Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault

Men's pole vault at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Date	August 1
Medalists
Sabin Carr  United States William Droegemuller  United States Charles McGinnis  United States

Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's pole vault event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place August 1.

Results

Qualifying round

All athletes tied for first place advanced to the Final Round.

Rank	Athlete	Country	Height (m)
1	János Karlovits	Hungary	3.66
1	Lee Barnes	United States	3.66
1	William Droegemuller	United States	3.66
1	Yonetaro Nakazawa	Japan	3.66
1	Charles McGinnis	United States	3.66
1	Henry Lindblad	Sweden	3.66
1	Julius Müller	Germany	3.66
1	Sabin Carr	United States	3.66
1	Victor Pickard	Canada	3.66
10	Aksel Nikolajsen	Denmark	3.50
10	Laurence Bond	Great Britain	3.50
10	José Culí	Spain	3.50
10	Maurice Henrijean	Belgium	3.50
14	Age van der Zee	Netherlands	3.30
14	Gérard Noël	Belgium	3.30
14	Stelios Benardis	Greece	3.30
-	René Joannes-Powell	Belgium	No height
-	Argyris Karagiannis	Greece	No height
-	Pierre Ramadier	France	No height
-	Robert Vintousky	France	No height

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Height	Notes
	Sabin Carr	United States	4.20	OR
	William Droegemuller	United States	4.10
	Charles McGinnis	United States	3.95
4	Victor Pickard	23x15px Canada	3.95
5	Lee Barnes	United States	3.95
6	Yonetaro Nakazawa	Japan	3.90
7	Henry Lindblad	Sweden	3.90
8	János Karlovits	Hungary	3.80
9	Julius Müller	Germany	3.65

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1928 Summer Olympics results: Men's pole vault, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-03-07.