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