The women's
high jump at the
2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the
Beijing National Stadium on 27 and 29 August.
It took 1.92 to make the finals, and eight competitors made it cleanly. In the finals, only eight cleared 1.92;
Ana Šimić,
Doreen Amata, and
Levern Spencer
Levern Donaline Spencer, SLMM (born 23 June 1984 in Cacao Babonneau, Castries
) is a Saint Lucian retired athlete and high jumper. Spencer was a four-time Olympian for Saint Lucia and competed in eight World Championships. She was also a ...
, who had jumped it in qualification, missed three times. 1.95 lost
Jeanelle Scheper and
Eleanor Patterson, but the remaining six all made it through three heights to 1.99. Two-time champion
Blanka Vlašić
Blanka Vlašić (; born 8 November 1983) is a Croatian former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump. She is a two-time world champion and double Olympic medallist who ranks as the joint second highest female jumper of all tim ...
looked like her dominant self from six years earlier with a large clearance at 2.01, but she had one failure at 1.92.
Mariya Kuchina
Mariya Aleksandrovna Lasitskene (russian: Мария Александровна Ласицкене, ; ; born 14 January 1993) is a Russian Sport of athletics, athlete who specialises in the high jump. She is the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Oly ...
, whose best achievement had been a tie for the
World Indoor Championship, cleared it next as a personal best, and she was still clean. The 2012 Olympic champion
Anna Chicherova
Anna Vladimirovna Chicherova (russian: Анна Владимировна Чичерова; born 22 July 1982) is a Russian high jumper. She was the gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2011 World Championships in Athletics and origin ...
cleared it on her second attempt.
Kamila Lićwinko (the other half of that tie), returning bronze medalist
Ruth Beitia
Ruth Beitia Vila (; born 1 April 1979) is a retired high jumper who was the 2016 Olympic champion in the women's high jump. She was also a politician in the Partido Popular and a member of the Parliament of Cantabria.
Biography
Beitia firs ...
, and
Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch were unable to make 2.01, so the medals were settled. The bar went up to 2.03, but nobody could make it, so the results were decided by the count back. Chicherova needed two attempts at the winning height, so she finished third. Of the two who made it their first time, that mistake earlier in the competition gave Vlašić another silver medal (her fourth in major competition), while Kuchina's perfect series was rewarded with the gold medal.
Records
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
Qualification standards
Schedule
Results
Qualification
Qualification: 1.94 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).
Final
The final started at 18:30.
Final results
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References
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High jump
High jump at the World Athletics Championships
2015 in women's athletics