1912 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | high jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 37 athletes from 10 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stockholm Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 7, 1912 (qualification) July 8, 1912 (final) |
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The men's high jump at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm was held on July 7th and 8th, 1912 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. 37 athletes took part.
The US athlete Alma Richards became the Olympic champion . The German Hans Liesche won the silver medal, bronze went to George Horine from the USA.
Existing records
World record |
George Horine ( USA )
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2.007 m | Palo Alto | May 28, 1912 |
Olympic record |
Irving Baxter ( USA )
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1.90 m | Paris | July 15, 1900 |
After the founding of the World Athletics Federation IAAF in 1912, Horine's world record was even later recognized with 2.01 m.
Conducting the competition
All 37 jumpers had to jump a qualifying round on July 7th. The qualification level to be skipped was 1.83 meters. The final for the qualified jumpers took place on July 8th.
Note: o = skipped height; x = failed attempt. The qualified jumpers are highlighted in light blue.
Preliminary round
Date: July 7, 2012
final
space | Surname | nation | result | 1.60 | 1.70 | 1.75 | 1.80 | 1.83 | 1.85 | 1.87 | 1.89 | 1.91 | 1.93 |
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1 | Alma Richards |
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1.93 m OR | O | O | O | xo | xxo | O | xxo | xxo | xxo | O |
2 | Hans Liesche |
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1.91 m | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | xo | xo | xxx |
3 | George Horine |
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1.89 m | O | O | O | O | xo | O | O | xo | xxx | - |
4th | Egon Erickson |
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1.87 m | O | O | O | O | O | xo | xo | xxx | - | - |
Jim Thorpe |
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xo | O | O | O | O | O | O | xxx | - | - | ||
6th | Harry grumbles |
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1.85 m | O | O | O | xo | O | xxo | xxx | - | - | - |
John Johnstone |
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O | O | O | O | xxo | xo | xxx | - | - | - | ||
8th | Karl-Axel Kullerstrand |
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1.83 m | O | O | O | xo | O | xxx | - | - | - | - |
9 | Iván Wardener |
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1.80 m | O | O | O | xo | xxx | - | - | - | - | - |
Timothy Carroll |
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O | O | O | xo | xxx | - | - | - | - | - | ||
11 | Benjamin Howard Baker |
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1.75 m | O | O | O | xxx | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Date: July 7, 2012
The real favorite in this competition was George Horine, who was the first jumper ever to break the 2-meter mark in May and who set up a world record here. He had his own jumping style, in contrast to everyone else, he didn't run from the front, but from the left side and then curled himself over the bar in the so-called western roll , while the 'shear jump' was otherwise common. But Horine didn't get past six feet, with which he won the bronze medal. Up front there was a duel between Hans Liesche and Alma Richards. Liesche had crossed 1.91 m in the second attempt, which Richards only succeeded in the third attempt. But the American mastered 1.93 m, at which Liesche failed three times, and thus became Olympic champion.
Richards' gold medal was the fifth US victory in the fifth Olympic high jump competition.
Jim Thorpe, who placed fifth in the high jump, was disqualified by the IOC as in the 1913 decathlon for violating amateur rules at a baseball game. This disqualification was voided by the IOC in 1982 and Thorpe's results were recognized.
Picture gallery
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp 113-117
Videos
- Olympics 1912 High jump on YouTube , accessed February 18, 2019.
Web links
- SportsReference high jump , accessed August 27, 2017
- Official report , engl. (PDF), accessed on August 27, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 116
- ↑ Description of the finals in the official report, page 393 (Engl.) ( Memento of the original on February 7, 2014 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.