The women's high jump

High jump

The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

event was part of the track and field athletics programme

Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics

At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, 27 athletics events were contested. The competition was held on a 400 meter track and would become the standard for athletics tracks in the future. For the first time, women's events in athletics were included in the Olympic Games program...

 at the 1928 Summer Olympics

1928 Summer Olympics

The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam had bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but had to give way to war-victim Antwerp, Belgium, and Pierre de...

. It was the first appearance of the event marked the debut of women's Olympic athletics. The competition was held on Sunday, August 5, 1928.

Twenty high jumpers from nine nations competed.

Medalists

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics.

World Record	1.58	Ethel Catherwood Ethel Catherwood Competitor for CanadaEthel Mary Catherwood was a Canadian athlete.Born in Hannah, North Dakota, USA, Ethel Catherwood was raised and educated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she excelled at athletics, including baseball, basketball and track and field...	Regina Regina, Saskatchewan Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...  (CAN Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... )	September 6, 1926
	1.58	Lien Gisolf Lien Gisolf Carolina Anna "Lien" Gisolf was a Dutch athlete, who competed mainly in the high jump in the twenties and thirties of last century....	Brussels Brussels Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...  (BEL Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... )	July 3, 1928
	1.60(*)	Marjorie Clark Marjorie Clark Marjorie Rees Clark was a South African former track and field athlete who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics andin the 1932 Summer Olympics....	London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...  (GBR Great Britain Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles... )	June 23, 1928
	1.60(*)	Ethel Catherwood Ethel Catherwood Competitor for CanadaEthel Mary Catherwood was a Canadian athlete.Born in Hannah, North Dakota, USA, Ethel Catherwood was raised and educated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she excelled at athletics, including baseball, basketball and track and field...	Halifax City of Halifax Halifax is a city in Canada, which was the capital of the province of Nova Scotia and shire town of Halifax County. It was the largest city in Atlantic Canada until it was amalgamated into Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996...  (CAN Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... )	July 2, 1928
Olympic Record		-

(*) unofficial

In the final Ethel Catherwood

Ethel Catherwood

Competitor for CanadaEthel Mary Catherwood was a Canadian athlete.Born in Hannah, North Dakota, USA, Ethel Catherwood was raised and educated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she excelled at athletics, including baseball, basketball and track and field...

 set a new official world record with 1.595 metres.

Results

Qualification

The qualification started at 1.15 p.m.

12-hour clock

The 12-hour clock is a time conversion convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods called ante meridiem and post meridiem...

 The top 12 and ties and all those clearing the qualification height of 1.40 metres qualified for the final. The jumping order and the jumping series are not available. Only the Romanian Irina Orendi was unable to clear 1.40 metres, which means that nineteen high jumpers competed in the final.

Final

The final started at 2.30 p.m.

12-hour clock

The 12-hour clock is a time conversion convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods called ante meridiem and post meridiem...

on the same day. The jumping order is not available and the jumping series are only known for the medalists.

Place	Athlete	Qual. Height	1.45	1.48	1.51	1.54	1.56	1.58	1.60	Final Height
1		1.40	O	O	O	O	O	O	XXO	1.595 WR
2		1.40	O	O	O	XO	XO	XXX		1.56
3		1.40	O	O	O	XO	XO	XXX		1.56
4		1.40								1.51
5		1.40								1.48
6		1.40								1.48
7		1.40								1.48
8		1.40								1.48
9		1.40								1.48
10		1.40								1.48
11		1.40								1.45
12		1.40								1.45
13		1.40								1.45
14		1.40								1.40
15		1.40								1.40
16		1.40								1.40
17		1.40								1.40
18		1.40								1.40
—		1.40								NM
—		1.35	not qualified for the final