The women's

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at the

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took place at the

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on 19 & 21 August 2022.

Records

Schedule

Results

In the absence of

Mariya Lasitskene Mariya Aleksandrovna Lasitskene (russian: Мария Александровна Ласицкене, ; ; born 14 January 1993) is a Russian athlete who specialises in the high jump. She is the 2020 Olympic champion and three-time world champion ...

Yaroslava Mahuchikh Yaroslava Oleksiyivna Mahuchikh ( uk, Ярослава Олексіївна Магучіх; ; born 19 September 2001) is a Ukrainian high jumper. She was the 2020 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, 2019 and 2022 World Championships silver medali ...

of Ukraine was the overwhelming favourite, going into the Championships with her season's best of 2.03m. Iryna Herashchenko of Ukraine and bronze medallist of the

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, Italy's

Elena Vallortigara Elena Vallortigara (born 21 September 1991) is an Italian high jumper who won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Career Vallortigara has won two bronze medals at the youth world level and eight nati ...

were the only other competitors in the field who cleared 2.00m earlier in the season. In the final only two athletes cleared 1.95m, with Mahuchikh securing the win on countback and Montenegro's

Marija Vuković Marija Vuković ( cnr, Марија Вуковић; born 21 January 1992) is a Montenegrin athlete specializing in the high jump. She won Montenegro’s first ever European Athletics Championship medal with silver in the high jump at Munich 2 ...

finally winning her first major international medal with silver. 17-year-old

Angelina Topić Angelina Topić ( sr-Cyrl, Ангелина Топић; born 26 July 2005) is a Serbian athlete specializing in the high jump. At the age of 17, she won the bronze medal at the 2022 European Athletics Championships, becoming the youngest medallis ...

took bronze. The winning height of 1.95m was the lowest in Championships' history since 1974.

Qualification

Qualification: 1.94 m (Q) or best 12 performances (q).

Final

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:2022 European Athletics Championships, Women's high jump High jump W High jump at the European Athletics Championships

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