Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump

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Men's high jump
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Olympic Stadium
DateSeptember 1
Competitors32 from 23 nations
Winning height2.16 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Robert Shavlakadze
 Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Valery Brumel
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) John Thomas
 United States
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The men's

Valery Brumel took silver; both men surpassed the previous best placing for the Soviet team of bronze. American John Thomas
took bronze to keep alive the United States' streak of medaling in every edition of the Olympic men's high jump.

Background

This was the 14th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1956 Games were gold medalist

Valery Brumel of the Soviet Union was considered his biggest challenger; Dumas and the other Soviets (Robert Shavlakadze and Viktor Bolshov) were also outside contenders.[2]

Iraq and Tunisia each made their debut in the event; Germany appeared for the first time as the United Team of Germany. The United States appeared for the 14th time, having competed at each edition of the Olympic men's high jump to that point.

Competition format

The competition used the two-round format introduced in 1912. There were two distinct rounds of jumping with results cleared between rounds. The qualifying round had the bar set at 1.90 metres, 1.95 metres, and 2.00 metres. All jumpers clearing 2.00 metres in the qualifying round advanced to the final. The final had jumps at 1.90 metres, 1.95 metres, 2.00 metres, 2.03 metres, 2.06 metres, 2.09 metres, 2.12 metres, and then increased by 0.02 metres until a winner was found. Each athlete had three attempts at each height.[2][3]

Records

The world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1960 Summer Olympics:

World record  John Thomas (USA) 2.22 Palo Alto, United States 1 July 1960
Olympic record  Charles Dumas (USA) 2.12 Melbourne, Australia 23 November 1956

Each of the three Soviets matched the Olympic record of 2.12 metres:

Valery Brumel, Robert Shavlakadze, and Viktor Bolshov. John Thomas
skipped that height; he joined the three Soviets in all successfully breaking the Olympic record at 2.14 metres. Shavlakadze and Brumel were able to extend the new record further, to 2.16 metres, where it stood at the end of the 1960 Games.

Schedule

All times are

UTC+1
)

Date Time Round
Thursday, 1 September 1960 9:00
15:15		 Qualifying
Final

Results

Key

All jumpers reaching 2.00 metres advanced to the finals. All heights are listed in metres.

Qualifying

Rank Athlete Nation 1.90 1.95 2.00 Height Notes
1 John Thomas  United States — — o 2.00 Q
2 Viktor Bolshov  Soviet Union o — o 2.00 Q
Stig Pettersson  Sweden — o o 2.00 Q
4 Maurice Fournier  France o o o 2.00 Q
Robert Kotei  Ghana o o o 2.00 Q
Jiří Lanský  Czechoslovakia o o o 2.00 Q
Kjell-Åke Nilsson  Sweden o o o 2.00 Q
Sándor Noszály
  Hungary o o o 2.00 Q
Cornel Porumb  Romania o o o 2.00 Q
Robert Shavlakadze  Soviet Union o o o 2.00 Q
11 Theo Püll  United Team of Germany xo o o 2.00 Q
12 Piotr Sobotta  Poland o xxo o 2.00 Q
13
Valery Brumel
  Soviet Union o — xo 2.00 Q
Gordon Miller  Great Britain — o xo 2.00 Q
15
Charlie Dumas
  United States o o xo 2.00 Q
Joe Faust  United States o o xo 2.00 Q
17 Mahamat Idriss  France o o xxo 2.00 Q
18 Kuniyoshi Sugioka  Japan — o xxx 1.95
19 René Maurer  Switzerland o o xxx 1.95
Werner Pfeil  United Team of Germany o o xxx 1.95
Eero Salminen  Finland o o xxx 1.95
22 Helmut Donner  Austria xo o xxx 1.95
Jón Pétursson  Iceland xo o xxx 1.95
24 Crawford Fairbrother  Great Britain o xo xxx 1.95
Peter Riebensahm  United Team of Germany o xo xxx 1.95
26 Đorđe Majtan  Yugoslavia — xxo xxx 1.95
27 Chilla Porter  Australia o xxo xxx 1.95
28 Samuel Igun  Nigeria o xxx — 1.90
29 Gurbachan Singh Randhawa  India xxo xxx — 1.90
— Mohamed Abdul Razzak  Iraq xxx — No mark
Sylvain Bitan  Tunisia xxx — No mark
Çetin Şahiner  Turkey xxx — No mark

Final

Rank Athlete Nation 1.90 1.95 2.00 2.03 2.06 2.09 2.12 2.14 2.16 2.18 Mark Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Robert Shavlakadze  Soviet Union — — xo o o o o o o xxx 2.16 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Valery Brumel
  Soviet Union — o — o o xo xxo xo xo xxx 2.16 OR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) John Thomas  United States — — o — o o — xo xxx — 2.14
4 Viktor Bolshov  Soviet Union — o — o o o o xo xxx — 2.14
5 Stig Pettersson  Sweden o — o — xxo xxo xxx — 2.09
6
Charlie Dumas
  United States — — o o — xxx — 2.03
7 Jiří Lanský  Czechoslovakia o o o o xxx — 2.03
Kjell-Åke Nilsson  Sweden o o o o xxx — 2.03
Theo Püll  United Team of Germany o o o o xxx — 2.03
10 Robert Kotei  Ghana o — o xo xxx — 2.03
11 Cornel Porumb  Romania o o o xo xxx — 2.03
12 Mahamat Idriss  France — xo xo xo xxx — 2.03
13
Sándor Noszály
  Hungary o o xo xxo xxx — 2.03
14 Maurice Fournier  France — o o xxx — 2.00
15 Piotr Sobotta  Poland o o o xxx — 2.00
16 Gordon Miller  Great Britain o o xxo xxx — 2.00
17 Joe Faust  United States o o xxx — 1.95

References

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's High Jump". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "High Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 132.
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