Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump

Women's high jump at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany
Date	September 3 & 4
Medalists
Ulrike Meyfarth   West Germany   Yordanka Blagoeva   Bulgaria   Ilona Gusenbauer   Austria

Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
100 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		women
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

These are the official results of the Women's high jump event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on 3 and 4 of September. Austrian Ilona Gusenbauer was the favorite after her 1971 European Athletics Championships victory. There were 40 jumpers and 23 qualified for the final making it a long day for the jumpers involved with such a big field. This competition still used a mixture of the straddle technique and the newer Fosbury Flop technique. Meyfarth at the age of 16 years, 123 days, was and still is the youngest winner of an individual medal in athletics.^[1]

Results

All jumpers reaching 1.76 m (5 ft 9 ¹⁄₂ in) and the top 12 including ties qualified for the finals. All qualifiers are listed in blue. All heights are listed in metres.

Qualifying

Rank	Name	Nationality	Group	Mark	1.60	1.65	1.70	1.73	1.76
1T	Ilona Gusenbauer	Austria	A	1.76	p	p	o	o	o
1T	Yordanka Blagoeva	Bulgaria	A	1.76	p	p	o	o	o
1T	Grith Ejstrup	Denmark	B	1.76	p	p	o	o	o
1T	Rita Gildemeister	East Germany	A	1.76	p	p	o	o	o
1T	Rita Schmidt	East Germany	A	1.76	p	p	o	o	o
6T	Debbie Brill	Canada	B	1.76	p	o	o	o	o
6T	Rosemarie Witschas	East Germany	A	1.76	p	o	o	o	o
6T	Renate Gärtner	West Germany	A	1.76	p	o	o	o	o
6T	Ulrike Meyfarth	West Germany	A	1.76	p	o	o	o	o
6T	Ellen Mundinger	West Germany	A	1.76	p	o	o	o	o
6T	Sara Simeoni	Italy	B	1.76	p	o	o	o	o
6T	Audrey Reid	Jamaica	A	1.76	p	o	o	o	o
6T	Ria Ahlers	Netherlands	A	1.76	p	o	o	o	o
6T	Cornelia Popescu	Romania	A	1.76	p	o	o	o	o
15	Snežana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia	A	1.76	o	o	xxo	xxo	o
16	Solveig Langkilde	Denmark	A	1.76	p	p	o	o	xo
17T	Erika Rudolf	Hungary	A	1.76	p	o	o	o	xo
17T	Andrea Bruce	Jamaica	B	1.76	p	o	o	o	xo
19	Alena Prosková	Czechoslovakia	A	1.76	o	o	o	o	xo
20T	Milada Karbanová	Czechoslovakia	A	1.76	o	o	xo	o	xo
20T	Miloslava Hübnerová	Czechoslovakia	A	1.76	o	xo	o	o	xo
22	Barbara Inkpen	Great Britain	A	1.76	o	o	xxo	o	xo
23	Magdolna Komka	Hungary	A	1.76	p	o	o	o	xxo
24	Breda Babošek	Yugoslavia	A	1.73	p	o	xo	o	xxx
25	Marima Rodríguez	Cuba	A	1.73	p	p	xxo	o	xxx
26	Antonina Lazaryeva	Soviet Union	A	1.73	p	o	o	xo	xxx
27	Rosaline Few	Great Britain	B	1.73	o	o	o	xo	xxx
28	Beatrixe Rechner	Switzerland	B	1.73	p	xo	xo	xo	xxx
29	Louise Hannah	Canada	B	1.73	o	o	o	xxo	xxx
30T	Penelope Dimmock	Great Britain	B	1.70	o	o	o	xxx
30T	Deanne Wilson	United States	B	1.70	o	o	o	xxx
32	Cindy Gilbert	United States	B	1.70	xo	o	xxo	xxx
33T	Michiyo Inaoka	Japan	B	1.65	o	o	xxx
33T	Doris Bisang	Switzerland	B	1.65	o	o	xxx
35T	Mihoko Yama	Japan	B	1.65	o	xo	xxx
35T	Roxana Vulescu	Romania	B	1.65	o	xo	xxx
37	Lára Sveinsdóttir	Iceland	B	1.60	o	xxx
38	Sandi Goldsberry	United States	B	1.60	xo	xxx
–	Nnenna Njoku	Nigeria	B	NM	xxx
–	Wu Yu-Chih	Republic of China	B	NM	xxx
–	Galina Filatova	Soviet Union	A	DNS
–	Margit Papp	Hungary	A	DNS
–	Kari Karlsen	Norway	B	DNS
–	Maria Luisa Vilca	Peru	B	DNS
–	Gladys Chaingmei	Malaysia	B	DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1.60	1.66	1.71	1.76	1.79	1.82	1.85	1.88	1.90	1.92	1.94
	Ulrike Meyfarth	West Germany	1.92 WR	p	p	o	o	o	o	o	o	xo	o	xxx
	Yordanka Blagoeva	Bulgaria	1.88	p	p	o	o	o	o	o	o	xxx
	Ilona Gusenbauer	Austria	1.88	p	p	xo	xo	o	o	xxo	xo	xxx
4	Barbara Inkpen	Great Britain	1.85	p	o	o	o	o	o	o	xxx
5	Rita Schmidt	East Germany	1.85	p	p	o	o	o	o	xo	xxx
6	Sara Simeoni	Italy	1.85	p	p	o	o	o	xo	xo	xxx
7	Rosemarie Witschas	East Germany	1.85	p	o	o	o	o	o	xxo	xxx
8	Debbie Brill	Canada	1.82	p	p	o	o	o	o	xxx
9	Andrea Bruce	Jamaica	1.82	p	o	o	o	o	o	xxx
10	Ellen Mundinger	West Germany	1.82	p	p	o	o	xo	o	xxx
11	Audrey Reid	Jamaica	1.82	p	p	o	xo	xo	o	xxx
12T	Grith Ejstrup	Denmark	1.82	p	p	o	o	o	xo	xxx
12T	Rita Gildemeister	East Germany	1.82	p	p	o	o	o	xo	xxx
14	Renate Gärtner	West Germany	1.82	p	p	o	o	o	xxo	xxx
15	Miloslava Hübnerová	Czechoslovakia	1.82	p	o	o	xo	o	xxo	xxx
16T	Erika Rudolf	Hungary	1.79	p	o	o	o	o	xxx
16T	Ria Ahlers	Netherlands	1.79	p	o	o	o	o	xxx
18	Alena Prosková	Czechoslovakia	1.79	p	p	xo	o	o	xxx
19	Cornelia Popescu	Romania	1.76	p	o	o	o	xxx
20	Snežana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia	1.76	o	o	o	o	xxx
21	Solveig Langkilde	Denmark	1.76	p	p	p	xo	xxx
22	Milada Karbanová	Czechoslovakia	1.76	p	o	xo	xxo	xxx
23	Magdolna Komka	Hungary	1.71	p	p	o	xxx

Key: WR = world record; o = cleared height; p = passed at height; x = failed jump; NM = no mark; DNS = did not start

References

• Sports-reference
• Official report

1. Sports Reference. "Athletics at the 1972 München Summer Games: Women's High Jump". Retrieved 2012-02-29.