2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	31 athletes from 22 countries
Competition phase	21./23. August 2008
Medalist
gold	Tia Hellebaut ( BEL )
silver	Blanka Vlašić ( CRO )
bronze	Chaunté Howard ( USA )

The high jump at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was held on August 21 and 23, 2008. 31 athletes took part.

The Belgian Tia Hellebaut became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Croatian Blanka Vlašić . The American Chaunté Howard won bronze .

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion 2004	Jelena Slessarenko ( Russia )	2.06 m	Athens 2004
World Champion 2007	Blanka Vlašić ( Croatia )	2.05 m	Osaka 2007
European Champion 2006	Tia Hellebaut ( Belgium )	2.03 m	Gothenburg 2006
Pan American Champion 2007	Romary Rifka ( Mexico )	1.98 m	Rio de Janeiro 2007
2008 Central American and Caribbean Champion	Levern Spencer ( St. Lucia )	1.91 m	Cali 2008
South American Champion 2007	Caterine Ibargüen ( Colombia )	1.84 m	São Paulo 2007
Asian Champion 2007	Tatiana Efimenko ( Kyrgyzstan )	1.94 m	Amman 2007
African champion 2004	Anika Smit ( South Africa )	1.88 m	Addis Ababa 2008
Oceania Champion 2008	Women's high jump not in the championship program		Saipan 2008

Existing records

World record	2.09 m	Stefka Kostadinowa ( Bulgaria )	Rome , Italy	August 30, 1987
Olympic record	2.06 m	Jelena Slessarenko ( Russia )	Athens Final , Greece	August 28, 2004

doping

There were three female doping sinners in this discipline who were convicted and disqualified in 2016.

• Anna Tschitscherowa , Russia - initially third. She was stripped of her bronze medal for doping abuse.
• Jelena Slessarenko , also from Russia - initially fourth. Their placement was also canceled for doping abuse.
• Wita Palamar , Ukraine - initially fifth. Her result has been deleted for doping abuse.

qualification

August 21, 2008, 10:50 am

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.96 m. None of the participating jumpers approached this height at all, as it became clear that a jumped 1.93 m was sufficient to qualify for the final. Fifteen athletes (highlighted in light green) reached the final. However, among them were the three above. Doping fraudsters, so that only twelve of the finalists made it into the ranking.

Group A

Svetlana Radzivil from Uzbekistan - here on an Uzbek postage stamp - fails with 1.89 m in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.89 m	1.93 m	height	annotation
1	Tia Hellebaut	Belgium	-	O	O	O	1.93
2	Ariane Friedrich	Germany	-	O	xo	O	1.93
3	Svetlana Schkolina	Russia	O	O	O	xo	1.93
4th	Romana Dubnová	Czech Republic	O	xo	O	xxo	1.93
5	Doreen Amata	Nigeria	O	O	O	xxx	1.89
6th	Svetlana Radzivil	Uzbekistan	O	xo	O	xxx	1.89
7th	Amy Acuff	United States	O	O	xo	xxx	1.89
8th	Zheng Xingjuan	People's Republic of China	xo	O	xxo	xxx	1.89
9	Karina Vnukova	Lithuania	O	O	xxx		1.85
10	Sharon Day	United States	xo	O	xxx		1.85
	Antonia Stergiou	Greece	xo	O	xxx
12	Ekaterina Yevseeva	Kazakhstan	O	xxo	xxx		1.85
13	Noeng Ruthai Chaipech	Thailand	O	xxx			1.80
	Ina Gliznuța	Moldova	O	xxx
DOP	Wita Palamar	Ukraine						in the final, later disqualified
	Anna Chicherova	Russia

Group B

Levern Spencer from St. Lucia skips 1.85 m in qualification, which is not enough for the final

space	Surname	nation	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.89 m	1.93 m	height	annotation
1	Marina Aitowa	Kazakhstan	O	O	O	O	1.93
	Ruth Beitia	Spain	O	O	O	O
	Wita Stjopina	Ukraine	O	O	O	O
4th	Antonietta Di Martino	Italy	xo	O	O	O	1.93
5	Iva Straková	Czech Republic	O	O	xxo	O	1.93
6th	Chaunté Howard	United States	O	O	O	xo	1.93
	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	O	O	O	xo
8th	Emma Green	Sweden	O	O	O	xxo	1.93
9	Melanie Skotnik	France	O	O	O	xxx	1.89
10	Nicole Forrester	Canada	O	O	xo	xxx	1.89
11	Anna Iljuštšenko	Estonia	O	xxo	xo	xxx	1.89
12	Nadiya Dusanova	Uzbekistan	xxo	O	xxx		1.85
13	Levern Spencer	St. Lucia	-	xo	xxx		1.85
ogV	Tatiana Efimenko	Kyrgyzstan	xxx					without height
	Romary Rifka	Mexico	xxx
DOP	Jelena Slessarenko	Russia						in the final, later disqualified

final

August 23, 2008, 7:00 p.m.

