Platt Adams

Medal record
Adams in 1912
Men’s athletics
Competitor for the United States
Olympic Games
Gold	1912 Stockholm	Standing high jump
Silver	1912 Stockholm	Standing long jump

Platt Adams (March 23, 1885 – February 27, 1961) was an American athlete. He competed for the United States in the 1908 Summer Olympics held in London and in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden.

Biography

He was born in Belleville, New Jersey on March 23, 1885. He had a brother, Benjamin Willard Adams, also an Olympic athlete. In 1908 he finished fifth in the triple jump competition as well as in the standing high jump event. In the standing long jump competition he finished sixth. He also participated in the discus throw event and in the Greek discus contest but in both events his result is unknown.

Four years later he won the gold medal in the standing high jump and the silver medal in the standing long jump. In 1912 he also finished fifth in the triple jump competition and 23rd in the high jump event. At the same Olympics he competed in the baseball event which was held as demonstration sport.

He died in Normandy Beach, New Jersey on February 27, 1961.

External links

• Profile on sports-reference.com
• Find-A-Grave site

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  Adams competing in the long jump.

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  Platt Adams, Jim Duncan, and Benjamin Willard Adams aboard the SS Stockholm in 1913