Fernand Gonder
Fernand Gonder (born June 12, 1883 in Bordeaux , † March 10, 1969 ) was a French pole vaulter .
Gonder had set the unofficial world record of 3.69 meters in 1904, and in 1905 he set another world record in Gradignan with 3.74 meters.
As a world record holder, he traveled to the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 . There he won with 3.50 meters in front of the Swede Bruno Söderström and the American Edward Glover . The Olympic Intermediate Games are therefore not only an exception in the usual four-year system, but also in the fact that no American won the pole vault here. At the official Olympic Games, the US winning streak in the pole vault only broke in 1972 with Wolfgang Nordwig .
The official world records were not introduced until 1912. Marc Wright was the first official world record holder with 4.02 meters. At the 1912 Olympics , Wright won the silver medal behind fellow countryman Harry Babcock , who jumped 3.95 meters. In the qualification in 1912 Gonder was also at the start, but could not reach the final as fifteenth of the qualification with 3.50 meters.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )
Web links
- Fernand Gonder in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mort de Fernand Gonder. In: Le Monde . March 13, 1969, accessed February 15, 2018 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gonder, Fernand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French pole vaulter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1969 |