Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump

Women's high jump at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venues	Lenin Stadium
Dates	25–26 July
Competitors	20 from 12 nations
Winning height	1.97
Medalists
Sara Simeoni  Italy Urszula Kielan  Poland Jutta Kirst  East Germany

Athletics at the 1980 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

The Women's High Jump event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union had an entrylist of 20 competitors. The final was held on Saturday 1980-07-26. Sara Simeoni took gold in the event, Urszula Kielan won silver, and Jutta Kirst won bronze.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Sara Simeoni  Italy
Silver	Urszula Kielan  Poland
Bronze	Jutta Kirst  East Germany

Qualification

• Held on Friday July 25, 1980

RANK	GROUP	Athlete	HEIGHT
1.	A	Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR)	1.88 m
	A	Urszula Kielan (POL)	1.88 m
	A	Andrea Mátay (HUN)	1.88 m
	A	Marina Sysoyeva (URS)	1.88 m
5.	A	Louise Miller (GBR)	1.88 m
	B	Chris Soetewey (BEL)	1.88 m
7.	A	Tamara Bykova (URS)	1.88 m
	A	Jutta Kirst (GDR)	1.88 m
	A	Sara Simeoni (ITA)	1.88 m
10.	B	Christine Stanton (AUS)	1.88 m
11.	B	Cornelia Popa (ROM)	1.88 m
12.	A	Andrea Reichstein (GDR)	1.88 m
13.	A	Elzbieta Krawczuk (POL)	1.85 m
14.	B	Danuta Bulkowska (POL)	1.85 m
15.	B	Susanne Lorentzon (SWE)	1.85 m
16.	B	Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL)	1.80 m
	B	Marina Serkova (URS)	1.80 m
18.	B	Ann-Ewa Karlsson (SWE)	1.80 m
19.	B	Lidija Benedetič-Lapajne (YUG)	1.80 m
—	B	Dia Toutingi (SYR)	NM

Final

• Held on Saturday July 26, 1980

RANK	FINAL	HEIGHT
	Sara Simeoni (ITA)	1.97 m
	Urszula Kielan (POL)	1.94 m
	Jutta Kirst (GDR)	1.94 m
4.	Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR)	1.91 m
5.	Marina Sysoeva (URS)	1.91 m
6.=	Andrea Reichstein (GDR)	1.91 m
6.=	Christine Stanton (AUS)	1.91 m
8.	Cornelia Popa (ROU)	1.88 m
9.	Tamara Bykova (URS)	1.88 m
10.	Andrea Mátay (HUN)	1.85 m
11.	Louise Miller (GBR)	1.85 m
12.	Chris Soetewey (BEL)	1.85 m

See also

• 1976 Women's Olympic High Jump (Montreal)
• 1978 Women's European Championships High Jump (Prague)
• 1982 Women's European Championships High Jump (Athens)
• 1983 Women's World Championships High Jump (Helsinki)
• 1984 Women's Olympic High Jump (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Women's European Championships High Jump (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Women's World Championships High Jump (Rome)

References

External links

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