Samuel Jones (athlete)

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Samuel Jones (athlete)
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Gold 1904 St Louis High jump

Samuel Symington Jones (10 March 1879 - April 13, 1954) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the high jump.

He competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in the high jump where he won the gold medal.


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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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