1908 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Standing Vault (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Standing vault
gender	Men
place	White City Stadium
Attendees	22 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	July 23, 1908
Medalist
gold	Ray Ewry ( USA )
silver	John Biller ( USA )
	Konstantinos Tsiklitiras ( GRE )

The men's standing vault at the 1908 Olympic Games in London was decided on July 23, 1908 at the White City Stadium . On the morning of the same day, a qualification took place from which four jumpers qualified for the competition.

His ninth and final gold medal was won by standing jump specialist Ray Ewry from the United States. He won ahead of his compatriot John Biller and the Greek Konstantinos Tsiklitiras , who both finished tied for second and each received a silver medal.

Records

The world records in athletics were still unofficial at the time.

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

In that competition, there were no record improvements or settings at the 1908 Games.

Results

qualification

The qualification was held in four staggered groups. The results of these groups were combined. In the end, all jumpers who had crossed 1.50 m qualified for the final fight. The results achieved in the preliminary fight were included in the overall ranking.

Group A

athlete	country	Height (m)
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras	Greece	1.55
Platt Adams	United States	1.47
Léon Dupont	Belgium	1.42
Alfred Flaxman	Great Britain	k. A.

Group B

athlete	country	Height (m)
Ray Ewry	United States	1.55
John Biller	United States	1.50
Walter Henderson	Great Britain	1.42
Wilhelm Blystad	Norway
Martin Sheridan	United States	1.37
Lancelot Stafford	Great Britain	1.32
Ludwig Uettwiller	Germany

Ludwig Uettwiller is listed on Sports-Reference and in the literature by zur Megede mentioned below , but is missing in the literature by Kluge also listed below .

Group C

athlete	country	Height (m)
Frank Holmes	United States	1.52
Frank Irons	United States	1.42
Arthur Mallwitz	Germany
Ernest Hutcheon	Australasia	k. A.
George Barber	Canada

Group D

athlete	country	Height (m)
Alfred Motté	France	1.42
Allan Bengtsson	Sweden	1.40
Lawson Robertson	United States	k. A.
Henri Jardin	France

More jumpers

At Kluge and at Megede , other jumpers are listed that are missing in the "Sports Reference" information on the preliminary fights, but are then listed in the overview of the overall result. Karl Fryksdahl, last named in the table below, is listed at zur Megede without any altitude information .

athlete	country	Height (m)
Géo André	France	1.47
Svend Langkjær	Denmark	1.42
Karl Fryksdahl	Sweden	1.40

Final and final score of the best thirteen

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Ray Ewry	United States	1.57
2	John Biller	United States	1.55
	Konstantinos Tsiklitiras	Greece
4th	Frank Holmes	United States	1.52
5	Platt Adams	United States	1.47
	Géo André	France
	Alfred Motté	France
8th	Léon Dupont	Belgium	1.42
	Walter Henderson	Great Britain
	Wilhelm Blystad	Norway
	Frank Irons	United States
	Arthur Mallwitz	Germany
	Svend Langkjær	Denmark

With this competition, the American Ray Ewry completed his extremely successful Olympic career as a specialist in all standing jumping competitions and won his eighth gold medal, which he had won at three Olympic Games since 1900 . In London, too, he had previously triumphed in the standing long jump and thus won all standing jumping competitions that had ever been held at the Olympic Games. In his youth he suffered from polio, was dependent on a wheelchair and had trained his leg muscles to overcome this disease, which ultimately contributed to his great success.

Second place was shared by Ewry, defeated by just two centimeters, between the American John Biller and the Greek Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, who had already won silver in the standing long jump. Biller finished fourth there. The fourth-placed Holmes, listed here with the first name Frank as in Sports-Reference , is referred to by the first name Leroy in zur Megede . The American Platt Adams, who was to win this discipline four years later in Stockholm, finished fifth . Together with him, two French runners took this rank, including the young Géo André, who still had a long career in sports ahead of him and had won the silver medal in the high jump two days earlier .

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  Eight-time Olympic champion Ray Ewry, USA

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  The Olympic second Konstantinos Tsiklitiras from Greece, also second in the  standing long jump

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  The US Olympic fifth, Platt Adams, four years later Olympic champion in this discipline

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  The French Géo André, among other things, Olympic runner-up in the high jump , finished fifth

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  Long jump Olympic champion Frank Irons became Olympic eighth along with other athletes

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 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Standing High Jump , accessed August 31, 2018
• Olympic Games London 1908, Athletics , IOC page on athletics at the 1908 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed 31 August 2018