1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 20, 1964 (qualification) October 21, 1964 (final)
Medalist Valery Brumel ( URS )   John Thomas ( USA )   John Rambo ( USA )

Award ceremony in the high jump: Gold for Waleri Brumel (URS), silver for John Thomas (USA), bronze for John Rambo (USA)

The men's high jump at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was held on October 20 and 21, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 28 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Valeri Brumel from the Soviet Union. He won ahead of the Americans John Thomas and John Rambo .

While jumpers from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part, three Germans started, all of whom made it to the qualification level and were in the final. Ralf Drecoll was sixth, Wolfgang Schillkowski seventeenth and Rudi Köppen nineteenth.

Existing records

World record	2.28 m	Valery Brumel ( Soviet Union )	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	July 21, 1963
Olympic record	2.16 m	Robert Shawlakadze ( Soviet Union )	Final of Rome , Italy	September 1, 1960
		Valery Brumel ( Soviet Union )

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on October 20. The required qualification height was 2.06 m. The final for all qualified jumpers took place on October 21st.

Time schedule

October 20, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification

October 21, 2 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

The best valid attempt is shown in bold.

The athletes qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Ed Caruthers (USA) qualified for the final and reached eighth place

The 1960 Olympic champion Robert Schawlakadse (URS) finished fifth in the final

Date: October 20, 1964, 10:00 a.m.

Weather conditions: rain, approx. 13-14 ° C, 85-90% humidity

space	Surname	nation	1.90 m	1.95 m	2.00 m	2.03 m	2.06 m	height	annotation
1	Robert Schawlakadze	Soviet Union	-	-	O	O	O	2.06 m
	Henri Elendé	Republic of the Congo	O	-	O	-	O
3	Edward Czernik	Poland	O	-	O	-	O	2.06 m
	Mahamat Idriss	Chad
	Valery Skvortsov	Soviet Union
6th	John Thomas	United States	-	-	xo	O	O	2.06 m
7th	Mauro Bogliatto	Italy	-	O	O	xo	O	2.06 m
8th	Ed Caruthers	United States	O	xo	O	O	O	2.06 m
	Lawrie Peckham	Australia	O	O	O	xo	O	2.06 m
	John Rambo	United States
11	Valery Brumel	Soviet Union	-	-	O	xxo	O	2.06 m
12	Evgeny Jordanov	Bulgaria	O	xo	xo	O	O	2.06 m
13	Stig Pettersson	Sweden	-	O	O	O	x o	2.06 m
14th	Kjell-Åke Nilsson	Sweden	-	O	xo	O	x o	2.06 m
	Tony Sneazwell	Australia	-	xo	O	O	x o
16	Wolfgang Schillkowski	Germany	O	O	O	xo	x o	2.06 m
17th	Samuel Igun	Nigeria	O	O	xo	xo	x o	2.06 m
18th	Rudi Köppen	Germany	-	xo	O	xxo	x o	2.06 m
19th	Ralf Drecoll	Germany	O	O	O	O	xx o	2.06 m
20th	Gordon Miller	Great Britain	O	O	xxo	xo	xx o	2.06 m
21st	Luis María Garriga	Spain	O	O	O	xx o	xxx	2.03 m
22nd	Henrik Hellén	Finland	O	O	O	xxx		2.00 m
	Robert Saint-Rose	France
24	Kuniyoshi Sugioka	Japan	O	xo	O	xxx		2.00 m
25th	Jón Ólafsson	Iceland	O	O	x o	xxx		2.00 m
26th	Roberto Abugattas	Peru	O	x o	xxx			1.95 m
27	Kinya Miyazaki	Japan	O	-	xxx			1.90 m
ogV	Katesepsawasdi Bhakdikul	Thailand	xxx						without height

final

Date: October 21, 1964, 2 p.m.

Weather conditions: rain, approx. 17–19 ° C, 78–83% humidity

The clear favorite was the Soviet jumper Valeri Brumel, world record holder , silver medalist from Rome in 1960 and European champion from 1962 . The challenger was John Thomas from the USA, who had competed as a favorite in Rome, but had 'only' won bronze there. His performances in the US Olympic eliminations were not particularly remarkable, but the conditions there had been poor.

The final was tight and high class. When the bar was set at 2.09 m, ten jumpers were still in the ranking. At the next height - 2.12 m - the field was halved. At 2.14 m the US jumper John Rambo took the lead, but was replaced by Brumel due to the rule of failure at 2.16 m. Brumel, Rambo and Thomas were the last remaining participants, they had all jumped 2.16 m. Rambo failed at the height of 2.18 m, which was taken by Brumel and Thomas in the first attempt. That was a new Olympic record . Both remaining jumpers, however, tore the height of 2.20 m three times. The lower number of failed attempts - there were two - brought Valeri Brumel the Olympic victory, John Thomas remained silver with four failed attempts and John Rambo won the bronze medal ahead of Stig Pettersson from Sweden and the 1960 Olympic champion Robert Schawlakadze from the USSR, both of whom Had skipped 14 m.

space	Surname	nation	1.90 m	1.95 m	2.00 m	2.03 m	2.06 m	2.09 m	2.12 m	2.14 m	2.16 m	2.18 m	2.20 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Valery Brumel	Soviet Union	-	-	O	O	O	O	O	xxo	O	O	xxx	2.18	OR
2	John Thomas	United States	-	-	O	O	O	O	xo	xxo	xo	O	xxx	2.18	OR
3	John Rambo	United States	-	-	O	O	O	O	xo	O	xx o	xxx		2.16
4th	Stig Pettersson	Sweden	-	-	O	-	O	O	xo	x o	xxx			2.14
5	Robert Schawlakadze	Soviet Union	-	-	-	O	O	O	O	xx o	xxx			2.14
6th	Ralf Drecoll	Germany	-	O	O	O	O	O	xxx					2.09
	Kjell-Åke Nilsson	Sweden
8th	Ed Caruthers	United States	-	-	O	O	xo	O	xxx					2.09
9	Mahamat Idriss	Chad	-	-	O	O	O	x o	xxx					2.09
10	Lawrie Peckham	Australia	O	O	O	O	O	x o	xxx					2.09
11	Edward Czernik	Poland	-	-	O	-	O	xxx						2.06
12	Evgeny Jordanov	Bulgaria	-	O	O	O	O	xxx						2.06
13	Tony Sneazwell	Australia	-	xo	O	xxo	O	xxx						2.06
14th	Valery Skvortsov	Soviet Union	-	O	O	O	xx o	xxx						2.06
15th	Samuel Igun	Nigeria	O	O	O	O	x o	xxx						2.06
16	Mauro Bogliatto	Italy	-	xo	O	O	x o	xxx						2.06
17th	Wolfgang Schillkowski	Germany	O	O	O	O	xx o	xxx						2.06
18th	Gordon Miller	Great Britain	O	O	O	O	xxx							2.03
19th	Rudi Köppen	Germany	O	O	O	xxx								2.00
20th	Henri Elendé	Republic of the Congo	O	-	xxx									1.90

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 272f

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed October 28, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 44f engl. (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 554 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) retrieved on October 28, 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017 
3. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 44 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017 
4. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 44f (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 28, 2017