	xxx						without height

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  The American Erin Aldrich was eliminated with 1.85 m as the fourteenth of her qualification group

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  The Croatian Blanka Vlašić reached eighth place with 1.92 m in her qualification group and was eliminated

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  Amy Acuff from the USA was seventeenth with 1.80 m in her qualifying group and did not reach the final

final

Bronze medalist Kajsa Bergqvist from Sweden

September 30, 2000, 7:00 p.m.

Thirteen athletes qualified for the final, all of whom had skipped the qualification level: two Bulgarians, two Romanians and two Ukrainians, as well as one participant each from Germany, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Sweden, South Africa and the Czech Republic.

The circle of victory contenders included, in particular, the Ukrainian world champion Inha Babakova and the two Russians Elena Jelessina as vice world champion and Svetlana Lapina as WM -Third.

After the fourth height in the final of 1.96 m, six athletes were no longer there. Three jumpers were in first place without any previous unsuccessful attempt: Jelessina, the Swede Kajsa Bergqvist and the Romanian Oana Pantelimon. Three other athletes, Babakova among them, could not jump 1.99 m. There were only four participants in the battle for the medals when 2.01 m was put on. Jelessina had held first place without a mistake, the South African Hestrie Cloete was second ahead of Bergqvist and Pantelimon.

Pantelimon failed three times at 2.01 m, Bergqvist had a failed jump and took her two remaining attempts to the next height. Cloete and Jelessina crossed the bar with their second jumps. Now it went on with 2.03 m. Kajsa Bergqvist could not cross the bar even with her two remaining attempts and was now third with Oana Pantelimon, both had exactly the same number of failed attempts and so bronze was awarded twice. Cloete and Jelessina also failed because of the altitude. Hestrie Cloete had one more failed attempt than the Russian, which left her with the silver medal, gold went to Jelena Jelessina.

Hestrie Cloete was the first South African medalist in the women's high jump.

space	Surname	nation	1.85	1.90	1.93	1.96	1.99	2.01	2.03	Bottom line	annotation
1	Jelena Jelessina	Russia	O	O	O	O	O	x o	xxx	2.01
2	Hestrie Cloete	South Africa	O	O	O	xo	O	x o	xxx	2.01
3	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	O	O	O	O	x o	x-	xx	1.99
	Oana Pantelimon	Romania	O	O	O	O	x o	xxx		1.99
5	Inha Babakowa	Ukraine	O	O	xo	O	xxx			1.96
6th	Svetlana Salevskaya	Kazakhstan	xo	xo	O	O	xxx			1.96
7th	Wita Palamar	Ukraine	O	O	xo	xx o	xxx			1.96
8th	Amewu Mensah	Germany	O	O	O	xxx				1.93
9	Monica Iagăr-Dinescu	Romania	O	O	x o	xxx				1.93
	Wenelina Wenewa	Bulgaria	O	O	x o	xxx
11	Zuzana Hlavoňová	Czech Republic	O	x o	xxx					1.90
	Yoko Ota	Japan	O	x o	-	xxx
13	Eleonora Milusheva	Bulgaria	xo	x o	xxx					1.90

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed April 14, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 14, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 14, 2018

Video

• Women's high jump final - Athens Summer Olympics 2004 published May 6, 2014 on youtube.com, accessed April 14, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 798 , accessed on April 14, 2018