Irving Baxter

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|birth_date= March 25, 1876

|birth_place= Utica, New York

| death_date = June 13, 1957 (aged 81)

| death_place = Utica, New York

|sport=Athletics

|event= high jump

|club= Penn Quakers, Philadelphia

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Irving Knott Baxter (March 25, 1876 in Utica, New York – June 13, 1957 in Utica, New York) 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78090 |title=Irving Baxter |work=Olympedia |access-date=24 December 2020}}

Biography

Baxter graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 1899 and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 1901.{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/irving-knott-baxter |title= Irving Knott Baxter|website=archives.upenn.edu |access-date=August 5, 2021}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}

Baxter won the high jump title at the British 1900 AAA Championships.{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=30 July 2024}}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/19000709/019/0001 |title=The Amateur Athletic Association Championships |work=Sporting Life |date=9 July 1900 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=30 July 2024}} Shortly afterwards, Baxter won the gold medal in both the men's high jump and the pole jump at the 1900 Summer Olympics and took second place to Ray Ewry in all three of the standing jumps (long, triple, and high) in 1900.

Baxter won further British AAA Championship titles, winning the high jump and pole jump events at the 1901 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000901/19010708/059/0003 |title=The Amateur Championships |work=Huddersfield Daily Examiner |date=8 July 1901 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=31 July 2024}}

File:Irving Baxter, champion olympique de saut à la perche en 1900 (3m30).jpg

Baxter is buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, New York.[https://www.foresthillcemetery.org/test Forest Hill Cemetery, official website]