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.

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.

When Olyslagers made her second, Lake passed to try to make one heroic jump at 2.01m.

Before the competition, records were as follows:[1] The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 1.97 m.[2] The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows: Qualification: 1.94 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).