Women's high jump at the 2015 World Championships | ||||||||||
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Venue | Beijing National Stadium | |||||||||
Dates | 27 August (qualification) 29 August (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 30 from 22 nations | |||||||||
Winning height | 2.01 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Events at the 2015 World Championships | ||
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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 | women |
10,000 m | men | women |
100 m hurdles | women | |
110 m hurdles | men | |
400 m hurdles | men | women |
3000 m steeplechase | men | women |
4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
Road events | ||
Marathon | men | women |
20 km walk | men | women |
50 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | women |
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | women |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | women |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Combined events | ||
Heptathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
The women's high jump at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 27 and 29 August. [1] [2]
It took 1.92 to make the finals, eight competitors made it cleanly. In the finals, only 8 made 1.92, Ana Šimić, Doreen Amata and Levern Spencer who had made it clean in qualification, missed three times. 1.95 lost Jeanelle Scheper and Eleanor Patterson but the remaining six all made it through three heights to 1.99. Two time champion Blanka Vlašić looked like her dominant self from six years earlier with a large clearance at 2.01 but she had one bobble at 1.92. Mariya Kuchina whose best achievement had been a tie for the World Indoor Championship, cleared it next as a personal best, but she was still clean. The 2012 Olympic Champion Anna Chicherova cleared it on her second attempt. Kamila Lićwinko (the other half of that tie), returning bronze medalist Ruth Beitia and Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch were unable to make 2.01 so the medals were settled. The bar went up to 2.03 but nobody could make it, so the results were decided by the count back. Chicherova needed two attempts at the winning height, so she finished third. Of the two who made it their first time, that mistake earlier in the competition gave Vlašić another silver medal (her fourth in major competition) while Kuchina's perfect series was rewarded with the gold medal. [3]
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows: [4]
World record | 2.09 | Rome, Italy | 30 August 1987 | |
Championship record | 2.09 | Rome, Italy | 30 August 1987 | |
World leading | 2.03 | Lausanne, Switzerland | 9 July 2015 | |
African record | 2.06 | Paris, France | 31 August 2003 | |
Asian record | 1.99 | Athens, Greece | 13 July 2009 | |
North, Central American and Caribbean record | 2.05 | Des Moines, United States | 26 June 2010 | |
South American record | 1.96 | Oristano, Italy | 8 September 1997 | |
European record | 2.09 | Rome, Italy | 30 August 1987 | |
Oceanian record | 1.98 | Perth, Australia | 12 February 1989 | |
Ingolstadt, Germany | 17 July 1994 |
Entry standards [5] |
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1.94 |
Date | Time | Round |
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27 August 2015 | 09:35 | Qualification |
29 August 2015 | 18:30 | Final |
KEY: | Q | Qualified | q | 12 best performers | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |
Qualification: 1.94 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q). [6]
The final started at 18:30. [7]
Rank | Name | Nationality | 1.88 | 1.92 | 1.95 | 1.97 | 1.99 | 2.01 | 2.03 | Mark | Notes |
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Mariya Kuchina | o | o | o | o | o | o | xxx | 2.01 | PB | ||
Blanka Vlašić | o | xo | o | o | o | o | xxx | 2.01 | SB | ||
Anna Chicherova | o | – | o | xo | o | xo | xxx | 2.01 | |||
4 | Kamila Lićwinko | o | o | o | o | o | xxx | 1.99 | =NR | ||
5 | Ruth Beitia | o | o | xo | o | o | xxx | 1.99 | |||
6 | Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch | o | o | o | x– | xo | xxx | 1.99 | PB | ||
7 | Jeanelle Scheper | o | o | xxx | 1.92 | ||||||
8 | Eleanor Patterson | xo | o | xxx | 1.92 | ||||||
9 | Ana Šimić | o | xxx | 1.88 | |||||||
9 | Mirela Demireva | o | xxx | 1.88 | |||||||
9 | Svetlana Radzivil | o | xxx | 1.88 | |||||||
12 | Levern Spencer | xo | xxx | 1.88 | |||||||
12 | Doreen Amata | xo | xxx | 1.88 |
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