1956 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Pole vault | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 19 athletes from 12 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Melbourne Cricket Ground | ||||||||
Competition phase | November 24, 1956 (qualification) November 26, 1956 (final) |
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The men's pole vault at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne was held on November 24 and 26, 1956 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground . 19 athletes took part.
The American Bob Richards became Olympic champion . He won ahead of his compatriot Bob Gutowski and the Greek Georgios Roumbanis .
Swiss and Austrian athletes did not take part. The only German participant was Manfred Preußger , who finished the competition in eighth place.
Existing records
World record | 4.77 m | Cornelius Warmerdam ( USA ) | Modesto , USA | May 23, 1942 |
Olympic record | 4.55 m | Bob Richards ( USA ) | Helsinki Final , Finland | July 22, 1952 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a qualifying round on November 24th. The required qualification height was 4.15 m. For all qualified jumpers the final took place on November 26th.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
Time schedule
November 24, 10 a.m .: Qualification
November 26, 1.30 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are local Melbourne time (UTC + 10)
qualification
Date: November 24, 1956, 10:00 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 3.70 m | 3.85 m | 4.00 m | 4.15 m | height | annotation |
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1 | George Mattos | United States | - | O | - | O | 4.15 m | |
2 | Vladimir Bulatov | Soviet Union | - | O | O | O | 4.15 m | |
Giulio Chiesa | Italy | |||||||
Zbigniew Janiszewski | Poland | |||||||
5 | Ragnar Lundberg | Sweden | O | O | O | O | 4.15 m | |
Georgios Roumbanis | Greece | |||||||
7th | Bob Gutowski | United States | xo | - | - | O | 4.15 m | |
8th | Anatoly Petrov | Soviet Union | - | O | xo | O | 4.15 m | |
Vitaly Chernobai | Soviet Union | - | xo | O | O | |||
Zenon Ważny | Poland | |||||||
11 | Bob Richards | United States | - | O | xxo | O | 4.15 m | |
12 | Eeles Landström | Finland | -O | O | O | x o | 4.15 m | |
Manfred Preussger | Germany | O | O | O | x o | |||
Matti Sutinen | Finland | |||||||
15th | Allah Ditta | Pakistan | - | xxo | x o | xxx | 4.00 m | |
16 | Rolando Cruz | Puerto Rico | O | O | xx o | xxx | 4.00 m | |
17th | Bruce Peever | Australia | O | O | xxx | 3.85 m | ||
18th | Peter Denton | Australia | -xo | O | xxx | 3.85 m | ||
ogV | Victor Sillon | France | - | x-- | without height |
final
space | Surname | nation | 4.00 m | 4.15 m | 4.25 m | 4.35 m | 4.40 m | 4.45 m | 4.50 m | 4.53 m | 4.56 m | 4.59 m | result | annotation |
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1 | Bob Richards | United States | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 4.56 m | OR |
2 | Bob Gutowski | United States | O | O | O | xo | xo | xxo | O | O | xxx | 4.53 m | ||
3 | Georgios Roumbanis | Greece | O | O | xo | xo | O | O | O | xxx | 4.50 m | |||
4th | George Mattos | United States | O | - | O | O | xxx | 4.35 m | ||||||
5 | Ragnar Lundberg | Sweden | O | - | O | xxx | 4.25 m | |||||||
6th | Zenon Ważny | Poland | O | O | O | xxx | 4.25 m | |||||||
7th | Eeles Landström | Finland | O | - | x o | xxx | 4.25 m | |||||||
8th | Manfred Preussger | Germany | O | xo | x o | xxx | 4.25 m | |||||||
9 | Vladimir Bulatov | Soviet Union | xo | O | xxx | 4.15 m | ||||||||
Giulio Chiesa | Italy | |||||||||||||
11 | Anatoly Petrov | Soviet Union | O | x o | xxx | 4.15 m | ||||||||
12 | Zbigniew Janiszewski | Poland | xo | x o | xxx | 4.15 m | ||||||||
13 | Vitaly Chernobai | Soviet Union | O | xxx | 4.00 m | |||||||||
ogV | Matti Sutinen | Finland | xxx | without height |
Date: November 26, 1956, 1:30 p.m.
The favorite was defending champion Bob Richards, who had slight problems in qualifying. The Swede Ragnar Lundberg and the Finn Eeles Landström were also highly rated. But the two Scandinavians were eliminated early at 4.25 m. Only Richards, his compatriots Bob Gutowski and George Mattos and the Greek Georgios Roumbanis were still in the race. Mattos failed at 4.40 m, which his opponents were able to cross. Richards, Gutowski and Roumbanis also stayed at 4.45 m and 4.50 m. Roumbanis, who had surprisingly come this far, had to end the competition only at 4.53 m. Gutowski then failed at 4.56 m, which Richards jumped over in the second attempt. However, he also failed at 4.59 m. Richards improved his own Olympic record by one centimeter, but Cornelius Warmerdam's world record from 1942 was another 21 centimeters higher.
At these Olympic Games, completely unnoticed by most of the people, a fiberglass rod was used for the first time in a major event. The Greek bronze medalist Georgios Roumbanis experimented with this new type of rod and it is not entirely understandable why this new type of material initially disappeared again. Only after the Olympic Games in 1960 did fiberglass rods gain unstoppable worldwide acceptance and it was only through their use that Warmerdam's ancient world record fell.
In the 13th Olympic final, Richards jumped to the 14th gold medal for the USA - in 1908 there were two winners, both 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. 140f
Web links
- SportsReference pole vault
- Official report p. 330f, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2017
- Melbourne 1956 Official Olympic Film - Part 5 | Olympic History , range 1:36 min - 5:39 min, published on July 22, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on October 5, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( 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. 330, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
- ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 140