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