High Jump Men's Olympic Medalists

The gold, silver, and bronze medal winners in the men’s high jump from the Summer Olympic games.

• 1896
  GOLD Ellery Clark, USA 1.81
  SILVER James Connolly, USA 1.65
  SILVER Robert Garrett, USA 1.65

• 1900
  GOLD Irving Baxter, USA 1.90
  SILVER Patrick Leahy, GBR 1.78
  BRONZE Lajos Gönczy, HUN 1.75

• 1904
  GOLD Samuel Jones, USA 1.80
  SILVER Garrett Serviss, USA 1.78
  BRONZE Paul Weinstein, GER 1.78

• 1906
  GOLD Con Leahy, GBR 1.77
  SILVER Lajos Gönczy, HUN 1.75
  BRONZE Themistoklis Diakidis, GRE 1.73
  BRONZE Herbert Kerrigan, USA 1.73

• 1908
  GOLD Harry Porter, USA 1.91
  SILVER Con Leahy, GBR 1.88
  SILVER István Somodi, HUN 1.88
  SILVER Géo André, FRA 1.88

• 1912
  GOLD Alma Richards, USA 1.93
  SILVER Hans Liesche, GER 1.91
  BRONZE George Horine, USA 1.89

• 1920
  GOLD Richmond Landon, USA 1.93
  SILVER Harold Muller, USA 1.90
  BRONZE Bo Ekelund, SWE 1.90

• 1924
  GOLD Harold Osborn, USA 1.98
  SILVER Leroy Brown, USA 1.95
  BRONZE Pierre Lewden, FRA 1.92

• 1928
  GOLD Bob King, USA 1.94
  SILVER Benjamin Hedges, USA 1.91
  BRONZE Claude Ménard, FRA 1.91

• 1932
  GOLD Duncan McNaughton, CAN 1.97
  SILVER Robert Van Osdel, USA 1.97
  BRONZE Simeon Toribio, PHI 1.97

• 1936
  GOLD Cornelius Johnson, USA 2.03
  SILVER Dave Albritton, USA 2.00
  BRONZE Delos Thurber, USA 2.00

• 1948
  GOLD John Winter, AUS 1.98
  SILVER Bjørn Paulson, NOR 1.95
  BRONZE George Stanich, USA 1.95

• 1952
  GOLD Walt Davis, USA 2.04
  SILVER Ken Wiesner, USA 2.01
  BRONZE José da Conceicão, BRA 1.98

• 1956
  GOLD Charles Dumas, USA 2.12
  SILVER Chilla Porter, AUS 2.10
  BRONZE Igor Kashkarov, URS 2.08

• 1960
  GOLD Robert Shavlakadze, URS 2.16
  SILVER Valeriy Brumel, URS 2.16
  BRONZE John Thomas, USA 2.14

• 1964
  GOLD ] Valeriy Brumel, URS 2.18
  SILVER John Thomas, USA 2.18
  BRONZE John Rambo, USA 2.16

• 1968
  GOLD Dick Fosbury, USA 2.24
  SILVER Ed Caruthers, USA 2.22
  BRONZE Valentin Gavrilov, URS 2.20

• 1972
  GOLD Jϋri Tarmak, URS 2.23
  SILVER Stefan Junge, GDR 2.21
  BRONZE Dwight Stones, USA 2.21

• 1976
  GOLD Jacek Wszola, POL 2.25
  SILVER Greg Joy, CAN 2.23
  BRONZE Dwight Stones, USA 2.21

• 1980
  GOLD Gerd Wessig, GDR 2.36
  SILVER Jacek Wszola, POL 2.31
  BRONZE Jörg Freimuth, GDR 2.31

• 1984
  GOLD Dietmar Mögenburg, FRG 2.35
  SILVER Patrik Sjöberg, SWE 2.33
  BRONZE Zhu Jianhua, CHN 2.31

• 1988
  GOLD Gennadiy Avdyeyenko,URS 2.38
  SILVER Hollis Conway, USA 2.36
  BRONZE Patrik Sjöberg, SWE 2.36
  BRONZE Rudolf Povarnitsyn, URS 2.36

• 1992
  GOLD Javier Sotomayor, CUB 2.34
  SILVER Patrik Sjöberg, SWE 2.34
  BRONZE Hollis Conway, USA 2.34
  BRONZE Artur Partyka, POL 2.34
  BRONZE Tim Forsyth, AUS 2.34

• 1996
  GOLD Charles Austin, USA 2.39
  SILVER Artur Partyka, POL 2.37
  BRONZE Steve Smith, GBR 2.35

• 2000
  GOLD Sergey Klyugin, RUS 2.35
  SILVER Javier Sotomayor, CUB 2.32
  BRONZE Abderrahmane Hammad, ALG 2.32

• 2004
  GOLD Stefan Holm, SWE 2.36
  SILVER Matt Hemingway, USA 2.34
  BRONZE Jarslav Bába, CZE 2.34

• 2008
  GOLD Andrey Silnov, RUS 2.36
  SILVER Germaine Mason, GBR 2.34
  BRONZE Yaroslav Rybakov, RUS 2.34



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