1924 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	20 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Stade de Colombes
Competition phase	July 9, 1924 (qualification) July 10, 1924 (final)
Medalist Lee Barnes ( USA )   Glenn Graham ( USA )   James Brooker ( USA )

The men's pole vault at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris was held on July 9 and 10, 1924. Twenty athletes took part.

The American Lee Barnes was Olympic champion ahead of his compatriots Glenn Graham and James Brooker .

Existing records

• World record : 4.21 m - Charles Hoff ( Norway ), Copenhagen , July 22, 1923
• Olympic record : 4.09 m - Frank Foss ( USA ), Olympic pole vault final in Antwerp , August 20, 1920

Conducting the competition

The athletes had to jump a qualifying round on July 9th. The jumpers were divided into two groups. The required qualification height was 3.66 meters. The final for the qualified athletes took place on July 10th.

Note: The qualified jumpers are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 9, 1924

Group 1

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
1	Lee Barnes	United States	3.66 m
	James Brooker	United States
	Victor Pickard	Canada
4th	Paul Dufauret	France	3.55 m
5	Robert Duthil	France	3.40 m
	Enrico de Freitas	Brazil
7th	James Campbell	Great Britain	3.20 m
	František Fuhrherr-Nový	Czechoslovakia
	Argyris Karagiannis	Greece

The Canadian Victor Pickard (shown here at the 1928 Games) finished fifth.

Group 2

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
1	Maurice Henrijean	Belgium	3.66 m
	Glenn Graham	United States
	Henry Petersen	Denmark
	Ralph Spearow	United States
5	Irvine Francis	Canada	3.55 m
	Maurice Vautier	France
7th	Harry de Keijser	Netherlands	3.40 m
	Marcel Muzard	France
9	Stefan Adamczak	Poland	3.20 m
	Valter Ever	Estonia
	Yrjö Helander	Finland

final

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
1	Lee Barnes	United States	3.95 m	after stinging with Graham
2	Glenn Graham	United States	3.95 m	after stabbing with Barnes
3	James Brooker	United States	3.90 m	after piercing with Petersen
4th	Henry Petersen	Denmark	3.90 m	after stabbing with Brooker
5	Victor Pickard	Canada	3.80 m
6th	Ralph Spearow	United States	3.70 m
7th	Maurice Henrijean	Belgium	3.65 m

Date: July 8, 1924

Seven jumpers, four of them from the USA, had made it to the qualification level. After the cancellation of the world record holder Charles Hoff due to injury , the US jumper Ralph Spearow was the favorite. But Spearow was out of shape on the day of the final and only finished sixth. Hoff could no longer do this sport due to an injury and therefore decided to switch to the middle distance. Here in Paris he was Olympic eighth in the 800-meter run .

There was a jump-off for gold and bronze. The only 17-year-old Lee Barnes was Olympic champion with 3.95 m ahead of the 20-year-old Glenn Graham. James Brooker won the bronze medal against Henry Petersen - both 3.90 m. The Olympic record of Frank Foss with 4.09 m of 1920 remained unchanged.

The victory of the just 17 year old Lee Barnes was the seventh US victory in the seventh pole vault final.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 168

Web links

• SportsReference pole vault , accessed September 9, 2017

Video

• Vintage Pole Vault Highlights - Paris 1924 Olympics , published October 26, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed September 9, 2017

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, pp. 136–137 (fr.) ( 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. 
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)