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2001 World Championships in Athletics Edmonton, Canada

2001 8th IAAF World Championships - Edmonton - Women's High Jump

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Host City: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Format: Qualifying round (1.93 or top 12 to final) (Aug 10)
Dates: August 3–12, 2001
Nations participating: 189
Athletes participating: 1677
    Main venue: Commonwealth Stadium
Overview by IAAF   EDMONTON STADIUM 
Of the four women who cleared 1.97, Cloete and Bergqvist had perfect records. At 2.00, Bergqvist (and Veneva) went out. Defending champion Babakova and Cloete failed once, then in the second round the Ukrainian cleared. Cloete also succeeded, meaning that Babakova would need to go higher in order to retain her title. In fact both failed at 2.02, so Cloete became the first South African woman to win any World Championship medal. “South Africa saved the best until last” said Cloete, reflecting on a day when her country also collected an unexpected silver (later promoted to gold) in the men’s 4x100m relay.
 These are the results of the Women's High Jump event at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
 
  High Jump 12 August
Women's High Jump Final
South Africas’s Hestrie CLOETE won the women’s high jump gold this afternoon at the end of a competition in which all the medals were decided at one height.
Coming in to the competition, CLOETE had won the last Grand Prix meeting at London and had maintained her best level during the last few weeks. Despite being the only favourite in the final not able to clear 2.00m this year, CLOETE started the competition well. The South African went over all heights until 1.97m with her first attempts. Finally, CLOETE’s second attempt clearance over 2.00m was enough to give her the gold medal
The competition started quite slowly. There were many failures at the early heights with one of the favourites, the world leader Venelina VENEVA (BUL) only clearing 1.94m with her third attempt. The next height of 1.97m started to give us an idea of the medallists. World indoor champion Kajsa BERGQVIST (SWE) and CLOETE cleared with their first attempts to share the lead. Inga BABAKOVA (UKR) and VENEVA cleared with their seconds attempts, BABAKOVA going into third place and VENEVA fourth.
BABAKOVA, the reigning world champion, but only 5th in the Olympics last year, was the first one to go over 2.00m with her second attempt. BERGQVIST had already been very close to going over the bar, but it was CLOETE who cleared next and she moved to the top of the competition because of BABAKOVA’s failures in earlier heights.
VENEVA missed her two first attempts badly, but came close to a clearance with her third, while BERGQVIST missed three times, leaving only two women in the competition. BERGQVIST took the bronze medal due to her clean sheet before 2.00m.
CLOETE and BABAKOVA went on to try 2.02m, but never looked close to clearing.
  Final
1 Hestrie Cloete RSA 26 Aug 78 2.00
2 Inga Babakova UKR 27 Jun 67 2.00
3 Kajsa Bergqvist SWE 12 Oct 76 1.97
4 Venelina Veneva-Mateeva BUL 13 Jun 74 1.97
5 Vita Palamar UKR 12 Oct 77 1.94
6 Blanka Vlašić CRO 8 Nov 83 1.94
7 Dóra Győrffy HUN 23 Feb 78 1.90
7 Monica Iagăr ROU 1 Apr 73 1.90
9 Oana Pantelimon ROU 17 Sep 72 1.90
10 Amy Acuff USA 14 Jul 75 1.90
10 Yelena Gulyayeva RUS 14 Aug 67 1.90
12 Antonietta Di Martino ITA 1 Jun 78 1.85
Final 14.30h Team Height 185 190 194 197 200 202
1 Hestrie Cloete RSA 2.00m O O O O XO XXX
2 Inha Babakova UKR 2.00m O XO O XO XO XXX
3 Kajsa Bergqvist SWE 1.97m O O O O XXX
4 Venelina Veneva BUL 1.97m XO O XXO XO XXX
5 Vita Palamar UKR 1.94m O XO O XXX
6 Blanka Vlasic CRO 1.94m XXO XO O XXX
7 Monica Iagar-Dinescu ROU 1.90m O O XXX
7 Dora Gyorffy HUN 1.90m O O XXX
9 Oana Musunoiu-Pantelimon ROU 1.90m XXO O XXX
10 Amy Acuff USA 1.90m O XO XXX
10 Yelena Gulyayeva RUS 1.90m O XO XXX
12 Antonietta Di Martino ITA 1.85m XO XXX
Women's High Jump Qualifying
The elimination of Russia’s Olympic champion Yelena YELESINA was the shock of this qualification round. Overall none of the qualifiers proceeded to the final with the automatic qualification mark of 1.93m. In fact a low 1.88m was good enough for two of the 12 qualifiers.
Across the two groups four women finished the preliminary round with clean jumping cards, all having cleared 1.80, 1.85, 1.88 and 1.91m to qualify smoothly. These were, in Group A, joint first placers, Olympic finallist Vita PALAMAR of the Ukraine and South Africa’s Hestrie CLOETE, the Olympic silver medallist. In Group B, again jointly in the lead, were American champion Amy Acuff and Ukraine’s Inga BABAKOVA, the world defending champion.
Others to proceed to the final via clearances at 1.91m were Venelina VENEVA of Bulgaria, the current world leader (2.04m), Russia’s Yelena GULYAYEVA, Romania’s Monica IAGER-DINESCU and Sweden’s world indoor champion Kajsa BERGQVIST. These four were the last to proceed from the first pool.
Italian champion Antonietta DI MARTINO and Romania’s Oana PANTELIMON also went over at 1.91m. Joining them in the final were Hungary’s Dora GYORFFY and Croatia’s Blanka VLASIC who jumped 1.88m. By virtue of a better jumping record at earlier heights these two put out of the final both the European Cup winner Susan JONES (GBR) and YELESINA.
  Qualification 10 August
Kajsa Bergqvist SWE 12 Oct 76 1.91 q
Monica Iagăr ROU 1 Apr 73 1.91 q
Yelena Gulyayeva RUS 14 Aug 67 1.91 q
Venelina Veneva-Mateeva BUL 13 Jun 74 1.91 q
Hestrie Cloete RSA 26 Aug 78 1.91 q
Vita Palamar UKR 12 Oct 77 1.91 q
Oana Pantelimon ROU 17 Sep 72 1.91 q
Antonietta Di Martino ITA 1 Jun 78 1.91 q
Inga Babakova UKR 27 Jun 67 1.91 q
Amy Acuff USA 14 Jul 75 1.91 q
Nelė Žilinskienė LTU 29 Dec 69 1.88
Juana Arrendel DOM 26 Sep 78 1.88
Yekaterina Savchenko RUS 3 Jun 77 1.88
Wanita May CAN 30 Jan 75 1.88
Susan Moncrieff GBR 8 Jun 78 1.88
Yelena Yelesina RUS 5 Apr 70 1.88
Blanka Vlašić CRO 8 Nov 83 1.88 q
Dóra Győrffy HUN 23 Feb 78 1.88 q
Miki Imai JPN 30 May 75 1.85
Marta Mendía ESP 18 May 75 1.85
Svetlana Zalevskaya KAZ 14 Jun 73 1.85
Līga Kļaviņa LAT 27 Jan 80 1.80
Erin Aldrich USA 27 Dec 77 NH
Group A Team Height 180 185 188 191
1 Vita Palamar UKR 1.91m O O O O
1 Hestrie Cloete RSA 1.91m O O O O
3 Venelina Veneva BUL 1.91m O O XO O
4 Yelena Gulyayeva RUS 1.91m O O O XO
4 Monica Iagar-Dinescu ROU 1.91m O O O XO
6 Kajsa Bergqvist SWE 1.91m - O XO XO
7 Nele Zilinskiene LTU 1.88m O O XXO XXX
8 Miki Imai JPN 1.85m O O XXX
9 Liga Klavina LAT 1.80m XO XXX
- Erin Aldrich USA NM XXX
Group B Team Height 180 185 188 191
1 Amy Acuff USA 1.91m O O O O
1 Inha Babakova UKR 1.91m O O O O
3 Antonietta Di Martino ITA 1.91m O XO O O
4 Oana Musunoiu-Pantelimon ROU 1.91m XO O O XXO
5 Dora Gyorffy HUN 1.88m O O O XXX
6 Blanka Vlasic CRO 1.88m O XO O XXX
7 Yelena Yelesina RUS 1.88m O O XO XXX
7 Susan Jones GBR 1.88m O O XO XXX
9 Wanita May CAN 1.88m O XO XO XXX
10 Yekaterina Aleksandrova RUS 1.88m O O XXO XXX
11 Juana Rosario Arrendel DOM 1.88m O XXO XXO XXX
12 Svetlana Zalevskaya KAZ 1.85m XO O XXX
13 Marta Mendia ESP 1.85m O XXO XXX

