# Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump

These are the official results of the Women's high jump event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on 3 and 4 of September. Austrian Ilona Gusenbauer was the favorite after her 1971 European Athletics Championships victory. There were 40 jumpers and 23 qualified for the final making it a long day for the jumpers involved with such a big field. This competition still used a mixture of the straddle technique and the newer Fosbury Flop technique. Meyfarth at the age of 16 years, 123 days, was and still is the youngest winner of an individual medal in athletics.

## Results

All jumpers reaching 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) and the top 12 including ties qualified for the finals. All qualifiers are listed in blue. All heights are listed in metres.

### Qualifying

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Group | Mark | 1.60 | 1.65 | 1.70 | 1.73 | 1.76 |
| 1T | Ilona Gusenbauer | Austria | A | 1.76 | p | p | o | o | o |
| 1T | Yordanka Blagoeva | Bulgaria | A | 1.76 | p | p | o | o | o |
| 1T | Grith Ejstrup | Denmark | B | 1.76 | p | p | o | o | o |
| 1T | Rita Gildemeister | East Germany | A | 1.76 | p | p | o | o | o |
| 1T | Rita Schmidt | East Germany | A | 1.76 | p | p | o | o | o |
| 6T | Debbie Brill | Canada | B | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
| 6T | Rosemarie Witschas | East Germany | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
| 6T | Renate Gärtner | West Germany | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
| 6T | Ulrike Meyfarth | West Germany | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
| 6T | Ellen Mundinger | West Germany | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
| 6T | Sara Simeoni | Italy | B | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
| 6T | Audrey Reid | Jamaica | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
| 6T | Ria Ahlers | Netherlands | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
| 6T | Cornelia Popescu | Romania | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | o |
| 15 | Snežana Hrepevnik | Yugoslavia | A | 1.76 | o | o | xxo | xxo | o |
| 16 | Solveig Langkilde | Denmark | A | 1.76 | p | p | o | o | xo |
| 17T | Erika Rudolf | Hungary | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | xo |
| 17T | Andrea Bruce | Jamaica | B | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | xo |
| 19 | Alena Prosková | Czechoslovakia | A | 1.76 | o | o | o | o | xo |
| 20T | Milada Karbanová | Czechoslovakia | A | 1.76 | o | o | xo | o | xo |
| 20T | Miloslava Hübnerová | Czechoslovakia | A | 1.76 | o | xo | o | o | xo |
| 22 | Barbara Inkpen | Great Britain | A | 1.76 | o | o | xxo | o | xo |
| 23 | Magdolna Komka | Hungary | A | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | xxo |
| 24 | Breda Babošek | Yugoslavia | A | 1.73 | p | o | xo | o | xxx |
| 25 | Marima Rodríguez | Cuba | A | 1.73 | p | p | xxo | o | xxx |
| 26 | Antonina Lazaryeva | Soviet Union | A | 1.73 | p | o | o | xo | xxx |
| 27 | Rosaline Few | Great Britain | B | 1.73 | o | o | o | xo | xxx |
| 28 | Beatrix Rechner | Switzerland | B | 1.73 | p | xo | xo | xo | xxx |
| 29 | Louise Hanna-Walker | Canada | B | 1.73 | o | o | o | xxo | xxx |
| 30T | Penelope Dimmock | Great Britain | B | 1.70 | o | o | o | xxx |
| 30T | Deanne Wilson | United States | B | 1.70 | o | o | o | xxx |
| 32 | Cindy Gilbert | United States | B | 1.70 | xo | o | xxo | xxx |
| 33T | Michiyo Inaoka | Japan | B | 1.65 | o | o | xxx |
| 33T | Doris Bisang | Switzerland | B | 1.65 | o | o | xxx |
| 35T | Mihoko Yama | Japan | B | 1.65 | o | xo | xxx |
| 35T | Roxana Vulescu | Romania | B | 1.65 | o | xo | xxx |
| 37 | Lára Sveinsdóttir | Iceland | B | 1.60 | o | xxx |
| 38 | Sandi Goldsberry | United States | B | 1.60 | xo | xxx |
| – | Nnenna Njoku | Nigeria | B | NM | xxx |
| – | Wu Yu-chih | Republic of China | B | NM | xxx |
| – | Galina Filatova | Soviet Union | A | DNS |
| – | Margit Papp | Hungary | A | DNS |
| – | Kari Karlsen | Norway | B | DNS |
| – | Maria Luisa Vilca | Peru | B | DNS |
| – | Gladys Chaingmei | Malaysia | B | DNS |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Mark | 1.60 | 1.66 | 1.71 | 1.76 | 1.79 | 1.82 | 1.85 | 1.88 | 1.90 | 1.92 | 1.94 |
| | Ulrike Meyfarth | West Germany | 1.92 WR | p | p | o | o | o | o | o | o | xo | o | xxx |
| | Yordanka Blagoeva | Bulgaria | 1.88 | p | p | o | o | o | o | o | o | xxx |
| | Ilona Gusenbauer | Austria | 1.88 | p | p | xo | xo | o | o | xxo | xo | xxx |
| 4 | Barbara Inkpen | Great Britain | 1.85 | p | o | o | o | o | o | o | xxx |
| 5 | Rita Schmidt | East Germany | 1.85 | p | p | o | o | o | o | xo | xxx |
| 6 | Sara Simeoni | Italy | 1.85 | p | p | o | o | o | xo | xo | xxx |
| 7 | Rosemarie Witschas | East Germany | 1.85 | p | o | o | o | o | o | xxo | xxx |
| 8 | Debbie Brill | Canada | 1.82 | p | p | o | o | o | o | xxx |
| 9 | Andrea Bruce | Jamaica | 1.82 | p | o | o | o | o | o | xxx |
| 10 | Ellen Mundinger | West Germany | 1.82 | p | p | o | o | xo | o | xxx |
| 11 | Audrey Reid | Jamaica | 1.82 | p | p | o | xo | xo | o | xxx |
| 12T | Grith Ejstrup | Denmark | 1.82 | p | p | o | o | o | xo | xxx |
| 12T | Rita Gildemeister | East Germany | 1.82 | p | p | o | o | o | xo | xxx |
| 14 | Renate Gärtner | West Germany | 1.82 | p | p | o | o | o | xxo | xxx |
| 15 | Miloslava Hübnerová | Czechoslovakia | 1.82 | p | o | o | xo | o | xxo | xxx |
| 16T | Erika Rudolf | Hungary | 1.79 | p | o | o | o | o | xxx |
| 16T | Ria Ahlers | Netherlands | 1.79 | p | o | o | o | o | xxx |
| 18 | Alena Prosková | Czechoslovakia | 1.79 | p | p | xo | o | o | xxx |
| 19 | Cornelia Popescu | Romania | 1.76 | p | o | o | o | xxx |
| 20 | Snežana Hrepevnik | Yugoslavia | 1.76 | o | o | o | o | xxx |
| 21 | Solveig Langkilde | Denmark | 1.76 | p | p | p | xo | xxx |
| 22 | Milada Karbanová | Czechoslovakia | 1.76 | p | o | xo | xxo | xxx |
| 23 | Magdolna Komka | Hungary | 1.71 | p | p | o | xxx |
Key: WR = world record; o = cleared height; p = passed at height; x = failed jump; NM = no mark; DNS = did not start