Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - High Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	35 athletes from 28 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 9, 2012 (qualification) ; August 11, 2012 (final)
	Medalists
	Anna Chicherova ( RUS )
	Brigetta Barrett ( USA )
	Swetlana Shkolina ( RUS )

The women's high jump at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on August 9th and 11th, 2012 at the Olympic Stadium in London . 35 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Russian Anna Tschitscherowa , who won ahead of the American Brigetta Barrett . The bronze medal went to the Russian Swetlana Schkolina .

Germany was represented by Ariane Friedrich , who failed in the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion	Tia Hellebaut ( Belgium ) Belgium	2.05 m	Beijing 2008
world champion	Anna Chicherova ( Russia ) Russia	2.03 m	Daegu 2011
European champion	Ruth Beitia ( Spain ) Spain	1.97 m	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champion	Levern Spencer ( St. Lucia ) Saint Lucia	1.82 m	Mayagüez 2011
South America Champion	Marielys Rojas ( Venezuela ) Venezuela	1.80 m	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Zheng Xingjuan ( People's Republic of China ) China People's Republic	1.92 m	Kobe 2011
African champion	Lissa Labiche ( Seychelles ) Seychelles	1.86 m	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania champion	Vianca du Toit ( New Zealand ) New Zealand	1.71 m	Cairns 2012

Existing records

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

Remarks:

All times in this article are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
All heights are given in meters (m).

qualification

August 9, 2012, 9:30 a.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height for reaching the final directly was 1.96 m. Since only one jumper jumped this height (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So the final was finally reached with at least 1.93 m in the second attempt and no previous miss.

After reaching the height of 1.93 m, the ten jumpers who had managed the height in the first or second attempt and without previous unsuccessful attempts were already safely qualified. They waived their jumps over 1.96 m. Ariane Friedrich, Svetlana Radzivil, Irina Gordejewa and Antonia Stergiu fought for the two remaining places, with only Radzivil jumping the height and Gordejewa also making it into the final because of the fewest number of failed attempts.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1.75	1.80	1.85	1.90	1.93	1.96	height
1	Ruth Beitia	Spain Spain	-	-	O	O	O	-	1.93
	Anna Chicherova	Russia Russia	-	-	O	O	O	-
	Emma Green Tregaro	Sweden Sweden	-	-	O	O	O	-
	Melanie Melfort	France France	O	O	O	O	O	-
5	Burcu Ayhan	Turkey Turkey	O	O	-	xo	O	-	1.93
6th	Brigetta Barrett	United States United States	O	O	O	O	x o	-	1.93
6th	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania Lithuania	O	O	O	O	x o	-	1.93
8th	Ariane Friedrich	Germany Germany	-	-	O	O	xx o	xxx	1.93
9	Olena Choloscha	Ukraine Ukraine	-	O	O	O	xxx		1.90
10	Zheng Xingjuan	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	-	O	O	xx o	xxx		1.90
11	Nadiya Dusanova	Uzbekistan Uzbekistan	-	O	O	xxx			1.85
11	Esthera Petre	Romania Romania	O	O	O	xxx			1.85
13	Deirdre Ryan	Ireland Ireland	-	O	x o	xxx			1.85
14th	Tonje Angelsen	Norway Norway	-	O	xx o	xxx			1.85
15th	Wanida Boonwan	Thailand Thailand	O	O	xxx				1.80
16	Dương Thị Việt Anh	Vietnam Vietnam	-	O	xxx				1.80
16	Oldřiška Marešová	Czech Republic Czech Republic	O	O	xxx				1.80

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1.75	1.80	1.85	1.90	1.93	1.96	height	annotation
1	Svetlana Radzivil	Uzbekistan Uzbekistan	O	O	O	O	xxo	O	1.96
2	Tia Hellebaut	Belgium Belgium	-	-	O	O	O	-	1.93
	Chaunté Lowe	United States United States	-	O	O	O	O	-	1.93
	Svetlana Schkolina	Russia Russia	-	-	O	O	O	-	1.93
5	Irina Gordeeva	Russia Russia	-	O	O	O	x o	xx-	1.93
6th	Antonia Stergiou	Greece Greece	O	xo	O	xxo	x o	xxx	1.93
7th	Anna Iljuštšenko	Estonia Estonia	-	O	O	O	xxx		1.90
8th	Doreen Amata	Nigeria Nigeria	-	O	x-	O	xxx		1.90
9	Levern Spencer	Saint Lucia St. Lucia	-	O	xo	xx o	xxx		1.90
10	Amy Acuff	United States United States	O	O	O	xxx			1.85
	Ebba Jungmark	Sweden Sweden	-	O	O	xxx
	Lissa Labiche	Seychelles Seychelles	O	O	O	xxx
	Lesyani Mayor	Cuba Cuba	O	O	O	xxx
	Wenelina Wenewa-Mateewa	Bulgaria Bulgaria	-	O	O	xxx
15th	Sahana Kumani	India India	-	O	xxx				1.80
15th	Ana Simic	Croatia Croatia	-	O	xxx				1.80
17th	Wita Stjopina	Ukraine Ukraine	xo	x o	xxx				1.80
ogV	Marina Aitowa	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan	xxx						-	without height

