1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	40 athletes from 23 countries
Competition location	Olympiastadion Berlin
Competition phase	August 2, 1936
Medalist Cornelius Johnson ( USA ) Dave Albritton ( USA ) Delos Thurber ( USA )
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The men's high jump at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 2, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. Forty athletes took part.

The US team was able to record a triple victory. Cornelius Johnson won the gold medal, silver went to Dave Albritton and bronze to Delos Thurber .

Existing records

• World record : 2.07 m - Cornelius Johnson and Dave Albritton (both USA ), New York , July 12, 1936
• Olympic record : 1.98 m - Harold Osborn ( USA ), Olympic final in Paris , July 7, 1924

Conducting the competition

The athletes began with a qualifying round in two groups. The jumpers who were able to jump the 1.85 m required here were qualified for the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, 1.94 m had to be crossed to get into the final. All three partial competitions took place on August 2nd.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The order and height of the trial series in the qualifying round are not known.

qualification

August 2, 1936, 10.30 a.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, 18 ° C, wind speed approx. 1.6 m / s.

Group 1

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
1	Dave Albritton	United States	1.85 m
	Mihály Bodosi	Hungary
	Reinds brasser	Netherlands
	Günther Gehmert	German Empire
	Aksel Kuuse	Estonia
	Poul Otto	Denmark
	Veikko Peräsalo	Finland
	Jerzy Pławczyk	Poland
	Simeon Toribio	Philippines
	Yada Kimio	Japan
11	Robert Kennedy	Great Britain	1.80 m
	Alfredo Mendes	Brazil
	Svend Aage Thomsen	Denmark
14th	Břetislav Krátký	Czechoslovakia	1.70 m
	Hans Martens	German Empire
	Hans Mohr	Yugoslavia
	Fritz Neuruhrer	Austria
	Zdeněk Sobotka	Czechoslovakia
	Stan West	Great Britain

Group 2

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
1	Asakuma Yoshirō	Japan	1.85 m
	Rudolf Eggenberg	Switzerland
	Joseph Haley	Canada
	Cornelius Johnson	United States
	Lauri Kalima	Finland
	Kalevi Kotkas	Finland
	Jack Metcalfe	Australia
	Åke Ödmark	Sweden
	Tanaka Hiroshi	Japan
	Edwin Thacker	South African Union
	Delos Thurber	United States
	Gustav Weinkötz	German Empire
13	Ícaro Mello	Brazil	1.80 m
	Jack Newman	Great Britain
15th	Gerard Carlier	Netherlands	1.80 m
	Fritz Flachberger	Austria
	Edvard Natvig	Norway
	Sigurður Sigurðsson	Iceland
19th	Karol Hoffmann	Poland	1.70 m
	Konstantinos Pantazis	Greece
21st	Wu Bixian	China	1.70 m

Semifinals

August 2, 1936, 3 p.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, 18 to 19 ° C, wind speed around 2.3 m / s.

space	Surname	nation	1.70 m	1.80 m	1.85 m	1.90 m	1.94 m	height	annotation
1	Dave Albritton	United States	O	xo	O	O	O	1.94 m
	Cornelius Johnson	United States	O	O	O	O	O
	Tanaka Hiroshi	Japan	O	O	O	O	O
	Delos Thurber	United States	O	-	O	O	O
	Yada Kimio	Japan	O	O	O	O	O
6th	Asakuma Yoshirō	Japan	O	O	O	O	xo	1.94 m
	Lauri Kalima	Japan	O	O	O	O	xo
8th	Kalevi Kotkas	Finland	-	O	-	O	xxo	1.94 m
	Gustav Weinkötz	German Empire	O	O	xo	O	xxo
10	Günther Gehmert	German Empire	-	xo	O	xxo	xxx	1.90 m
	Aksel Kuuse	Estonia	O	O	O	xxo	xxx
12	Reinds brasser	Netherlands	O	O	O	xxx		1.85 m
	Joseph Haley	Canada	-	xo	O	xxx
	Jack Metcalfe	Australia	O	O	O	xxx
	Åke Ödmark	Sweden	O	O	O	xxx
	Edwin Thacker	South African Union	O	O	O	xxx
	Simeon Toribio	Philippines	O	xo	O	xxx
	Poul Otto	Denmark	O	xo	O	xxx
	Mihály Bodosi	Hungary	O	O	xxo	xxx
	Rudolf Eggenberg	Switzerland	-	O	xxo	xxx
	Veikko Peräsalo	Finland	xo	O	xxo	xxx
22nd	Jerzy Pławczyk	Poland	O	O	xxx			1.80 m

final

August 2, 1936, 5.30 p.m.
Weather conditions: overcast, 18 to 19 ° C, tail wind at approx. 2.3 m / s.

The top favorite was the US world record co-owner Cornelius Johnson. The second world record holder Dave Albritton - both had jumped 2.07 m - was there in Berlin . Johnson was the only one to jump the Olympic record height of 2.03 m and thus won the gold medal. However, he failed at the new world record height of 2.08 m.
Since there was no multiple or failed attempt rule, a jump-off between Albritton, Kalevi Kotkas and Delos Thurber had to decide for places two to four. The bar was set at 2.00 meters, but none of the jumpers could cross this height. Then the athletes tried their hand at 1.95 m. Albritton and Thurber made it up, Kotkas tore and finished fourth. At 1.97 m, Thurber broke the bar while Albritton made it to the top and won silver. According to today's rules, Thurber would have been second, Kotkas and Albritton would have shared bronze.
A jump-off was also held for places six to nine. The two Japanese Asakuma Yoshiro and Tanaka Hiroshi met the German Gustav Weinkötz and the Lauri Finn Kalima. None of the jumpers crossed the height of 1.97 m. It was agreed that the jump-off would be stopped and all jumpers ranked sixth.

A racist scandal caused by the ideology of the National Socialists occurred when the award ceremony was about to take place. Adolf Hitler refused to shake hands with the African-American gold medalist Cornelius Johnson. The IOC asked Hitler to either congratulate all the winners or not to anyone. Hitler decided not to give congratulations in the stadium in the future. It was later falsely reported that Hitler refused to shake hands with four-time Olympic champion Jesse Owens . In fact, it was Cornelius Johnson, which does not make this act appear in a better light.

Cornelius Johnson won the ninth gold medal for the USA in the tenth Olympic final.
Of the thirty high jump medals awarded to date, US athletes alone have won nineteen.

space	Surname	nation	1.97 m	2.00 m	2.03	2.08 m	height	annotation
1	Cornelius Johnson	United States	O	O	O	xxx	2.03 m	OR
2	Dave Albritton	United States	xo	xxo	xxx		2.00 m	1.97 m in the jump-off with Thurber and Kotkas
3	Delos Thurber	United States	O	xo	xxx		2.00 m	1.95 m in the jump-off with Albritton and Kotkas
4th	Kalevi Kotkas	Finland	O	xxo	xxx		2.00 m	ogV in jump-off with Albritton and Thurber
5	Yada Kimio	Japan	O	xxx			1.97 m
6th	Asakuma Yoshirō	Japan	xxx				1.94 m	Sting between Kalima, Asakuma, Tanaka and Weinkötz canceled
	Lauri Kalima	Finland	xxx
	Tanaka Hiroshi	Japan	xxx
	Gustav Weinkötz	German Empire	xxx

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 266-268

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed September 21, 2017
• Official report pp. 664–665, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 21, 2017
• The high jump final at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin , published on April 17, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed on September 21, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 554 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official report p. 664, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)