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Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's standing high jump

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Men's standing high jump
at the Games of the V Olympiad
Platt Adams on the way to win the gold medal.
VenueStockholm Olympic Stadium
DateJuly 13
Competitors17 from 9 nations
Winning height1.63
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Platt Adams
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Benjamin Adams
 United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Konstantinos Tsiklitiras
 Greece
← 1908
Athletics at the
1912 Summer Olympics
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The men's standing high jump was a track and field athletics event held as part of the athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth and final appearance of the event. The competition was held on Saturday, July 13, 1912.

Ray Ewry, who was the three-time defending champion in the event, did not compete in 1912. The silver medalist from 1908, Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, took bronze. Platt Adams, the fifth-place finisher four years earlier, won the event. Benjamin Adams finished second. It was the second time in Olympic history that brothers had finished first and second in an event, after the Paine brothers in the 1896 military pistol shooting event.[1] Each of the three standing high jump medalists also medaled in the standing long jump, though in a different order.

Seventeen high jumpers from nine nations competed. NOCs could enter up to 12 athletes.[2]

Background

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This was the fourth and final appearance of the event, which was held four times from 1900 to 1912. Three-time defending champion (four-time if the 1906 Intercalated Games are counted) Ray Ewry of the United States had retired, leaving the competition relatively open. Returning competitors from the 1908 Games were silver medalist Konstantinos Tsiklitiras of Greece and fifth-place finishers Platt Adams of the United States and Géo André of France.[1]

Chile and Russia each made their debut in the event. The United States made its fourth appearance, the only nation to have competed in each appearance of the event.

Competition format

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For the first time, there were two distinct rounds of jumping with results cleared between rounds (the 1908 Games had featured a two-round event but the results from the qualifying round then carried over to the final). All jumpers clearing 1.50 metres in the qualifying round advanced to the final.[1][3]

Records

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These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1912 Summer Olympics.

World record  Ray Ewry (USA) 1.655 m Paris, France 16 July 1900 [4]
Olympic record  Ray Ewry (USA) 1.655 m Paris, France 16 July 1900

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Saturday, 13 July 1912 9:30
16:00		 Qualifying
Final

Results

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Key

  • o = Height cleared
  • x = Height failed
  • – = Height passed
  • r  = Retired
  • SB = Season's best
  • PB = Personal best
  • NR = National record
  • AR = Area record
  • OR = Olympic record
  • WR = World record
  • WL = World lead
  • NM = No mark
  • DNS = Did not start
  • DQ = Disqualified

Qualifying

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Rank Athlete Nation 1.30 1.35 1.40 1.45 1.48 1.50 Height Notes
1 Benjamin Adams  United States o o o o — o 1.50 Q
Platt Adams  United States o o o o o o 1.50 Q
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras  Greece o o o o — o 1.50 Q
Edvard Möller  Sweden o o o o — o 1.50 Q
5 Leo Goehring  United States o o o xxo — xo 1.50 Q
6 Richard Byrd  United States o o o o — xxo 1.50 Q
7 Forest Fletcher  United States o o o o — xxx 1.45
Rudolf Smedmark  Sweden o o o o — xxx 1.45
Frank Belote  United States o o xxo o — xxx 1.45
Géo André  France — o xo xo — xxx 1.45
Leif Ekman  Sweden o o o xxo — xxx 1.45
Karl Bergh  Sweden o o o xxo xxx — 1.45
13 Rodolfo Hammersley  Chile o o o xxx — 1.40
Alfred Schwarz  Russia o o o xxx — 1.40
Birger Brodtkorb  Norway xo xo xo xxx — 1.40
16 Benjamin Howard Baker  Great Britain xo o xxx — 1.35
17 Andor Horvag  Hungary — xxx — NM
Platt Adams in action.
Bronze medalist Konstantinos Tsiklitiras.

Final

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Rank Athlete Nation 1.30 1.40 1.45 1.50 1.55 1.60 1.63 1.66 Height
1st place, gold medalist(s) Platt Adams  United States o o o o o xo o xxx 1.63
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Benjamin Adams  United States o o o o o o xxx — 1.60
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Konstantinos Tsiklitiras  Greece o o o xo xo xxx — 1.55
4 Edvard Möller  Sweden o o o o xxx — 1.50
Leo Goehring  United States o xo o o xxx — 1.50
Richard Byrd  United States o o o xo xxx — 1.50

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Standing High Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  2. ^ Official report, p. 61.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 394.
  4. ^ "Ray Ewry - Olympic Facts and Results". www.olympiandatabase.com. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
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  • Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.). (ed.). The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
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