1958 European Athletics Championships – Women's high jump

Events at the 1958 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 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
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 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 at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 21 August 1958.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Iolanda Balaș  Romania
Silver	Taisiya Chenchik  Soviet Union
Bronze	Dorothy Shirley  United Kingdom

Results

Final

21 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Iolanda Balaș	Romania	1.77	CR
	Taisiya Chenchik	Soviet Union	1.70
	Dorothy Shirley	United Kingdom	1.67
4	Inge Kilian	West Germany	1.67
5	Galina Dolya	Soviet Union	1.64
6	Maj-Lena Lundström	Sweden	1.61
7	Reinelde Knapp	Austria	1.61
8	Olga Gere	Yugoslavia	1.61
9	Inga Söderlind	Sweden	1.61
10	Anka Abadzhiyeva	Bulgaria	1.58
11	Margareta Samuelsson	Sweden	1.58

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 11 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.

Austria (1)  Bulgaria (1)

Romania (1)  Soviet Union (2)

Sweden (3)  United Kingdom (1)

West Germany (1)  Yugoslavia (1)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 384–390, retrieved 13 August 2014