1912 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Standing Vault (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Standing vault | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 18 athletes from 9 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stockholm Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 13, 1912 (qualification / final) | ||||||||
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The men's standing vault at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm was held on July 13, 1912 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. 18 athletes took part. Like the stand long jump, this competition was last held at the Olympic Games.
Olympic champion was US athlete Platt Adams ahead of his younger brother Ben Adams . Bronze went to the Greek Konstantinos Tsiklitiras .
Existing records
- There were no world records in this discipline.
- Olympic record : 1.655 m - Ray Ewry ( USA ), Paris final , July 16, 1900
Conducting the competition
All 18 jumpers had a qualifying round to jump. The qualification height in was 1.50 meters.
Note: o = skipped height; x = failed attempt. The qualified jumpers are highlighted in light blue.
Preliminary round
space | Surname | nation | result | 1.30 | 1.35 | 1.40 | 1.45 | 1.48 | 1.50 |
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1 | Platt Adams | United States | 1.50 m | O | O | O | O | O | O |
Ben adams | United States | O | O | O | O | - | O | ||
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras | Greece | O | O | O | O | - | O | ||
Edvard Möller | Sweden | O | O | O | O | - | O | ||
Leo Goehring | United States | O | O | O | xxo | - | xo | ||
Richard Byrd | United States | O | O | O | O | - | xxo | ||
7th | Forest Fletcher | United States | 1.45 m | O | O | O | O | - | xxx |
Rudolf Smedmark | Sweden | O | O | O | O | - | xxx | ||
Frank Belote | United States | O | O | xxo | O | - | xxx | ||
Géo André | France | - | O | xo | xo | - | xxx | ||
Karl Bergh | Sweden | O | O | O | xxo | xxx | - | ||
Leif Ekman | Sweden | O | O | O | xxo | xxx | - | ||
13 | Rodolfo Hammersley | Chile | 1.40 m | O | O | O | xxx | - | - |
Alfred Black | Russia | O | O | O | xxx | - | - | ||
Birger bread basket | Norway | xo | xo | xo | xxx | - | |||
16 | Benjamin Howard Baker | Great Britain | 1.35 m | xo | O | xxx | - | - | - |
17th | Helmer Måhl | Sweden | 1.30 m | O | - | - | - | - | - |
ogV | Andor Horvag | Hungary | - | - | xxx | - | - | - | - |
Date: July 13, 1912
final
space | Surname | nation | result | 1.30 | 1.40 | 1.45 | 1.50 | 1.55 | 1.60 | 1.63 | 1.66 |
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1 | Platt Adams | United States | 1.63 m | O | O | O | O | O | xo | O | xxx |
2 | Ben adams | United States | 1.60 m | O | O | O | O | O | O | xxx | - |
3 | Konstantinos Tsiklitiras | Greece | 1.55 m | O | O | O | xo | xo | xxx | - | - |
4th | Edvard Möller | Sweden | 1.50 m | O | O | O | O | xxx | - | - | - |
Leo Goehring | United States | O | xo | O | O | xxx | - | - | - | ||
Richard Byrd | United States | O | O | O | xo | xxx | - | - | - |
Date: July 13, 1912
Ray Ewry , who had dominated the standing jump competitions in the previous games , had retired from active competitive sports. His Olympic record was not reached here.
With one exception, the first three heights were overcome in the first attempt, only Leo Goehring needed a second attempt at 1.40 meters. All jumpers, Konstantinos Tsiklitiras and Richard Byrd, only managed the fourth height of 1.50 meters on the second attempt. At 1.55 meters Edvard Möller, Goehring and Byrd were eliminated, the Greek needed a second attempt and then failed at the next height of 1.60 meters. The Adams brothers now agreed to victory among themselves. Platt jumped the 1.63 meters, his brother Ben failed. Platt Adams, certain Olympic champion, then tried in vain at 1.66 meters.
Platt Adams' gold medal was the fourth US victory in the fourth and final Olympic competition in the discipline.
Picture gallery
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 119
Video
- Olympics 1912 Standing high jump on YouTube , accessed February 18, 2019.
Web links
- SportsReference Stand Vault , accessed August 28, 2017
- Official report , engl. (PDF), accessed on August 28, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the finals in the official report ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pp. 394-395, engl. (PDF)