The Women's high jump at the 1952 Olympic Games took place on 27 July at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. South African athlete Esther Brand won the gold medal.[1]
Women's high jump at the Games of the XV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Date | July 27 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 17 from 10 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning height | 1.67 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Records
editPrior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Sheila Lerwill (GBR) | 1.72 m | London, England | 7 July 1951 |
Olympic record | Alice Coachman (USA) | 1.68 m | London, United Kingdom | 7 August 1948 |
No new records were set during this competition.
Results
editCompetition consisted of a final round with all 17 contestants.
Rank | Athlete | 1.35 | 1.40 | 1.45 | 1.50 | 1.55 | 1.58 | 1.61 | 1.63 | 1.65 | 1.67 | 1.69 | Result |
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Esther Brand (RSA) | - | o | o | o | o | o | o | xo | xo | xxo | xxx | 1.67 | |
Sheila Lerwill (GBR) | - | o | - | xo | o | o | o | xxxo | xxo | xxx | 1.65 | ||
Aleksandra Chudina (URS) | - | - | o | o | o | o | xo | o | xxx | 1.63 | |||
4 | Thelma Hopkins (GBR) | - | - | - | o | o | o | xxx | 1.58 | ||||
5 | Olga Modrachová (TCH) | - | o | o | o | o | o | xxx | 1.58 | ||||
6 | Fedora Schenk (AUT) | - | - | o | o | o | xo | xxx | 1.58 | ||||
7 | Nina Kossova (URS) | - | - | o | o | o | xxo | xxx | 1.58 | ||||
7 | Dorothy Tyler (GBR) | - | - | o | o | o | xxo | xxx | 1.58 | ||||
9 | Gunhild Larking (SWE) | - | o | o | o | o | xxx | 1.55 | |||||
10 | Alice Whitty (CAN) | o | o | o | o | xo | xxx | 1.55 | |||||
11 | Galina Ganeker (URS) | - | - | o | xo | xo | xxx | 1.55 | |||||
12 | Deyse de Castro (BRA) | - | - | - | o | xxx | 1.50 | ||||||
13 | Dawn Josephs (CAN) | o | o | o | o | xxx | 1.50 | ||||||
14 | Solveig Ericsson (SWE) | - | o | xo | o | xxx | 1.50 | ||||||
15 | Seija Pöntinen (FIN) | - | o | o | xxo | xxx | 1.50 | ||||||
16 | Sisko Heikkilä (FIN) | o | o | xxx | 1.40 | ||||||||
17 | Tamara Metal (ISR) | o | xo | xxx | 1.40 |
References
edit- ^ "Athletics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Women's High Jump". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
External links
edit- Official Olympic Report, la84.org.