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In the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, Lasitskene won a gold medal in the girls' high jump with a clearance of 1.89 m, ahead of Alessia Trost. [ 7 ] She started her 2011 season with a major scalp in the form of Yelena Slesarenko , who she defeated with an indoor best jump of 1.90 m. [ 8 ]
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 ⁄ 4 in). She is the Croatian record holder in the event, and a former indoor world champion .
Yuliya Levchenko competed in the high jump at the 2016 Olympics Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she did not reach the final. [1]She was the 2017 European Under-23 Championships gold medalist and the 2017 World Championships silver medalist.
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]
Pages in category "Olympic female high jumpers" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Amelia Lyn "Amy" Acuff (born July 14, 1975) is a track and field athlete from the United States.A high jump specialist, she competed in the 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games as a member of USA Track and Field.
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 ...
The men's high jump has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's high jump was one of five events to feature on the first women's athletics programme in 1928, and it was the only jumping event available to women until 1948, when the long jump was permitted.