2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	35 athletes from 26 countries
Competition location	Estádio Nilton Santos
Competition phase	August 18, 2016 (qualification) August 20, 2016 (final)
Medalists Ruth Beitia ( ESP )   Mirela Demirewa ( BUL )   Blanka Vlašić ( CRO )

The women's high jump at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 18 and 20, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 35 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Ruth Beitia from Spain . She won ahead of the Bulgarian Mirela Demirewa and the Croatian Blanka Vlašić .

Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch started for Germany . She qualified for the final and finished seventh.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion	Anna Chicherova ( Russia )	2.05 m	London 2012
world champion	Marija Kutschina ( Russia )	2.01 m	Beijing 2015
European champion	Ruth Beitia ( Spain )	1.98 m	Amsterdam 2016
North / Central America / Caribbean Champion	Levern Spencer ( St. Lucia )	1.91 m	San José 2015
South America Champion	Ana Paula Caetano de Oliveira ( Brazil )	1.82 m	Lima 2015
Asian champion	Svetlana Radzivil ( Uzbekistan )	1.91 m	Wuhan 2015
African champion	Lissa Labiche ( Seychelles )	1.85 m	Durban 2016
Oceania champion	Ashleigh Read ( Australia )	1.80 m	Cairns 2015

Existing records

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

Note: All times are based on Rio local time ( UTC-3 ).

qualification

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The required qualification height was 1.94 m achieved. Since with seventeen jumpers even more than twelve participants reached this height - highlighted in light blue, the final field was not filled any further.

Group A

August 18, 2016, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.89 m	1.92 m	1.94 m	height	annotation
1	Chaunté Lowe	United States	O	O	O	O	O	1.94 m
	Levern Spencer	St. Lucia	O	O	O	O	O	1.94 m
3	Mirela Demirewa	Bulgaria	O	O	O	xxo	O	1.94 m
4th	Iryna Herashchenko	Ukraine	O	O	O	O	xx o	1.94 m
5	Vashti Cunningham	United States	-	O	xo	xo	xx o	1.94 m
	Morgan Lake	Great Britain	O	O	O	xxo	xx o
	Desirée Rossit	Italy	O	O	xxo	O	xx o
8th	Michaela Hrubá	Czech Republic	O	O	O	O	xxx	1.92 m
9	Julia Levchenko	Ukraine	O	O	xo	O	xxx	1.92 m
10	Nadiya Dusanova	Uzbekistan	O	O	xo	x o	xxx	1.92 m
11	Eleanor Patterson	Australia	-	O	O	xxx		1.89 m
	Ana Simic	Croatia	-	O	O	xxx
13	Doreen Amata	Nigeria	O	xxo	x o	xxx		1.89 m
14th	Priscilla Frederick	Antigua and Barbuda	O	xxo	xx o	xxx		1.89 m
15th	Erika Kinsey	Sweden	O	O	xxx			1.85 m
16	Akela Jones	Barbados	O	x o	xxx			1.85 m
17th	Leontia Kallenou	Cyprus	x o	xxx				1.80 m
	Valentina Liaschenko	Georgia	x o	xxx
DNS	Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou	Greece

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  With 1.92 m, the Czech Michaela Hrubá missed the final by one jump height

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  With 1.89 m, the Croatian Ana Šimić was eliminated from the qualification

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  The Swede Erika Kinsey did not reach the next round with 1.85 m

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  Leontia Kallenou from Cyprus jumped 1.85 m and was eliminated

Group B

August 18, 2016, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.89 m	1.92 m	1.94 m	height	annotation
1	Ruth Beitia	Spain	-	O	O	O	O	1.94 m
	Inika McPherson	United States	-	O	-	O	O
	Svetlana Radzivil	Uzbekistan	O	O	O	O	O
	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	-	O	O	O	O
5	Sofie Skoog	Sweden	O	O	xo	O	O	1.94 m
	Alessia consolation	Italy	O	O	xo	O	O
7th	Kamila Lićwinko	Poland	-	O	xo	xo	O	1.94 m
8th	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania	O	O	O	xo	x o	1.94 m
9	Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch	Germany	O	O	O	xxo	x o	1.94 m
10	Alyxandria Treasure	Canada	O	O	O	xo	xx o	1.94 m
11	Maruša Černjul	Slovenia	O	O	O	xx o	xxx	1.92 m
12	Oksana Okuneva	Ukraine	O	O	O	xxx		1.89 m
13	Jeanelle Scheper	St. Lucia	xo	O	O	xxx		1.89 m
14th	Linda Sandblom	Finland	O	xo	x o	xxx		1.89 m
15th	Lissa Labiche	Seychelles	O	O	xxx			1.85 m
16	Tonje Angelsen	Norway	x o	xxx				1.80 m
	Barbara Szabó	Hungary	x o	xxx
DNS	Nafissatou Thiam	Belgium

