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)
Medalist Platt Adams ( USA )   Ben Adams ( USA )   Konstantinos Tsiklitiras ( GRE )

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
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
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

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  Olympic Champion Platt Adams (USA)

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  Ben Adams (USA), winner of the silver medal (here at the standing long jump)

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  Konstantinos Tsiklitiras (GRE) wins bronze

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  Géo André (FRA) finished seventh

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

1. ↑ 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)