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High Jump Women
OLYMPIC RECORD EVOLUTION High Jump Women
ATHLETE
NAME
SCORE
OLYMPIC GAME
DATE
COUNTRY
DISTANCE
[meters]
1928
Ethel CATHERWOOD
1.59
Amsterdam 1928
05 AUGUST
CAN
1932
Jean SHILEY
1.65
Los Angeles 1932
07 AUGUST
USA
Mildred DIDRIKSON
1.65
Los Angeles 1932
07 AUGUST
USA
1948
Coachman Alice
1.68
London 1948
07 AUGUST
Odam Dorothy
1.68
London 1948
07 AUGUST
1956
McDaniel Mildred
1.76
Melbourne / Stockholm 1956
01 DECEMBER
1960
Iolanda BALAS
1.85
Rome 1960
08 SEPTEMBER
ROU
1964
Iolanda BALAS
1.9
Tokyo 1964
15 OCTOBER
ROU
1972
Ulrike MEYFARTH
1.92
Munich 1972
04 SEPTEMBER
FRG
1976
Rosemarie WITSCHAS-ACKERMANN
1.93
Montreal 1976
28 JULY
GDR
1980
Sara SIMEONI
1.97
Moscow 1980
26 JULY
ITA
1984
Ulrike MEYFARTH
2.02
Los Angeles 1984
10 AUGUST
FRG
1988
Ritter Louise
2.03
Seoul 1988
30 SEPTEMBER
1996
Stefka KOSTADINOVA
2.05
Atlanta 1996
03 AUGUST
BUL
2004
Slesarenko Yelena
2.06
Athens 2004
28 AUGUST
RUS
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WOMEN'S EVENTS
10000m women
100m women
100m hurdles women
1500m women
200m women
20km race walk women
3000m steeplechase women
400m women
400m hurdles women
4x100m relay women
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5000m women
800m women
discus throw women
hammer throw women
heptathlon women
high jump women
javelin throw women
long jump women
marathon women
pole vault women
shot put women
New Olympic Record
2.06m
More about : Yelena Slesarenko,
Athens 2004
,
Russian Federation
Equipment and History
International Association of Athletics Federations
Olympic medallists
Gold medals
Anna CHICHEROVA
Maria KUCHINA
Tia HELLEBAUT
Elena SLESARENKO
Yelena YELESINA
Stefka KOSTADINOVA
Heike HENKEL
Dorothy Louise RITTER
Ulrike MEYFARTH
Sara SIMEONI
Rosemarie WITSCHAS-ACKERMANN
Miloslava REZKOVA-HUBNER
Iolanda BALAS
Mildred Louise MCDANIEL
Esther Cornelia BRAND
Alice Marie COACHMAN
Ibolya CSAK
Jean SHILEY
Ethel CATHERWOOD
Silver medals
Brigetta BARRETT
Alessia TROST
Blanka VLASIC
Hestrie CLOETE
Niki BAKOGIANNI
Galina ASTAFEI
Stefka KOSTADINOVA
Sara SIMEONI
Urszula KIELAN
Yordanka BLAGOEVA-DIMITROVA
Antonina OKOROKOVA-LAZAREVA
Michelle Mary MASON-BROWN
Dorothy Ada SHIRLEY
Jaroslawa JOZWIAKOWSKA-BIEDA
Mariya PISSAREVA
Thelma Elizabeth HOPKINS
Sheila LERWILL
Dorothy Beatrice J. ODAM-TYLER
Mildred DIDRIKSON
Carolina Anna GISOLF
Bronze medals
Svetlana SHKOLINA
Aneta RYDZ
Anna CHICHEROVA
Viktoriya STYOPINA
Kajsa BERGQVIST
Oana PANTELIMON
Inha BABAKOVA
Joanet QUINTERO
Tamara BYKOVA
Johanna Luann HUNTLEY
Jutta KIRST
Yordanka BLAGOEVA-DIMITROVA
Ilona GUSENBAUER-MAJDAN
Valentina KOZYR
Taisiya CHENCHIK
Aleksandra CHUDINA
Micheline OSTERMEYER
Elfriede KAUN
Eva DAWES-SPINKS
Mildred Olive WILEY