Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's standing high jump

Men's standing high jump at the Games of the V Olympiad
Adams on the way to win the gold medal.
Venue	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Date	July 13
Competitors	18 from 9 nations
Medalists
Platt Adams   United States   Benjamin Adams   United States   Konstantinos Tsiklitiras   Greece

Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men
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800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
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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
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Individual	men
Team	men

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.

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.

Eighteen high jumpers from nine nations competed.

Results

Place	Athlete	Preliminary							Final								Mark
		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
	Platt Adams (USA)	O	O	O	O	O	O	QF	O	O	O	O	O	XO	O	XXX	1.63
	Benjamin Adams (USA)	O	O	O	O	---	O	QF	O	O	O	O	O	O	XXX	---	1.60
	Konstantinos Tsiklitiras (GRE)	O	O	O	O	---	O	QF	O	O	O	XO	XO	XXX	---	---	1.55
4	Edvard Möller (SWE)	O	O	O	O	---	O	QF	O	O	O	O	XXX	---	---	---	1.50
	Leo Goehring (USA)	O	O	O	XXO	---	XO	QF	O	XO	O	O	XXX	---	---	---	1.50
	Richard Byrd (USA)	O	O	O	O	---	XXO	QF	O	O	O	XO	XXX	---	---	---	1.50
7	Forest Fletcher (USA)	O	O	O	O	---	XXX										1.45
	Rudolf Smedmark (SWE)	O	O	O	O	---	XXX										1.45
	Frank Belote (USA)	O	O	XXO	O	---	XXX										1.45
	Géo André (FRA)	---	O	XO	XO	---	XXX										1.45
	Leif Ekman (SWE)	O	O	O	XXO	---	XXX										1.45
	Karl Bergh (SWE)	O	O	O	XXO	XXX	---										1.45
13	Rodolfo Hammersley (CHI)	O	O	O	XXX	---	---										1.40
	Alfred Schwarz (RUS)	O	O	O	XXX	---	---										1.40
	Birger Brodtkorb (NOR)	XO	XO	XO	XXX	---	---										1.40
16	Benjamin Howard Baker (GBR)	XO	O	XXX	---	---	---										1.35
17	Helmer Måhl (SWE)	O	---	---	---	---	---										1.30
18	Andor Horvag (HUN)	---	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. 
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 4 January 2007.