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For the women's high jump event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. 32 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by jumping the entry standard of 1.97 m or higher or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event. [8] [9] [10]
Following the 2020 Olympics, Gianmarco Tamberi from Italy and Mutaz Essa Barshim from Qatar are the reigning men's Olympic champions and Yaroslava Mahuchikh from Ukraine is the reigning women's Olympic champion. Only two athletes have won two Olympic high jump titles, both women: Iolanda Balaș and Ulrike Meyfarth.
Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals. nb Note: Marion Jones was stripped of all her Olympic medals. In 2008 the Russian team of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya were initially awarded the gold medals. However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 ...
The women's high jump event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 5 and 7 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. [1] Even though 32 athletes qualified through the qualification system for the Games, [2] only 31 took part in the competition. This was the 22nd appearance of the event, having appeared at every Olympics since women's ...
In August, Mahuchikh won the bronze medal in the high jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [59] It was the third Olympic medal won by Ukraine in the women's high jump event after Inha Babakova and Vita Styopina, who both clinched bronze medals too at the 1996 and 2004 Summer Olympics respectively. [60] [61]
Yaroslava Mahuchikh erased a mark that had stood for 37 years at a Diamond League meet in Paris, jumping 2.10 meters (6.88 feet) in one of the last big tuneups leading into the Olympics.
Blanka Vlašić (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈblaːŋka ˈʋlaʃitɕ]; born 8 November 1983) is a Croatian former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump. She is a two-time world champion and double Olympic medallist who ranks as the joint third- highest female jumper of all time with her personal best of 2.08 m ( 6 ft 9 + 3 ...
Nicola Lauren Olyslagers (née McDermott) (born 28 December 1996) is an Australian high jumper. [3] She won the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 [4] [5] and Paris 2024 Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in the high jump.