1906 Olympic Intermediate Games / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
place	Panathinaic Stadium
Attendees	11 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	April 25, 1906

The men's pole vault at the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens was decided on April 25, 1906.

Records

World record	3.74 m	France	Fernand Gonder	1905
Olympic record	3.50 m	United States	Charles Dvorak	1904

The following records were broken or set at the Olympic Games:

ORe

3.50 m

France

Fernand Gonder

Results

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Fernand Gonder	France	3.50 (ORe)
2	Bruno Söderström	Sweden	3.40
3	Edward Glover	United States	3.35
4th	Theodoros Makris	Greece	3.25
5	Georgios Banikas	Greece	3.15
	Stefanos Koundouriotis	Greece	3.15
7th	Heikki Åhlman	Finland	3.00
	Imre Kiss	Hungary	3.00
	Otto Haug	Norway	3.00
10	Herbert Kerrigan	United States	2.75
	Edward Archibald	Canada	k. A.

The initial height was 2.50 m. As in the high jump, it was not possible for the participants to skip individual heights. The Canadian Archibald, who was one of the favorites with a best performance close to 3.65 m, retired early. His staff had been lost on the way to Italy. With borrowed material, he could not realize his potential in Athens. At first Söderström dominated, who was the only jumper to cross all heights up to 3.35 m in the first attempt. Then Gonder and Söderström also jumped 3.40 m, but failed at 3.50 m. The Swede's staff broke on the third attempt above this height. A jump-off was set between the two jumpers, in which Gonder crossed the height of 3.50 m in the first round.

literature

• Volker Kluge , Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle I, Berlin 1997 ( ISBN 3-328-00715-6 )
• Ekkehard zur Megede , The history of Olympic athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970

Web links

• Sports Reference

Remarks

1. ↑ In unofficial demonstration competitions, Gonder even jumped 3.80 m (1905 in Gradignan ) and 4.00 m (1906 in Bordeaux ).
2. ↑ The information is based on Kluge. "Sports-Reference" also leads the two Greeks with 3.00 meters and accordingly has five jumpers together on this place.