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Athletics At The 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's High Jump
These are the official results of the Women's High Jump event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' .... The final was held on Friday August 10, 1984. Medalists Abbreviations *''All results shown are in metres'' Records Results Qualification *Held on Thursday August 9, 1984 Final *Held on August 10, 1984 See also * 1982 Women's European Championships High Jump (Athens) * 1983 Women's World Championships High Jump (Helsinki) * 1984 Women's Friendship Games High Jump (Prague) * 1986 Women's European Championships High Jump (Stuttgart) * 1987 Women's World Championships High Jump (Rome) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Women's high jump H High jump at the Olympics 1984 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
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Lidija Lapajne
Lidija is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Lidija Abrlić (born 1969), former Yugoslavian and Croatian basketball player *Lidija Auza (1914–1989), Latvian painter *Lidija Bajuk (born 1965), Croatian singer-songwriter and poet * Lidija Benedetič-Lapajne (born 1959), Slovenian athlete *Lidija Bizjak (born 1976), concert pianist *Lidija Bradara, politician from Bosnia and Herzegovina * Lidija Cvetkovic (born 1967), contemporary Australian poet * Lidija Cvijić (born 1998), Serbian handball player *Lidija Dimkovska (born 1971), Macedonian poet, novelist and translator *Lidija Doroņina-Lasmane (born 1925), Latvian dissident *Lidija Figner (1853–1920), Russian revolutionary *Lidija Franklin (1917–2019), American ballet dancer and teacher of Latvian descent *Lidija Pozaić Frketić (born 1974), member of the World Scout Committee *Lidija Horvat (born 1982), Croatian handball player *Lidija Horvat-Dunjko, Croatian opera singer *Lidija Liepiņa (1891–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigitte Holzapfel
Brigitte Elisabeth Holzapfel (born 10 April 1958 in Krefeld) is a retired West German high jumper. At the 1975 European Junior Championships she won a bronze medal in the high jump and a gold medal in pentathlon. She finished eleventh at the 1976 Olympic Games, won silver medals at the 1977 and 1978 European Indoor Championships, and the bronze medal at the 1978 European Championships, finished sixth at the 1984 European Indoor Championships and eleventh at the 1984 Olympic Games. She represented the sports clubs TSV Preußen Krefeld, TuS 04 Leverkusen, LG Bayer Leverkusen and TV Wattenscheid, and became West German champion in 1976 and 1978. Her personal best jump was 1.95 metres, achieved in August 1978 in Köln Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million .... This was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zheng Dazhen
Zheng Dazhen (; born September 22, 1959) is a retired Chinese high jumper. She finished eleventh at the 1984 Summer Olympics, and also won the 1984 Friendship Games. In 1983 she reached the final of the inaugural World Championships in Athletics, but finished 18th and last with only 1.80 metres On the regional level she won the Asian Championships in 1979 and 1983 as well as the 1978 Asian Games, 1978 and 1982 Asian Games, both times in new championship records (CR). In 1978 she jumped 1.88 m to improve the record with 10 centimetres; in 1982 she jumped 1.89 m. At the 1986 Asian Games Zheng got the silver medal despite equalling the CR, as the winner Megumi Sato, too equalling the CR, achieved the result with fewer failed attempts. In 1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niculina Vasile
Niculina Vasile (born 13 February 1958) is a retired high jumper from Romania, who set her personal best on 2 June 1985, jumping 1.98 metres at a meet in Bucharest. A three-time national champion (1981, 1982 and 1984), Vasile competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ..., where she finished in 11th place (1.85 metres). References Women's World All-Time List Romanian female high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Romania 1958 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Romania-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Ward
Vanessa Carol Ward (née Browne; born 5 January 1963) is a retired high jumper from Australia, who set her personal best on 12 February 1989, jumping 1.98 metres at a meet in Perth, Western Australia. This (as of 2013) still stands as the Australian record. A five-time national champion in the women's high jump event, she competed for her native country at two Summer Olympics, Olympic Games, in 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics, Seoul 1988. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1981 to 1984 and 1987 to 1988. Achievements *Australian records in athletics, Australian high jump record holder - 1.98 metres in 1989 (equalled by Alison Inverarity in 1994) * Five-time List of national high jump champions (women), Australian National High Jump Champion (1979, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1990) Note: result with a ''Q'', indicates overall position in qualifying round. References External links Vanessa Wardat Australian Athletics Historical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Ritter
