1920 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | high jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 22 athletes from 9 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Antwerp Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 15, 1920 (qualification) August 17, 1920 (final) |
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The men's high jump at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp was held on August 15 and 17, 1920 in the Antwerp Olympic Stadium. 22 athletes took part.
The US athlete Richmond Landon was Olympic champion ahead of his compatriot Harold Muller . Bronze won the Swede Bo Ekelund .
Swiss athletes did not take part. Germany and Austria were excluded from these games.
Existing records
World record | Edward Besson ( USA ) | 2.02 m | Berkeley | May 2, 1914 |
Olympic record | Alma Richards ( USA ) | 1.93 m | Stockholm | July 8, 1912 |
Conducting the competition
All 22 jumpers had to jump a qualifying round on August 15th (start at 4.30 p.m.). The qualification height was 1.80 meters. The final for the qualified athletes began on August 17th at 2.30 p.m.
Note: The qualified jumpers are highlighted in light blue.
qualification
Date: August 15, 1920, 4:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | height | annotation |
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1 | Benjamin Howard Baker | Great Britain | 1.80 m | |
Timothy Carroll | Great Britain | |||
Bo Ekelund | Sweden | |||
Hans Jagenburg | Sweden | |||
René Labat | France | |||
Richmond Landon | United States | |||
Pierre Lewden | France | |||
Harold Muller | United States | |||
John Murphy | United States | |||
Thorvig Svahn | Sweden | |||
Einar Thulin | Sweden | |||
Walter Whalen | United States | |||
13 | Pierre Guilloux | France | 1.75 m | |
14th | Eric Dunbar | Great Britain | 1.70 m | |
Georges Henrion | Belgium | |||
16 | Dimitrios Andromedas | Greece | 1.65 m | |
Jean Hénault | Belgium | |||
Jean Mahy | Belgium | |||
František Stejskal | Czechoslovakia | |||
20th | Henri Pleger | Luxembourg | 1.60 m | |
ogV | William Hunter | Great Britain | ||
William Kennedy | Canada |
final
space | Surname | nation | height | annotation |
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1 | Richmond Landon | United States | 1,935 m | OR |
2 | Harold Muller | United States | 1.90 m | |
3 | Bo Ekelund | Sweden | 1.90 m | |
4th | Walter Whalen | United States | 1.85 m | |
5 | John Murphy | United States | 1.85 m | |
6th | Benjamin Howard Baker | Great Britain | 1.85 m | |
7th | Pierre Lewden | France | 1.80 m | |
Einar Thulin | Sweden | |||
9 | Timothy Carroll | Great Britain | 1.75 m | |
Hans Jagenburg | Sweden | |||
René Labat | France | |||
Thorvig Svahn | Sweden |
Date: August 17, 1920, 2:30 p.m.
Twelve jumpers reached the final. The conditions for this competition were catastrophic. Continuous rain had turned the approach area into a quagmire. The organizers tried to remedy the situation with peat heaps, which, however, brought little improvement.
When it came to the Olympic victory, Richmond Landon managed the supposed height of 1.94 m alone, which he succeeded in his second attempt. When measured, it was found to be only 16 feet 4.24 inches (1.9368 m). It is not known whether the height was also measured in the metric system. Two heights were given in post-Olympic reports: 1,935 m - in both the Official Report and the United States Olympic Committee Report - and 1,936 m - in the Finnish report ( Seitsemannet Olympialaisat Kisat ).
This was irrelevant for the outcome, Landon won gold and had set a new Olympic record with his 1.935 m despite the miserable conditions . However, this was eight and a half centimeters lower than the existing world record .
Since there were still no rules for multiple attempts or failed attempts, a jump-off was held for the silver or bronze medal, which Harold Muller won with 1.88 m. Bronze went to Bo Ekelund with 1.85 m. There was also a jump-off for fourth place - the result can be seen in the table on the left.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 143f
Web links
- SportsReference high jump , accessed September 3, 2017
- Official report , French (PDF), accessed on September 3, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 144
- ^ Official report ( Memento of October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) p. 112, French. (PDF)
- ^ Official report, page 112 (French) ( Memento of October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)