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)
Medalist Jüri Tarmak ( URS )   Stefan Junge ( GDR )   Dwight Stones ( USA )

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

Stefan Junge, GDR, winner of the silver medal

Enzo Del Forno, Italy

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
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
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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 554 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 27, 2017
2. ↑ 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 
3. ↑ ^{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 
4. ↑ Richard Hymans: The History of the Olympic Trials (pp. 157/158) , accessed November 27, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 27, 2017