Welles Hoyt

Men's athletics
Olympic medal record
Gold	Athens 1896	Pole vault

William Welles Hoyt (May 7, 1875 - December 1, 1954) was an American athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.

He competed in the pole vault, winning the event with a height of 3.30 metres.

Hoyt also ran the 110 metres hurdles. He placed second in his heat, after Thomas Curtis, but did not run in the final.

Olympic champions in men's pole vault
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: Władysław Kozakiewicz \| 1984: Pierre Quinon \| 1988: Sergei Bubka \| 1992: Maksim Tarasov \| 1996: Jean Galfione \| 2000: Nick Hysong \| 2004: Tim Mack

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