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Group A 10 AUG 2001 19:30 

Order / LaneBibATHLETECOUNTRYPBSB 2001
1 807 Erin Aldrich USA USA 1.97i 1.89
2 531 Nele Zilinskiené LTU LTU 1.96 1.92
3 797 Vita Palamar UKR UKR 1.98 1.98
4 658 Hestrie Cloete RSA RSA 2.04 1.99
5 90 Venelina Veneva-Mateeva BUL BUL 2.04 2.04
6 673 Yelena Gulyayeva RUS RUS 2.01 1.95
7 512 Liga Klavina LAT LAT 1.94 1.93
8 466 Miki Imai JPN JPN 1.94 1.92
9 760 Kajsa Bergqvist SWE SWE 2.01 2.00
10 644 Monica Iagar ROU ROU 2.03i 1.97i

Group B 10 AUG 2001 19:3

Order / LaneBibATHLETECOUNTRYPBSB 2001
    Susan Jones-Moncrieff GBR GBR 1.95 1.95
1 427 Antonietta Di Martino ITA ITA 1.98 1.98
2 120 Wanita May CAN CAN 1.92 1.91
3 495 Svetlana Zalevskaya KAZ KAZ 1.98i 1.91i
4 645 Oana Pantelimon ROU ROU 1.99 1.93
5 393 Dóra Györffy HUN HUN 2.00 2.00
6 805 Amy Acuff USA USA 2.00 1.98
7 664 Ekaterina Savchenko RUS RUS 1.96 1.96
8 171 Blanka Vlašic CRO CRO 1.95 1.95
9 714 Yelena Yelesina RUS RUS 2.02 1.95
10 791 Inha Babakova UKR UKR 2.05 2.03
11 217 Marta Mendía ESP ESP 1.94i 1.94i
12 199 Juana Rosario Arrendel DOM DOM 1.90
 

 

 

 

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