The women's high jump event at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on 8 and 9 March.
Medalists edit
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
Heike Henkel Germany
|
Tamara Bykova Soviet Union
|
Heike Balck Germany
|
Results edit
Qualification edit
Qualification: 1.87 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) qualified for the final.[1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yelena Gulyayeva | Soviet Union |
1.87 | Q |
| 1 | Tamara Bykova | Soviet Union |
1.87 | Q |
| 1 | Angela Bradburn |  United States |
1.87 | Q |
| 1 | Donata Jancewicz |  Poland |
1.87 | Q |
| 1 | Heike Henkel | Germany |
1.87 | Q |
| 1 | Yolanda Henry | United States |
1.87 | Q |
| 1 | Orlane Maria dos Santos |  Brazil |
1.87 | Q, AR |
| 8 | María del Mar Martínez |  Spain |
1.87 | Q |
| 9 | Šárka Nováková |  Czechoslovakia |
1.87 | Q |
| 10 | Beata Hołub | Poland |
1.87 | Q |
| 11 | Hanne Haugland |  Norway |
1.87 | Q |
| 12 | Svetlana Leseva |  Bulgaria |
1.87 | Q |
| 12 | Heike Balck | Germany |
1.87 | Q |
| 14 | Katja Kilpi |  Finland |
1.87 | Q |
| 14 | Debbie Marti |  Great Britain |
1.87 | Q |
| 16 | Gai Kapernick |  Australia |
1.84 | |
| 17 | Antonella Bevilacqua |  Italy |
1.84 | |
| 18 | Judit Kovács |  Hungary |
1.84 | |
| 19 | Megumi Sato |  Japan |
1.84 | |
| 20 | Biljana Petrović |  Yugoslavia |
1.84 | |
| 21 | Alena Varcholová | Czechoslovakia |
1.80 | |
| 21 | Þórdís Gísladóttir |  Iceland |
1.80 | |
| 21 | Tania Murray |  New Zealand |
1.80 | |
| 24 | Barbara Mencik |  France |
1.80 | |
| 25 | Niki Bakoyianni |  Greece |
1.75 | |
| 26 | Margarida Moreno |  Andorra |
1.75 |
Final edit
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 1.75 | 1.80 | 1.85 | 1.88 | 1.91 | 1.94 | 1.97 | 2.00 | 2.03 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Heike Henkel | Germany |
– | – | o | – | o | xxo | xo | o | xx | 2.00 | |
 |
Tamara Bykova | Soviet Union |
– | – | o | – | o | o | o | xxx | 1.97 | ||
 |
Heike Balck | Germany |
1.94 | ||||||||||
| 4 | Yolanda Henry | United States |
1.91 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Debbie Marti | Great Britain |
1.91 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Donata Jancewicz | Poland |
1.88 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Yelena Gulyayeva | Soviet Union |
1.88 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Svetlana Leseva | Bulgaria |
1.88 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Orlane Maria dos Santos | Brazil |
1.88 | AR | |||||||||
| 10 | Beata Hołub | Poland |
1.88 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Angela Bradburn | United States |
– | o | o | xxo | xxx | 1.88 | |||||
| 12 | Hanne Haugland | Norway |
o | xo | o | xxo | xxx | 1.88 | |||||
| 13 | Šárka Nováková | Czechoslovakia |
1.85 | ||||||||||
| 14 | María del Mar Martínez | Spain |
o | o | xxo | xxx | 1.85 | ||||||
| 15 | Katja Kilpi | Finland |
1.80 |