1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	14 athletes from 10 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	July 31, 1932
Medalist Duncan McNaughton ( CAN )   Bob Van Osdel ( USA )   Simeon Toribio ( PHL )

The men's high jump at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on July 31, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 14 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Canadian Duncan McNaughton ahead of the American Bob Van Osdel . Simeon Toribio from the Philippines won the bronze medal.

Existing records

• World record : 2.03 m - Harold Osborn ( USA ), Urbana , May 27, 1924
• Olympic record : 1.98 m - Harold Osborn ( USA ), Paris final , August 7, 1924

Conducting the competition

There were no preliminary fights in this discipline. All athletes started their competition on July 31st. Tests went over 1.80 m, 1.85 m, 1.90 m, 1.94 m and 1.97 m. There was not yet a failed attempt or multiple attempt rule.

Note: The order and heights of the test series are unknown.

Bottom line

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
1	Duncan McNaughton	Canada	1.97 m
2	Bob Van Osdel	United States	1.97 m
3	Simeon Toribio	Philippines	1.97 m
4th	Cornelius Johnson	United States	1.97 m
5	Ilmari Reinikka	Finland	1.94 m
6th	Kazuo Kimura	Japan	1.94 m
7th	Misao Ono	Japan	1.90 m
	Jerzy Pławczyk	Poland
9	Birger Haug	Norway	1.85 m
	Claude Ménard	France
	Jack Portland	Canada
	George Spitz	United States
	Angelo Tommasi	Italy
14th	Paul Giant	Switzerland	1.80 m

Date: July 31, 1932

The fight for the medals in this competition was very exciting, which was also due to the fact that there were still no multiple or failed attempts. With Duncan McNaughton, Bob Van Osdel and Simeon Toribio, three jumpers had mastered 1.97 m and failed at the next jump height. So there was a jump-off that began, as usual, at the height that the jumpers involved in the jump-off had no longer managed. Even now none of the three succeeded. Now the jump-off was continued at 1.99 m. When no one could skip this height either, the failed attempt rule that was actually not yet valid was used. McNaughton, who was the first to cross the victory height of 1.97 m, was declared Olympic champion, Van Osdel received the silver and Toribio the bronze medal.
The high jump was one of the three competitions in which the Olympic record was not reached.

For the first time, an athlete who did not come from the USA won the high jump.
Duncan McNaughton won the first Canadian medal in the high jump.
Simeon Toribio won the first medal in athletics for his country, the Philippines.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic Champion Duncan McNaughton (CAN)

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  The Frenchman Claude Ménard came in ninth.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 238

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed September 18, 2017
• Official report pp. 443–444, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 18, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 554 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)