1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Standing Vault (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Standing vault
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	3 athletes from the USA
Competition phase	July 16, 1900
Medalist
gold	Ray Ewry ( USA )
silver	Irving Baxter ( USA )
bronze	Lewis Sheldon ( USA )

The men's standing vault at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris was decided on July 16, 1900 in the Croix Catelan . Only three jumpers from the USA took part, where the jumping disciplines from the stand were particularly popular. The jump could only be started once; if the foot, which was completely lifted from the ground, was put back on before the jump, this was considered a failed attempt. The standing jumps were on the program for the first time at the Olympic Games and remained Olympic up to and including 1912 .

Standing jump specialist Raymond Ewry was Olympic champion ahead of double gold medalist in high and pole vault Irving Baxter . The triple jump third Lewis Sheldon took third place here too.

Records

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

World record	1.615 m	United States	Ray Ewry	1896

Since the discipline was first held at the Olympic Games, there was still no Olympic record .

The following high jump records were broken or set at these Olympic Games:

WR

1,655 m

United States

Ray Ewry

Results

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Ray Ewry	United States	1.655 ( WR )
2	Irving Baxter	United States	1.525
3	Lewis Sheldon	United States	1,500

In the jumping disciplines from the state, which were very popular at that time and were on the program at various championships, each athlete was free to choose his jumping style. There was only a binding regulation about its execution to the effect that a foot was only allowed to leave the ground once, otherwise a failed attempt was counted. Every half a centimeter was measured, rounded up or down.

All three jumping disciplines were carried out on the same day, so that Raymond Ewry became three times Olympic champion in one day - an unmatched record. As a child he suffered from polio and, in an effort to overcome these problems, had specially trained his leg muscles, which now benefited him greatly. Ewry also set records in backward jumping in his career.

The references are completely identical for this discipline.

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  Standing jump specialist Ray Ewry becomes Olympic champion in standing high jump

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  The Olympic runner-up Irving Baxter - not only strong in the high and pole vault , where he won gold

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  The American triple jump third Lewis Sheldon is also third in the standing vault

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 Standing High Jump , accessed July 25, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, high jump standing men , IOC website on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games from olympic.org, English, accessed on 25 July 2018