1928 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	20 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	August 1, 1928
Medalist Sabin Carr ( USA )   William Droegemueller ( USA )   Charles McGinnis ( USA )

The men's pole vault at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam was held on August 1, 1928 in the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium. Twenty athletes took part.

In the pole vault there was a triple triumph for the US team. Sabin Carr won ahead of William Droegemueller and Charles McGinnis .

Existing records

• World record : 4.30 m - Lee Barnes ( USA ), Fresno , April 28, 1928
• Olympic record : 4.09 m - Frank Foss ( USA ), Olympic pole vault final in Antwerp , August 20, 1920

Conducting the competition

On August 1st, a qualifying round was held in two groups. The qualification height was 3.66 meters. The final for the qualified jumpers took place on the same day.

Note: The qualified jumpers are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: August 1, 1928

Group 1

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
1	Lee Barnes	United States	3.66 m
	William Droegemueller	United States
	János Karlovits	Hungary
	Nakazawa Yonetaro	Japan
5	Laurence Bond	Great Britain	3.50 m
	Aksel Nikolajsen	Denmark
7th	Stelios Benardis	Greece	3.30 m
	Gérard Noël	Belgium
	Age van der Zee	Netherlands
ogV	René Joannes-Powell	Belgium

Group 2

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
1	Sabin Carr	United States	3.66 m
	Henry Lindblad	Sweden
	Charles McGinnis	United States
	Julius Muller	German Empire
	Victor Pickard	Canada
6th	José Culí	Spain	3.50 m
	Maurice Henrijean	Belgium
ogV	Argyris Karagiannis	Greece
	Pierre Ramadier	France
	Robert Vintousky	France

final

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
1	Sabin Carr	United States	4.20 m	OR
2	William Droegemueller	United States	4.10 m
3	Charles McGinnis	United States	3.95 m	after stabbing with Pickard and Barnes
4th	Victor Pickard	Canada	3.95 m	after stinging with McGinnis and Barnes
5	Lee Barnes	United States	3.95 m	after stabbing with McGinnis and Pickard
6th	Nakazawa Yonetaro	Japan	3.90 m
7th	Henry Lindblad	Sweden	3.90 m
8th	János Karlovits	Hungary	3.80 m
9	Julius Muller	German Empire	3.65 m

Date: August 1, 1928

After nine jumpers had made it to the qualification level, they started from a duel between the two Americans Lee Barnes, who competed as Olympic champion in Paris and world record holder with 4.30 m, and Sabin Carr, who also competed in the hall had already reached 4.29 m. In pouring rain, five jumpers crossed 3.95 m, which had been enough to win the Olympic Games four years earlier. This led to a playoff for the bronze medal between Barnes, his compatriot Charles McGinnis and the Canadian Victor Pickard. McGinnis eventually won that bronze medal, Pickard fourth, Barnes fifth. Sabin Carr lived up to expectations and became Olympic champion with the new Olympic record of 4.20 m, ahead of his compatriot William Droegemueller, who mastered a strong 4.10 m.

Sabin Carr's victory brought the ninth gold medal of a US jumper in the eighth Olympic pole vault final - in 1908 there were two gold medals for US jumpers.

It was also the fifth US double win and the second triple success in a row.

Picture gallery

• 

  Olympic champion Sabin Carr (USA) on a Norwegian trading card

• 

  The Canadian Victor Pickard failed in the jump-off and came in fourth.

• 

  Nakazawa Yonetarō (JPN) reached sixth place.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 203

Video

• Amsterdam 1928 osa 3 , range 5:40 min to 7:30 min, published on May 28, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed on September 14, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference pole vault , accessed September 14, 2017
• Official report pp. 448–450, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 14, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 555 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Official report, pp. 448 - 450 (Eng.)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)