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Athletics At The 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's High Jump
These are the official results of the Women's High Jump event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There were a total of 32 participating athletes, with two non-starters. The qualification round mark was set at 1.93 metres. Medalists Results Qualifying round Qualification: Qualifying Performance 1.96 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final. Final * In May 1996, Antonella Bevilacqua twice tested positive for ephedrine which carried the penalty of a three-month ban. The IAAF decided to put the case to arbitration and allow her to compete in Atlanta, where she placed 4th. However, after the Olympics the IAAF decided she was guilty of a doping offence and annulled her results from May onwards, including her Olympic performance. See also * National champions high jump (women) Below a list of all national champions in the women's high jump event in track and field from several countries. Australia *1970: Carolyn Wright *1971: Carolyn Wright ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centennial Olympic Stadium
Centennial Olympic Stadium was the 85,000-seat main stadium of the 1996 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Construction of the stadium began in 1993, and it was complete and ready for the opening ceremony in July 1996, where it hosted track and field events and the closing ceremony. After the Olympics and Paralympics, it was reconstructed into the baseball-specific Turner Field, used by the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball for 20 seasons (1997–2016). After the Braves departed for Truist Park, the facility was purchased by Georgia State University, which rebuilt the stadium a second time as Center Parc Stadium, designed for American football. History During the week-long athletics program, the stadium bore witness to Donovan Bailey of Canada winning the 100 m in a world record time of 9.84 s; Michael Johnson winning both the 200 and 400 metres titles, breaking the 200 m world record in the process; and France's Marie-José Pérec al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelė Žilinskienė
Nelė Žilinskienė (née Savickytė, born 29 December 1969) is a lithuanian retired female high jumper. Born in Telšiai, her personal best jump, first cleared in Vilnius Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urb ... in July 1994, was 1.96 metres. She again cleared this height when finishing fifth in the 1996 Olympic final. Achievements References * 1969 births Living people Lithuanian female high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Lithuania European Athletics Championships medalists Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) People from Telšiai Universiade silver medalists for Lithuania Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inna Gliznuta
Inna Gliznuta (born 18 April 1973 in Bender) is a Moldovan high jumper. She has competed at four Olympic Games. She finished second at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Seoul, fourteenth at the 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Toronto, eighth at the 1994 European Indoor Championships in Paris - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite and fourth at the in Beijing. She also competed in four Olympics, but failed to qualify from her pool. Her personal best jump is 1.95 metres, achieved in June 1999 in |
Vita Styopina
Viktoriya Ivanivna Styopina ( uk, Вікторія Іванівна Стьопіна; born 21 February 1976 in Zaporozhia, Soviet Union), known as Vita Styopina (), is a Ukrainian high jumper. Biography She won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, setting a new personal best of 2.02m in the process. Styopina jumped an indoor personal best of 1.94 m to win the 2000 edition of the Hochsprung mit Musik The ''Hochsprung mit Musik'' () is an annual indoor high jump meeting which takes place in February in Arnstadt, Germany. First held in 1977, the meeting began as a competition between mainly East German athletes. Following the Re-unification o .... Achievements * 2nd IAAF World Athletics Final — Silver medal * 2004 Summer Olympics — Bronze medal See also * Female two metres club References External links * * * * 1976 births Living people Ukrainian female high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athlete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuliya Lyakhova
Yuliya Lyakhova (born 8 July 1977) is a retired Russian high jumper. Her personal best jump is 1.99 metres, achieved in September 1997 at the IAAF Grand Prix Final in Fukuoka is the sixth-largest city in Japan, the second-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancie .... Achievements External links * 1977 births Living people Russian female high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Russia Goodwill Games medalists in athletics Competitors at the 1998 Goodwill Games {{Russia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Marti
