Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Women's high jump

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....

at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

as part of the athletics program

Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, 46 events in athletics were contested, 24 for men and 22 for women. There were a total number of 2134 participating athletes from 193 countries.-Men's events:...

was held at the Stadium Australia on Thursday, September 28 and Saturday, September 30.

Medalists

Schedule

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time
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Qualification Round
Group A Group B
28.09.2000 – 09:45h 28.09.2000 – 09:45h
Final Round
30.09.2000 – 19:00h

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
28.09.2000 – 09:45h	28.09.2000 – 09:45h
Final Round
30.09.2000 – 19:00h

Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record 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....		2.09 m	August 30, 1987	Rome, Italy
Olympic Record		2.05 m	August 3, 1996	Atlanta, United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Results

All distances shown are in meters.

DNS denotes did not start.
DNF denotes did not finish.
DQ denotes disqualification.
NR denotes national record.
AR denotes area/continental record.
OR denotes Olympic record.
WR denotes world record.
PB denotes personal best.
SB denotes season best

Group 1

Place	Overall	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Qual	Record
1	1	Kajsa Bergqvist Kajsa Bergqvist Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist is a Swedish former high jumper. She won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships. Her personal outdoor record of 2.06 m, set in Germany in 2003,...		1.94 m	Q
1	1	Svetlana Zalevskaya Svetlana Zalevskaya Svetlana Zalevskaya is a retired female high jumper from Kazakhstan. Her personal best jump is 1.98 metres on 2 March 1996 Samara .1.97 metres, achieved in June 1996 in Pierre-Bénite.-Achievements:-External links:*...		1.94 m	Q
1	1	Viktoriya Palamar		1.94 m	Q
1	1	Yelena Yelesina Yelena Yelesina Yelena Borisovna Yelesina is a female high jumper from Russia. She won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with 2,01m, one centimetre behind her personal best jump. She also has several minor medals from major championships.-Achievements:...		1.94 m	Q
5	9	Venelina Veneva Venelina Veneva Venelina Veneva-Mateeva is a Bulgarian high jumper. Talented at a young age, she jumped 1.93 metres indoor in 1990 to record a world best performance by a 15-year-old. She did not improve this result outdoor until 1995...		1.94 m	Q
6	12	Oana Pantelimon Oana Pantelimon Oana Manuela Pantelimon, née Musunoiu is a Romanian high jumper.At the 2000 Olympic Games Pantelimon ended in third place, tied with Kajsa Bergqvist of Sweden. As the two athletes had an identical jumping record, with perfect attempts up to 1.99 where both had one foul, they shared the bronze medal...		1.94 m	Q
7	14	Ioamnet Quintero Ioamnet Quintero Ioamnet Quintero Alvarez is a former high jumper from Cuba who won the bronze medal in the women's high jump contest at the 1992 Summer Olympics and also competed at the 1996 nad 2000 games. She won a gold medal at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics.-External links:...		1.92 m
8	15	Svetlana Lapina Svetlana Lapina Svetlana Lapina is a Russian high jumper.Her personal best jump was 1.99 metres, achieved at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, where she won a surprising bronze medal.-Achievements:-External links:...		1.92 m
9	16	Miki Imai		1.92 m
10	18	Dóra Györffy Dóra Gyorffy Dóra Győrffy is a Hungarian high jumper. She became Hungarian champion every year since 1996, except 2003, and NCAA champion for Harvard in 2001. Her personal best jump is 2.00 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Nyíregyháza. This is the Hungarian record.-Achievements:-References:*...		1.89 m
11	21	Nelė Žilinskienė Nele Žilinskiene Nelė Žilinskienė, born Savickytė is a retired female high jumper from Lithuania. Her personal best jump, first cleared in Vilnius in July 1994, was 1.96 metres.-Achievements:-References:...		1.89 m
12	22	Marta Mendía Marta Mendía Marta Mendía Valencia is a female high jumper from Spain. Her current personal best jumps are 1.95 metres and 1.96 metres .-Achievements:-External links:*...		1.89 m
13	23	Inna Gliznutsa		1.89 m
14	26	Erin Aldrich Erin Aldrich Erin Marie Aldrich is an American high jumper. She also played volleyball at the highest level, competing for the United States women's national volleyball team.She finished fourth at the 2001 Summer Universiade...		1.85 m
15	32	Alison Inverarity Alison Inverarity Alison Jane Inverarity is a former Australian Olympic and Commonwealth athlete, competing in the high jump. She was affiliated with the Western Australian Institute of Sport in Perth....		1.85 m
16	33	Agni Charalambous		1.80 m
		Līga Kļaviņa Līga Kļaviņa Līga Kļaviņa is a female heptathlete from Latvia, who began her career as a high jumper. She competed for her native Baltic country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.-Achievements:-References:*...		NM
		Karen Beautle		NM
		Khristina Kalcheva		NM

