1904 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	6 athletes from 3 countries
Competition location	Francis Field
Competition phase	August 29, 1904
Medalist Samuel Jones ( USA )   Garrett Serviss ( USA )   Paul Weinstein ( GER )

The men's high jump at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis was held on August 29, 1904 at Francis Field .

There was a one-two for the USA. Samuel Jones won the gold medal ahead of Garrett Serviss . Bronze went to the German Paul Weinstein .

Records

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

World record	1.97 m	United States	Michael Sweeney	New York ( USA ), September 21, 1895
Olympic record	1.90 m	United States	Irving Baxter	Paris finals ( FRA ), July 15, 1900

In St. Louis, performance remained below existing records.

Samuel Jones after crossing the high jump bar

Olympic champion Samuel Jones, USA

Results

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Samuel Jones	United States	1.803
2	Garrett Serviss	United States	1,778
3	Paul Weinstein	Germany	1,778
4th	Lajos Gönczy	Hungary	1,750
5	Emil Freymark	United States	1.720
6th	Ervin Barker	United States	1,700

After Samuel Jones was the winner, he tried unsuccessfully at 1.89 m. The fight for second place was decided between Garrett Serviss and Paul Weinstein in the jump-off, with Weinstein at the same time denying an unofficial handicap competition in the long jump . The jumping styles were different. Jones and Serviss used the shear jump, Weinstein a rolling style. Lajos Gönczy probably jumped a crouch.

Overall, the performance remained at a modest level. Eight years earlier in Athens , the winner's jump height was almost an inch better, in Paris at the 1900 Games it was almost ten centimeters. Sweeny's world record was six inches above the St. Louis winning performance.

Two days later, Lajos Gönczy was fifth in the high jump, Paul Weinstein was seventh in the pole vault on September 3rd .

The information on the result in the sources used here hardly differ. The order is completely the same, with the performances up to fourth place the deviations are in the millimeter range. For fifth-placed Emil Freymark, SportsReference Kluge and zur Megede do not give any elevation, and for zur Megede , sixth-placed Ervin Barker does not have any performance figures either.

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

• [http: /web.archive.org/web//www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1904/ATH/mens-high-jump.html Sports-Reference, Athletics at the 1904 St. Louis Summer Games: Men's High Jump], accessed August 1, 2018
• Olympic Games St. Louis 1904, Athletics, high jump men , IOC page on athletics at the 1904 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed August 1, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 54