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

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.

## Medalists

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

## Schedule

* All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)
Qualification Round :
| Group A | Group B |
| 28.09.2000 – 09:45h | 28.09.2000 – 09:45h |
| Final Round ||
| 30.09.2000 – 19:00h ||

## Records

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 |

## Results

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

### Qualifying round

| 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.

### Final

| 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 |
| 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 | |