Olympic Games medallists, men’s jumps
High Jump
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
| 1896 - 1900 1904 1906 - 1908 - - 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 - 1992 - - 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 - - |
Ellery Clark USA - Irving Baxter USA Samuel Jones USA Con Leahy GBR(IRL) - Harry Porter USA - - Alma Richards USA Richmond Landon USA Harold Osborn USA Robert King USA Duncan McNaughton CAN Cornelius Johnson USA John Winter AUS Walt “Buddy” Davis USA Charles Dumas USA Robert Shavlakadze URS(GEO) Valeriy Brumel URS(UKR) Dick Fosbury USA Jüri Tarmak URS(EST) Jacek Wszola POL Gerd Wessig GDR Dietmar Mögenburg FRG Gennadiy Avdeyenko URS(UKR) - Javier Sotomayor CUB - - Charles Austin USA Sergey Klyugin RUS Stefan Holm SWE Andrey Silnov RUS Ivan Ukhov RUS - - |
1.81 - 1.90 1.803 1.775 - 1.905 - - 1.93 1.935 1.98 1.94 1.97 2.03 1.98 2.04 2.12 2.16 2.18 2.24A 2.23 2.25 2.36 2.35 2.38 - 2.34 - - 2.39 2.35 2.36 2.36 2.38 - - |
James Connolly USA & Robert Garrett USA Pat Leahy GBR(IRL) Garrett Serviss USA Lajos Gönczy HUN - Georges “Géo” André FRA, Con Leahy GBR(IRL) & István Somodi HUN Hans Liesche GER Harold Muller USA Leroy Brown USA Ben Hedges USA Robert Van Osdel USA Dave Albritton USA Bjørn Paulson NOR Ken Wiesner USA Charles “Chilla” Porter AUS Valeriy Brumel URS(UKR) John Thomas USA Ed Caruthers USA Stefan Junge GDR Greg Joy CAN Jacek Wszola POL Patrik Sjöberg SWE Hollis Conway USA - Patrik Sjöberg SWE - - Artur Partyka POL Javier Sotomayor CUB Matt Hemingway USA Germaine Mason GBR Erik Kynard USA - - |
1.65 - 1.78 1.778 1.75 - 1.88 - - 1.91 1.90 1.95 1.91 1.97 2.00 1.95 2.01 2.10 2.16 2.18 2.22A 2.21 2.23 2.31 2.33 2.36 - 2.34 - - 2.37 2.32 2.34 2.34 2.33 - - |
- Lajos Gönczy HUN Paul Weinstein GER Themistoklis Diakidis GRE & Herbert Kerrigan USA - - - George Horine USA Bo Ekelund SWE Pierre Lewden FRA Claude Ménard FRA Simeon Toribio PHI Delos Thurber USA George Stanich USA José Telles da Conceição BRA Igor Kashkarov URS(RUS) John Thomas USA John Rambo USA Valentin Gavrilov URS(RUS) Dwight Stones USA Dwight Stones USA Jörg Freimuth GDR Zhu Jianhua CHN Rudolf Povarnitsyn URS(UKR) & Patrik Sjöberg SWE Hollis Conway USA, Tim Forsyth AUS & Artur Partyka POL Steve Smith GBR Abderrahmane Hammad ALG Jaroslav Bába CZE Yaroslav Rybakov RUS Mutaz Essa Barshim QAT Derek Drouin CAN Robbie Grabarz GBR |
- 1.75 1.778 1.725 - - - - 1.89 1.90 1.92 1.91 1.97 2.00 1.95 1.98 2.08 2.14 2.16 2.20A 2.21 2.21 2.31 2.31 2.36 - 2.34 - - 2.35 2.32 2.34 2.34 2.29 - - |
Standing High Jump
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
| 1900 1904 1906 - - 1908 - 1912 |
Ray Ewry USA Ray Ewry USA Ray Ewry USA - - Ray Ewry USA - Platt Adams USA |
1.655 1.60 1.56 - - 1.575 - 1.63 |
Irving Baxter USA Joseph Stadler USA Léon Dupont BEL, Lawson Robertson USA & Martin Sheridan USA John Biller USA & Konstantinos Tsiklitiras GRE Ben Adams USA |
1.525 1.45 1.40 - - 1.55 - 1.60 |
Lewis Sheldon USA Lawson Robertson USA - - - - - Konstantinos Tsiklitiras GRE |
1.50 1.45 - - - - - 1.55 |
Pole Vault
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
| 1896 - 1900† 1904 1906 1908 - - 1912 - 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 - 1984 - 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 |
William Hoyt USA - Irving Baxter USA Charles Dvorak USA Fernand Gonder FRA Edward Cook USA & Alfred Gilbert USA - Harry Babcock USA - Frank Foss USA Lee Barnes USA Sabin Carr USA Bill Miller USA Earle Meadows USA Guinn Smith USA Bob Richards USA Bob Richards USA Don Bragg USA Fred Hansen USA Bob Seagren USA Wolfgang Nordwig GDR Tadeusz Slusarski POL Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz POL - Pierre Quinon FRA - Sergey Bubka URS(UKR) Maksim Tarasov EUN(RUS) Jean Galfione FRA Nick Hysong USA Tim Mack USA Steve Hooker AUS Renaud Lavillenie FRA |
3.30 - 3.30 3.505 3.50 3.71 - - 3.95 - 4.09 3.95 4.20 4.315 4.35 4.30 4.55 4.56 4.70 5.10 5.40A 5.50 5.50 5.78 - 5.75 - 5.90 5.80 5.92 5.90 5.95 5.96 5.97 |
Albert Tyler USA - Meredith Colkett USA LeRoy Samse USA Bruno Söderström SWE - - - Frank Nelson USA & Marcus Wright USA Henry Petersen DEN Glenn Graham USA William Droegemuller USA Shuhei Nishida JPN Shuhei Nishida JPN Erkki Kataja FIN Don Laz USA Bob Gutowski USA Ron Morris USA Wolfgang Reinhardt GER(FRG) Claus Schiprowski FRG Bob Seagren USA Antti Kalliomäki FIN Tadeusz Slusarski POL & Konstantin Volkov URS(RUS) Mike Tully USA - Rodion Gataullin URS(UZB) Igor Trandenkov EUN(RUS) Igor Trandenkov RUS Lawrence Johnson USA Toby Stevenson USA Yevgeniy Lukyanenko RUS Björn Otto GER |
3.20 - 3.25 3.35 3.40 - - - 3.85 - 3.70 3.95 4.10 4.30 4.25# 4.20 4.50 4.53 4.60 5.05 5.40A 5.40 5.50 5.65 - 5.65 - 5.85 5.80 5.92 5.90 5.90 5.85 5.91 |
Evangelos Damaskos GRE & Ioannis Theodoropoulos GRE Carl Albert Andersen NOR Louis Wilkins USA Edward Glover USA Ed Archibald CAN, Charles Jacobs USA & Bruno Söderström SWE - - Edwin Myers USA James Brooker USA Charles McGinnis USA George Jefferson USA Sueo Oe JPN Bob Richards USA Ragnar Lundberg SWE Georgios Roubanis GRE Eeles Landström FIN Klaus Lehnertz GER(FRG) Wolfgang Nordwig GDR Jan Johnson USA Dave Roberts USA - - Earl Bell USA & Thierry Vigneron FRA Grigoriy Yegorov URS(KAZ) Javier García ESP Andrei Tivontchik GER Maksim Tarasov RUS Giuseppe Gibilisco ITA Denys Yurchenko UKR Raphael Holzdeppe GER |
2.60 - 3.20 3.35 3.35 3.58 - - - - 3.60 3.90 3.95 4.20 4.25# 4.20 4.40 4.50 4.55 5.00 5.40A 5.35 5.50 - - 5.60 - 5.80 5.75 5.92 5.90 5.85 5.70 5.91 |
† – In 1900 2 further competitions, won by Bascom Johnson USA 3.38 & Daniel Horton USA 3.45 (from Charles Dvorak USA 3.35), were also held as some competitors missed the first event. It was, however, subsequently decided the result of the first event should stand.
