Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump

Athletics at the 2000 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		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men
Wheelchair races

The women's high jump at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Stadium Australia on Thursday, 28 September and Saturday, 30 September.

Medalists

Gold	Yelena Yelesina  Russia
Silver	Hestrie Cloete  South Africa
Bronze	Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden
Bronze	Oana Pantelimon  Romania

Schedule

• All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
28.09.2000 – 09:45h	28.09.2000 – 09:45h
Final Round
30.09.2000 – 19:00h

Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.09 m	30 August 1987	Rome, Italy
Olympic Record	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.05 m	3 August 1996	Atlanta, United States

Results

All distances shown are in meters.

• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• DQ denotes disqualification.
• NR denotes national record.
• AR denotes area/continental record.
• OR denotes Olympic record.
• WR denotes world record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season best

Qualifying round

Place	Athlete	Nation	Group	Mark	Qual	Record
1	Svetlana Zalevskaya	Kazakhstan	A	1.94 m	Q
1	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	A	1.94 m	Q
1	Viktoriya Palamar	Ukraine	A	1.94 m	Q
1	Yelena Yelesina	Russia	A	1.94 m	Q
1	Hestrie Cloete	South Africa	B	1.94 m	Q
1	Amewu Mensah	Germany	B	1.94 m	Q
1	Inha Babakova	Ukraine	B	1.94 m	Q
1	Eleonora Milusheva	Bulgaria	B	1.94 m	Q
9	Venelina Veneva	Bulgaria	A	1.94 m	Q
10	Zuzana Hlavonova	Czech Republic	B	1.94 m	Q
10	Monica Iagar	Romania	B	1.94 m	Q
12	Oana Pantelimon	Romania	A	1.94 m	Q	SB
12	Yoko Ota	Japan	B	1.94 m	Q
14	Ioamnet Quintero	Cuba	A	1.92 m
15	Svetlana Lapina	Russia	A	1.92 m
16	Miki Imai	Japan	A	1.92 m
17	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	B	1.92 m
18	Dóra Györffy	Hungary	A	1.89 m
18	Hanne Haugland	Norway	B	1.89 m
20	Solange Witteveen	Argentina	B	1.89 m
21	Nelė Žilinskienė	Lithuania	A	1.89 m
22	Marta Mendía	Spain	A	1.89 m
23	Inna Gliznutsa	Moldova	A	1.89 m
24	Karol Damon	United States	B	1.89 m
25	Linda Horvath	Austria	B	1.89 m
26	Erin Aldrich	United States	A	1.85 m
26	Marina Kuptsova	Russia	B	1.85 m
28	Olga Bolşova	Moldova	B	1.85 m
29	Iryna Mykhalchenko	Ukraine	B	1.85 m
30	Tatyana Shevchik	Belarus	B	1.85 m
31	Amy Acuff	United States	B	1.80 m
32	Alison Inverarity	Australia	A	1.80 m
33	Agni Charalambous	Cyprus	A	1.80 m
33	Niki Bakogianni	Greece	B	1.80 m
	Hristina Kalcheva	Bulgaria	A	NM
	Karen Beautle	Jamaica	A	NM
	Līga Kļaviņa	Latvia	B	NM
	Tatyana Efimenko	Kyrgyzstan	B	NM

• NM = no mark
• All four athletes who failed to register a height, had three failures at 1.80 m.

Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Notes
	Yelena Yelesina	Russia	2.01	SB
	Hestrie Cloete	South Africa	2.01	SB
	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	1.99
	Oana Pantelimon	Romania	1.99	PB
5	Inha Babakova	Ukraine	1.96
6	Svetlana Zalevskaya	Kazakhstan	1.96
7	Viktoriya Palamar	Ukraine	1.96
8	Amewu Mensah	Germany	1.93
9	Venelina Veneva	Bulgaria	1.93
9	Monica Iagar	Romania	1.93
11	Yoko Ota	Japan	1.90
11	Zuzana Hlavonova	Czech Republic	1.90
13	Eleonora Milusheva	Bulgaria	1.90

References

• Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics