Robert King

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Olympic medal record
Men’s athletics
Gold	1928 Amsterdam	High jump

Robert King (born 20 June 1906) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the high jump.

He competed for the United States in the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands 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