Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump

Men's high jump at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 2
Competitors	40 from 23 nations
Medalists
Cornelius Johnson  United States Dave Albritton  United States Delos Thurber  United States

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeple	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's high jump event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 2, 1936. The final was won by Cornelius Johnson of the United States.^[1]

Results

Qualifying

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Height	Notes
1	Dave Albritton	United States	1.85
1	Günther Gehmert	Germany	1.85
1	Jerzy Pławczyk	Poland	1.85
1	Kimio Yada	Japan	1.85
1	Mihály Bodosi	Hungary	1.85
1	Veikko Peräsalo	Finland	1.85
1	Reindert Brasser	Netherlands	1.85
1	Aksel Kuuse	Estonia	1.85
1	Simeon Toribio	Philippines	1.85
1	Poul Otto	Denmark	1.85
1	Kalevi Kotkas	Finland	1.85
1	Gustav Weinkötz	Germany	1.85
1	Yoshiro Asakuma	Japan	1.85
1	Joe Haley	Canada	1.85
1	Rudolf Eggenberg	Switzerland	1.85
1	Cornelius Johnson	United States	1.85
1	Delos Thurber	United States	1.85
1	Åke Ödmark	Sweden	1.85
1	Lauri Kalima	Finland	1.85
1	Jack Metcalfe	Australia	1.85
1	Hiroshi Tanaka	Japan	1.85
1	Edwin Thacker	South Africa	1.85
23	Alfredo Mendes	Brazil	1.80
23	Svend Aage Thomsen	Denmark	1.80
23	Robert Kennedy	Great Britain	1.80
23	Ícaro Mello	Brazil	1.80
23	Jack Newman	Great Britain	1.80
23	Gerard Carlier	Netherlands	1.80
23	Edvard Natvig	Norway	1.80
23	Sigurður Sigurðsson	Iceland	1.80
23	Fritz Flachberger	Austria	1.80
32	Stan West	Great Britain	1.70
32	Fritz Neuruhrer	Austria	1.70
32	Břetislav Krátký	Czechoslovakia	1.70
32	Hans Mohr	Yugoslavia	1.70
32	Zdeněk Sobotka	Czechoslovakia	1.70
32	Hans Martens	Germany	1.70
32	Konstantinos Pantazis	Greece	1.70
32	Karol Hoffmann	Poland	1.70
32	Wu Bixian	Republic of China	1.70

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1.70	1.80	1.85	1.90	1.94	1.97	2.00	2.03	2.08	Result	Notes
	Cornelius Johnson	United States	o	o	o	o	o	o	o	o	xxx	2.03	OR
	Dave Albritton	United States	o	xo	o	o	o	xo	xxo	xxx		2.00
	Delos Thurber	United States	o	pass	o	o	o	o	xo	xxx		2.00
4	Kalevi Kotkas	Finland	pass	o	pass	o	xxo	o	xxo	xxx		2.00
5	Kimio Yada	Japan	o	o	o	o	o	o	xxx			1.97
6	Hiroshi Tanaka	Japan	o	o	o	o	o	xxx				1.94
6	Yoshiro Asakuma	Japan	o	o	o	o	xo	xxx				1.94
6	Lauri Kalima	Finland	o	o	o	o	xo	xxx				1.94
6	Gustav Weinkötz	Germany	o	o	xo	o	xxo	xxx				1.94
10	Aksel Kuuse	Estonia	o	o	o	xxo	xxx					1.90
10	Günther Gehmert	Germany	pass	xo	o	xxo	xxx					1.90
12	Jack Metcalfe	Australia	o	o	o	xxx						1.85
12	Reindert Brasser	Netherlands	o	o	o	xxx						1.85
12	Åke Ödmark	Sweden	o	o	o	xxx						1.85
12	Edwin Thacker	South Africa	o	o	o	xxx						1.85
12	Joe Haley	Canada	pass	xo	o	xxx						1.85
12	Simeon Toribio	Philippines	o	xo	o	xxx						1.85
12	Poul Otto	Denmark	o	xo	xo	xxx						1.85
12	Veikko Peräsalo	Finland	xo	o	xxo	xxx						1.85
12	Rudolf Eggenberg	Switzerland	pass	o	xxo	xxx						1.85
12	Mihály Bodosi	Hungary	o	o	xxo	xxx						1.85
22	Jerzy Pławczyk	Poland	o	o	xxx							1.80

Key: OR = Olympic record

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