Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump

Women's high jump at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venues	Lenin Stadium
Dates	25–26 July
Competitors	20 from 12 nations
Winning height	1.97
Medalists
Sara Simeoni  Italy Urszula Kielan  Poland Jutta Kirst  East Germany

Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The Women's High Jump event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union had an entry list of 20 competitors. The final was held on Saturday 1980-07-26. Sara Simeoni took gold in the event, Urszula Kielan won silver, and Jutta Kirst won bronze.^[1]

Gold	Sara Simeoni  Italy
Silver	Urszula Kielan  Poland
Bronze	Jutta Kirst  East Germany

• Held on Friday July 25, 1980

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	1.70	1.75	1.80	1.85	1.88	Result	Notes
1	A	Rosemarie Ackermann	East Germany	–	o	o	o	o	1.88	Q
1	A	Urszula Kielan	Poland	–	o	o	o	o	1.88	Q
1	A	Andrea Mátay	Hungary	–	o	o	o	o	1.88	Q
1	A	Marina Sysoeva	Soviet Union	–	o	o	o	o	1.88	Q
5	A	Louise Miller	Great Britain	–	o	o	xo	o	1.88	Q
5	B	Chris Soetewey	Belgium	–	o	xo	o	o	1.88	Q
7	A	Tamara Bykova	Soviet Union	–	o	o	o	xo	1.88	Q
7	A	Jutta Kirst	East Germany	–	o	o	o	xo	1.88	Q
7	A	Sara Simeoni	Italy	–	o	o	o	xo	1.88	Q
10	B	Christine Stanton	Australia	o	o	o	o	xo	1.88	Q
11	B	Cornelia Popa	Romania	–	xo	o	xo	xo	1.88	Q
12	A	Andrea Reichstein	East Germany	–	o	o	o	xxo	1.88	Q
13	A	Elżbieta Krawczuk	Poland	–	o	o	o	xxx	1.85
14	B	Danuta Bułkowska	Poland	o	o	o	o	xxx	1.85
15	B	Susanne Lorentzon	Sweden	o	o	o	xo	xxx	1.85
16	B	Yordanka Blagoeva	Bulgaria	–	o	o	xxx		1.80
16	B	Marina Serkova	Soviet Union	–	o	o	xxx		1.80
18	B	Ann-Ewa Karlsson	Sweden	o	xo	o	xxx		1.80
19	B	Lidija Benedetič-Lapajne	Yugoslavia	–	o	xo	xxx		1.80
	B	Dia Toutingi	Syria	xxx					NM

• Held on Saturday July 26, 1980

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.75	1.80	1.85	1.88	1.91	1.94	1.97	2.02	Result	Notes
	Sara Simeoni	Italy	–	o	o	–	o	o	xo	xxx	1.97	OR
	Urszula Kielan	Poland	–	o	–	o	o	o	xxx		1.94
	Jutta Kirst	East Germany	o	o	xo	o	xxo	xo	xxx		1.94
4	Rosemarie Ackermann	East Germany	o	o	o	o	o	xxx			1.91
5	Marina Sysoeva	Soviet Union	–	o	o	o	xo	xxx			1.91
6	Andrea Reichstein	East Germany	o	o	o	o	xo	xxx			1.91
6	Christine Stanton	Australia	o	o	o	o	xo	xxx			1.91
8	Cornelia Popa	Romania	–	o	o	o	xxx				1.88
9	Tamara Bykova	Soviet Union	–	o	o	xo	xxx				1.88
10	Andrea Mátay	Hungary	–	–	o	xxx					1.85
11	Louise Miller	Great Britain	xo	o	o	xxx					1.85
12	Chris Soetewey	Belgium	o	o	xxx						1.80

• 1976 Women's Olympic High Jump (Montreal)
• 1978 Women's European Championships High Jump (Prague)
• 1982 Women's European Championships High Jump (Athens)
• 1983 Women's World Championships High Jump (Helsinki)
• 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)

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