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Irving Baxter
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| Olympic medalist | |||
 Irving Baxter |
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| Medal record | |||
| Men's athletics | |||
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| Gold | Paris 1900 | High Jump | |
| Gold | Paris 1900 | Pole Vault | |
| Silver | Paris 1900 | Standing High Jump | |
| Silver | Paris 1900 | Standing Long Jump | |
| Silver | Paris 1900 | 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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| 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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| 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: Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz • 1984: Pierre Quinon • 1988: Sergei Bubka • 1992: Maksim Tarasov • 1996: Jean Galfione • 2000: Nick Hysong • 2004: Tim Mack |
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