# – 2nd place decided by drawing of lots
Long Jump
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
| 1896 1900 1904 1906 1908 1912 1920 - 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 |
Ellery Clark USA Alvin Kraenzlein USA Meyer Prinstein USA Meyer Prinstein USA Frank Irons USA Albert Gutterson USA Wilhelm Björnemann (“William Pettersson”) SWE DeHart Hubbard USA Ed Hamm USA Ed Gordon USA Jesse Owens USA Willie Steele USA Jerome Biffle USA Greg Bell USA Ralph Boston USA Lynn Davies GBR Bob Beamon USA Randy Williams USA Arnie Robinson USA Lutz Dombrowski GDR Carl Lewis USA Carl Lewis USA Carl Lewis USA Carl Lewis USA Iván Pedroso CUB Dwight Phillips USA Irving Saladino PAN Greg Rutherford GBR |
6.35 7.185 7.34 7.20 7.48 7.60 7.15 - 7.445 7.73 7.64 8.06w 7.825 7.57 7.83 8.12 8.07 8.90A 8.24 8.35 8.54 8.54 8.72 8.67 8.50 8.55 8.59 8.34 8.31 |
Robert Garrett USA Meyer Prinstein USA Daniel Frank USA Peter O’Connor GBR(IRL) Daniel Kelly USA Calvin Bricker CAN Carl Johnson USA - Ned Gourdin USA Silvio Cator HAI Lambert Redd USA Luz Long GER Theo “Bill” Bruce AUS Meredith Gourdine USA John Bennett USA Irvin “Bo” Roberson USA Ralph Boston USA Klaus Beer GDR Hans Baumgartner FRG Randy Williams USA Frank Paschek GDR Gary Honey AUS Mike Powell USA Mike Powell USA James Beckford JAM Jai Taurima AUS John Moffitt USA Godfrey Mokoena RSA Mitchell Watt AUS |
6.00 7.175 6.89 7.025 7.09 7.21 7.095 - 7.275 7.58 7.60 7.87w 7.555 7.53 7.68 8.11 8.03 8.19A 8.18 8.11 8.21 8.24 8.49 8.64 8.29 8.49 8.47 8.24 8.16 |
James Connolly USA Pat Leahy GBR(IRL) Robert Stangland USA Hugo Friend USA Calvin Bricker CAN Georg Åberg SWE Erik Abrahamsson SWE - Sverre Hansen NOR Alfred Bates USA Chuhei Nambu JPN Naoto Tajima JPN Herb Douglas USA Ödön Földessy HUN Jorma Valkama FIN Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS(RUS) Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS(RUS) Ralph Boston USA Arnie Robinson USA Frank Wartenberg GDR Valeriy Podluzhniy URS(UKR) Giovanni Evangelisti ITA Larry Myricks USA Joe Greene USA Joe Greene USA Roman Shchurenko UKR Joan Lino Martínez ESP Ibrahim Camejo CUB Will Claye USA |
5.84 6.95 6.88 6.96 7.08 7.18 7.08 - 7.26 7.40 7.45 7.74 7.545 7.30 7.48 8.04 7.99 8.16A 8.03 8.02 8.18 8.24 8.27 8.34 8.24 8.31 8.32 8.20 8.12 |
Standing Long Jump
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
| 1900 1904 1906 1908 1912 |
Ray Ewry USA Ray Ewry USA Ray Ewry USA Ray Ewry USA Konstantinos Tsiklitiras GRE |
3.21 3.47 3.30 3.335 3.37 |
Irving Baxter USA Charles King USA Martin Sheridan USA Konstantinos Tsiklitiras GRE Platt Adams USA |
3.135 3.27 3.095 3.235 3.36 |
Emile Torcheboeuf FRA John Biller USA Lawson Robertson USA Martin Sheridan USA Ben Adams USA |
3.03 3.25 3.05 3.225 3.28 |
Triple Jump
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
| 1896 1900 1904 1906 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 |
James Connolly USA Meyer Prinstein USA Meyer Prinstein USA Peter O’Connor GBR(IRL) Tim Ahearne GBR(IRL) Gustaf Lindblom SWE Vilho Tuulos FIN Nick Winter AUS Mikio Oda JPN Chuhei Nambu JPN Naoto Tajima JPN Arne Åhman SWE Adhemar da Silva BRA Adhemar da Silva BRA Józef Schmidt POL Józef Schmidt POL Viktor Sanyeyev URS(GEO) Viktor Sanyeyev URS(GEO) Viktor Sanyeyev URS(GEO) Jaak Uudmäe URS(EST) Al Joyner USA Khristo Markov BUL Mike Conley USA Kenny Harrison USA Jonathan Edwards GBR Christian Olsson SWE Nelson Évora POR Christian Taylor USA |
13.71 14.47 14.35 14.075 14.915 14.76 14.505 15.525 15.21 15.72 16.00 15.40 16.22 16.35 16.81 16.85 17.39A 17.35 17.29 17.35 17.26w 17.61 18.17w 18.09 17.71 17.79 17.67 17.81 |
Alexandre Tuffère FRA James Connolly USA Fred Englehardt USA Con Leahy GBR(IRL) Garfield MacDonald CAN Georg Åberg SWE Folke Jansson SWE Luis Brunetto ARG Levi Casey USA Eric Svensson SWE Masao Harada JPN George Avery AUS Leonid Shcherbakov URS(RUS) Vilhjálmur Einarsson ISL Vladimir Goryayev URS(BLR) Oleg Fedoseyev URS(RUS) Nelson Prudencio BRA Jörg Drehmel GDR James Butts USA Viktor Sanyeyev URS(GEO) Mike Conley USA Igor Lapshin URS(BLR) Charlie Simpkins USA Jonathan Edwards GBR Yoel García CUB Marian Oprea ROM Phillips Idowu GBR Will Claye USA |
12.70 13.97 13.90 13.98 14.76 14.51 14.48 15.425 15.17 15.32 15.66 15.365 15.98 16.26 16.63 16.58 17.27A 17.31 17.18 17.24 17.18 17.52 17.60 17.88 17.47 17.55 17.62 17.62 |
Ioannis Persakis GRE Lewis Sheldon USA Robert Stangland USA Thomas Cronan USA Edvard Larsen NOR Erik Almlöf SWE Erik Almlöf SWE Vilho Tuulos FIN Vilho Tuulos FIN Kenkichi Oshima JPN Jack Metcalfe AUS Ruhi Sarialp TUR Arnoldo Devonish VEN Vitold Kreyer URS(RUS) Vitold Kreyer URS(RUS) Viktor Kravchenko URS(RUS) Giuseppe Gentile ITA Nelson Prudencio BRA João Carlos de Oliveira BRA João Carlos de Oliveira BRA Keith Connor GBR Aleksandr Kovalenko URS(BLR) Frank Rutherford BAH Yoelbi Quesada CUB Denis Kapustin RUS Danila Burkenya RUS Leevan Sands BAH Fabrizio Donato ITA |
12.52 13.64 13.36 13.70 14.395 14.17 14.27 15.37 15.11 15.12 15.50 15.025 15.52 16.02 16.43 16.57 17.22A 17.05 16.90 17.22 16.87 17.42 17.36 17.44 17.46 17.48 17.59 17.48 |
Standing Triple Jump
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
| 1900 1904 |
Ray Ewry USA Ray Ewry USA |
10.58 10.55 |
Irving Baxter USA Charles King USA |
9.95 10.16 |
Robert Garrett USA Joseph Stadler USA |
9.50 9.60 |
