Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump
Women's high jump at the Games of the XX Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany | |||||||||
Date | September 3 & 4 | |||||||||
Competitors | 40 from 22 nations | |||||||||
Winning height | 1.92 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics | ||
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Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
5000 m | men | |
10,000 m | men | |
100 m hurdles | women | |
110 m hurdles | men | |
400 m hurdles | men | |
3000 m steeplechase | men | |
4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
Road events | ||
Marathon | men | |
20 km walk | men | |
50 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | |
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | |
Combined events | ||
Pentathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
These are the official results of the athletics.[2]
Results
All jumpers reaching 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) and the top 12 including ties qualified for the finals. All qualifiers are listed in blue. All heights are listed in metres.
Qualifying
Rank | Name | Nationality | Group | Mark | 1.60 | 1.65 | 1.70 | 1.73 | 1.76 |
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1T | Ilona Gusenbauer | Austria | A | 1.76 | p | p | o | o | o |
1T | Yordanka Blagoeva | Bulgaria | A | 1.76 | p | p | o | o | o |
1T | Grith Ejstrup | Denmark | B | 1.76 | p | p | o | o | o |
1T | Rita Gildemeister | East Germany | A | 1.76 | p | p | o | o | o |
1T | Rita Schmidt | East Germany | A | 1.76 | p | p | o | o | o |
6T | Debbie Brill | Canada | B | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
6T | Rosemarie Witschas |
East Germany | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
6T | Renate Gärtner | West Germany | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
6T | Ulrike Meyfarth | West Germany | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
6T | Ellen Mundinger | West Germany | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
6T | Sara Simeoni | Italy | B | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
6T | Audrey Reid | Jamaica | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
6T | Ria Ahlers | Netherlands | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
6T | Cornelia Popescu | Romania | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
15 | Snežana Hrepevnik | Yugoslavia | A | 1.76 | o | o | xxo | xxo | o |
16 | Solveig Langkilde | Denmark | A | 1.76 | p | p | o | o | xo |
17T | Erika Rudolf | Hungary | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | xo |
17T | Andrea Bruce | Jamaica | B | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | xo |
19 | Alena Prosková | Czechoslovakia | A | 1.76 | o | o | o | o | xo |
20T | Milada Karbanová | Czechoslovakia | A | 1.76 | o | o | xo | o | xo |
20T | Miloslava Hübnerová |
Czechoslovakia | A | 1.76 | o | xo | o | o | xo |
22 | Barbara Inkpen | Great Britain | A | 1.76 | o | o | xxo | o | xo |
23 | Magdolna Komka | Hungary | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | xxo |
24 | Breda Babošek | Yugoslavia | A | 1.73 | p | o | xo | o | xxx |
25 | Marima Rodríguez | Cuba | A | 1.73 | p | p | xxo | o | xxx |
26 | Antonina Lazaryeva |
Soviet Union | A | 1.73 | p | o | o | xo | xxx |
27 | Rosaline Few | Great Britain | B | 1.73 | o | o | o | xo | xxx |
28 | Beatrix Rechner | Switzerland | B | 1.73 | p | xo | xo | xo | xxx |
29 | Louise Hanna-Walker | Canada | B | 1.73 | o | o | o | xxo | xxx |
30T | Penelope Dimmock | Great Britain | B | 1.70 | o | o | o | xxx | |
30T | Deanne Wilson | United States | B | 1.70 | o | o | o | xxx | |
32 | Cindy Gilbert | United States | B | 1.70 | xo | o | xxo | xxx | |
33T | Michiyo Inaoka | Japan | B | 1.65 | o | o | xxx | ||
33T | Doris Bisang | Switzerland | B | 1.65 | o | o | xxx | ||
35T | Mihoko Yama | Japan | B | 1.65 | o | xo | xxx | ||
35T | Roxana Vulescu | Romania | B | 1.65 | o | xo | xxx | ||
37 | Lára Sveinsdóttir | Iceland | B | 1.60 | o | xxx | |||
38 | Sandi Goldsberry | United States | B | 1.60 | xo | xxx | |||
– | Nnenna Njoku | Nigeria | B | NM | xxx | ||||
– | Wu Yu-chih | Republic of China | B | NM | xxx | ||||
– | Galina Filatova | Soviet Union | A | DNS | |||||
– | Margit Papp | Hungary | A | DNS | |||||
– | Kari Karlsen | Norway | B | DNS | |||||
– | Maria Luisa Vilca |
Peru | B | DNS | |||||
– | Gladys Chaingmei |
Malaysia | B | DNS |
Final
Rank | Name | Nationality | Mark | 1.60 | 1.66 | 1.71 | 1.76 | 1.79 | 1.82 | 1.85 | 1.88 | 1.90 | 1.92 | 1.94 |
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Ulrike Meyfarth | West Germany | 1.92 WR |
p | p | o | o | o | o | o | o | xo | o | xxx | |
Yordanka Blagoeva | Bulgaria | 1.88 | p | p | o | o | o | o | o | o | xxx | |||
Ilona Gusenbauer | Austria | 1.88 | p | p | xo | xo | o | o | xxo | xo | xxx | |||
4 | Barbara Inkpen | Great Britain | 1.85 | p | o | o | o | o | o | o | xxx | |||
5 | Rita Schmidt | East Germany | 1.85 | p | p | o | o | o | o | xo | xxx | |||
6 | Sara Simeoni | Italy | 1.85 | p | p | o | o | o | xo | xo | xxx | |||
7 | Rosemarie Witschas |
East Germany | 1.85 | p | o | o | o | o | o | xxo | xxx | |||
8 | Debbie Brill | Canada | 1.82 | p | p | o | o | o | o | xxx | ||||
9 | Andrea Bruce | Jamaica | 1.82 | p | o | o | o | o | o | xxx | ||||
10 | Ellen Mundinger | West Germany | 1.82 | p | p | o | o | xo | o | xxx | ||||
11 | Audrey Reid | Jamaica | 1.82 | p | p | o | xo | xo | o | xxx | ||||
12T | Grith Ejstrup | Denmark | 1.82 | p | p | o | o | o | xo | xxx | ||||
12T | Rita Gildemeister | East Germany | 1.82 | p | p | o | o | o | xo | xxx | ||||
14 | Renate Gärtner | West Germany | 1.82 | p | p | o | o | o | xxo | xxx | ||||
15 | Miloslava Hübnerová |
Czechoslovakia | 1.82 | p | o | o | xo | o | xxo | xxx | ||||
16T | Erika Rudolf | Hungary | 1.79 | p | o | o | o | o | xxx | |||||
16T | Ria Ahlers | Netherlands | 1.79 | p | o | o | o | o | xxx | |||||
18 | Alena Prosková | Czechoslovakia | 1.79 | p | p | xo | o | o | xxx | |||||
19 | Cornelia Popescu | Romania | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | xxx | ||||||
20 | Snežana Hrepevnik | Yugoslavia | 1.76 | o | o | o | o | xxx | ||||||
21 | Solveig Langkilde | Denmark | 1.76 | p | p | p | xo | xxx | ||||||
22 | Milada Karbanová | Czechoslovakia | 1.76 | p | o | xo | xxo | xxx | ||||||
23 | Magdolna Komka | Hungary | 1.71 | p | p | o | xxx |
Key: WR = world record; o = cleared height; p = passed at height; x = failed jump; NM = no mark; DNS = did not start
References
- ^ "Athletics at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Women's High Jump". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ^ Sports Reference. "Athletics at the 1972 München Summer Games: Women's High Jump". Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2012-02-29.