There were fifteen athletes in the final, none of whom had reached the qualifying height of 1.96 m, because in the elimination it became apparent that 1.93 m would be enough for the final. Two high jumpers from the Czech Republic and one participant each from Belgium, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Kazakhstan, Croatia, Russia, Spain, the Ukraine and the United States competed for the medals. Three other athletes - two from Russia and one from Ukraine - were convicted and disqualified eight years after these games during follow-up controls for doping abuse .

The inner circle of favorites included the Croatian world champion from 2007 and European championship fourth from 2006 Blanka Vlašić, the Italian vice world champion from 2007 Antonietta Di Martino, the US vice world champion from 2005 Chaunté Howard and the Belgian European champion from 2006 Tia Hellebaut. The three doping fraudsters should also be counted here, but there is no need to go into more detail about these athletes.

Six high jumpers were still in the competition when the height of 1.99 m was required. By then, Vlašić, Hellebaut, the Spaniard Ruth Beitia and the German Ariane Friedrich had mastered everything in the first attempt. Howard and the Swede Emma Green had two failed attempts, whereby Green had only taken the last 1.96 m with their third jump. Only Vlašić kept her white vest at 1.99 m. It took Hellebaut two and Howard three tries to jump the height. Beitia, Friedrich and Green failed three times each. Ruth Beitia and Ariane Friedrich took fourth place together. Emma Green was sixth.

At 2.01 m, Vlašić, Hellebaut and Howard had a medal, but the ranking had yet to be clarified. Vlašić failed again, Hellebaut mastered the task with her second jump, Howard tore three times, she won the bronze medal with a jump of 1.99 m. It went the same way over 2.03 m: Vlašić took the height straight away, Hellebaut with her second attempt. Now 2.05 m were placed and the sequence was reversed for the first time: Hellebaut showed strong nerves and was successful with the first jump, while Vlašić had her first failed attempt at the competition. But she stayed in the race and took the second jump. It continued with 2.07 m, which would have been an Olympic record . Here the decision was made. Vlašić failed three times, while Hellebaut refrained from further attempts after a failed jump. Tia Hellebaut won gold because she needed fewer attempts over 2.05 m at the same height. For Blanka Vlašić there was the silver medal.

Tia Hellebaut was the first Belgian Olympic champion in the women's high jump . Blanka Vlašić won the first Croatian medal in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	1.85 m	1.89 m	1.93 m	1.96 m	1.99 m	2.01 m	2.03 m	2.05 m	2.07 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Tia Hellebaut	Belgium	O	O	O	O	xo	xo	xo	O	x-	2.05	NO
2	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	O	O	O	O	O	O	O	xo	xxx	2.05
3	Chaunté Howard	United States	O	O	xo	xo	xxo	xxx				1.99
4th	Ruth Beitia	Spain	O	O	O	O	xxx					1.96
	Ariane Friedrich	Germany	O	-	O	O	xxx
6th	Emma Green	Sweden	O	O	O	xxo	xxx					1.96
7th	Marina Aitowa	Kazakhstan	O	O	O	xxx						1.93
	Antonietta Di Martino	Italy	O	O	O	xxx
9	Iva Straková	Czech Republic	O	O	xxo	xxx						1.93
	Wita Stjopina	Ukraine	O	O	xxo	xxx
11	Svetlana Schkolina	Russia	O	xo	xxo	xxx						1.93
12	Romana Dubnová	Czech Republic	O	xo	x-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.89
DOP	Anna Chicherova	Russia											Result canceled in 2016
	Jelena Slessarenko	Russia
	Wita Palamar	Ukraine

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  Olympic champion Tia Hellebaut, Belgium

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  Silver medal for the Croatian Blanka Vlašić

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  Bronze medalist Chaunté Howard from the United States

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  The Spaniard Ruth Beitia becomes fourth together with Ariane Friedrich

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  Ariane Friedrich from Germany ranks fourth together with Ruth Beitia

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  Sweden's Emma Green is sixth in the Olympics

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  Shared seventh place: Marina Aitowa from Kazakhstan

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  The Italian Antonietta Di Martino is also seventh

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  Iva Straková from the Czech Republic is tied for ninth place

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  The Ukrainian Wita Stjopina also came in ninth

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  The Russian Swetlana Schkolina comes in eleventh place

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed June 28, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed June 28, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 28, 2018

Video

• Athletics - Women's Long Jump Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 22, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 28, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 8, 2018
2. ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 8, 2018
3. ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 8, 2018 
4. ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 8, 2018
5. ^ IAAF world records, high jump women , accessed on June 28, 2018
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} IOC sanctions Anna Chicherova for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 at www.olympic.org October 6, 2016, accessed on June 28, 2018