Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's standing high jump
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Men's standing high jump at the Games of the V Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Stockholm Olympic Stadium | |||||||||
Date | July 13 | |||||||||
Competitors | 17 from 9 nations | |||||||||
Winning height | 1.63 | |||||||||
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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. It was the second time in Olympic history that brothers had finished first and second in an event, after the Paine brothers in the 1896 military pistol shooting event.[1] Each of the three standing high jump medalists also medaled in the standing long jump, though in a different order.
Seventeen high jumpers from nine nations competed. NOCs could enter up to 12 athletes.[2]