Group 2

Place	Overall	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Qual	Record
1	1	Eleonora Milusheva		1.94 m	Q
1	1	Inha Babakova Inha Babakova Inha Babakova . is a former high jumper who represented the Soviet Union and later Ukraine. Her personal best is 2.05 metres.-References:*...		1.94 m	Q
1	1	Hestrie Cloete Hestrie Cloete Hestrie Cloete-Storbeck is a former, highly successful South African high jumper. Her foremost achievements were winning two world championships and two silver medals at Olympic Games.-Career:...		1.94 m	Q
1	1	Amewu Mensah Amewu Mensah Amewu Mensah is a German high jumper.At the 1999 World Championships she reached the final, but failed to clear the opening height there. In June 2000 in Rehlingen she achieved a career best jump is 1.94 metres...		1.94 m	Q
5	10	Monica Iagar Monica Iagar Monica Dinescu-Iagăr is a Romanian athlete competing in high jump. Her personal best jump is 2.02 metres....		1.94 m	Q
5	10	Zuzana Hlavonova Zuzana Hlavonová Zuzana Hlavoňová-Kováčiková is a Czech high jumper.Her personal best jump is 2.00 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Prague.-Achievements:-External links:...		1.94 m	Q
7	12	Yoko Ota Yōko Ōta was a Japanese author of Atomic bomb literature.-Biography:Ōta was born as Fukuda, Hatsuko in Hiroshima city, her parents divorced when she was eight and she moved to live with the Fukuda family. As a young girl she read Takuboku Ishikawa and Shusei Tokuda, as well as Goethe and Heine. She also...		1.94 m	Q	SB
8	17	Blanka Vlašić Blanka Vlašic Blanka Vlašić is a Croatian athlete who specialises in the high jump. She is the current Croatian record holder in the event, and also the current indoorWorld Champion. The daughter of Croatian decathlon record holder Joško Vlašić, she was a talented junior athlete and attended her first Olympic...		1.92 m
9	18	Hanne Haugland Hanne Haugland Hanne Haugland is a former Norwegian high jumper. She represented the clubs Haugesund IL, IL i BUL, SK Vidar and IF Minerva during her senior career....		1.89 m
10	20	Solange Witteveen Solange Witteveen Solange Marilú Witteveen is an Argentine high jumper. Born in Buenos Aires, she competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 2000....		1.89 m
11	24	Karol Damon		1.89 m
12	25	Linda Horvath		1.89 m
13	26	Marina Kuptsova Marina Kuptsova Marina Kuptsova is a Russian high jumper who won a silver medal at the 2003 World Championships. She is also a former European indoor high jump champion...		1.85 m
14	28	Olga Bolşova Olga Bolsova Olga Bolşova is a retired Moldovan athlete who specialized in the high jump and triple jump....		1.85 m
15	29	Iryna Mykhalchenko Iryna Mykhalchenko Iryna Mykhalchenko is a Ukrainian high jumper.She finished fifth in the high jump contest at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She then finished second at the 2004 IAAF World Athletics Final, third at the 2005 IAAF World Athletics Final and sixth in the 2006 European Athletics Championships.Her personal...		1.85 m
16	30	Tatyana Shevchik Tatyana Shevchik Tatsiana Sheuchyk is a retired Belarusian high jumper.She finished tenth at the 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships, fourth at the 1994 European Indoor Championships, sixth at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships and fifth at the 1995 World Championships.Her personal best jump was 2.00...		1.85 m
17	31	Amy Acuff Amy Acuff Amy Lyn Acuff is a track and field athlete from the United States. A high jump specialist, she competed in the 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008 Summer Olympics as a member of USA Track and Field...		1.80 m
18	33	Niki Bakoyianni		1.80 m
		Tatyana Efimenko Tatyana Efimenko Tatyana Efimenko is a female high jumper from Kyrgyzstan. Her personal best jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in July 2003 in Rome....		NM