The German Ariane Friedrich had one miss too many, so she did not reach the final despite her 1.93 m
Romania Esthera Petre failed with a jump of 1.85 m in the qualification
The Irish Deirdre Ryan was eliminated with 1.85 m in the qualification
Tonje Angelsen from Norway did not reach the final with a 1.85 m
The Czech Oldřiška Marešová jumped 1.80 m and was eliminated
1.90 m was not enough for Estonian Anna Iljuštšenko to take part in the final
Amy Acuff from the USA scored 1.85 m and was eliminated from the qualification
The Swede Ebba Jungmark did not reach the final with a jump of 1.85 m
Lissa Labiche posted 1.85 m and was thus stuck in the qualification
With 1.80 m there was no final for the Croatian Ana Šimić
For the Ukrainian Wita Stjopina, 1.80 m was not enough to be in the final
Marina Aitowa from Kazakhstan was eliminated from the qualification without a valid attempt

final

The two medal winners from Russia: in
front Anna Tschitscherowa (gold), next to her Svetlana Schkolina (bronze)

August 11, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final. In the final, three Russian women, two US women and one athlete each from Belgium, France, Lithuania, Sweden, Spain, Turkey and Uzbekistan competed for the medals.

After the Croatian Blanka Vlašić's cancellation due to injury , the favorite role fell to the Russian world champion Anna Tschitscherowa. The US athlete Chaunté Lowe was her strongest competitor. The Belgian Olympic champion from 2008 Tia Hellebaut was also in the final, but this time she was not given any medal chances.

Seven athletes were still in the competition after the third height of 1.97 m. In addition to Hellebaut, Lowe and Tschitscherowa, Brigetta Barrett from the USA, the Russian Swetlana Schkolina, the Uzbek Svetlana Radzivil and the Spaniard Ruth Beitia were there. Hellebaut, Lowe and Radzivil failed at the height of 2.00 m. The two Russians were ahead of Beitia, who had a miss jump at 1.97 m, without a previous attempt. Barrett took fourth place with two failed attempts.

The bar was set at 2.03 m. Beitia tore three times and was eliminated. Chicherova took the height in the first, Barrett in the second and Schkolina in the third attempt. With that Barrett had pushed himself in front of Shkolina. The next height was now 2.05 m. Chicherova skipped it in the second attempt, her two competitors tore three times each. With that Anna Tschitscherowa was Olympic champion. She missed the Olympic record set by her compatriot Jelena Slessarenko in 2004 by just one centimeter. Silver went to Brigetta Barrett and bronze to Swetlana Schkolina, who had both achieved 2.03 m, Barrett however one attempt earlier than Schkolina. Ruth Beitia also managed the 2-meter mark and was fourth, ahead of Tia Hellebaut in fifth and Chaunté Lowe in sixth. These two were 1.97 m tall. The Uzbek Svetlana Radzivil also reached 1.97 m and came in seventh.

space	Surname	nation	1.89	1.93	1.97	2.00	2.03	2.05	height
1	Anna Chicherova	Russia Russia	O	O	O	O	O	x o	2.05
2	Brigetta Barrett	United States United States	O	O	xo	xo	x o	xxx	2.03
3	Svetlana Schkolina	Russia Russia	O	O	O	O	xx o	xxx	2.03
4th	Ruth Beitia	Spain Spain	O	O	xo	O	xxx		2.00
5	Tia Hellebaut	Belgium Belgium	O	xxo	O	xxx			1.97
6th	Chaunté Lowe	United States United States	O	O	x o	xxx			1.97
7th	Svetlana Radzivil	Uzbekistan Uzbekistan	O	xxo	xx o	xxx			1.97
8th	Emma Green Tregaro	Sweden Sweden	xo	O	xxx				1.93
9	Melanie Melfort	France France	O	x o	xxx				1.93
10	Irina Gordeeva	Russia Russia	O	xx o	xxx				1.93
11	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania Lithuania	O	xxx					1.89
12	Burcu Ayhan	Turkey Turkey	xx o	xxx					1.89