The women's high jump event at the 1981 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 21 February.[1][2][3]
Results
edit| Rank | Name | Nationality | 1.70 | 1.75 | 1.80 | 1.85 | 1.88 | 1.91 | 1.94 | 1.97 | 2.00 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Sara Simeoni |  Italy | − | − | o | o | o | o | xo | o | xxx | 1.97 | |
 | Elżbieta Krawczuk |  Poland | − | − | o | o | o | o | o | xxx | 1.94 | PB | |
 | Urszula Kielan | Poland | − | − | o | o | o | xo | o | xxx | 1.94 | ||
| 4 | Ulrike Meyfarth |  West Germany | − | − | o | o | o | xxx | 1.88 | ||||
| 5 | Jasmin Fischer | West Germany | − | o | o | o | xxo | xxx | 1.88 | ||||
| 6 | Emese Béla |  Hungary | − | − | o | o | xxx | 1.85 | |||||
| 7 | Susanne Lorentzon |  Sweden | − | o | o | o | xxx | 1.85 | |||||
| 8 | Donatella Bulfoni | Italy | − | − | o | xxo | xxx | 1.85 | |||||
| 9 | Marina Serkova |  Soviet Union | − | − | xo | xxo | xxx | 1.85 | |||||
| 10 | Marjette Overwater |  Netherlands | − | o | o | xxx | 1.80 | ||||||
| 11 | Gaby Meier |  Switzerland | o | o | o | xxx | 1.80 | ||||||
| 11 | Sandra Dini | Italy | o | o | o | xxx | 1.80 | ||||||
| 13 | Lidija Benedetič |  Yugoslavia | o | o | xxx | 1.75 |