1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Pole vault | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 26 athletes from 17 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Helsinki Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 21, 1952 (qualification) July 22, 1952 (final) |
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The men's pole vault at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki was held on July 21 and 22, 1952. 26 athletes took part.
The American Bob Richards became Olympic champion . He won ahead of his compatriot Don Laz and the Swede Ragnar Lundberg .
Existing records
World record | 4.77 m |
Cornelius Warmerdam ( USA )
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Modesto , USA | May 23, 1942 |
Olympic record | 4.35 m |
Earle Meadows ( USA )
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Berlin , Germany | August 5, 1936 |
Conducting the competition
On July 21, the participants competed in two qualifying rounds, the qualifying height was 4.00 meters. All qualified jumpers entered the final on July 22nd.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
Time schedule
July 21: Qualification
July 22, 3 p.m .: Final
qualification
Date: July 21, 1952, 10 a.m. The order of the test series is unknown.
Group A
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1 | Theodosios Balafas |
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4.00 m | |
Volodymyr Braschnyk |
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Torfi Bryngeirsson |
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Petro Denyssenko |
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Zeno Dragomir |
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Rigas Efstathiadis |
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Tamás Homonnay |
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8th | Walter Hofstetter |
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3.90 m | |
9 | Tim Anderson |
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3.80 m | |
Geoff Elliott |
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11 | Hélcio da Silva |
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3.60 m | |
Gamal El-Din El-Sherbini |
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Group B
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1 | Erling Kaas |
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4.00 m | |
Erkki Kataja |
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Viktor Knyazev |
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Don Laz |
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Lennart Lind |
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Ragnar Lundberg |
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George Mattos |
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Milan Milakov |
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Valto Olenius |
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Jukka Piironen |
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Bob Richards |
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Bunkichi Sawada |
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13 | Ron Miller |
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3.90 m | |
14th | Zenon Ważny |
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3.80 m | |
ogV | Georgios Roumbanis |
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without height | |
José Vicente |
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final
space | Surname | nation | 3.60 m | 3.80 m | 3.95 m | 4.10 m | 4.20 m | 4.30 m | 4.40 m | 4.50 m | 4.55 m | 4.60 m | result | annotation |
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1 | Bob Richards |
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- | - | O | O | O | O | O | xo | xx o | xxx | 4.55 m | OR |
2 | Don Laz |
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- | - | O | O | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 4.50 m | ||
3 | Ragnar Lundberg |
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- | - | O | - | O | xo | O | xxx | 4.40 m | |||
4th | Petro Denyssenko |
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- | - | O | O | xo | O | O | xxx | 4.40 m | |||
5 | Valto Olenius |
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- | - | - | O | xo | x o | xxx | 4.30 m | ||||
6th | Bunkichi Sawada |
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- | O | xxo | O | O | xxx | 4.20 m | |||||
7th | Volodymyr Braschnyk |
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- | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 4.20 m | |||||
8th | Viktor Knyazev |
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- | O | O | xo | x o | xxx | 4.20 m | |||||
9 | George Mattos |
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- | - | O | xo | xx o | xxx | 4.20 m | |||||
10 | Erkki Kataja |
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- | - | O | O | xxx | 4.10 m | ||||||
11 | Tamás Homonnay |
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- | O | O | O | xxx | 4.10 m | ||||||
Lennart Lind |
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13 | Milan Milakov |
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- | O | xo | x o | xxx | 4.10 m | ||||||
14th | Torfi Bryngeirsson |
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- | O | O | xxx | 3.95 m | |||||||
Rigas Efstathiadis |
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16 | Erling Kaas |
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- | O | xxx | 3.80 m | ||||||||
17th | Theodosios Balafas |
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O | O | xxx | 3.80 m | ||||||||
18th | Zeno Dragomir |
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- | x o | xxx | 3.80 m | ||||||||
Jukka Piironen |
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Date: July 22, 1952, 3 p.m.
The 1948 bronze medal winner, Bob Richards of the USA, was considered the favorite in the 19-man final. He and his teammate Don Laz were the only ones who came up to and including 4.40 m without unsuccessful attempts. The Swede Ragnar Lundberg and Petro Denyssenko from the Soviet Union each had a failed attempt. The last two jumpers named had to pass at 4.50 m. Lundberg was awarded the bronze medal due to the multiple attempts rule - he had made a total of one jump less than Denisenko. Richards and Laz both crossed the 4.50 m height on the second attempt. At 4.55 m, Laz tore the bar three times and thus remained on the silver rank, because Richards crossed the height on the third attempt.
He missed Cornelius Warmerdam's world record by 22 centimeters, but set a new Olympic record .
In the twelfth Olympic final, Bob Richards won the 13th gold medal for the USA - in 1908 there were two Olympic champions from the USA.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 90f
Web links
- SportsReference pole vault , accessed September 27, 2017
- Official report p. 311f, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 27, 2017
- Bob Richards 1952 Olympics , published July 4, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed September 27, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 555 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Official report p. 266, engl. (PDF)
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)