sport.wikisort.org - AthleteJohn Arthur "Jack" Winter (3 December 1924 – 5 December 2007)[3] was an Australian high jumper who won that event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London with a jump of 1.98 metres (6 ft. 6 in.).[1][4]
Australian high jumper
A 23-year-old bank teller, Winter is Australia's only Olympic high jump gold medalist.
Career
Winter's potential was first seen as a 15-year-old in the 1940 Interschool Carnival for Scotch College, Perth. He cleared 1.79 m. (5 ft. 10⅜ in.) to win the under 16 event and 1.85 m. (6 ft. 0⅞ in.) to win the open event.[5]
He served in the RAAF in Britain during World War II and was about to join a Wellington Bomber squadron when the hostilities ended. After the war he returned to competition and won the 1947 and 1948 Australian championships.
The next year he joined the Australian team in London for the Olympic Games where he was considered an outside medal chance only against the strong American jumpers. Of the 26 competitors, only Winter and Georges Damitio used the unfashionable so-called eastern cut-off style of jumping. The rest used the straddle or the western roll. The competition took several hours, with cold rain falling for much of the time. When the bar reached 1.95 m (6 ft 4¾ in) five jumpers, including Winter, remained. At 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) the other four failed with their first attempt. Winter, the last to jump, easily cleared the bar. The others, by then very cold and wet, failed with their other attempts. The irony was that all had jumped higher in previous competitions.[1]
After the London Games, he stayed on in England, missing the 1949 Australian championships. He returned the following year and won the 1950 title in the lead up to the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland. The Auckland Games gave him another gold medal, clearing 1.98 m. - the same height he'd achieved two years earlier. At the age of 26, Winter retired from competition soon after.[1]
Winter's lifetime personal best was 2 m. (6 ft. 6 ⅞ in.) when he won the 1948 Australian championship, although in training he is reported to have jumped 2.01 m. (6 ft. 7 ¼ in.).[1][5] Most of his successes were achieved with leaps between 1.96 m. and 1.98 m.
Awards
- He was awarded the Helms Award as the Outstanding Australian Athlete of 1947.
- He was inducted into the Western Australian Hall of Champions in 1985.
- A commemorative plaque on St Georges Terrace bears his name.
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 Olympic champions in men's high jump |
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Commonwealth Games champions in men's high jump |
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- 1930: Johannes Viljoen (SAF)
- 1934–1938: Edwin Thacker (SAF)
- 1950: John Winter (AUS)
- 1954: Emmanuel Ifeajuna (NGR)
- 1958: Ernle Haisley (JAM)
- 1962: Percy Hobson (AUS)
- 1966–1970: Lawrie Peckham (AUS)
- 1974: Gordon Windeyer (AUS)
- 1978: Claude Ferragne (CAN)
- 1982–1986: Milton Ottey (CAN)
- 1990: Clarence Saunders (BER)
- 1994: Tim Forsyth (AUS)
- 1998: Dalton Grant (ENG)
- 2002–2006: Mark Boswell (CAN)
- 2010: Donald Thomas (BAH)
- 2014: Derek Drouin (CAN)
- 2018: Brandon Starc (AUS)
- 2022: Hamish Kerr (NZL)
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Australian National Champions in Men's High Jump |
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- 1930: Charles Spicer
- 1932: Jim Watson
- 1934–37: Dudleigh Shetliffe
- 1947–48: John Winter
- 1949: Peter Mullins
- 1950: John Winter
- 1951: Georges Damitio (FRA)
- 1952: Merv Peter
- 1953–54: John Vernon
- 1955–61: Chilla Porter
- 1962: Percy Hobson
- 1963–64: Tony Sneazwell
- 1965–67: Lawrie Peckham
- 1968: Tony Sneazwell
- 1969–75: Lawrie Peckham
- 1976–78: Gordon Windeyer
- 1979: Michael Dick
- 1980: David Morrow
- 1981: David Hoyle
- 1982: Larry Sayers
- 1983: Mark Barratt
- 1984: John Atkinson
- 1985: Michael Allen
- 1986: Lee Balkin (USA) (2nd Ian Rutledge, Qld)
- 1987: Marc Howard
- 1988: David Anderson
- 1989: Ian Garrett
- 1990: David Anderson
- 1991–94: Tim Forsyth
- 1995: Ian Garrett
- 1996: Chris Anderson
- 1997–98: Tim Forsyth
- 1999: Ron Garlett
- 2000–02: Nick Moroney
- 2003: Joshua Lodge
- 2004–06: Nick Moroney
- 2007: Liam Zamel-Paez
- 2008: Cal Pearce
- 2009-10: Liam Zamel-Paez
- 2011: Chris Armet
- 2012: Nick Moroney
- 2013: Brandon Starc
- 2014: Nick Bojic
- 2015: Brandon Starc
- 2016: Nauraj Singh Randhawa (MAS) (2nd Thomas Brennan, WA)
- 2017: Lee Hup Wei (MAS) (2nd Joel Baden, Vic)
- 2018: Brandon Starc
- 2019: Joel Baden
- 2020: not held
- 2021: Brandon Starc
- 2022: Yual Reath
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- [en] John Winter (athlete)
[fr] John Winter (athlétisme)
John Winter (né le 3 décembre 1924 à Victoria Park - mort le 5 décembre 2007) était un athlète australien, spécialiste du saut en hauteur.
[it] John Winter (atleta)
John Arthur Winter, noto anche come Jack Winter (Victoria Park, 3 dicembre 1924 – Perth, 5 dicembre 2007), è stato un altista australiano, medaglia d'oro ai Giochi olimpici di Londra 1948.
[ru] Уинтер, Джон
Джон Уинтер (англ. John Arthur «Jack» Winter; 3 декабря 1924[1][2], Перт — 5 декабря 2007, Перт) — австралийский легкоатлет (прыжок в высоту), чемпион Игр Содружества, чемпион летних Олимпийских игр 1948 года в Лондоне.
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