1904 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Standing Vault (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Standing vault
gender	Men
Attendees	5 to 8 athletes from 1 or 2 countries
Competition location	Francis Field
Competition phase	August 31, 1904
Medalist Ray Ewry ( USA )   Joseph Stadler ( USA )   Lawson Robertson ( USA )

The men's standing vault at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis was held on August 31, 1904 at Francis Field .

There was a US triple success. Olympic champion was the standing jump specialist Ray Ewry . Joseph Stadler won the silver medal, while Lawson Robertson won bronze .

Records

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

World record	1,655 m	United States	Ray Ewry	Paris, July 16, 1900
Olympic record	1,655 m			Paris finals ( FRA ), July 16, 1900

Results

Result according to Kluge - SportsReference - IOC page Height information at space Surname country Smart SportsReference IOC page 1 Ray Ewry  United States 1.49 m 1.60 m 1.60 m 2 Joseph Stadler  United States 1.45 m 1.44 m 1.45 m 3 Lawson Robertson  United States 1.45 m 1.44 m 1.45 m 4th John Biller  United States 1.42 m 1.42 m 1.42 m 5 Lajos Gönczy  HUN 1.35 m 1.35 m 1.35 m 6-8 Fred School  United States k. A. Participants not listed John Fuhrer  United States G. Evans  United States

Result to the Megede space Surname country height 1 Ray Ewry  United States 1.50 m 2 Joseph Stadler  United States 1.45 m Lawson Robertson  United States 4th John Biller  United States 1.42 m

After his gold medal in the standing vault and two days earlier in the standing long jump, Raymond Ewry was already a double Olympic champion here in St. Louis. He should also win the triple jump that was due later. In the end, he had repeated his victory from four years ago in all three standing jumping competitions and was already six times gold medalist after these games.

The information on this discipline is slightly different in all the sources used here. This applies to the height information, which differs significantly, especially for the winner, the placements and the question of who was there as a participant. The different versions are shown in the tables above.

Second place was decided by a playoff in which Joseph Stadler prevailed against Lawson Robertson. Stadler also only took part in the standing jump competitions and later also won bronze in the triple jump from standing. Robertson also took part in the 100-meter run , where it was sixth. The Olympic champion of the 110 meter hurdles Frederick Schule was also involved in the standing vault, according to Kluge .

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  After these games, six-time Olympic champion Raymond Ewry, specialist in all standing jumping types

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  Ray Ewry jumping from a standing position

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  Bronze medalist Lawson Robertson, also sixth in the 100-meter run

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  Frederick Schule, Olympic champion in the 110 meter hurdles, was probably also a participant 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

• Sports-Reference, Athletics at the 1904 St. Louis Summer Games: Men's Standing High Jump , accessed August 3, 2018
• Olympic Games St. Louis 1904, Athletics, high jump standing men , IOC's page on athletics at the 1904 Olympic Games from olympic.org, English, accessed on August 3, 2018