Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump

Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
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
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The women's high jump event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics. 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

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ethel Catherwood Canada (CAN)	Lien Gisolf Netherlands (NED)	Mildred Wiley United States (USA)

Records

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

World Record	1.58	Ethel Catherwood	Regina (CAN)	September 6, 1926
	1.58	Lien Gisolf	Brussels (BEL)	July 3, 1928
	1.60(*)	Marjorie Clark	London (GBR)	June 23, 1928
	1.60(*)	Ethel Catherwood	Halifax (CAN)	July 2, 1928
Olympic Record		-

(*) unofficial

In the final Ethel Catherwood set a new official world record with 1.595 metres.

Results

Qualification

The qualification started at 1.15 p.m. 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. 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[1]	Final Height
1	Ethel Catherwood (CAN)	1.40	O	O	O	O	O	O	XXO	1.595[1] WR
2	Lien Gisolf (NED)	1.40	O	O	O	XO	XO	XXX		1.56
3	Mildred Wiley (USA)	1.40	O	O	O	XO	XO	XXX		1.56
4	Jean Shiley (USA)	1.40								1.51
5	Marjorie Clark (RSA)	1.40								1.48
6	Helma Notte (GER)	1.40								1.48
7	Inge Braumüller (GER)	1.40								1.48
8	Kay Maguire (USA)	1.40								1.48
9	Marion Holley (USA)	1.40								1.48
10	Léontine Stevens (BEL)	1.40								1.48
11	Hélène Bons (FRA)	1.40								1.45
12	Lucienne Laudré (FRA)	1.40								1.45
13	Bride Adams-Ray (SWE)	1.40								1.45
14	Évelyne Cloupet (FRA)	1.40								1.40
15	Ann-Margret Ahlstrand (SWE)	1.40								1.40
16	Sidonie Verschueren (BEL)	1.40								1.40
17	Elise Van Truyen (BEL)	1.40								1.40
18	Elisabeth Bonetsmüller (GER)	1.40								1.40
—	IJke Buisma (NED)	1.40								NM
—	Irina Orendi (ROU)	1.35	not qualified for the final

1. After Catherwood world record jump the height was remeasured to the new world record height of 1.595 metres.

References

• Olympic Report
• sports-reference
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 15 December 2008.