Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's standing high jump
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.
| Men's standing high jump at the Games of the V Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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 Adams on the way to win the gold medal. | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Stockholm Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Date | July 13 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 17 from 9 nations | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics | |
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| Track events | |
| 100 m | men |
| 200 m | men |
| 400 m | men |
| 800 m | men |
| 1500 m | men |
| 5000 m | men |
| 10,000 m | men |
| 110 m hurdles | men |
| 4×100 m relay | men |
| 4×400 m relay | men |
| 3000 m team race | men |
| 10 km walk | men |
| Road events | |
| Marathon | men |
| Field events | |
| Long jump | men |
| Triple jump | men |
| High jump | men |
| Pole vault | men |
| Standing long jump | men |
| Standing high jump | men |
| Shot put | men |
| Discus throw | men |
| Hammer throw | men |
| Javelin throw | men |
| 2-hand shot put | men |
| 2-hand discus | men |
| 2-hand javelin | men |
| Combined events | |
| Pentathlon | men |
| Decathlon | men |
| Cross-country events | |
| Individual | men |
| Team | men |
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. 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.
Results
| Place | Athlete | Preliminary | Final | Mark | |||||||||||||
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| 1.30 | 1.35 | 1.40 | 1.45 | 1.48 | 1.50 | Qual. | 1.30 | 1.40 | 1.45 | 1.50 | 1.55 | 1.60 | 1.63 | 1.66 | |||
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O | O | O | O | O | O | QF | O | O | O | O | O | XO | O | XXX | 1.63 |
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O | O | O | O | --- | O | QF | O | O | O | O | O | O | XXX | --- | 1.60 |
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O | O | O | O | --- | O | QF | O | O | O | XO | XO | XXX | --- | --- | 1.55 |
| 4 |  |
O | O | O | O | --- | O | QF | O | O | O | O | XXX | --- | --- | --- | 1.50 |
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O | O | O | XXO | --- | XO | QF | O | XO | O | O | XXX | --- | --- | --- | 1.50 | |
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O | O | O | O | --- | XXO | QF | O | O | O | XO | XXX | --- | --- | --- | 1.50 | |
| 7 | |
O | O | O | O | --- | XXX | 1.45 | |||||||||
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O | O | O | O | --- | XXX | 1.45 | ||||||||||
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O | O | XXO | O | --- | XXX | 1.45 | ||||||||||
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--- | O | XO | XO | --- | XXX | 1.45 | ||||||||||
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O | O | O | XXO | --- | XXX | 1.45 | ||||||||||
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O | O | O | XXO | XXX | --- | 1.45 | ||||||||||
| 13 |  |
O | O | O | XXX | --- | --- | 1.40 | |||||||||
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O | O | O | XXX | --- | --- | 1.40 | ||||||||||
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XO | XO | XO | XXX | --- | --- | 1.40 | ||||||||||
| 16 |  |
XO | O | XXX | --- | --- | --- | 1.35 | |||||||||
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--- | XXX | --- | --- | --- | --- | None | |||||||||
 Platt Adams in action. |
 Bronze medalist Konstantinos Tsiklitiras. |
References
- sports-reference.com
- Bergvall, Erik (ed.) (1913). Adams-Ray, Edward (trans.). (ed.). The Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 4 January 2007.
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