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Athletics At The 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's High Jump
The Women's High Jump Competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ... had an entry list of 24 competitors, with two qualifying groups (24 jumpers) before the final (12) took place on Friday September 30, 1988. Records These were the standing World and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics. The following Olympic record was set during this competition. Results Qualifying Final See also * National champions high jump (women) * 1984 Women's Olympic High Jump (Los Angeles) * 1984 Women's Friendship Games High Jump (Prague) * 1986 Women's European Championships High Jump (Stuttgart) * 1987 Women's World Championships High Jump (Rome) * 1990 Women's European Championships High Jump (S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Stadium (Seoul)
The Seoul Olympic Stadium (), a.k.a. Jamsil Olympic Stadium (formerly romanised as ''Chamshil''), is a multi-purpose stadium in Seoul, South Korea. It is the main stadium built for the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1986 Asian Games, 10th Asian Games in 1986. It is the centrepiece of the Seoul Sports Complex in the Songpa District, in the southeast of the city south of the Han River (Korea), Han River. It is the largest stadium in South Korea. Design and construction This multi-purpose stadium was designed by Kim Swoo-geun. The lines of the stadium's profile imitate the elegant curves of a Joseon white porcelain. Spectator seats are distributed on two tiers, half-covered; seating capacity is 69,950. Before its construction, Seoul's largest venues were Dongdaemun Stadium and Hyochang Stadium. Seating 30,000 and 20,000 respectively, they were too small to attract world-class sporting events. Construction on the new stadium began in 1977 with the aim of staging the Asian Games in 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galina Astafei
Alina Astafei (known before 1995 as Galina Astafei; born 7 June 1969) is a Romanian-German track and field athlete who attained German citizenship in 1995. She was one of the world's leading high jumpers in the 1990s. Representing Romania, she became the 1992 Olympic silver medallist, while representing Germany, she won a silver medal at the 1995 World Championship and the 1995 world indoor title. Career Astafei won the 1987 European Junior title and cleared 2.00 metres to win the 1988 World Junior title. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, she finished equal fifth in the final with 1.93 metres. Her biggest success for her native Romania was when winning the silver medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, where she cleared 2.00 m. On 9 January 1995, Astafei left the Romania track and field association and attained German citizenship on 1 March 1995. She won the 1995 World indoor title in Barcelona with a clearance of 2.01 m, before going on to clear 1.99 m to win the sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Fink
Cristina Fink Smith (born December 12, 1964) is a psychologist and retired high jumper from Mexico, who set her personal best on May 17, 1992, jumping 1.94 meters at a meet in Mexico City. She competed for her country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, where she finished in 20th place (1.84 meters). Her son, Pablo Sisniega, is a goalkeeper for Los Angeles FC. International competitions References External links * * Women's World All-Time List: Christina Fink-Sisniega 1964 births Living people Mexican female high jumpers Olympic athletes for Mexico Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1987 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Pan American Games Pan American Games athletes for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Mexico Competitors at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madely Beaugendre
Madely Beaugendre (born 22 September 1965 in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French athlete who specialises in the women's high jump. Beaugendre competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Biography Madley won four French National Athletic titles in the High Jump: two in Outdoors in 1987 and 1989 and two Indoors in 1987 and 1988. In 1988, she bettered the French Indoors record in the High Jump jumping 1.96m. Palmarès * French National Outdoors Athletic Championships : **winner of High Jump in 1987 and 1989 * French National Indoors Athletic Championships : **winner of High Jump in 1987 and 1988 1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the Morris worm, 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United State ... Records References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trish King
Patricia Morley "Trish" Porter (née King) (born August 27, 1962, in Atherton, California) is an American track and field athlete, specializing in the high jump. She represented her native country at the 1988 Olympics. She was married to Pat Porter also a 1988 and 1984 Olympian in 1991. Both her husband and her 15-year-old son Connor were killed in a private plane crash in Sedona, Arizona on July 26, 2012 Early career King claims she was always athletic. She was one of the first girls to play in Little League under threat of lawsuit. An eighth grade coach advised her to avoid the high jump, but that was the event she aimed at. King attended Menlo-Atherton High School, finishing third at the 1979 CIF California State Meet and fourth the following year. Next she went to the University of Oregon but she struggled there as a freshman, not taking the sport seriously enough. With failure, she quit the sport as a sophomore and gained weight. When she decided to return to the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleen Sommer
