| Women's high jump at the Commonwealth Games |
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| Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games | ||
|---|---|---|
| | ||
| Track events | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 3000 m | 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 | |
| 30 km walk | men | |
| Field events | ||
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | |
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Discus throw | men | women |
| Hammer throw | men | |
| Javelin throw | men | women |
| Combined events | ||
| Pentathlon | women | |
| Decathlon | men | |
The women's high jump event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 11 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 1.60 | 1.70 | 1.75 | 1.78 | 1.80 | 1.83 | 1.90 | 1.93 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katrina Gibbs | xxo | xo | 1.93 | GR | ||||||||
| Debbie Brill | xxx | 1.90 | ||||||||||
| Julie White | 1.83 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Gillian Hitchen | 1.80 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Barbara Simmonds | 1.78 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Maggie Woods | 1.78 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Valerie Rutter | 1.75 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Wendy Phillips | 1.70 | ||||||||||
| 9 | Adventina Mutakyawa | 1.60 |