Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump

Women's high jump at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Pictogram for athletics
Venue	Stadium Australia
Date	28 September 2000 (qualifications) 30 September 2000 (final)
Competitors	37 from 27 nations
Winning height	2.01
Medalists
Yelena Yelesina  Russia Hestrie Cloete  South Africa Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden Oana Pantelimon  Romania
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Athletics at the 2000 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	women
10,000 m	men	women
Sprint hurdles	men	women
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Combined events
Combined	men	women
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The women's high jump at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Stadium Australia on Thursday, 28 September and Saturday, 30 September.^[1]

Gold	Yelena Yelesina  Russia
Silver	Hestrie Cloete  South Africa
Bronze	Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden
Bronze	Oana Pantelimon  Romania

• All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.09 m	30 August 1987	Rome, Italy
Olympic Record	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.05 m	3 August 1996	Atlanta, United States

All distances shown are in meters.

• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• DQ denotes disqualification.
• NR denotes national record.
• AR denotes area/continental record.
• OR denotes Olympic record.
• WR denotes world record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season best

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	1.80	1.85	1.89	1.92	1.94	Result	Notes
1	A	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	–	o	o	o	o	1.94	Q
1	A	Viktoriya Palamar	Ukraine	o	o	o	o	o	1.94	Q
1	A	Yelena Yelesina	Russia	o	o	o	o	o	1.94	Q
1	A	Svetlana Zalevskaya	Kazakhstan	o	o	o	o	o	1.94	Q
1	B	Inha Babakova	Ukraine	o	o	o	o	o	1.94	Q
1	B	Hestrie Cloete	South Africa	o	o	o	o	o	1.94	Q
1	B	Amewu Mensah	Germany	o	o	o	o	o	1.94	Q
1	B	Eleonora Milusheva	Bulgaria	o	o	o	o	o	1.94	Q
9	A	Venelina Veneva	Bulgaria	o	o	o	xxo	o	1.94	Q
10	B	Zuzana Hlavoňová	Czech Republic	xxo	o	o	xo	o	1.94	Q
10	B	Monica Iagăr	Romania	o	o	xo	xxo	o	1.94	Q
12	A	Oana Pantelimon	Romania	o	xxo	xo	o	xxo	1.94	Q, SB
12	B	Yoko Ota	Japan	xo	o	xo	xo	xxo	1.94	Q
14	A	Ioamnet Quintero	Cuba	o	o	o	o	xxx	1.92
15	A	Svetlana Lapina	Russia	o	o	xo	xo	xxx	1.92
16	A	Miki Imai	Japan	o	o	xxo	xo	xxx	1.92
17	B	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	o	o	o	xxo	xxx	1.92
18	A	Dóra Győrffy	Hungary	o	o	o	xxx		1.89
18	B	Hanne Haugland	Norway	o	o	o	xxx		1.89
20	B	Solange Witteveen	Argentina	o	xo	o	xxx		1.89
21	A	Nelė Žilinskienė	Lithuania	o	o	xo	xxx		1.89
22	A	Marta Mendía	Spain	o	xo	xo	xxx		1.89
23	A	Inna Gliznutsa	Moldova	o	xo	xxo	xxx		1.89
24	B	Karol Damon	United States	o	xxo	xxo	xxx		1.89
25	B	Linda Horvath	Austria	xo	xxo	xxo	xxx		1.89
26	A	Erin Aldrich	United States	o	o	xxx			1.85
26	B	Marina Kuptsova	Russia	o	o	xxx			1.85
28	B	Olga Bolşova	Moldova	o	xo	xxx			1.85
29	B	Iryna Mykhalchenko	Ukraine	o	xxo	xxx			1.85
30	B	Tatyana Shevchik	Belarus	xo	xxo	xxx			1.85
31	B	Amy Acuff	United States	o	xxx				1.80
32	A	Alison Inverarity	Australia	xo	xxx				1.80
33	A	Agni Charalambous	Cyprus	xxo	xxx				1.80
33	B	Niki Bakogianni	Greece	xxo	xxx				1.80
	A	Hristina Kalcheva	Bulgaria	xxx					NM
	A	Karen Beautle	Jamaica	xxx					NM
	A	Līga Kļaviņa	Latvia	xxx					NM
	B	Tatyana Efimenko	Kyrgyzstan	xxx					NM

• NM = no mark
• All four athletes who failed to register a height, had three failures at 1.80 m.

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.85	1.90	1.93	1.96	1.99	2.01	2.03	Result	Notes
	Yelena Yelesina	Russia	o	o	o	o	o	xo	xxx	2.01	SB
	Hestrie Cloete	South Africa	o	o	o	xo	o	xo	xxx	2.01	SB
	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	o	o	o	o	xo	x–	xx	1.99
	Oana Pantelimon	Romania	o	o	o	o	xo	xxx		1.99	PB[2]
5	Inha Babakova	Ukraine	o	o	xo	o	xxx			1.96
6	Svetlana Zalevskaya	Kazakhstan	xo	xo	o	o	xxx			1.96
7	Viktoriya Palamar	Ukraine	o	o	xo	xxo	xxx			1.96
8	Amewu Mensah	Germany	o	o	o	xxx				1.93
9	Venelina Veneva	Bulgaria	o	o	xo	xxx				1.93
9	Monica Iagăr	Romania	o	o	xo	xxx				1.93
11	Yoko Ota	Japan	o	xo	–	xxx				1.90
11	Zuzana Hlavoňová	Czech Republic	o	xo	xxx					1.90
13	Eleonora Milusheva	Bulgaria	xo	xo	xxx					1.90

• "Official Results - HIGH JUMP - Women - Qualification". XXVII Olympic Games IAAF athletics coverage. Archived from the original on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 31 July 2007.
• "Official Results - HIGH JUMP - Women - Final". XXVII Olympic Games IAAF athletics coverage. Archived from the original on 21 April 2005. Retrieved 31 July 2007.
• Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics