1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | high jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 40 athletes from 26 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Munich | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 9, 1972 (qualification) September 10, 1972 (final) |
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The men's high jump at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 9 and 10, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. Forty athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Jüri Tarmak from the Soviet Union. The silver medal was won by Stefan Junge from the GDR, while the bronze went to the American Dwight Stones .
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Hermann Magerl and Ingomar Sieghart started . While Sieghart failed in the qualification, Magerl reached the final and finished fourth there.
Apart from the silver medalist Stefan Junge, no other jumpers from the GDR took part.
The Swiss Michel Patry was eliminated in the qualification.
Jumpers from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 2.29 m | Pat Matzdorf ( USA ) | Berkeley , USA | 3rd July 1971 |
Olympic record | 2.24 m | Dick Fosbury ( USA ) | Mexico City Final , Mexico | 20th October 1968 |
Conducting the competition
The jumpers competed in two groups for a qualifying round on September 9th. The qualification height for reaching the final on September 10th was 2.15 m. Since more than twelve athletes mastered this height, the final field did not have to be filled.
Time schedule
September 9, 10 a.m .: Qualification
September 10, 2:30 p.m .: Final
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
qualification
Date: September 9, 1972, from 10 a.m.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1.80 m | 1.90 m | 2.00 m | 2.06 m | 2.09 m | 2.12 m | 2.15 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Henry Elliott | France | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | 2.15 m | |
Dwight Stones | United States | ||||||||||
3 | Rustam Akhmetov | Soviet Union | - | - | O | O | O | O | O | 2.15 m | |
Jan Dahlgren | Sweden | ||||||||||
Șerban Ioan | Romania | ||||||||||
Istvan Major | Hungary | ||||||||||
Vasilios Papadimitriou | Greece | ||||||||||
Ádám Szepesi | Hungary | ||||||||||
Kęstutis Šapka | Soviet Union | ||||||||||
Jüri Tarmak | Soviet Union | ||||||||||
11 | Hermann Magerl | BR Germany | - | - | - | O | - | xo | O | 2.15 m | |
12 | Bernard Gauthier | France | - | - | O | O | O | O | x o | 2.15 m | |
13 | Stefan Junge | GDR | - | - | O | O | - | xxo | x o | 2.15 m | |
14th | Lawrie Peckham | Australia | - | - | O | O | xxo | O | x o | 2.15 m | |
15th | Hidehiko Tomizawa | Japan | - | - | xo | O | O | xxo | xx o | 2.15 m | |
16 | Gian Marco Schivo | Italy | - | O | O | xo | O | xxo | xx o | 2.15 m | |
17th | Chris Dunn | United States | - | - | - | O | - | O | xxx | 2.12 m | |
18th | Roman Moravec | Czechoslovakia | - | - | O | O | O | O | xxx | 2.12 m | |
19th | Ron Jourdan | United States | - | O | O | O | O | O | xxx | 2.12 m | |
20th | Petar Bogdanov | Bulgaria | - | - | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 2.12 m | |
21st | József Tihanyi | Hungary | - | - | O | O | O | xxx | 2.09 m | ||
22nd | Jaroslav Alexa | Czechoslovakia | - | - | O | O | x o | xxx | 2.09 m |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1.80 m | 1.90 m | 2.00 m | 2.06 m | 2.09 m | 2.12 m | 2.15 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Enzo Del Forno | Italy | - | - | O | O | O | O | O | 2.15 m | |
2 | John Beers | Canada | - | - | xo | O | O | xo | O | 2.15 m | |
3 | John Hawkins | Canada | - | - | O | O | O | O | x o | 2.15 m | |
4th | Ingomar Sieghart | BR Germany | - | O | O | O | xo | x o | xxx | 2.12 m | |
5 | Teymour Ghiassi | Iran | - | - | O | O | O | xx o | xxx | 2.12 m | |
6th | Ioannis Kousoulas | Greece | - | O | O | O | xxo | xx o | xxx | 2.12 m | |
7th | Rick Cuttell | Canada | - | - | xo | xo | O | xxx | 2.09 m | ||
8th | Michel Patry | Switzerland | - | O | xo | - | x o | - | xxx | 2.09 m | |
9 | Kuniyoshi Sugiyoka | Japan | - | - | O | O | xxx | 2.06 m | |||
10 | Park Sang-su | South Korea | - | O | O | xxx | 2.00 m | ||||
11 | Nor Azhar Hamid | Singapore | O | O | O | xxx | 2.00 m | ||||
Abdullah Noor Wasughe | Somalia | ||||||||||
13 | Ahmed Senoussi | Chad | - | - | x o | xxx | 2.00 m | ||||
14th | Luis Barrionuevo | Argentina | - | O | xxx | 1.90 m | |||||
Daniel Mkandawire | Malawi | ||||||||||
Sitha Sin | Khmer Republic | ||||||||||
17th | Hamadou Evelé | Cameroon | - | x o | xxx | 1.90 m | |||||
18th | Suresh Babu | India | - | xx o | xxx | 1.90 m | |||||
DNS | Bogusław Białek | Poland | |||||||||
Leif Roar Falkum | Norway | ||||||||||
Irolan Hechavarria | Cuba |
final
Date: September 10, 1972, 2:30 p.m.
