1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	8 athletes from 4 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 3, 1932
Medalist Bill Miller ( USA )   Nishida Shūhei ( JPN )   George Jefferson ( USA )

The men's pole vault at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 3, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . Eight athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the US-American Bill Miller ahead of the Japanese Nishida Shūhei . George Jefferson (USA) won the bronze medal.

Existing records

• World record : 4.37 m - William Graber ( USA ), Palo Alto , July 16, 1932
• Olympic record : 4.20 m - Sabin Carr ( USA ), Amsterdam final , August 1, 1928

Conducting the competition

As there were only eight athletes at the start, there was no qualification in this discipline, just like in the high jump . All jumpers competed in the final on August 3rd. There was not yet a rule of multiple attempts or failed attempts.

Bottom line

Nishida Shūhei (JPN) won the silver medal.

Date: August 3, 1932

The only favorites for the pole vault were the US athletes, above all William Graber, who had won his country's Olympic qualification with the world record height of 4.37 m. Second there was William Miller with 4.31 m. But things didn't look too good for Graber, Miller, and George Jefferson, the third US jumper, as the competition progressed. At 4.15 m, Graber and Miller each needed three attempts, Graber was eliminated at the next height of 4.20 m, and Jefferson, who won bronze with this 4.20 m, finished at 4.25 m. The Japanese Nishida Shūhei improved significantly and became a great opponent for Miller in the fight for the gold medal. Both Nishida and Miller jumped the next four feet. Only at 4.32 m, which Miller conquered, the Japanese had to pass. At the world record height of 4.38 m, which Miller had now set, he failed three times. His skipped 4.32 m turned out to be 4.315 m when measuring.

The sources contradict each other in detail for some heights. The contemporary literature "Olympia 1932", Reemtsma-Bilderalbum notes that they were corrected downwards by 2 centimeters by re-measurement.

Miller won the tenth US gold medal in the ninth Olympic pole vault competition - in 1908 there were two US winners.

Nishida Shūhei won the first Japanese medal in the pole vault.

space	Surname	nation	height	3.75 m	3.90 m	4.00 m	4.15 m	4.20 m	4.25 m	4.30 m	4,315 m	4.38 m	annotation
1	Bill Miller	United States	4,315 m	-	-	-	xxo	O	O	O	xxo	xxx	OR
2	Nishida Shuhei	Japan	4,300 m	-	-	-	O	xo	xxo	xxo	xxx
3	George Jefferson	United States	4,200 m	-	-	-	-	O	xxx
4th	William Graber	United States	4.150 m	-	-	-	xxo	xxx
5	Shizuo Mochizuki	Japan	4,000 m	-	-	O	xxx
6th	Lúcio de Castro	Brazil	3,900 m	-	O	xxx
7th	Petros Chlentzos	Greece	3,750 m	O	xxx
ogV	Carlos Nelli	Brazil		xxx

literature

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

Web links

• SportsReference Pole Vault , accessed September 18, 2017
• Official report pp. 449-450, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 18, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 555 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)