Coleen Sommer (born June 6, 1960, in Los Angeles) is a retired high jumper from the United States, who was born as Coleen Rienstra. She represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. She set her personal best at 2.00 metres indoors on 1982-02-14 in Ottawa Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southern Ontario, southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the cor .... Achievements References External links * Profile at mtsacrelays.com 1960 births Living people Track and field athletes from Los Angeles American female high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1983 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1987 Pan American Games Olympic track and field athletes for the United States Pan American Games gold medali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liudmyla Avdieienko
Liudmyla Avdieienko (born 14 November 1963) is a Belarusian athlete. She competed in the women's high jump at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represe ..., representing the Soviet Union. References 1963 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Belarusian female high jumpers Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union Place of birth missing (living people) Soviet female high jumpers Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games silver medalists for the Soviet Union Soviet Athletics Championships winners {{Belarus-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanne Jennings
Joanne Loraine "Jo" Jennings (later Steele; born 20 September 1969 in Pakenham, Suffolk) is a female retired high jumper from England who twice competed for Great Britain at the Summer Olympics. Biography Jennings finished second behind Janet Boyle in the high jump event at the 1988 AAA Championships. Jennings represented England in the high jump event, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand and at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, she represented Great Britain for the second time. The following year set her personal best (1.94 metres) at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Toronto in 1993, where she finished ninth. Jennings became the British high jump champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1998 AAA Championships, 1999 AAA Championships and 2000 AAA Championships. Jennings later represented England and won a silver medal, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Personal life Jennings is a developm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jin Ling (athlete)
Jin Ling (born 25 January 1967) is a Chinese athlete. She competed in the women's high jump at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represe .... References External links * 1967 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Chinese female high jumpers Olympic athletes for China Place of birth missing (living people) Asian Games silver medalists for China Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games FISU World University Games bronze medalists for China Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 1989 Summer Universiade Asian Athletics Championships winners 21st-century Chinese women Chinese Athletics Championships winners 20th-century ... [...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 competed at two Olympic Games. Biography Browne finished second behind Barbara Simmonds in the high jump event at the British 1982 WAAA Championships. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, she represented Australia in the high jump and finished sixth in the final and four years later she appeared at her second Olympic Games at Seoul 1988. A five-time national champion in the women's high jump event, She 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. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1981 to 1984 and 1987 to 1988. Achievements * Australian high jump record holder – 1.98 metres in 1989 (equalled by Alison Inverarity Alison Jane Inverarity (born 12 August 1970) is an Australian former athlete, competing in the high jump. She w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heike Henkel
Heike Henkel (; born Heike Redetzky; 5 May 1964) is a German former athlete competing in high jump. She was Olympic, World and European champion. She won the high jump gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Biography Having competed for West Germany at the Olympic Games in 1984, where as a 20-year-old she finished eleventh (with a jump of 1.85 meters), and 1988, where she failed to qualify for the final, she emerged as the world's leading female high jumper of the early 1990s. She won the gold medal at the 1990 European Athletics Championships in Split, and the 1991 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo with a then-German record of 2.05 metres. She then won gold at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona with a jump of 2.02 metres. That year, Henkel improved the indoor world record to 2.07 meters at the German Indoor Championships in Karlsruhe and only dipped below 2 metres twice in all her competitions that year (clearing 1.98 metres on both occasions) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Stanton
Christine Frances "Chris" Stanton (née Annison, born 12 December 1959) is a retired high jumper from Australia. She set her personal best on 26 January 1985, jumping 1.96 metres at a meet in Adelaide, South Australia. An eight-time national champion in the women's high jump, she competed for her native country at three consecutive Olympic Games, in Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988. She was born in Perth, Western Australia Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The .... . WAIS. Retrieved 2015-01-08. National titles |