Richmond Landon
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men’s Athletics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 1920 Antwerp | High jump | |
Richmond Wilcox Landon (November 20, 1898 - June 13, 1971) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the high jump.
He competed for the United States in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium in the high jump where he won the gold medal.
| 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 | Harold Osborn | 1928: Robert 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 Wszoła | 1980: Gerd Wessig | 1984: Dietmar Mögenburg | 1988: Gennadiy Avdeyenko | 1992: Javier Sotomayor | 1996: Charles Austin | 2000: Sergey Klyugin | 2004: Stefan Holm |
