1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	36 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 20, 1952
Medalist Walt Davis ( USA )   Ken Wiesner ( USA )   José Telles da Conceição ( BRA )

The men's high jump at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki was held on July 20, 1952. 36 athletes took part in the first athletics decision of this Summer Olympic Games.

The American Walt Davis became Olympic champion . He won ahead of his compatriot Ken Wiesner and the Brazilian José Telles da Conceição .

Existing records

World record	2.11 m	Lester Steers ( USA )	Los Angeles , USA	June 17, 1941
Olympic record	2.03 m	Cornelius Johnson ( USA )	Berlin , Germany	August 2, 1936

Conducting the competition

The participants competed in two qualifying rounds on July 20, the qualifying height was 1.87 meters. All qualified jumpers contested the final on the same day.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

July 20, 10 a.m .: Qualification
July 20, 3 p.m .: Final

qualification

Date: July 20, 1952, 10:00 a.m.

The order of the test series is unknown.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
01	Claude Bénard	France	1.87 m
	Arnold Betton	United States
	Georges Mitio	France
	Walt Davis	United States
	Téofilo Davis	Venezuela
	Jacques Delelienne	Belgium
	Mihajlo Dimitrijević	Yugoslavia
	Bjørn Gundersen	Norway
	Boniface Guobadia	Nigeria
	Pekka straws	Finland
	Yuri Ilyasov	Soviet Union
	Albert Koskinen	Finland
	Patrick Leane	Australia
14th	Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam	Ceylon	1.84 m
	Andrés Franco	Philippines
	Walter Herssens	Belgium
17th	Hércules Azcune	Uruguay	1.80 m
	Ernesto Lagos	Chile
19th	Arieh Batun-Kleinstub	Israel	1.70 m

With Téofilo Davis a track and field athlete from Venezuela took part in the Olympic Games for the first time.

Arieh Batun-Kleinstub was Israel's first athlete to compete in the Olympic Games.

Group B

space	Surname	nation	height	annotation
01	José Telles da Conceição	Brazil	1.87 m
	Birger Leirud	Norway
	Arne Ljungqvist	Sweden
	Josiah Majekodunmi	Nigeria
	Nafiu Osagie	Nigeria
	James Owoo	Gold coast
	Alan Paterson	Great Britain
	Ron Pavitt	Great Britain
	Ioan Soter	Romania
	Maram Sudarmodjo	Indonesia
	Gosta Svensson	Sweden
	Hans Wahli	Switzerland
	Yevgeny Vansovich	Soviet Union
	Peter Wells	Great Britain
	Ken Wiesner	United States
16	Mehnga Singh	India	1.70 m
	Emad El-Din Shafei	Egypt

Maram Sudarmodjo was the first athlete from Indonesia to take part in the Olympic Games.

final

space	Surname	nation	1.70 m	1.80 m	1.90 m	1.95 m	1.98 m	2.01 m	2.04 m	2.07 m	result	annotation
1	Walt Davis	United States	-	O	O	O	O	O	O	xxx	2.04 m	OR
2	Ken Wiesner	United States	-	O	O	x-	O	O	xxx		2.01 m
3	José Telles da Conceição	Brazil	-	O	O	O	O	xxx			1.98 m
4th	Gosta Svensson	Sweden	-	-	O	-	xx o	xxx			1.98 m
5	Ron Pavitt	Great Britain	O	O	O	O	xxx				1.95 m
6th	Ioan Soter	Romania	-	-	O	x o	xxx				1.95 m
7th	Arnold Betton	United States	-	O	O	x o	xxx				1.95 m
8th	Bjørn Gundersen	Norway	-	-	O	xxx					1.90 m
9	Jacques Delelienne	Belgium	-	O	O	xxx					1.90 m
	Josiah Majekodunmi	Nigeria
11	Pekka straws	Finland	O	O	O	xxx					1.90 m
	Peter Wells	Great Britain
13	Georges Mitio	France	-	xo	O	xxx					1.90 m
	Yuri Ilyasov	Soviet Union
15th	Arne Ljungqvist	Sweden	-	-	xx o	xxx					1.90 m
16	Hans Wahli	Switzerland	-	O	x o	xxx					1.90 m
17th	Birger Leirud	Norway	-	-	xx o	xxx					1.90 m
18th	Claude Bénard	France	-	O	xx o	xxx					1.90 m
	Nafiu Osagie	Nigeria
20th	Mihajlo Dimitrijević	Yugoslavia	-	O	xxx						1.80 m
	Boniface Guobadia	Nigeria
	James Owoo	Gold coast
	Maram Sudarmodjo	Indonesia
24	Téofilo Davis	Venezuela	O	O	xxx						1.80 m
	Albert Koskinen	Finland
	Patrick Leane	Australia
	Alan Paterson	Great Britain
28	Yevgeny Vansovich	Soviet Union	-	x o	xxx						1.80 m

Date: July 20, 1952, 3 p.m.

The top favorites were the two US jumpers Walt Davis and Ken Wiesner, who jumped in the straddle technique . Both crossed all heights up to 2.01 m in the first attempt, except the 1.70 m, which both left out. Davis also managed 2.04 m in the first attempt, while Wiesner failed at this height. The 2.07 m was then too high for Davis. Third place went to the Brazilian José Telles da Conceição with a jump of 1.98 m.

José Telles da Conceição won the first high jump medal for Brazil.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 89f

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed September 27, 2017
• Official report p. 308f, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 27, 2017
• Walter Davis 1952 Olympics , published July 4, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed September 27, 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. 266, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)