1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | high jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 39 athletes from 26 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estadio Olímpico Universitario | ||||||||
Competition phase | October 19, 1968 (qualification) October 20, 1968 (final) |
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The men's high jump at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City was held on October 19 and 20, 1968 in the Estadio Olímpico Universitario . 39 athletes took part.
The American Dick Fosbury became Olympic champion . Silver won his compatriot Ed Caruthers , bronze went to Valentin Gawrilow from the Soviet Union.
The high jump competition became known through the new jumping technique of the winner. Dick Fosbury won the gold medal with the Fosbury flop named after him .
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Gunther Spielvogel , Ingomar Sieghart and Thomas Zacharias started . While Zacharias failed at the qualification level, Spielvogel and Sieghart qualified for the final. Spielvogel was seventh, Sieghart ninth.
Michel Portmann and Thomas Wieser represented Switzerland. Both failed in qualification.
High jumpers from the GDR - officially East Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 2.28 m |
Valery Brumel ( Soviet Union )
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Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia ) | July 21, 1963 |
Olympic record | 2.18 m |
Valery Brumel ( Soviet Union )
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Tokyo finals , Japan | October 21, 1964 |
John Thomas ( USA )
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Conducting the competition
The jumpers competed in two groups for a qualifying round on October 19. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final on October 20 was 2.14 m. Since fewer than twelve athletes jumped this height, the final field was filled up to twelve participants according to the next best heights.
Time schedule
October 19, 10 a.m .: Qualification
October 20, 2.30 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are Mexico City local time ( UTC −6)
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the following athletes in light green.
qualification
Date: October 19, 1968, from 10 a.m.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1.80 m | 1.85 m | 1.90 m | 1.95 m | 2.00 m | 2.03 m | 2.06 m | 2.09 m | 2.12 m | 2.14 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Dick Fosbury |
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- | - | - | - | - | O | - | O | - | O | 2.14 | |
2 | Ed Caruthers |
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- | - | - | - | - | O | O | - | O | O | 2.14 | |
3 | Valery Skvortsov |
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- | - | - | - | O | - | O | O | xo | O | 2.14 | |
4th | Lawrie Peckham |
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- | - | - | O | O | - | O | O | O | x o | 2.14 | |
5 | Miodrag Todosijević |
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- | - | - | - | O | - | O | O | O | xxx | 2.12 | |
6th | Reynaldo Brown |
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- | - | - | - | - | - | xo | - | O | xxx | 2.12 | |
7th | Valentin Gavrilov |
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- | - | - | - | O | xo | O | O | O | xxx | 2.12 | |
8th | Robert Sainte-Rose |
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- | - | - | - | O | - | O | O | x o | xxx | 2.12 | |
9 | Gunther Spielvogel |
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- | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 2.12 | |
10 | Thomas Zacharias |
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- | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | xxx | 2.09 | ||
11 | Viktor Bolshov |
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- | - | - | - | O | - | xo | x o | xxx | 2.09 | ||
12 | Jaroslav Alexa |
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- | - | - | - | O | - | O | xx o | xxx | 2.09 | ||
Henry Elliott |
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14th | Rudolf Huebner |
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- | - | - | - | O | O | O | xxx | 2.06 | |||
Kenneth Lundmark |
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Tony Sneazwell |
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- | - | - | O | O | - | O | xxx | 2.06 | ||||
17th | Peter Boyce |
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- | - | - | O | xo | - | x o | xxx | 2.06 | |||
18th | Polde Milek |
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- | - | - | - | O | - | xxx | 2.00 |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1.80 m | 1.85 m | 1.90 m | 1.95 m | 2.00 m | 2.03 m | 2.06 m | 2.09 m | 2.12 m | 2.14 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Ahmed Senoussi |
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- | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | x o | 2.14 | |
2 | Giacomo Crosa |
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- | - | - | - | O | - | O | O | O | x o | 2.14 | |
3 | Ingomar Sieghart |
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- | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | O | xxx | 2.12 | |
4th | Luis María Garriga |
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- | - | - | xo | - | O | xo | O | O | xxx | 2.12 | |
5 | Kuniyoshi Sugioka |
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- | - | - | O | O | - | O | O | xxx | 2.09 | ||
6th | Bhim Singh |
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- | - | - | O | O | xo | O | x o | xxx | 2.09 | ||
7th | Ioannis Kousoulas |
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- | - | - | - | O | xo | O | xx o | xxx | 2.09 | ||
8th | Mohamet Idriss |
