Women's high jump at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	August 7 (final)
Competitors	19
Medalists
Alice Coachman  United States Dorothy Tyler  Great Britain Micheline Ostermeyer  France

Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
10 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The women's high jump event was part of the athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on 7 August 1948. The final was won by Alice Coachman of the United States who became the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal.^[1]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)	1.71 m	Amsterdam, Netherlands	30 May 1943
Olympic record	Jean Shiley (USA)  Babe Didrikson (USA)	1.65 m	Los Angeles, United States	7 August 1932

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition:

Date	Event	Athlete	Time	Notes
7 August	Final	Alice Coachman (USA)  Dorothy Tyler (GBR)	1.68 m	OR

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1.61	1.64	1.66	1.68	1.70	Result	Notes
	Alice Coachman	United States	o	xo	xo	o	xxx	1.68	OR
	Dorothy Tyler	Great Britain	o	xxo	o	xo	xxx	1.68	OR
	Micheline Ostermeyer	France	xo	xxx				1.61
4	Vinton Beckett	Jamaica						1.58
4	Doreen Dredge	Canada						1.58
6	Bertha Crowther	Great Britain						1.58
7	Ilse Steinegger	Austria						1.55
8	Dora Gardner	Great Britain						1.55
9	Anne Iversen	Denmark						1.50
9	Simone Ruas	France						1.50
11	Carmen Phipps	Jamaica						1.50
11	Bernice Robinson	United States						1.50
11	Shirley Gordon	Canada						1.50
14	Anne-Marie Colchen	France						1.40
14	Emma Reed	United States						1.40
14	Triny Bourkel	Luxembourg						1.40
17	Elizabeth Müller	Brazil						1.40
17	Olga Gyarmati	Hungary						1.40
19	Elaine Silburn	Canada						1.40

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

Sources

• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 7 September 2016.