Deborah Jane Marti (born 14 May 1968) is a former high jumper from England, who was born in Switzerland. She represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games in Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Barcelona 1992 and Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta 1996, finishing ninth in the 1992 final. She set her outdoor personal best of 1.94 metres, on 9 June 1996 at a meet in Tallinn. On 23 February 1997 in Birmingham, she cleared 1.95 metres to set a British indoor record, which stood for 17 years (1997–2014). She also won bronze medals at the 1983 European Athletics Junior Championships, 1983 European Junior Championships and the 1994 Commonwealth Games. Career Marti was born in Zofingen, Aargau, Switzerland and from the age of two, was raised in England. She was a member of Bromley Ladies Athletics Club. A prodigious talent, Marti cleared 1.81 m at the age of fourteen in 1982 before achieving 1.88 m at 15 in 1983 to win a 1983 European Junior Championships in Athletics, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sieglinde Cadusch
Sieglinde Cadusch (born 28 August 1967) is a retired Swiss high jumper. She competed at the 1992 Olympic Games, 1994 European Championships, the 1995 World Championships and the 1996 Olympic Games as well as the World Indoor Championships in 1993, 1995 and 1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ... without reaching the final. Her personal best jump is 1.95 metres, achieved in September 1995 in Marietta. References 1967 births Living people Swiss female high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Switzerland {{Switzerland-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Teaberry
Condinitha "Connie" Teaberry-Lindsey (born August 15, 1970, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American track and field athlete known for the high jump. She represented the United States at the 1996 Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ..., where she finished 18th. She set her personal best of in the 1996 Olympic Trials. She is now the Director of Cross Country, Track and Field Coach at Northern Illinois University. She had previously competed for Kansas State where she was coached by Cliff Rovelto. She was an NCAA finalist outdoors four straight years and indoors in 1990 and 1992. In 2016, she was inducted into the Kansas State Hall of Fame. She previously jumped for Lutheran High School North in St. Louis and had been high jumping since sixth grade. Connie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ioamnet Quintero
Ioamnet Quintero Alvarez (born September 8, 1972, in Havana, Cuba) is a former high jumper from Cuba. Biography She won the bronze medal in the women's high jump contest at the 1992 Summer Olympics and also competed at the 1996 and 2000 games. She won a gold medal at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics The 4th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Neckarstadium, Stuttgart, Germany between 13 and 22 August with the participation of 187 nations. Having ori .... International competitions See also * Female two metres club Notes References External links * * Picture of Ioamnet Quintero 1972 births Cuban female high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Pan American Games Athletes (tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea Haggett
Lea Haggett (9 May 1972 - 31 December 2013) was an English high jumper. She represented Great Britain at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and won a bronze medal at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Plovdiv. She held the UK junior record for 23 years, from 1991 to 2014. Career Haggett was born in Dulwich, London, England and was a member of the Croydon Harriers Athletics Club. In 1986, she cleared 1.81 metres as a 14-year-old. In 1990, still only eighteen, Haggett was the UK's number one female high jumper, winning the AAA Championships with a personal best of 1.88 m, defeating Olympic finalist Janet Boyle. A week later at the World Junior Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, she again cleared 1.88 m to win the bronze medal. She would remain the only British woman to win a medal at the World Junior Championships in the high jump until Morgan Lake won gold in 2014. She ended the season by competing at the European Championships in Split. As the only British entrant, she m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajsa Bergqvist
Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist (; born 12 October 1976 in Sollentuna, Stockholm) is a Swedish former high jumper. She won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships. Her personal outdoor record of 2.06 m, set in Germany in 2003, is also a Swedish record. Her indoor record of 2.08 m, set at the Hochsprung mit Musik meeting in 2006, is the world indoor record. Biography Career Bergqvist was born up in Sollentuna Municipality in Stockholm County. Her interest in sport began when she was 6 years old and tried sports such as football, volleyball, badminton, swimming, and cross-country skiing, none of which was able to keep her interest. When she was 10 years old, she was persuaded by her big brother, Anders, to compete in Rösjöloppet, a long-distance track event. After that event, she began to try out several athletic events. Bergqvist continued to train in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatyana Khramova
Tatyana Khramova (born 1 February 1970) is a Belarusian athlete. She competed in the women's high jump at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... References 1970 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Belarusian female high jumpers Olympic athletes for Belarus Place of birth missing (living people) {{Belarus-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
