1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 23 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 30, 1976 (qualifying) July 31, 1976 (final)
Medalist Jacek Wszoła ( POL )   Greg Joy ( CAN )   Dwight Stones ( USA )

The men's high jump at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 30 and 31, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 37 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Jacek Wszoła from Poland . He won ahead of the Canadian Greg Joy and the American Dwight Stones .

Walter Boller and Wolfgang Killing started for the Federal Republic of Germany . Both failed in qualification.

The GDR jumper Henry Lauterbach was also eliminated from the qualification, while his teammate Rolf Beilschmidt reached the final and finished seventh.
Jumpers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	2.31 m	Dwight Stones ( USA )	Philadelphia , USA	5th June 1976
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 July 30th. The qualifying height for the direct entry into the final, which took place on July 31, was 2.16 m. Since more than twelve athletes reached this height, the final field was not filled.

Time schedule

July 30th, 10:00 am: Qualification
July 31st, 4:30 pm: Final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 30, 1976, from 10 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	2.00 m	2.05 m	2.10 m	2.13 m	2.16 m	height	annotation
1	Jim Barrineau	United States	-	-	O	O	O	2.16 m
	Jacek Wszoła	Poland
3	Sergei Senjukov	Soviet Union	-	O	O	O	O	2.16 m
4th	Rolf Beilschmidt	GDR	O	O	O	O	O	2.16 m
	Sergei Budalov	Soviet Union
6th	Greg Joy	Canada	-	O	xo	xo	O	2.16 m
7th	Dwight Stones	United States	-	O	O	O	x o	2.16 m
8th	Claude Ferragne	Canada	xo	xo	O	O	x o	2.16 m
9	Rodolfo Bergamo	Italy	O	O	O	xo	xx o	2.16 m
10	Almén rune	Sweden	O	O	xo	xxo	xx o	2.16 m
11	Endre Kelemen	Hungary	-	-	xo	O	xxx	2.13 m
12	Guy Moreau	Belgium	-	O	xo	O	xxx	2.13 m
13	Walter Boller	BR Germany	O	xo	O	O	xxx	2.13 m
14th	Henry Lauterbach	GDR	O	O	O	xx o	xxx	2.13 m
15th	Danial Temim	Yugoslavia	O	O	O	-	xxx	2.10 m
16	Teymour Ghiasi	Iran	O	xo	O	xxx		2.10 m
17th	Wolfgang Killing	BR Germany	-	O	xxx			2.05 m
18th	Robert Forget	Canada	O	xx o	xxx			2.05 m
	Riccardo Fortini	Italy
DNS	Bruno Brokken	Belgium

Group B

GDR jumper Rolf Beilschmidt

Olympic champion Jacek Wszoła from Poland on an Armenian stamp in 1996 - oddly enough, as Springer in the straddle style , although Wszola the Fosbury flop jumped

space	Surname	nation	2.00 m	2.05 m	2.10 m	2.13 m	2.16 m	height	annotation
1	Bill Jankunis	United States	-	O	O	O	O	2.16 m
2	Leif Roar Falkum	Norway	-	O	O	xo	O	2.16 m
3	Terje Totland	Norway	O	O	O	xo	O	2.16 m
4th	Jesper Tørring	Denmark	O	-	O	xo	xx o	2.16 m
5	Katsumi Fukura	Japan	O	O	xo	O	x-	2.13 m
6th	Kazunori Koshikawa	Japan	O	O	O	x o	xxx	2.13 m
7th	Juan Carrasco	Spain	O	O	xxx			2.05 m
	Istvan Major	Hungary
	Paul Poaniéwa	France
	Oscar raise	Italy
11	Francisco Martín	Spain	-	x o	xxx			2.05 m
12	Jacques Aletti	France	xo	x o	xxx			2.05 m
	Marc Romersa	Luxembourg
	Richard Spencer	Cuba
15th	Clark Godwin	Bermuda	O	xx o	xxx			2.05 m
ogV	Carlos Alberto Abaunza	Nicaragua	xxx						without height
	Irajá Cecy	Brazil
	Ghazi Saleh Marzouk	Saudi Arabia

final

Date: July 31, 1976, 4:30 p.m.