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- | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | xxx | 2.06 | ||
9 | Teodoro Palacios |
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- | - | - | O | - | O | O | xxx | 2.06 | |||
10 | Jón Ólafsson |
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- | - | - | O | xo | xxo | x o | xxx | 2.06 | |||
11 | Michel Portmann |
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- | - | - | - | O | - | xx o | xxx | 2.06 | |||
12 | Fernando Abugattas |
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- | - | - | - | xo | O | xxx | 2.03 | ||||
13 | Fernand Tovondray |
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- | - | - | O | xxo | O | xxx | 2.03 | ||||
14th | Thomas Wieser |
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- | - | - | O | O | x o | xxx | 2.03 | ||||
15th | Csaba Dosa |
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- | O | O | O | xxo | xx o | xxx | 2.03 | ||||
16 | Wilf Wedmann |
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- | - | - | - | O | - | xxx | 2.00 | ||||
17th | Roberto Abugattas |
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- | - | - | - | x o | - | xxx | 2.00 | ||||
18th | Anthony Balfour |
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- | O | O | O | xxx | 1.95 | ||||||
19th | Hong Son-long |
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O | O | xxo | O | xxx | 1.95 | ||||||
20th | Nurullah Candan |
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xxo | O | xxo | O | xxx | 1.95 | ||||||
21st | Marconi Turay |
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O | O | xx o | xxx | 1.90 |
final
Date: October 20, 1968, from 10 a.m.
The American Fosbury was not considered a favorite. Although he was able to win the US championship in 1968, he was behind his compatriots Ed Caruthers and Reynaldo Brown in the Olympic eliminations. But, of course, Fosbury's jumping style attracted a lot of attention. Jumping backwards over the bar with a quick run - that had never happened before at a major event and so all eyes were on Dick Fosbury and his "flop".
The final was marked by a number of failed attempts and again there was a duel between the USA and the USSR, this time with a different outcome than at the last two Olympic Games. Caruthers had difficulties at 2.14 m and 2.18 m, Skworzow at 2.12 m and 2.16 m. But the level of performance was significantly higher than four years ago in Tokyo , where 2.18 m was enough to win the Olympics. Three jumpers, Fosbury, Caruthers and Gawrilow, each managed 2.20 m in the first attempt. Brown was now eliminated at 2.18 m and was still fifth behind Skworzow. Gawrilow failed at 2.22 m, Fosbury took the height in the first, Caruthers in the second attempt. The 2.24 m was then too high for Caruthers, Fosbury crossed the bar on the third attempt, that was a new Olympic record . However, the new Olympic champion also failed at the new world record height of 2.29 m.
space | Surname | nation | 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 | 2.22 m | 2.24 m | 2.29 m | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Dick Fosbury |
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- | O | - | O | - | O | - | O | O | O | xx o | xxx | 2.24 | OR |
2 | Ed Caruthers |
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- | - | - | O | - | xxo | - | xxo | O | x o | xxx | 2.22 | ||
3 | Valentin Gavrilov |
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O | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | O | xxx | 2.20 | |||
4th | Valery Skvortsov |
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- | O | xo | O | xxo | O | xx o | xxx | 2.16 | |||||
5 | Reynaldo Brown |
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- | O | - | O | - | O | - | xxx | 2.14 | |||||
6th | Giacomo Crosa |
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O | - | xo | O | O | O | xxx | 2.14 | ||||||
7th | Gunther Spielvogel |
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- | - | O | O | xxo | x o | xxx | 2.14 | ||||||
8th | Lawrie Peckham |
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- | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 2.12 | |||||||
9 | Robert Sainte-Rose |
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O | - | O | O | xxx | 2.09 | ||||||||
Ingomar Sieghart |
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- | O | O | O | xxx | ||||||||||
11 | Luis María Garriga |
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O | - | xo | O | xxx | 2.09 | ||||||||
12 | Ahmed Senoussi |
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- | - | xo | xx o | xxx | 2.09 | ||||||||
13 | Miodrag Todosijević |
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O | - | O | xxx | 2.06 |
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 356–358
Video
- Mexico 1968 high jump final (Fosbury 2.24m Ed charuters 2.22m) .wmv , published August 1, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed November 8, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference high jump , accessed November 8, 2017
- Official report - summary p. 86f, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 8, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1968 p. 526, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 8, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 554 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) retrieved on November 8, 2017
- ↑ Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 11, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 8, 2017
- ↑ a b Official Report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 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. 526, engl./frz. (PDF), accessed on November 8, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 8, 2017