1956 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 19 countries
Competition location	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Competition phase	November 23, 1956
Medalist Charles Dumas ( USA )   Chilla Porter ( AUS )   Igor Kashkarow ( URS )

The men's high jump at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne was played on November 23, 1956 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground . 28 athletes took part in the first athletics decision of these games.

The American Charles Dumas became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Australian Chilla Porter and Igor Kaschkarow from the Soviet Union.

Swiss, Austrian and German athletes did not take part.

Existing records

World record	2.15 m	Charles Dumas ( USA )	Los Angeles , USA	June 29, 1956
Olympic record	2.04 m	Walt Davis ( USA )	Helsinki , Finland	July 20, 1952

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on November 23. The required qualification height was 1.92 m. For all qualified jumpers the final took place in the afternoon of the same day.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

November 23, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
November 23, 2:30 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local Melbourne time (UTC + 10)

qualification

Bengt Nilsson (SWE), European Champion from 1954 , failed in the qualification.

space	Surname	nation	1.70 m	1.78 m	1.82 m	1.88 m	1.92 m	height	annotation
1	Igor Kashkarov	Soviet Union	-	-	-	-	O	1.92 m
	Volodymyr Sitkin	Soviet Union
3	Maurice Fournier	France	-	-	O	-	O	1.92 m
4th	Julius Chigbolu	Nigeria	O	-	O	-	O	1.92 m
	Charles Dumas	United States	O	-	-	O	O
	Chilla Porter	Australia
7th	Patrick Etolu	Uganda	O	O	-	O	O	1.92 m
	Stig Pettersson	Sweden	-	O	O	O	O
	Phil Reavis	United States	O	-	O	O	O
	Peter Wells	Great Britain
	Vern Wilson	United States
	Yang Chuan-Kwang	Taiwan
13	Yukio Ishikawa	Japan	O	O	O	O	O	1.92 m
	Joseph Leresae	Kenya
	Ajit Singh Balla	India
16	Colin Ridgeway	Australia	O	-	xo	-	O	1.92 m
17th	Ken Money	Canada	xo	O	-	O	O	1.92 m
18th	José Telles da Conceição	Brazil	O	xo	O	O	O	1.92 m
19th	Ernle Haisley	Jamaica	O	-	-	xxo	O	1.92 m
20th	Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam	Ceylon	O	-	O	O	x o	1.92 m
21st	Ciriaco Baronda	Philippines	O	O	O	O	x o	1.92 m
22nd	Vincent Gabriel	Nigeria	O	-	-	xxo	x o	1.92 m
23	Gianmario Roveraro	Italy	O	-	O	O	xxx	1.88 m
24	John Vernon	Australia	O	O	O	x--		1.82 m
	Maridjo Wirjodimedjo	Indonesia	O	O	O	xxx
26th	Bengt Nilsson	Sweden	xo	xo	x o	-	xxx	1.82 m
27	I Gusti Putu Oka Mona	Indonesia	-	O	xx o	x--		1.82 m
ogV	Vladimir Polyakov	Soviet Union	-	-	-	-	xxx		without height

Date: November 23, 1956, 10:00 a.m.

Patrick Etolu was the first athlete to compete for Uganda at the Olympic Games.

Yang Chuan-Kwang was the first Taiwanese athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. He also competed in the decathlon and finished eighth there. At the following Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , he even won the silver medal in the decathlon.

final

space	Surname	nation	1.80 m	1.86 m	1.92 m	1.96 m	2.00 m	2.03 m	2.06 m	2.08 m	2.10 m	2.12 m	2.14 m	result	annotation
1	Charles Dumas	United States	-	-	O	O	O	xo	O	O	xo	xx o	xx-	2.12 m	OR
2	Chilla Porter	Australia	O	-	O	O	O	O	O	xo	xx o	xxx		2.10 m
3	Igor Kashkarov	Soviet Union	-	-	O	O	O	O	O	O	xxx			2.08 m
4th	Stig Pettersson	Sweden	-	-	O	O	O	O	xx o	xxx				2.06 m
5	Ken Money	Canada	-	-	O	O	O	x o	xxx					2.03 m
6th	Volodymyr Sitkin	Soviet Union	O	O	O	O	O	x o	xxx					2.03 m
7th	Phil Reavis	United States	-	O	O	O	O	xxx						2.00 m
	Colin Ridgeway	Australia	O	-	O	O	O	xxx
9	Julius Chigbolu	Nigeria	-	xo	xxo	xo	O	xxx						2.00 m
10	Vern Wilson	United States	-	O	O	O	x o	xxx						2.00 m
11	Maurice Fournier	France	-	-	O	O	xxx							1.96 m
12	Patrick Etolu	Uganda	-	O	O	O	xxx							1.96 m
	Yukio Ishikawa	Japan
14th	Ajit Singh Balla	India	O	O	O	O	xxx							1.96 m
15th	Ernle Haisley	Jamaica	O	-	O	x o	xxx							1.96 m
16	Peter Wells	Great Britain	O	O	xo	x o	xxx							1.96 m
17th	Ciriaco Baronda	Philippines	-	O	x o	xxx								1.92 m
18th	Joseph Leresae	Kenya	O	O	x o	xxx								1.92 m
19th	Vincent Gabriel	Nigeria	O	O	xx o	xxx								1.92 m
20th	Yang Chuan-Kwang	Taiwan	-	O	xxx									1.86 m
21st	José Telles da Conceição	Brazil	O	O	xxx									1.86 m
	Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam	Ceylon

Date: November 23, 1956, 2:30 p.m.

The dominant nation in the high jump was the USA. In particular, world record holder Charles Dumas was considered a top favorite. The only dangerous competitor was seen in Bengt Nilsson, the Swedish European champion from 1954 . But Nilsson sustained an injury shortly before the games. With this handicap, he did not make it to the qualification level.

The final was top notch. The first four all skipped the current Olympic record . Between Dumas and the Australian Chilla Porter, who surprisingly and to the delight of the local spectators failed to make any attempts up to 2.06 m, there was a decisive battle for victory. Up to and including 2.08 m, however, the Soviet athlete Igor Kaschkarow was ahead, who had jumped all heights he had approached in the first attempt. The Swede Stig Pettersson finished with 2.08 m and he stayed fourth. Only Dumas then mastered the 2.10 m in the second and Porter in the third attempt. Porter was then eliminated at 2.12 m, Dumas overcame the height in the third attempt. After two failed attempts over 2.14 m, he ended the competition because of the rising darkness.

In the 13th Olympic final, Charles Dumas jumped to the eleventh US victory.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 139f

Web links

• SportsReference high jump
• Official report pp. 326–337, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2017
• Olimpiadii melbourne 1956 alto charlie Dumas 1 usa Chilla porter 2 australia , published February 18, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed October 5, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 554 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report p. 284, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2017
3. ↑ Official report p. 326, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)