1924 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

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Olympic rings
Stade de Colombes 1924.jpg
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)
Medalist
gold medal Harold Osborn ( USA ) United States 48United States 
Silver medal Leroy Brown ( USA ) United States 48United States 
Bronze medal Pierre Lewden ( FRA ) Third French RepublicThird French Republic 

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

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

Failed to qualify: Oda Mikio (JPN)
The Haitian Silvio Cator also failed
space Surname nation height annotation
1 Tom Poor United States 48United States United States 1.83 m
2 Bror Kraemer FinlandFinland Finland 1.70 m
ogV Edouard Dupiré Third French RepublicThird French Republic France
Mikuláš Kucsera Czechoslovakia 1920Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Arthur Willis United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain

Group 2

space Surname nation height annotation
1 Pierre Guilloux Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 1.83 m
Harold Osborn United States 48United States United States
Lawrence Roberts South Africa 1912South African Union South African Union
4th Oda Mikio Japan 1870Japan Japan 1.80 m
Larry Stanley Ireland 1922Irish Free State Irish Free State
6th Josef Macháň Czechoslovakia 1920Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 1.75 m
7th Giuseppe Palmieri Italy 1861Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Italy 1.70 m
8th Jack Miller Canada 1921Canada Canada 1.65 m

Group 3

space Surname nation height annotation
1 Jenő Gáspár Hungary 1918Hungary Hungary 1.83 m
Sverre Helgesen NorwayNorway Norway
Helge Jansson SwedenSweden Sweden
Pierre Lewden Third French RepublicThird French Republic France
ogV Crawford Kerr United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain
Robert Juday United States 48United States United States
6th place in the final for Helge Jansson (SWE)

Group 4

space Surname nation height annotation
1 Leroy Brown United States 48United States United States 1.83 m
2 Edouard Barbazan Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 1.80 m
Jean Hénault BelgiumBelgium Belgium
Ivar Sahlin SwedenSweden Sweden
5 Silvio Cator Haiti 1807Haiti Haiti 1.75 m
Robert Dickinson United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain
7th Antonios Karyofyllis Second Hellenic RepublicSecond Hellenic Republic Greece 1.70 m

final

space Surname nation height annotation
1 Harold Osborn United States 48United States United States 1.98 m OR
2 Leroy Brown United States 48United States United States 1.95 m
3 Pierre Lewden Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 1.92 m
4th Tom Poor United States 48United States United States 1.88 m after jump-off with Gáspár
5 Jenő Gáspár Hungary 1918Hungary Hungary 1.88 m after stinging with Poor
6th Helge Jansson SwedenSweden Sweden 1.85 m after stitching with Guilloux
7th Pierre Guilloux Third French RepublicThird French Republic France 1.85 m after jump-off with Jansson
8th Lawrence Roberts South Africa 1912South African Union South African Union 1.83 m
Sverre Helgesen NorwayNorway 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

Individual evidence

  1. Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 168
  2. 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) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / library.la84.org
  3. SportsReference (Eng.)