Overall Qualifying Results

Place	Athlete	Nation	Group	Mark	Qual	Record
1	Svetlana Zalevskaya Svetlana Zalevskaya Svetlana Zalevskaya is a retired female high jumper from Kazakhstan. Her personal best jump is 1.98 metres on 2 March 1996 Samara .1.97 metres, achieved in June 1996 in Pierre-Bénite.-Achievements:-External links:*...		A	1.94 m	Q
1	Kajsa Bergqvist Kajsa Bergqvist Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist is a Swedish former high jumper. She won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships. Her personal outdoor record of 2.06 m, set in Germany in 2003,...		A	1.94 m	Q
1	Inha Babakova Inha Babakova Inha Babakova . is a former high jumper who represented the Soviet Union and later Ukraine. Her personal best is 2.05 metres.-References:*...		B	1.94 m	Q
1	Viktoriya Palamar		A	1.94 m	Q
1	Hestrie Cloete Hestrie Cloete Hestrie Cloete-Storbeck is a former, highly successful South African high jumper. Her foremost achievements were winning two world championships and two silver medals at Olympic Games.-Career:...		B	1.94 m	Q
1	Amewu Mensah Amewu Mensah Amewu Mensah is a German high jumper.At the 1999 World Championships she reached the final, but failed to clear the opening height there. In June 2000 in Rehlingen she achieved a career best jump is 1.94 metres...		B	1.94 m	Q
1	Yelena Yelesina Yelena Yelesina Yelena Borisovna Yelesina is a female high jumper from Russia. She won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with 2,01m, one centimetre behind her personal best jump. She also has several minor medals from major championships.-Achievements:...		A	1.94 m	Q
1	Eleonora Milusheva		B	1.94 m	Q
9	Venelina Veneva Venelina Veneva Venelina Veneva-Mateeva is a Bulgarian high jumper. Talented at a young age, she jumped 1.93 metres indoor in 1990 to record a world best performance by a 15-year-old. She did not improve this result outdoor until 1995...		A	1.94 m	Q
10	Zuzana Hlavonova Zuzana Hlavonová Zuzana Hlavoňová-Kováčiková is a Czech high jumper.Her personal best jump is 2.00 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Prague.-Achievements:-External links:...		B	1.94 m	Q
10	Monica Iagar Monica Iagar Monica Dinescu-Iagăr is a Romanian athlete competing in high jump. Her personal best jump is 2.02 metres....		B	1.94 m	Q
12	Yoko Ota Yōko Ōta was a Japanese author of Atomic bomb literature.-Biography:Ōta was born as Fukuda, Hatsuko in Hiroshima city, her parents divorced when she was eight and she moved to live with the Fukuda family. As a young girl she read Takuboku Ishikawa and Shusei Tokuda, as well as Goethe and Heine. She also...		B	1.94 m	Q	SB
12	Oana Pantelimon Oana Pantelimon Oana Manuela Pantelimon, née Musunoiu is a Romanian high jumper.At the 2000 Olympic Games Pantelimon ended in third place, tied with Kajsa Bergqvist of Sweden. As the two athletes had an identical jumping record, with perfect attempts up to 1.99 where both had one foul, they shared the bronze medal...		A	1.94 m	Q
14	Ioamnet Quintero Ioamnet Quintero Ioamnet Quintero Alvarez is a former high jumper from Cuba who won the bronze medal in the women's high jump contest at the 1992 Summer Olympics and also competed at the 1996 nad 2000 games. She won a gold medal at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics.-External links:...		A	1.92 m
15	Svetlana Lapina Svetlana Lapina Svetlana Lapina is a Russian high jumper.Her personal best jump was 1.99 metres, achieved at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, where she won a surprising bronze medal.-Achievements:-External links:...		A	1.92 m
16	Miki Imai		A	1.92 m
17	Blanka Vlašić Blanka Vlašic Blanka Vlašić is a Croatian athlete who specialises in the high jump. She is the current Croatian record holder in the event, and also the current indoorWorld Champion. The daughter of Croatian decathlon record holder Joško Vlašić, she was a talented junior athlete and attended her first Olympic...		B	1.92 m
