Women High Jump Athletics Olympic Games 2008 Beijing (CHN) - Saturday 23.08 - Gold Medal: Tia Hellebaut, Belgium
Final 23.08 19:00
Height
Rk.
SO
birth
N:
185
189
193
196
199
201
203
205
207
1. Tia Hellebaut
BEL
2.05m
1.
12
Feb 16 1978
1119
O
O
O
O
XO
XO
XO
O
X-
2. Blanka Vlasic
CRO
2.05m
8.
4
Nov 08 1983
1442
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
XO
XXX
3. Chaunte Howard
USA
1.99m
8.
14
Jan 12 1984
3266
O
O
XO
XO
XXO
XXX
4. Ruth Beitia
ESP
1.96m
1.
1
Apr 01 1979
1621
O
O
O
O
XXX
5. Ariane Friedrich
GER
1.96m
5.
5
Jan 10 1984
1895
O
-
O
O
XXX
6. Emma Green
SWE
1.96m
13.
13
Dec 08 1984
2590
O
O
O
XXO
XXX
7. Marina Aitova
KAZ
1.93m
1.
15
Sep 13 1982
2233
O
O
O
XXX
7. Antonietta di Martino
ITA
1.93m
6.
11
Jun 01 1978
2073
O
O
O
XXX
9. Iva Strakova
CZE
1.93m
7.
9
Aug 04 1980
1527
O
O
XXO
XXX
9. Vita Styopina
UKR
1.93m
1.
10
Feb 21 1976
3130
O
O
XXO
XXX
11.Svetlana Shkolina
RUS
1.93m
8.
7
Mar 09 1986
2757
O
XO
XXO
XXX
12.Romana Dubnova
CZE
1.89m
15.
3
Nov 04 1978
1512
O
XO
X-
-. Anna Chicherova
RUS
2.03m
12.
6
Jul 22 1982
2756
O
O
O
XO
XXO
O
O
XXX
-. Elena Slesarenko
RUS
2.01m
14.
8
Feb 28 1982
2787
O
O
XO
XO
XO
XO
XXX
-. Vita Palamar
UKR
1.99m
8.
2
Oct 12 1977
3096
O
O
O
XO
XO
XX-
X
Competitors: 32; Countries: 24;
With 34 consecutive wins, World Champion Vlašić was everyone’s
favourite, and when 2.01 was reached, she had the only clean slate to
that height. She duly cleared that 2.01 first time, as did Chicherova.
The two repeated their first-time clearances at 2.03, while reigning
champion Slesarenko just missed out. Hellebaut, who had not jumped
higher than 2.00 in 2007, cleared on her second attempt despite taking
off slightly too far from the bar.
At 2.05 Hellebaut attacked the bar and had her best jump of the
night, soaring over first time without touching the crossbar. Later she
said “the best jumps, you don’t think. You just do them. It was amazing
to clear the bar.” Vlašić then failed, but came back well to clear on her
second attempt. She never looked like clearing 2.07, and Hellebaut thus
won Belgium’s first ever Olympic gold medal in athletics. The
Croatian had some consolation with the highest ever non-winning mark.
BEL
CRO
USA
ESP
GER
SWE
KAZ
ITA
CZE
UKR
RUS
NGR
UZB
CHN
LTU
GRE
THA
MDA
FRA
CAN
EST
SLA
KGZ
MEX