Athletics at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Women's high jump

Women's high jump at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Venue	Perry Lakes Stadium
Date	26 November 1962
Competitors	11 from 4 nations
Winning height	5 ft 10 ^1⁄2 in (1.791 m) GR
Medalists
Robyn Woodhouse   Australia   Helen Frith   Australia   Michele Mason   Australia

Athletics at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 yd		men		women
220 yd		men		women
440 yd		men
880 yd		men		women
1 mile		men
3 miles		men
6 miles		men
80 m hurdles				women
120 yd hurdles		men
440 yd hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×110 yd relay		men		women
4×440 yd relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women

The women's high jump at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games as part of the athletics programme was held at the Perry Lakes Stadium on Monday 26 November 1962.

The event was won by 19-year-old Australian Robyn Woodhouse in her first international competition. Woodhouse won by two inches ahead of her fellow countrywomen Helen Frith and Michele Mason, the defending champion. Woodhouse's jump of 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) set four new records. It broke the British Empire and Commonwealth record by one inch, Mason's Games record set in Cardiff by three inches, the Australian open (all-comers) record of American Mildred McDaniel by  ³⁄₄ of an inch and Mason's Australian national record by one inch. The jump placed Woodhouse only behind the world record holder, Romania's Iolanda Balaș, who had cleared 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m).^[1]

This was one five events at the 1962 Games where Australia won the clean sweep of medals. The others were the women's long jump, the men's 440 yard freestyle, men's 1650 yard freestyle and the men's 220 yard butterfly.

Records

World record	Iolanda Balaș (ROM)	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)	Sofia, Bulgaria	16 July 1961
Games record	Michele Mason (AUS)  Mary Donaghy (NZL)	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Cardiff, Wales	23 July 1958	[2]
Commonwealth record		'

Final

^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Woodhouse, RobynRobyn Woodhouse	Australia	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	GR, CR[1]
	Frith, HelenHelen Frith	Australia	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
	Mason, MicheleMichele Mason	Australia	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
4	Knowles, LindaLinda Knowles	England	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
5	Slaap, FrancesFrances Slaap	England	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
6	Wright, CarolynCarolyn Wright	Australia	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
7	Shirley, DorothyDorothy Shirley	England	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
8	Curtis, LorraineLorraine Curtis	New Zealand	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
9	Hopkins, ThelmaThelma Hopkins	Northern Ireland	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
10	Burnett, PamelaPamela Burnett	New Zealand	5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
11	Peters, MaryMary Peters	Northern Ireland	0	DNS

References

1. Webster, Jim (27 November 1962). "Records in high jump". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney: John Fairfax and Sons. p. 25.
2. "Fifth Day". The Sydney Morning Herald. John Fairfax and Sons. 24 July 1958. p. 11.
3. "Results of the women's high jump at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games". CGF. Retrieved 14 April 2014.