Surprisingly, world record holder Pat Matzdorf was unable to qualify for the Olympic Games in Munich. In the US eliminations he was only fifth.
In the final, five jumpers jumped 2.18 m: Jüri Tarmak from the USSR, Stefan Junge, GDR, Hermann Magerl from the Federal Republic of Germany, the American Dwight Stones and the Hungarian Ádám Szepesi. Szepesi and Magerl never made it to the next height - 2.21 m. Tarmak and Junge needed two attempts, Stones three attempts over this 2.21 m. The following increase to 2.23 m was then too high for the young and the Stones, Tarmak crossed the bar in the second attempt and had the gold medal before he failed three times at 2.26 m. Jüri Tarmak was Olympic champion ahead of Stefan Junge and Dwight Stones.
Jüri Tarmak was the last jumper to become Olympic champion in high jump with the straddle style . All other athletes preferred the new flop technique from then on.
Stefan Junge won the first high jump medal for the GDR.
space | Surname | nation | 1.90 m | 2.00 m | 2.05 m | 2.10 m | 2.15 m | 2.18 m | 2.21 m | 2.23 m | 2.26 m | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Jüri Tarmak | Soviet Union | - | - | - | O | O | O | xo | x o | xxx | 2.23 m | |
2 | Stefan Junge | GDR | - | - | xo | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 2.21 m | ||
3 | Dwight Stones | United States | - | - | - | O | O | O | xx o | xxx | 2.21 m | ||
4th | Hermann Magerl | BR Germany | - | - | O | O | xo | O | xxx | 2.18 m | |||
5 | Ádám Szepesi | Hungary | - | O | O | O | O | xx o | xxx | 2.18 m | |||
6th | John Beers | Canada | - | - | O | O | O | xxx | 2.15 m | ||||
Istvan Major | Hungary | ||||||||||||
8th | Rustam Akhmetov | Soviet Union | - | O | O | O | O | xxx | 2.15 m | ||||
9 | John Hawkins | Canada | - | - | O | xo | O | xxx | 2.15 m | ||||
10 | Enzo Del Forno | Italy | - | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 2.15 m | ||||
11 | Jan Dahlgren | Sweden | - | - | O | xo | x o | xxx | 2.15 m | ||||
12 | Vasilios Papadimitriou | Greece | - | - | O | O | xx o | xxx | 2.15 m | ||||
Kęstutis Šapka | Soviet Union | ||||||||||||
14th | Bernard Gauthier | France | - | O | O | xo | xx o | xxx | 2.15 m | ||||
15th | Henry Elliott | France | - | - | - | O | - | xxx | 2.10 m | ||||
16 | Șerban Ioan | Romania | - | O | - | O | xxx | 2.10 m | |||||
17th | Gian Marco Schivo | Italy | - | - | O | x o | xxx | 2.10 m | |||||
18th | Lawrie Peckham | Australia | - | O | O | x o | xxx | 2.10 m | |||||
19th | Hidehiko Tomizawa | Japan | - | xo | O | xxx | 2.05 m |
literature
- Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 42f
Web links
- SportsReference high jump , accessed November 27, 201751
- Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 59, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 27, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 554 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 27, 2017
- ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 27, 2017
- ↑ a b Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 59, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 27, 2017
- ↑ Richard Hymans: The History of the Olympic Trials (pp. 157/158) , accessed November 27, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 27, 2017