Men High Jump Athletics I Olympic Games Arhens, Greece 1896 - Friday, 10th April (29th March)

Men High Jump Athletics I Olympic Games Arhens, Greece 1896 - Friday, 10th April (29th March) - Gold Medal: Ellery Clark, United States

Final		Height		150	155	160	1625	165	1675	181
1. Ellery Clark	United States	1.81m	OR	O	O	O	O	O	O	O
2. Robert Garrett	United States	1.65m		O	O	O	O	O	X
3. James Connolly	United States	1.65m		O	O	O	O	O	X
4. Henrik Sjöberg	Sweden	1.60m		O	O	O	X
5. Fritz Hofmann	Germany	1.55m		O	O	X

world Men High Jump History

Venue: Panathenaic Stadium. Capp.: 30,000.

5 competitors from -- nations.

All five men cleared 1.50 and 1.55 with athletes having to jump at each height, but Hofmann failed at 1.60. The bar was then raised to 1.625 and Sjöberg went out. Connolly and Garrett, both winners in other events, failed at 1.675. Clark’s “scissors” clearance at 1.675 won him the competition, and he went on to make 1.81. Though his winning jump was well short of Mike Sweeney’s world best of 1.97 set seven months earlier, it was only 2cm lower than Sweeney’s winning height in the 1895 US Championships. Sweeney had turned professional in 1896 so was not eligible to compete in Athens.

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