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  1.89 m was not enough for Ukrainian Oksana Okunjewa to make it into the final

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  Lissa Labiche from the Seychelles jumped 1.85 m and was eliminated

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  The Norwegian Tonje Angelsen failed in the qualification with 1.80 m

final

August 19, 2016, 8:30 p.m.

Seventeen athletes had qualified for the final, all of them above the required level of qualification. Two US-Americans and two Italians as well as one participant each from Bulgaria, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland, St. Lucia, Sweden, Spain, Ukraine and Uzbekistan competed for the medals.

Due to the doping-related starting ban for Russian athletes by the IAAF , the 2012 Olympic champion Anna Tschitscherowa and the world champion Marija Kuchina were excluded from participation. The favorites were the 37-year-old double European champion from 2014 and 2016, Ruth Beitia from Spain and the Croatian runner-up world champion Blanka Vlašić. Otherwise the outcome of this competition was very open.

Even the second final height of 1.93 m meant the end for five finalists. Eight other participants failed at the third height of 1.97 m. So there were only four female athletes left. It was led by the Spaniard Beitia, who had so far made no attempt. Behind was the Bulgarian Mirela Demirewa with a failed attempt at 1.88 m. It was followed by the Croatian Blanka Vlašić with one miss jump at every altitude completed up to then. The US jumper Chaunté Lowe was in fourth place, she had two failed attempts at 1.97 m. All four remaining jumpers failed at 2.00 m, so that nothing changed in the placement.

Ruth Beitia was the first Spanish Olympic champion in the women's high jump . At 1.97 m, she was the lowest height to win since 1980 . At that time, the Italian Sara Simeoni had also won 1.97 m.

space	Surname	nation	1.88 m	1.93 m	1.97 m	2.00 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Ruth Beitia	Spain	O	O	O	xxx	1.97 m
2	Mirela Demirewa	Bulgaria	xo	O	O	xxx	1.97 m
3	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	xo	xo	x o	xxx	1.97 m
4th	Chaunté Lowe	United States	O	O	xx o	xxx	1.97 m
5	Alessia consolation	Italy	O	O	xxx		1.93 m
6th	Levern Spencer	St. Lucia	xo	O	xxx		1.93 m
7th	Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch	Germany	O	x o	xxx		1.93 m
	Sofie Skoog	Sweden	O	x o	xxx
9	Kamila Lićwinko	Poland	xo	x o	xxx		1.93 m
10	Iryna Herashchenko	Ukraine	O	xx o	xxx		1.93 m
	Morgan Lake	Great Britain	O	xx o	xxx
	Inika McPherson	United States	O	xx o	xxx
13	Vashti Cunningham	United States	O	xxx			1.88 m
	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania	O	xxx
	Svetlana Radzivil	Uzbekistan	O	xxx
16	Desirée Rossit	Italy	x o	xxx			1.88 m
17th	Alyxandria Treasure	Canada	x o	xxx			1.88 m

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  Olympic Champion
  Ruth Beitia, Spain

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  Silver medalist
  Mirela Demirewa from Bulgaria

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  Bronze medalist
  Blanka Vlašić, Croatia

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  The American Chaunté Lowe took fourth place

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  The Italian Alessia Trost finished fifth in the Olympics

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  Levern Spencer from Sta. Lucia came in sixth place

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  The Swede Sofie Skoog reached the shared seventh place

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  The German Marie Laurence Jungleisch came in seventh place

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  The Polish Olympic contestant Kamila Lićwinko from Poland

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  The British Morgan Lake was tenth together with two other jumpers

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  Airinė Palšytė from Lithuania took the shared thirteenth place

Web links

• Results Book Rio 2016, Official Report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 15, 2018
• Results on the website of the IAAF high jump women (English), accessed on October 15, 2018
• Sports-Reference, result of high jump women (English), accessed on October 15, 2018

Video

• Beitia wins high jump gold at her fourth Olympics on youtube.com, published August 24, 2016, accessed October 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 798 , accessed on October 15, 2018