European Athletics Championships 1998 / men's triple jump

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 20 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 22nd (qualification) August 23rd (final)
Medalist Jonathan Edwards ( GBR )   Denis Kapustin ( RUS )   Rostislav Dimitrov ( BUL )

Népstadion in Budapest

The men's triple jump at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 22 and 23, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

The European champion was the Olympic runner-up in 1996 , world champion in 1995 , runner-up world champion in 1997 and world record holder Jonathan Edwards . Second place went to defending champion Denis Kapustin . Bronze went to the Bulgarian Rostislav Dimitrov .

Records

Existing records

World record	18.29 m	Jonathan Edwards	Gothenburg , Sweden	August 7, 1995
European record
EM record	17.74 m	Leonid Voloshin	EM Split , Yugoslavia	August 30, 1990

Record improvement

European champion Jonathan Edwards improved the existing EM record in the final on 23 August by 25 centimeters to 17.99 m.

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the best jumps are named. The permitted limit is two meters per second. With stronger wind support, the distance will be counted for the competition, but will not be included in the lists of records and the best.

qualification

August 22, 1998

32 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 16.90 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next-placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 16.50 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

16.49 m was not enough for Raúl Chapado to take part in the finals

Avi Tayari retired with 16.29 m in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Aljaksandr Hlawazki	Belarus	17.10	-1.0
2	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	16.97	+0.1
3	Vasily Sokov	Russia	16.82	-1.6
4th	Zoran Đurđević	Yugoslavia	16.69	-0.8
5	Zsolt Czingler	Hungary	16.69	-0.7
6th	Hrvoje Verzi	Germany	16.54	-1.2
7th	Johan Meriluoto	Finland	16.50	± 0.0
8th	Raúl Chapado	Spain	16.49	+0.4
9	Audrius Raizgys	Lithuania	16.39	-0.9
10	Yuri Ossypenko	Ukraine	16.34	-0.2
11	Avi Tayari	Israel	16.26	-0.1
12	Igor Gavrilenko	Russia	16.12	-1.2
13	Hrístos Melétoglou	Greece	16.10	-0.5
14th	Csaba Boros	Romania	15.91	-0.1
15th	Nikolay Raev	Bulgaria	15.54	-0.4
NM	Eduardo Pérez	Spain	ogV

Group B

Yago Lamela remained in qualification without a valid attempt

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Charles Friedek	Germany	17.10	+0.9
2	Rogel Nachum	Israel	16.87	-0.2
3	Denis Kapustin	Russia	16.79	-0.9
4th	Rostislav Dimitrov	Bulgaria	16.78	+0.7
5	Ketill Hanstveit	Norway	16.55	+0.2
6th	Poor Martirosjan	Armenia	16.33	-1.2
7th	Julian Golley	Great Britain	16.32	-0.3
8th	Paolo Camossi	Italy	16.24	-0.2
9	Colomba Fofana	France	16.16	+0.9
10	Onochie Achike	Great Britain	16.13	-1.2
11	Jiří Kuntoš	Czech Republic	16.13	-0.2
12	Vitaly Kolpakov	Ukraine	15.69	+0.7
13	Stamátios Lénis	Greece	15.42	-1.1
14th	Alen Topolovcan	Slovenia	14.65	-1.7
NM	Yago Lamela	Spain	ogV
	Galin Georgiev	Bulgaria

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	left out
x	invalid

final

August 23, 1998

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	Wind (m / s)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	17.99 CR	+0.5	17.84	17.53	-	-	-	17.99
2	Denis Kapustin	Russia	17.45	+1.4	17.13	17.22	17.45	-	16.90	x
3	Rostislav Dimitrov	Bulgaria	17.26	+2.1	17.26	x	x	x	x	x
4th	Aljaksandr Hlawazki	Belarus	17.22	+1.5	16.56	16.93	17.22	x	16.77	x
5	Vasily Sokov	Russia	17.16	+2.4	x	16.48	17.16	16.77	x	16.15
6th	Charles Friedek	Germany	17.04	-0.3	x	16.94	16.92	x	17.04	16.98
7th	Zsolt Czingler	Hungary	17.03	+0.5	16.45	16.20	17.03	x	16.75	x
8th	Rogel Nachum	Israel	16.99	+0.8	16.99	x	16.74	x	16.62	x
9	Johan Meriluoto	Finland	16.84	+1.3	16.73	16.84	15.58	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Zoran Đurđević	Yugoslavia	16.83	+2.7	16.83	16.66	16.48
11	Hrvoje Verzi	Germany	16.67	+0.2	x	16.62	16.67
12	Ketill Hanstveit	Norway	16.58	+0.1	16.43	16.53	16.58

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  European champion Jonathan Edwards was only one centimeter short of the 18-meter mark

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  Rogel Nachum reached eighth place

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  Johan Meriluoto came in ninth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 on european-athletics.org, accessed October 11, 2019
• European Championship 1998 Budapest, Men Triple Jump on todor66.com, accessed October 11, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 11, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Triple Jump European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 473 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 11, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, triple jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 11, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 11, 2019

Video

• Jonathan Edwards Triple Jump 17.99m Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 11, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump men , accessed October 11, 2019