Louise Dorothy Ritter (born February 18, 1958) is an American former track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the high jump at the 1988 Olympic Games. Biography Ritter qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. She did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes. Louise won the gold medal in the women's high jump at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed .... In doing so she upset Stefka Kostadinova, the reigning world champion and world record-holder in the event. A graduate from Red Oak High School she now has a street named after her located in her former home town of Red Oak, TX. She grad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Wenqin
Yang Wenqin (; born April 30, 1960, in Shanghai) is a retired Chinese high jumper. In 1983 she reached the final of the 1983 World Championships in Athletics, but finished 16th and third to last with only 1.84 metres On the regional level she took a gold medal at the Asian Championships in 1985; in addition she won bronze medals at the 1978 Asian Games, 1978 and 1982 Asian Games. Both contests were won by fellow Chinese person Zheng Dazhen Zheng Dazhen (; born September 22, 1959) is a retired Chinese high jumper. She finished eleventh at the 1984 Summer Olympics, and also won the 1984 Friendship Games. In 1983 she reached the final of the inaugural World Championships in Athletics, ... External links * 1960 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Chinese female high jumpers Olympic athletes for China Athletes from Shanghai Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 Asian Games A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Brill
Debbie Arden Brill, (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian high jump athlete who at the age of 16 became the first North American woman to clear 6 feet. Her reverse jumping style—which is now almost exclusively the technique of elite high jumpers—was called the Brill Bend and was developed by her when she was a child, around the same time as Dick Fosbury was developing the similar Fosbury Flop in the USA. Brill won gold in the high jump at the 1970 Commonwealth Games, and at the Pan American Games in 1971. She finished 8th in the 1972 Summer Olympics, then quit the sport in the wake of the Munich massacre, returning three years later. She won gold at the IAAF World Cup in 1979, and at the 1982 Commonwealth Games. She has held the Canadian high jump record since 1969, and set the current record of 1.99 meters in 1982, a few months after giving birth to her first child. Career Brill was born in Mission, British Columbia, one of five children of a Canadian father and an American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Davies (athlete)
Diana Clare Davies (née Elliott; born 7 May 1961) is a retired female high jumper from Great Britain, born in Catworth. Her personal best of 1.95 metres set on 26 June 1982, at a meet in Oslo, Norway, stood as the UK national record until 2014. She competed at two Olympic Games, reaching the final on both occasions. In Los Angeles 1984, she finished in 9th place (1.88 m), while in Seoul 1988, she finished 8th (1.90m). Career As a 17-year-old, Diana Elliott finished second at the 1978 AAA Championships with 1.76 metres. She would also be runner-up at the 1980 AAAs Indoors and the 1981 AAAs Outdoors. Her breakthrough year came in 1982 when she broke the UK records, both indoors and outdoors. Indoors she broke Ann-Marie Cording's record of 1.91 m with a clearance of 1.94 to finish fifth at the European Indoor Championships in Milan. She then set a new outdoor mark of 1.95 m in Oslo, to add one centimetre to Louise Miller's previous record. The indoor record would survive for 15 ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Spencer
Pamela Ann Spencer-Marquez (born October 8, 1957) is a retired high jumper from the United States, who set her personal best on 1981-08-28, jumping 1.97 metres at a meet in Brussels, Belgium. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, finishing in eleventh place (1.85 metres). Spencer grew up in Great Falls, Montana and attended Great Falls High School where she set state records in the high jump. She later attended Seattle Pacific University and California State University, Northridge where she graduated in 1983. Spencer is a two-time national champion (1981 and 1984), and was a member of the 1976 and of the 1980 Olympic Teams which was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. She did receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes. In 1981, she raised the American record twice, up to her personal best of 1.97 m. Spencer was also a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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