Irving Baxter

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Olympic medalist
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Irving Baxter
Medal record
Men's athletics
Gold 1900 Paris High Jump
Gold 1900 Paris Pole Vault
Silver 1900 Paris Standing High Jump
Silver 1900 Paris Standing Long Jump
Silver 1900 Paris Standing Triple Jump

Irving Knot Baxter (March 25, 1876 – June 13, 1957) was an American athlete, who won the gold medal in both the men's high jump and the pole vault at the 1900 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France.

Baxter also took second place to Ray Ewry in all three of the standing jumps (long, triple, and high) in 1900.

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Olympic champions in men's high jump
1896: Ellery Clark • 1900: Irving Baxter • 1904: Samuel Jones • 1906: Cornelius Leahy • 1908: Harry Porter • 1912: Alma Richards • 1920: Richmond Landon • 1924: Harold Osborn • 1928: Robert Wade King • 1932: Duncan McNaughton • 1936: Cornelius Johnson • 1948: John Winter • 1952: Walter Davis • 1956: Charles Dumas • 1960: Robert Shavlakadze • 1964: Valeriy Brumel • 1968: Dick Fosbury • 1972: Jüri Tarmak • 1976: Jacek Wszola • 1980: Gerd Wessig • 1984: Dietmar Mögenburg • 1988: Gennadiy Avdeyenko • 1992: Javier Sotomayor • 1996: Charles Austin • 2000: Sergey Klyugin • 2004: Stefan Holm
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Olympic Champions in the Men's Pole Vault
1896: Welles Hoyt • 1900: Irving Baxter • 1904: Charles Dvorak • 1906: Fernand Gonder • 1908: Edward Cook/Alfred Gilbert • 1912: Harry Babcock • 1920: Frank Foss • 1924: Lee Barnes • 1928: Sabin Carr • 1932: William Miller • 1936: Earle Meadows • 1948: Guinn Smith • 1952: Bob Richards • 1956: Bob Richards • 1960: Don Bragg • 1964: Fred Hansen • 1968: Bob Seagren • 1972: Wolfgang Nordwig • 1976: Tadeusz Ślusarski • 1980: Władysław Kozakiewicz • 1984: Pierre Quinon • 1988: Sergei Bubka • 1992: Maksim Tarasov • 1996: Jean Galfione • 2000: Nick Hysong • 2004: Tim Mack



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