2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's high jump

Events at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m		men		women
60 m hurdles		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Heptathlon		men

Chaunté Lowe celebrating her win.

The women's high jump at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place March 9 and 10 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Chaunté Lowe  United States	Antonietta Di Martino  Italy Anna Chicherova  Russia Ebba Jungmark  Sweden	Not awarded

Records

Standing records prior to the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships
World record	Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE)	2.08	Arnstadt, Germany	4 February 2006
Championship record	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.05	Indianapolis, United States	8 March 1987
World Leading	Anna Chicherova (RUS)	2.06	Arnstadt, Germany	4 February 2012
African record	Hestrie Cloete (RSA)	1.97	Birmingham, Great Britain	18 February 2001
Asian record	Svetlana Zalevskaya (KAZ)	1.98	Samara, Russia	2 March 1996
European record	Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE)	2.08	Arnstadt, Germany	4 February 2006
North and Central American and Caribbean record	Chaunté Lowe (USA)	2.02	Albuquerque, United States	26 February 2012
Oceanian Record	Alison Inverarity (AUS)	1.97	Toronto, Canada	13 March 1993
South American record	Solange Witteveen (ARG)	1.94	Brno, Czech Republic	9 February 2000

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Qualification

Qualification standard: 1.95 m (Q) or at least best 8 qualified (q). 20 athletes from 17 countries participated. One athlete did not start the competition The qualification round started at 09:37 and ended at 11:46.^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1.78	1.83	1.88	1.92	1.95	Result	Notes
1	Anna Chicherova	Russia	-	o	o	o	o	1.95	Q
1	Ebba Jungmark	Sweden	-	o	o	o	o	1.95	Q, =SB
3	Antonietta Di Martino	Italy	-	o	o	o	xo	1.95	Q, SB
3	Chaunté Lowe	United States	o	o	o	o	xo	1.95	Q
5	Svetlana Radzivil	Uzbekistan	o	o	o	xxo	xo	1.95	Q, SB
6	Tia Hellebaut	Belgium	o	xo	o	xxo	xo	1.95	Q
7	Ruth Beitia	Spain	-	o	o	o	xxx	1.92	q
7	Esthera Petre	Romania	o	o	o	o	xxx	1.92	q
9	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania	o	o	o	xo	xxx	1.92	SB
9	Irina Gordeeva	Russia	-	o	o	xo	xxx	1.92
9	Emma Green Tregaro	Sweden	-	o	o	xo	xxx	1.92
12	Anna Iljuštšenko	Estonia	o	o	o	xxx		1.88
13	Zheng Xingjuan	China	o	o	xo	xxx		1.88
14	Ana Šimić	Croatia	o	xxo	xo	xxx		1.88
15	Levern Spencer	Saint Lucia	o	o	xxo	xxx		1.88	SB
15	Tonje Angelsen	Norway	o	o	xxo	xxx		1.88
17	Oksana Okuneva	Ukraine	o	xo	xxx			1.83
18	Marina Aitova	Kazakhstan	o	xxo	xxx			1.83
99	Venelina Veneva-Mateeva	Bulgaria	-	xxx				0.01 !NM
99	Inika McPherson	United States	xxx					0.01 !NM
99	Burcu Ayhan	Turkey						0.00 !DNS

Final

8 athletes from 8 countries participated. The final started at 18:16 and ended at 19:24.^[2]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1.84	1.88	1.92	1.95	1.98	2.01	Result	Notes
01 !	Chaunté Lowe	United States	o	o	xo	xo	o	xxx	1.98
02 !	Antonietta Di Martino	Italy	o	o	o	o	xxx		1.95	=SB
02 !	Anna Chicherova	Russia	o	o	o	o	xxx		1.95
02 !	Ebba Jungmark	Sweden	o	o	o	o	xxx		1.95	=SB
5	Tia Hellebaut	Belgium	o	xo	o	o	xxx		1.95
6	Ruth Beitia	Spain	o	o	o	xo	xxx		1.95	SB
7	Esthera Petre	Romania	o	xxo	o	xxx			1.92
8	Svetlana Radzivil	Uzbekistan	o	o	xo	xxx			1.92

References