Edwin Myers

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Edwin Earl "Ed" Myers (born December 18, 1896 in Hinsdale , Illinois , † August 31, 1978 in Evanston , Illinois) was an American athlete who specialized in the pole vault . The 1.75 m tall athlete started for the Chicago AA .

successes

Myers won a total of four national titles:

  • 1919 and 1920: Hochschulmeister ( NC4A ); the jumping heights are not recorded.
  • 1920: runner-up with 3.99 m (13-1)
  • 1922: third with 3.66 m (12-0)
  • 1923: Champion with 3.99 m (13-1)
  • 1924: Champion with 3.96 m (13-0)
  • 1926: runner-up with 3.96 m (13-0)
  • 1927: fourth with 3.81 m (12-6)

In 1920 he qualified as runner-up in the national championships, which also served as Olympic eliminations, for the games in Antwerp . His compatriot Frank Foss was in a class of his own there: 4.09 m meant Olympic victory, a world record and a lead of 39 cm over second-placed Henry Petersen . Actually, Myers should have won the silver medal, as he jumped five centimeters higher than the Dane at 3.75 m ; However, he did not succeed in this performance in the regular competition, but in the jump-off for 3rd place after he and his compatriot Edward Knourek had been tied with a jump of 3.60 m. So he got the bronze medal.

He was even more unlucky four years later. Although he managed to jump over 4.00 m on May 31 in Ann Arbor , which meant third place on the world's best list, and he also won the state championship with a strong 3.96 m, but he stayed in the eliminations that were decisive for the Olympic participation with 3.82 m below his possibilities and only came in 5th, so that he was denied a second participation in the Olympics.

Myers has six places in the top ten of the world's best list:

  • 1918: 8th place with 3.70 m (September 14th in Cambridge )
  • 1919: 3rd place with 3.81 m (May 31 in Philadelphia )
  • 1920: 2nd place with 3.98 m (July 17th in Cambridge)
  • 1923: 3rd place with 3.98 m (September 1st in Chicago )
  • 1924: 3rd place with 4.00 m (May 31 in Ann Arbor)
  • 1926: 9th place with 3.96 m (July 5th in Philadelphia)

The same height only brought him to 15th place in 1927. He also managed another jump over 4.00 m in the hall in 1927.

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