2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump

Events at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics
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		women
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
10,000 m walk		men		women
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The women's high jump at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Moncton 2010 Stadium on 23 & 25 July.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Marija Vuković  Montenegro	Airinė Palšytė  Lithuania	Elena Vallortigara  Italy

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World junior record	Olga Turchak Heike Balck	Soviet Union  East Germany	2.01	Moscow Karl-Marx-Stadt	July 7, 1986 June 18, 1989
World Leading	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania	1.92	Budapest	20 June 2010

Results

Final

25 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Height	Notes
	Marija Vuković	Montenegro	1.91	NR
	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania	1.89
	Elena Vallortigara	Italy	1.89
4	Hanne Van Hessche	Belgium	1.86
5	Hannah Willms	United States	1.82
6	Sietske Noorman	Netherlands	1.82
7	Victoria Dronsfield	Sweden	1.78
8	Amy Pejkovic	Australia	1.78
9	Elizabeth Lamb	New Zealand	1.78
10	France Paul	France	1.78
11	Chiara Vitobello	Italy	1.73
12	Michalina Kwaśniewska	Poland	1.73

Qualifications

23 July

Qualification standard 1.83 m or at least best 12 qualified.

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Chiara Vitobello	Italy	1.81	q
1	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania	1.81	q
3	Marija Vuković	Montenegro	1.81	q
3	Elizabeth Lamb	New Zealand	1.81	q
3	Michalina Kwasniewska	Poland	1.81	q
6	Victoria Dronsfield	Sweden	1.81	q
7	France Paul	France	1.78	q
8	Maya Pressley	United States	1.78
9	Holly Parent	Canada	1.78
10	Valeryia Bahdanovich	Belarus	1.78
11	Betsabée Páez	Argentina	1.74
11	Massiel Jiménez	Dominican Republic	1.74
13	Wu Meng-Chia	Chinese Taipei	1.74
14	Alexandra Plaza	Germany	1.74
15	Emily Crutcher	Australia	1.65

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Hanne Van Hessche	Belgium	1.81	q
1	Elena Vallortigara	Italy	1.81	q
1	Sietske Noorman	Netherlands	1.81	q
1	Hannah Willms	United States	1.81	q
5	Amy Pejkovic	Australia	1.78	q
6	Deborah Brodersen	Germany	1.78
7	Isobel Pooley	United Kingdom	1.78
7	Agnieszka Bukowczyk	Poland	1.78
7	Maruša Cernjul	Slovenia	1.78
10	Leontia Kallenou	Cyprus	1.78
11	Katarina Mögenburg	Norway	1.78
12	Cristina Ferrando	Spain	1.74
12	Keeley O'Hagan	New Zealand	1.74
14	Lisa Egarter	Austria	1.74
15	Alyxandria Treasure	Canada	1.70

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 30 athletes from 23 countries participated in the event.

•  Argentina (1)
•  Australia (2)
•  Austria (1)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Canada (2)
•  Chinese Taipei (1)
•  Cyprus (1)
•  Dominican Republic (1)
•  France (1)
•  Germany (2)
•  Italy (2)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Montenegro (1)
•  Netherlands (1)
•  New Zealand (2)
•  Norway (1)
•  Poland (2)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  Spain (1)
•  Sweden (1)
•  United Kingdom (1)
•  United States (2)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2010 Moncton CAN Jul 19-25, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 9 Mar 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015