| Final | Height | A/FA | 160 | 166 | 171 | 176 | 179 | 182 | 185 | 188 | 190 | 192 | age | | 1. Ulrike Meyfarth |  FRG | 1.92m | 9/1 | | | O | O | O | O | O | O | XO | O | 16 | | 2. Yordanka Blagoeva |  BUL | 1.88m | 6/0 | | | O | O | O | O | O | O | XXX | | 25 | | 3. Ilona Gusenbauer |  AUT | 1.88m | 11/5 | | | XXO | XXO | O | O | XXO | XO | XXX | | 24 | | 4. Barbara Inkpen |  GBR | 1.85m | 6/0 | | O | O | O | O | O | O | XXX | | 22 | | 5. Rita Schmidt |  GDR | 1.85m | 6/1 | | | O | O | O | O | XO | XXX | | 21 | | 6. Sara Simeoni |  ITA | 1.85m | 7/2 | | | O | O | O | XO | XO | XXX | | 19 | | 7. Rosemarie Witschas | GDR | 1.85m | 8/2 | | O | O | O | O | O | XXO | XXX | | 20 | | 8. Debbie Brill |  CAN | 1.82m | 4/0 | | | O | O | O | O | XXX | | 19 | | 9. Andrea Bruce |  JAM | 1.82m | 5/0 | | O | O | O | O | O | XXX | | 17 | | 10.Ellen Mundinger | FRG | 1.82m | 5/1 | | | O | O | XO | O | XXX | | 17 | | 11.Audrey Reid | JAM | 1.82m | 6/2 | | | O | XO | XO | O | XXX | | 20 | | 12.Rita Gildemeister | GDR | 1.82m | 5/1 | | | O | O | O | XO | XXX | | 25 | | 12.Grith Ejstrup |  DEN | 1.82m | 5/1 | | | O | O | O | XO | XXX | | 19 | | 14.Renate Gortner | FRG | 1.82m | 6/2 | | | O | O | O | XXO | XXX | | 19 | | 15.Miloslava Hubnerova |  TCH | 1.82m | 8/3 | | O | O | XO | O | XXO | XXX | | 22 | | 16.Erika Rudolf |  HUN | 1.79m | 4/0 | | O | O | O | O | XXX | | 18 | | 16.Ria Ahlers |  HOL | 1.79m | 4/0 | | O | O | O | O | XXX | | 18 | | 18.Alena Proskova | TCH | 1.79m | 4/1 | | | XO | O | O | XXX | | 24 | | 19.Cornelia Popescu |  ROM | 1.76m | 3/0 | | O | O | O | XXX | | 21 | | 20.Snezana Hrepevnik |  YUG | 1.76m | 4/0 | O | O | O | O | XXX | | 23 | | 21.Solveig Langkilde | DEN | 1.76m | 2/1 | | | | XO | XXX | | 22 | | 22.Milada Karbanova | TCH | 1.76m | 6/3 | | O | XO | XXO | XXX | | 24 | | 23.Magdolna Komka | HUN | 1.71m | 1/0 | | | O | XXX | | 23 |
A/FA - Attempts/Failed Attempts
On the day before the Arab terrorists turned the 1972 Olympics into a
nightmare, the women’s high jump was like a perfect dream for the
host nation. The event had seemed impossible to predict, and was not
made easier by 23 athletes qualifying for the final. Fifteen cleared 1.82;
seven of these made 1.85, and 1.88 was needed to sort out the medal-
lists. Blagoeva, who would set a world record of 1.94 three weeks later,
was first over, swiftly followed by Meyfarth. Gusenbauer, the world
record holder, missed first time, but then straddled over. The closest
failure by the 1.85 jumpers came from Schmidt.
At 1.90, the 1.86 tall Meyfarth sailed over with her version of the
“Fosbury flop”. Blagoeva then missed her last attempt at 1.90, but the
bar fell only after she was out of the pit. The judges correctly ruled the
jump a miss as she had hit the bar, but the crowd erupted in disap-
proval. Meyfarth then went over 1.92 to the rapturous joy of the crowd,
and equalled the world record. Meyfarth (16 years 123 days) became
the youngest ever winner of any individual Olympic medal in athletics.
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