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 (1962-11-26)
Competitors	11 from 4 nations
Winning height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) GR CR Aust.R WA. R
Medalists
Robyn Woodhouse    Australia   Helen Frith    Australia   Michele Mason    Australia
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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
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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
Commonwealth record
Games record	Michele Mason (AUS)  Mary Donaghy (NZL)	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Cardiff, Wales	23 July 1958	[2]

Final

^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Robyn Woodhouse	Australia	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	GR, CR[1]
	Helen Frith	Australia	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
	Michele Mason	Australia	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
4	Linda Knowles	England	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
5	Frances Slaap	England	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
6	Carolyn Wright	Australia	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
7	Dorothy Shirley	England	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
8	Lorraine Curtis	New Zealand	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
9	Thelma Hopkins	Northern Ireland	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
10	Pamela Burnett	New Zealand	5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
	Mary Peters	Northern Ireland		DNS

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