18	Dóra Györffy Dóra Gyorffy Dóra Győrffy is a Hungarian high jumper. She became Hungarian champion every year since 1996, except 2003, and NCAA champion for Harvard in 2001. Her personal best jump is 2.00 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Nyíregyháza. This is the Hungarian record.-Achievements:-References:*...		A	1.89 m
18	Hanne Haugland Hanne Haugland Hanne Haugland is a former Norwegian high jumper. She represented the clubs Haugesund IL, IL i BUL, SK Vidar and IF Minerva during her senior career....		B	1.89 m
20	Solange Witteveen Solange Witteveen Solange Marilú Witteveen is an Argentine high jumper. Born in Buenos Aires, she competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 2000....		B	1.89 m
21	Nelė Žilinskienė Nele Žilinskiene Nelė Žilinskienė, born Savickytė is a retired female high jumper from Lithuania. Her personal best jump, first cleared in Vilnius in July 1994, was 1.96 metres.-Achievements:-References:...		A	1.89 m
22	Marta Mendía Marta Mendía Marta Mendía Valencia is a female high jumper from Spain. Her current personal best jumps are 1.95 metres and 1.96 metres .-Achievements:-External links:*...		A	1.89 m
23	Inna Gliznutsa		A	1.89 m
24	Karol Damon		B	1.89 m
25	Linda Horvath		B	1.89 m
26	Erin Aldrich Erin Aldrich Erin Marie Aldrich is an American high jumper. She also played volleyball at the highest level, competing for the United States women's national volleyball team.She finished fourth at the 2001 Summer Universiade...		A	1.85 m
26	Marina Kuptsova Marina Kuptsova Marina Kuptsova is a Russian high jumper who won a silver medal at the 2003 World Championships. She is also a former European indoor high jump champion...		B	1.85 m
28	Olga Bolşova Olga Bolsova Olga Bolşova is a retired Moldovan athlete who specialized in the high jump and triple jump....		B	1.85 m
29	Iryna Mykhalchenko Iryna Mykhalchenko Iryna Mykhalchenko is a Ukrainian high jumper.She finished fifth in the high jump contest at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She then finished second at the 2004 IAAF World Athletics Final, third at the 2005 IAAF World Athletics Final and sixth in the 2006 European Athletics Championships.Her personal...		B	1.85 m
30	Tatyana Shevchik Tatyana Shevchik Tatsiana Sheuchyk is a retired Belarusian high jumper.She finished tenth at the 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships, fourth at the 1994 European Indoor Championships, sixth at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships and fifth at the 1995 World Championships.Her personal best jump was 2.00...		B	1.85 m
31	Amy Acuff Amy Acuff Amy Lyn Acuff is a track and field athlete from the United States. A high jump specialist, she competed in the 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008 Summer Olympics as a member of USA Track and Field...		B	1.80 m
32	Alison Inverarity Alison Inverarity Alison Jane Inverarity is a former Australian Olympic and Commonwealth athlete, competing in the high jump. She was affiliated with the Western Australian Institute of Sport in Perth....		A	1.85 m
33	Niki Bakoyianni		B	1.80 m
33	Agni Charalambous		A	1.80 m
	Hristina Kalcheva		A	NM
	Karen Beautle		A	NM
	Līga Kļaviņa Līga Kļaviņa Līga Kļaviņa is a female heptathlete from Latvia, who began her career as a high jumper. She competed for her native Baltic country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.-Achievements:-References:*...		B	NM
	Tatyana Efimenko Tatyana Efimenko Tatyana Efimenko is a female high jumper from Kyrgyzstan. Her personal best jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in July 2003 in Rome....		B	NM

Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Notes
1	Yelena Yelesina Yelena Yelesina Yelena Borisovna Yelesina is a female high jumper from Russia. She won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with 2,01m, one centimetre behind her personal best jump. She also has several minor medals from major championships.-Achievements:...		2.01	SB
2	Hestrie Cloete Hestrie Cloete Hestrie Cloete-Storbeck is a former, highly successful South African high jumper. Her foremost achievements were winning two world championships and two silver medals at Olympic Games.-Career:...		2.01	SB
3	Kajsa Bergqvist Kajsa Bergqvist Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist is a Swedish former high jumper. She won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships. Her personal outdoor record of 2.06 m, set in Germany in 2003,...		1.99
3	Oana Pantelimon Oana Pantelimon Oana Manuela Pantelimon, née Musunoiu is a Romanian high jumper.At the 2000 Olympic Games Pantelimon ended in third place, tied with Kajsa Bergqvist of Sweden. As the two athletes had an identical jumping record, with perfect attempts up to 1.99 where both had one foul, they shared the bronze medal...		1.99	PB
5	Inha Babakova Inha Babakova Inha Babakova . is a former high jumper who represented the Soviet Union and later Ukraine. Her personal best is 2.05 metres.-References:*...		1.96
6	Svetlana Zalevskaya Svetlana Zalevskaya Svetlana Zalevskaya is a retired female high jumper from Kazakhstan. Her personal best jump is 1.98 metres on 2 March 1996 Samara .1.97 metres, achieved in June 1996 in Pierre-Bénite.-Achievements:-External links:*...		1.96
7	Viktoriya Palamar		1.96
8	Amewu Mensah Amewu Mensah Amewu Mensah is a German high jumper.At the 1999 World Championships she reached the final, but failed to clear the opening height there. In June 2000 in Rehlingen she achieved a career best jump is 1.94 metres...		1.93
9	Venelina Veneva Venelina Veneva Venelina Veneva-Mateeva is a Bulgarian high jumper. Talented at a young age, she jumped 1.93 metres indoor in 1990 to record a world best performance by a 15-year-old. She did not improve this result outdoor until 1995...		1.93
9	Monica Iagar Monica Iagar Monica Dinescu-Iagăr is a Romanian athlete competing in high jump. Her personal best jump is 2.02 metres....		1.93
11	Yoko Ota Yōko Ōta was a Japanese author of Atomic bomb literature.-Biography:Ōta was born as Fukuda, Hatsuko in Hiroshima city, her parents divorced when she was eight and she moved to live with the Fukuda family. As a young girl she read Takuboku Ishikawa and Shusei Tokuda, as well as Goethe and Heine. She also...		1.90
11	Zuzana Hlavonova Zuzana Hlavonová Zuzana Hlavoňová-Kováčiková is a Czech high jumper.Her personal best jump is 2.00 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Prague.-Achievements:-External links:...		1.90
13	Eleonora Milusheva		1.90

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