Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's standing triple jump

Men's standing triple jump at the Games of the II Olympiad
Ray Ewry
Venue	Bois de Boulogne
Date	July 16
Competitors	10 from 4 nations
Winning distance	10.58 OR
Medalists
Ray Ewry  United States Irving Baxter  United States Robert Garrett  United States
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The men's standing triple jump was a track & field athletics event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. It was held on July 16, 1900. 10 athletes from four nations competed in the standing triple jump. The event was won by Ray Ewry of the United States, who took gold in all three of the standing jumps in 1900 (and in all three in 1900 and in both that remained on the programme in each of the 1904, 1906 Intercalated, and 1908 Games). His teammate Irving Baxter earned silver in all three 1900 standing jumps. The American sweep was completed with Robert Garrett taking bronze.

Background

This was the first appearance of the event, which was held twice in 1900 and 1904 (in contrast to the other standing jumps, which continued to be held in 1908 and 1912).^[1]

Competition format

There was a single round of jumping. The rules for the jump are not known; the event was called the "hop, step, and jump" at the time but it appears that jumpers could use three standing long jumps rather than a continuous movement.^[1]

Records

There were no standing world or Olympic records at the time. Ray Ewry set the first Olympic record in this event with 10.58 metres.

Schedule

Results

Ewry won all three of the standing jumps, with Baxter in second each time. The standing triple jump was the most international of the three, with four countries competing. All of the competitors in the standing triple jump except the medallists also competed in the regular triple jump.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Distance	Notes
	Ray Ewry	United States	10.58	OR
	Irving Baxter	United States	9.95
	Robert Garrett	United States	9.50
4	Lewis Sheldon	United States	9.45
5–10	Daniel Horton	United States	Unknown
	Frank Jarvis	United States	Unknown
	Pál Koppán	Hungary	Unknown
	John McLean	United States	Unknown
	Karl Staaf	Sweden	Unknown
	Waldemar Steffen	Germany	Unknown
—	James Brendan Connolly	United States	DNS
	Arpád Danos	Hungary	DNS
	Eric Lemming	Sweden	DNS
	Václav Nový	Bohemia	DNS
	Myer Prinstein	United States	DNS

References

Sources

• International Olympic Committee.
• De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Athletics 1900". Accessed 18 March 2006. Available electronically at [1] Archived 11 February 2006 at the
  ISBN 0-7864-0378-0
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