The top favorite was the world record holder Dwight Stones, who was very annoyed by the cool and rainy weather. A quick run-up was required for Stones' take-off technique, but many of his opponents also relied on it to cope better with it. In addition to the world record holder, the Dane Jesper Tørring, who became European champion in 1974 with 2.25 m, was a candidate for a medal. In addition to these two, it was difficult to identify other individual athletes who could be included in a group of favorites. There were numerous athletes, some of them younger, waiting to present successful results.

Fourteen high jumpers who had jumped the qualifying height of 2.16 m went into a fairly open final. Ten of them remained in the race after jumping 2.18 m. Six more were eliminated at the next height of 2.21 m, including Jesper Tørring. The Pole Jacek Wszoła was in the lead with no failed attempt before Stones, who had also entered a height earlier without failing. Behind them, to the delight of the Canadian viewers, was her compatriot Greg Joy in third place. With a failed attempt over 2.21 m, the Soviet jumper Sergei Budalow was fourth. At 2.23 m, Stones had to give up after three unsuccessful attempts. Wszoła crossed the bar on the first attempt, Joy on the third attempt. Budalow had a failed attempt here and saved the two remaining attempts for the next height of 2.25 m and initially took third place behind Stones, who however became fourth after Joy had crossed 2.23 m. Wszoła was able to jump over the following height of 2.25 m in the second attempt, Joy gambled after a failed attempt by saving his two remaining attempts for the next height of 2.27 m. Budalow failed with his two attempts still available to him at 2.25 m and could not improve his fourth place any further. The two remaining jumpers Wszola and Joy tore the 2.27 m twice, Greg Joy stayed on the silver rank, because he had used up his two remaining attempts. So the decision was made. Jacek Wszoła was Olympic champion and had the bar set on 2.29 m for his last attempt, but failed. Dwight Stones won the bronze medal.

Jacek Wszoła was the first Polish Olympic champion in the high jump .

Greg Joy won the first Canadian medal in the discipline.

space	Surname	nation	2.00 m	2.05 m	2.10 m	2.14 m	2.18 m	2.21 m	2.23 m	2.25 m	2.27 m	2.29 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Jacek Wszoła	Poland	-	-	-	O	O	O	O	x o	xx-	x	2.25 m	OR
2	Greg Joy	Canada	O	O	O	xo	xxo	O	xx o	x--	xx		2.23 m
3	Dwight Stones	United States	-	-	O	O	O	O	xxx				2.21 m
4th	Sergei Budalov	Soviet Union	-	O	O	O	O	x o	x--	xx			2.21 m
5	Sergei Senjukov	Soviet Union	-	-	O	O	O	xxx					2.18 m
6th	Rodolfo Bergamo	Italy	O	O	O	xo	O	xxx					2.18 m
7th	Rolf Beilschmidt	GDR	-	O	O	O	x o	xxx					2.18 m
8th	Jesper Tørring	Denmark	-	-	O	xo	x o	xxx					2.18 m
9	Terje Totland	Norway	O	O	xo	O	x o	xxx					2.18 m
10	Almén rune	Sweden	O	xo	xo	O	xx o	xxx					2.18 m
11	Jim Barrineau	United States	-	-	O	O	xxx						2.14 m
12	Claude Ferragne	Canada	-	O	O	O	xxx						2.14 m
13	Bill Jankunis	United States	-	-	O	xxx							2.10 m
14th	Leif Roar Falkum	Norway	-	-	x o	xxx							2.10 m

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 230

Video

• Jacek Wszoła - AZS AWF Warszawa , published on August 28, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed on December 15, 2017

Web links

• Athletics at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's High Jump in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ), accessed April 2, 2020.
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , pp. 68f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 15, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 555 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 15, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 69, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 15, 2017
4. ↑ Athletics at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's High Jump in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on April 2, 2020.