2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's high jump

Women's high jump at the 2023 World Championships
Venue	National Athletics Centre
Dates	25 August (qualification) 27 August (final)
Winning height	2.01
Medalists
Yaroslava Mahuchikh   Ukraine   Eleanor Patterson   Australia   Nicola Olyslagers   Australia

The women's high jump at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 25 and 27 August 2023.

Summary

In the qualifying round, 19 women cleared 1.89m. That was too many to take to the final, so they went up to 1.92m. Only eight were able to clear 1.92m, so they counted back to the next tie-breaker at 1.89m, with a clean round and one miss at 1.89m being the difference. Had they not cleared 1.92m, two women would not have been in the final. Still, 15 advanced.

In the final, eight managed to clear 1.94m. Defending champion Eleanor Patterson, Lamara Distin, and Iryna Gerashchenko still had a clean card. At 1.97m, returning silver medalist Yaroslava Mahuchikh and 2023 world leader Nicola Olyslagers cleared on their first attempts to move into a tie for the lead. Patterson and Morgan Lake took all three attempts to get over, with Patterson holding the advantage based on her previous perfect series. At 1.99m, Patterson and Mahuchikh got over on their first attempts, with Mahuchikh holding the advantage. Lake missed her second. When Olyslagers made her second, Lake passed to try to make one heroic jump at 2.01m. She didn't make it and was out of the medals. Mahuchikh was able to make 2.01 on her second attempt to confirm her gold, while neither of the Australian women could, meaning that Patterson won silver and Olyslagers won bronze. Mahuchikh went on to make three attempts at a new Ukrainian record of 2.07m.

Records

Before the competition, records were as follows:

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.09 m	Rome, Italy	30 August 1987
Championship record
World Leading	Nicola Olyslagers (AUS)	2.02 m	Lausanne, Switzerland	29 June 2023
African Record	Hestrie Cloete (RSA)	2.06 m	Saint-Denis, France	31 August 2003
Asian Record	Nadezhda Dubovitskaya (KAZ)	2.00 m	Almaty, Kazakhstan	8 June 2021
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Chaunte Lowe (USA)	2.05 m	Des Moines, United States	26 June 2010
South American Record	Solange Witteveen (ARG)	1.96 m	Oristano, Italy	8 September 1997
European Record	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	2.09 m	Rome, Italy	30 August 1987
Oceanian record	Nicola Olyslagers (AUS)	2.02 m	Lausanne, Switzerland	29 June 2023

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 1.97 m.

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Date	Time	Round
25 August	10:20	Qualification
27 August	20:05	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: 1.94 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	1.75	1.80	1.85	1.89	1.92	1.94	Mark	Notes
1	A	Eleanor Patterson	Australia (AUS)	–	–	o	o	o		1.92	q
1	A	Yaroslava Mahuchikh	Ukraine (UKR)	–	–	–	o	o		1.92	q
3	A	Lamara Distin	Jamaica (JAM)	–	o	o	xo	o		1.92	q
4	A	Morgan Lake	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	–	–	xxo	o	o		1.92	q
5	B	Vashti Cunningham	United States (USA)	–	o	xo	xxo	o		1.92	q
6	B	Nicola Olyslagers	Australia (AUS)	–	–	o	o	xo		1.92	q
7	A	Angelina Topić	Serbia (SRB)	–	o	o	o	xxo		1.92	q
8	A	Elena Kulichenko	Cyprus (CYP)	o	o	xo	xxo	xxo		1.92	q, PB
9	B	Iryna Gerashchenko	Ukraine (UKR)	–	o	o	o	xxx		1.89	q
9	B	Lia Apostolovski	Slovenia (SLO)	–	o	o	o	xxx		1.89	q
11	B	Nadezhda Dubovitskaya	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	–	xo	o	o	xxx		1.89	q
12	B	Christina Honsel	Germany (GER)	o	o	o	xo	xxx		1.89	q
12	B	Solène Gicquel	France (FRA)	o	o	o	xo	xxx		1.89	q
12	A	Ella Junnila	Finland (FIN)	–	o	o	xo	xxx		1.89	q
12	A	Nawal Meniker	France (FRA)	–	o	o	xo	xxx		1.89	q
16	B	Elisabeth Pihela	Estonia (EST)	–	o	xo	xo	xxx		1.89
17	B	Merel Maes	Belgium (BEL)	o	o	o	xxo	xxx		1.89
17	B	Tatiana Gusin	Greece (GRE)	o	o	o	xxo	xxx		1.89
17	A	Yuliia Levchenko	Ukraine (UKR)	–	o	o	xxo	xxx		1.89
20	A	Airinė Palšytė	Lithuania (LTU)	o	o	o	xxx			1.85
20	B	Daniela Stanciu	Romania (ROM)	–	o	o	xxx			1.85
20	B	Michaela Hrubá	Czech Republic (CZE)	o	o	o	xxx			1.85
23	A	Johanna Göring	Germany (GER)	o	o	xo	xxx			1.85
23	B	Yuliya Chumachenko	Ukraine (UKR)	–	o	xo	xxx			1.85
25	A	Kristina Ovchinnikova	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	o	xo	xo	xxx			1.85
25	B	Marija Vuković	Montenegro (MNE)	–	xo	xo	xxx			1.85
27	A	Valdileia Martins	Brazil (BRA)	o	o	xxo	xxx			1.85
28	B	Kimberly Williamson	Jamaica (JAM)	xo	xxo	xxo	xxx			1.85
29	A	Erin Shaw	Australia (AUS)	o	o	xxx				1.80
29	B	Safina Sadullayeva	Uzbekistan (UZB)	–	o	xxx				1.80
29	B	Yelizaveta Matveyeva	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	o	o	xxx				1.80
32	B	Heta Tuuri	Finland (FIN)	xo	o	xxx				1.80
33	A	Fédra Fekete	Hungary (HUN)	o	xo	xxx				1.80
34	A	Panagiota Dosi	Greece (GRE)	o	xxo	xxx				1.80
–	A	Jana Koščak	Croatia (CRO)								DNS

Final

The final was started on 27 August at 20:00.

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.85	1.90	1.94	1.97	1.99	2.01	2.07	Mark	Notes
	Yaroslava Mahuchikh	Ukraine (UKR)	–	o	xo	o	o	xo	xxx	2.01
	Eleanor Patterson	Australia (AUS)	o	o	o	xxo	o	xxx		1.99	SB
	Nicola Olyslagers	Australia (AUS)	–	o	xo	o	xo	xxx		1.99
4	Morgan Lake	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	o	o	xxo	xxo	xx-	x		1.97
5	Lamara Distin	Jamaica (JAM)	o	o	o	xxx				1.94
5	Iryna Gerashchenko	Ukraine (UKR)	o	o	o	xxx				1.94
7	Angelina Topić	Serbia (SRB)	o	o	xo	xxx				1.94
8	Christina Honsel	Germany (GER)	o	xxo	xo	xxx				1.94
9	Lia Apostolovski	Slovenia (SLO)	o	o	xxx					1.90	SB
9	Nadezhda Dubovitskaya	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	o	o	xxx					1.90
11	Vashti Cunningham	United States (USA)	xxo	o	xxx					1.90
12	Nawal Meniker	France (FRA)	o	xo	xxx					1.90
13	Ella Junnila	Finland (FIN)	o	xxo	xxx					1.90
13	Elena Kulichenko	Cyprus (CYP)	o	xxo	xxx					1.90
15	Solène Gicquel	France (FRA)	xo	xxx						1.85