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1940
Track
Field
High Jump
1
Lester Steers
USA
2.067
1
John Wilson
USA
2.067
3
Don Boydston
USA
2.038
3
Joshua Williamson
USA
2.038
5
Tetsuo Akima
JPN
2.02
6
Kelly Horn
USA
2.010
7
Bill Wakefield
USA
2.007
8
Joseph C. Devall
USA
2.003
8
Adam Berry
USA
2.003
10
Erik Stai
NOR
2.00
Pole Vault
1
Cornelius Warmerdam
USA
4.60
2
Earle Meadows
USA
4.47
2
Kenneth Dills
USA
4.47
4
Guinn Smith
USA
4.38
5
Dick Ganslen
USA
4.37
6
Ralph Ross
USA
4.32
7
Bernard Deacon
USA
4.31
8
Earl Stolberg
USA
4.30
9
Beefus Bryan
USA
4.26
9
Carl Clark
USA
4.26
Long Jump
1
Pat Turner
USA
7.78
2
Genken Kanayama
JPN
7.66
3
Billy Brown
USA
7.65
4
Jackie Robinson
USA
7.62
5
Bill Lacefield
USA
7.59
6
Frank Freeman
USA
7.57
7
Berton Yates
USA
7.51
7
Welles Hodgson
USA
7.51
9
James Mather
USA
7.49
10
James O'Reilly
USA
7.48
Triple Jump
1
Genken Kanayama
JPN
15.68
2
Masahiko Omuro
JPN
15.56
3
Lloyd Miller
AUS
15.54
4
Masao Harada
JPN
15.52
5
Billy Brown
USA
15.30
6
Onni Rajasaari
FIN
15.22
7
Leslie Boosey
IND
15.18
8
Åke Hallgren
SWE
15.10
9
Bertil Johnsson
SWE
15.06
10
Seiji Saito
JPN
15.03
Shot Put
1
Alfred Blozis
USA
17.03
2
Stanley Anderson
USA
16.86
3
Heinrich Trippe
GER
16.60
4
Aleksander Kreek
EST
16.40
5
Lilburn Williams
USA
16.27
5
William Trout
USA
16.27
7
Herbert Michael
USA
16.24
8
Hans Woellke
GER
16.06
9
Elmer Hackney
USA
16.00
10
Don McNeil
USA
15.91
Discus Throw
1
Phil Fox(Levy)
USA
51.93
2
Peter Zagar
USA
51.08
3
Alfred Blozis
USA
51.02
4
Archie Harris
USA
50.74
5
Gunnar Bergh
SWE
50.65
6
Vilmos Horváth
HUN
50.61
7
Adolfo Consolini
ITA
50.46
8
Nikolas Syllas
GRE
50.35
9
Jack Hughes
USA
49.98
10
Johann Wotapek
AUT
49.88
Hammer Throw
1
Karl Storch
GER
57.91
2
Robert Bennett
USA
56.05
3
Oskar Linnaste
EST
55.78
4
Stanley Johnson
USA
55.63
5
Uuno Veirilä
FIN
55.40
6
Milan Stepisnik
YUG
54.64
7
Aleksandr Shekhtyel
URS
54.60
8
Karl Hein
GER
54.57
9
Sebastian Mayer
GER
54.08
10
Göran Backlund
SWE
54.01
Javelin Throw
1
Matti Mikkola
FIN
75.61
2
Matti Järvinen
FIN
75.09
3
Yrjö Nikkanen
FIN
73.52
4
Erkki Autonen
FIN
72.97
5
Tapio Rautavaara
FIN
71.22
6
Hugo Vainio
FIN
71.08
7
Boyd Brown
USA
70.89
8
Lennart Atterwall
SWE
70.54
9
Viktor Alekseyev
URS
69.65
10
Friedrich Issak
EST
68.66
Decathlon
1
Bill Watson
USA
7523
2
Lee Todd
USA
6941
3
Rudolf Glötzner
GER
6894
4
Aleksandr Dyomin
URS
6720
5
Joe Scott
USA
6702
6
Svend-Aage Thomsen
DEN
6693
7
Uyval Jones
USA
6642
8
Edvin Larsen
DEN
6599
9
Ivan Stepanchonok
URS
6573
10
Pavel Ivanov
URS
6494