1924 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | high jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 26 athletes from 16 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stade de Colombes | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 6, 1924 (qualification) July 7, 1924 (final) |
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The men's high jump at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris was held on July 6th and 7th, 1924. 26 athletes took part.
The American Harold Osborn was Olympic champion ahead of his compatriot Leroy Brown and the French Pierre Lewden .
Existing records
- World record : 2.03 m - Harold Osborn ( USA ), Urbana , May 27, 1924
- Olympic record : 1,935 m - Richmond Landon ( USA ), Antwerp Olympic high jump final , August 17, 1920
Conducting the competition
The athletes had to jump a qualifying round on July 6th. The jumpers were divided into four groups. The qualification height required was 1.83 meters. The final for the qualified athletes took place on July 7th.
Note: The qualified jumpers are highlighted in light blue.
qualification
Date: July 6, 1924
Group 1
space | Surname | nation | height | annotation |
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1 | Tom Poor | United States | 1.83 m | |
2 | Bror Kraemer | Finland | 1.70 m | |
ogV | Edouard Dupiré | France | ||
Mikuláš Kucsera | Czechoslovakia | |||
Arthur Willis | Great Britain |
Group 2
space | Surname | nation | height | annotation |
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1 | Pierre Guilloux | France | 1.83 m | |
Harold Osborn | United States | |||
Lawrence Roberts | South African Union | |||
4th | Oda Mikio | Japan | 1.80 m | |
Larry Stanley | Irish Free State | |||
6th | Josef Macháň | Czechoslovakia | 1.75 m | |
7th | Giuseppe Palmieri | Italy | 1.70 m | |
8th | Jack Miller | Canada | 1.65 m |
Group 3
space | Surname | nation | height | annotation |
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1 | Jenő Gáspár | Hungary | 1.83 m | |
Sverre Helgesen | Norway | |||
Helge Jansson | Sweden | |||
Pierre Lewden | France | |||
ogV | Crawford Kerr | Great Britain | ||
Robert Juday | United States |
Group 4
space | Surname | nation | height | annotation |
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1 | Leroy Brown | United States | 1.83 m | |
2 | Edouard Barbazan | France | 1.80 m | |
Jean Hénault | Belgium | |||
Ivar Sahlin | Sweden | |||
5 | Silvio Cator | Haiti | 1.75 m | |
Robert Dickinson | Great Britain | |||
7th | Antonios Karyofyllis | Greece | 1.70 m |
final
space | Surname | nation | height | annotation |
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1 | Harold Osborn | United States | 1.98 m | OR |
2 | Leroy Brown | United States | 1.95 m | |
3 | Pierre Lewden | France | 1.92 m | |
4th | Tom Poor | United States | 1.88 m | after jump-off with Gáspár |
5 | Jenő Gáspár | Hungary | 1.88 m | after stinging with Poor |
6th | Helge Jansson | Sweden | 1.85 m | after stitching with Guilloux |
7th | Pierre Guilloux | France | 1.85 m | after jump-off with Jansson |
8th | Lawrence Roberts | South African Union | 1.83 m | |
Sverre Helgesen | Norway |
Date: July 7, 1924
Nine jumpers had made it to the qualification level. After Leroy Brown had improved the current Olympic record with 1.95 m, Harold Osborn was able to raise the record even further with 1.98 m in the first attempt and win the gold medal in front of his compatriot. Osborn tried his hand at the height of 2.02 m, which he almost jumped over in the second attempt, but he still brushed the bar down with one hand.
Since there were no failed attempts or multiple attempts at that time, a jump-off was jumped between Tom Poor and Jenő Gáspár - for 4th place - and between Helge Jansson and Pierre Guilloux - for 6th place.
Harold Osborn achieved his Olympic victory without any tricks. In other competitions before and after these games he had developed an actually forbidden technique to perfection: he rolled over the bar in the Western Roll developed by George Horine and pressed it against the support stand so skillfully that it did not fall off, even if Osborn actually did not had really crossed. This technique was only possible because the bar could only fall correctly forward in the jump pits and rest firmly on the other side. To prevent this forbidden species, the slat suspension was soon designed so that it could also fall backwards.
Five days later, Osborn became Olympic champion in the decathlon . To this day, he is the only athlete who managed to become Olympic champion in both the decathlon and an individual discipline.
Osborn's victory was the seventh victory of a US jumper in the seventh Olympic high jump final. It was also the fourth US double victory.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 167f
Web links
Video
- Harold Osborn Wins High Jump Gold With Limited Vision - Paris 1924 Olympics , published March 21, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 9, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 168
- ↑ Official report ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Pp. 131-132, fr. (PDF)
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)