1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	8 athletes from 7 countries
Competition phase	July 15, 1900
Medalist
gold	Irving Baxter ( USA )
silver	Patrick Leahy ( GBR )
bronze	Lajos Gönczy ( HUN )

The men's high jump at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris was decided on July 15, 1900 in the Croix Catelan .

Olympic champion was the American Irving Baxter . The Irish Patrick Leahy , who started for Great Britain, won the silver medal ahead of the Hungarian Lajos Gönczy .

Records

The world records that existed at the time were still unofficial.

World record	1.97 m	United States	Michael Sweeney	New York , September 21, 1895
Olympic record	1.81 m	United States	Ellery Clark	Athens , April 21, 1896

The following records were broken or set in this discipline at the 1900 Olympic Games:

OR

1.90 m

United States

Irving Baxter

Results

Olympic champion Irving Baxter, USA, also gold medalist in the pole vault on the same day 

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Irving Baxter	United States	1.90 ( OR )
2	Patrick Leahy	Great Britain	1.78
3	Lajos Gönczy	Hungary	1.75
4th	Carl Albert Andersen	Norway	1.70
	Eric Lemming	Sweden
	Waldemar Steffen	Germany
7th	Louis Monnier	France	1.60
8th	Tore Blom	Sweden	1.50

Patrick Leahy was actually Irish . However, Ireland was not an independent state at the time, but part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . He had shone several times in the run-up with outstanding performances. His best performance was 1,955 m. Here he was well below his capabilities. Its main competitor was Irving Baxter from the United States

Leahy entered the competition at 1.65 m and took the height easily. He left 1.70 m and 1.75 m and then jumped 1.78 m. At this altitude, besides Leahy, the Hungarian Lajos Gönczy and Baxter were in the race. Gönczy failed and was third. Then only the American, who was already Olympic champion ahead of Leahy, managed 1.85 m. Even six feet was not too high for Baxter that day. Most recently, he tried the world record height of 1.97 m, but failed in all three attempts. Irving Baxter won the pole vault competition that same day .

Even Mike Sweeney , m with 1.97 world record holder was, at the time of the Olympic Games in Paris . However, he took part in professional competitions there and was not admitted to the Olympic Games here as a professional.

For this competition, the information regarding the first eight in the sources used is the same. However, at the Megede there is talk of a qualification that ten jumpers have survived. The US athletes William Remington and Walter Carroll then decided not to participate because their religious beliefs forbade them to compete on a Sunday.

literature

• Volker Kluge , Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle I, Berlin 1997 ( ISBN 3-328-00715-6 )
• Ekkehard zur Megede , The history of Olympic athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970

Web links

• SportsReference, Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's High Jump , accessed July 24, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, high jump men , IOC website on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed on July 24, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 36