2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Women)
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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
space | Surname | nation | 1.80 m | 1.85 m | 1.89 m | 1.93 m | height | annotation |
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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
space | Surname | nation | 1.80 m | 1.85 m | 1.89 m | 1.93 m | height | annotation |
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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 |
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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 |
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
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 8, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 8, 2018
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 8, 2018
- ^ IAAF world records, high jump women , accessed on June 28, 2018
- ↑ 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