European Athletics Championships 2014 / men's triple jump

22nd European Athletics Championships
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	21 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Zurich
Competition location	Letzigrund Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th (qualification) August 14th (final)
Medalist Benjamin Compaoré ( FRA )   Ljukman Adams ( RUS )   Alexei Fyodorov ( RUS )

The Letzigrund stadium in Zurich

The triple jump men at the 2014 European Athletics Championships was on 12 and 14 August 2014 in the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich held.

With silver and bronze, the Russian triple jumpers won two medals in this competition. European champion was the French Benjamin Compaoré . Second place went to Ljukman Adams . In third place came Alexei Fyodorov .

Existing records

World record	18.29 m	Jonathan Edwards	Gothenburg , Sweden	August 7, 1995
European record
EM record	17.81 m	Phillips Idowu	EM Barcelona , Spain	July 29, 2010

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the respective 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.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid
r	Competition not continued (retired)

qualification

August 12, 2014, 1:12 p.m.

21 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 16.65 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the six next-placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 16.52 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

Julian Reid retired with 16.52 m in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Yoann Rapinier	France	16.80	16.36 / -0.3	16.23 / +0.1	16.80 / -1.2
2	Alexei Feodorov	Russia	16.65	16.11 / -0.5	16.91 / -1.2	16.65 / ± 0.0
3	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	16.64	x	16.64 / +0.9	-
4th	Marian Oprea	Romania	16.57	16.57 / +1.1	-	-
5	Dimítrios Tsiámis	Greece	16.53	16.05 / -0.1	16.53 / +0.2	x
6th	Julian Reid	Great Britain	16.52	16.52 / -0.1	16.14 / -0.4	16.32 / -0.1
7th	Georgi Tsonov	Bulgaria	16.35	15.74 / -0.2	x	16.35 / -1.3
8th	Vladimir Letnicov	Moldova	16.28	x	16.28 / -0.5	x
9	Jorge Gimeno	Spain	15.98	15.65 / +0.6	x	15.98 / -1.2
10	Alexander Hochuli	Switzerland	15.95	x	x	15.95 / -1.2
11	Alyaksey Zapik	Belarus	15.92	15.92 / -0.3	15.84 / -0.2	15.61 / -1.8
DNS	Darius Aucyna	Lithuania

Group B

Viktor Kusnjezow did not reach the final with a jump of 15.94 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Lyukman Adams	Russia	16.97	16.27 / ± 0.0	16.52 / -1.7	16.97 / +0.1
2	Benjamin Compaoré	France	16.83	16.20 / ± 0.0	x	16.83 / -1.0
3	Nelson Évora	Portugal	16.82	16.64 / -0.3	16.82 / -0.3	-
4th	Pablo Torrijos	Spain	16.66	16.38 / -0.8	16.66 / -0.6	-
5	Rumen Dimitrov	Bulgaria	16.62	16.27 / ± 0.0	16.62 / +0.2	r
6th	Dzmitry Platnitsky	Belarus	16.54	x	/ +0.7	16.54 / +0.5
7th	Fabrizio Schembri	Italy	16.52	16.52 / -0.6	16.31 / -1.1	16.47 / +0.5
8th	Zlatozar Atanasov	Bulgaria	16.32	15.86 / ± 0.0	16.30 / -0.1	16.32 / +0.3
9	Viktor Kuznyetsov	Ukraine	15.94	15.87 / +0.4	15.94 / -0.6	x
10	Aleksi Tammentie	Finland	15.83	x	x	15.83 / +0.7
DNS	Daniele Greco	Italy

final

August 14, 2014, 8:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	4th attempt (m) wind (m / s)	5th attempt (m) wind (m / s)	6th attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Benjamin Compaoré	France	17.46	17.46 / -0.1	17.18 / +0.1	x	-	x	-
2	Lyukman Adams	Russia	17.09	17.09 / -0.5	16.85 / ± 0.0	16.64 / -0.8	x	x	17.06 / -0.5
3	Alexei Feodorov	Russia	17.04	17.04 / +1.1	16.69 / +0.7	x	16.37 / -0.5	16.70 / -0.4	16.76 / -0.5
4th	Yoann Rapinier	France	17.01	x	16.84 / -0.3	16.64 / -1.7	x	16.83 / -0.7	17.01 / -0.1
5	Marian Oprea	Romania	16.94	16.94 / +0.9	x	x	16.52 / -0.2	-	16.71 / +0.1
6th	Nelson Évora	Portugal	16.78	16.63 / +0.3	16.78 / +0.4	16.67 / -0.7	x	16.55 / -0.4	16.67 / +0.3
7th	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	16.66	16.53 / +0.3	16.66 / -0.7	x	x	-	x
8th	Pablo Torrijos	Spain	16.56	16.19 / +1.0	14.46 / ± 0.0	16.56 / ± 0.0	x	x	16.56 / -1.0
9	Rumen Dimitrov	Bulgaria	16.43	16.33 / +1.4	16.15 / +0.8	16.43 / -0.2	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Dimítrios Tsiámis	Greece	16.39	16.23 / +0.6	16.39 / -0.9	16.07 / +0.2
11	Dzmitry Platnitsky	Belarus	16.25	x	16.09 / -0.3	16.25 / -0.8
12	Fabrizio Schembri	Italy	16.02	15.10 / -0.6	16.02 / -0.2	x

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  European champion Benjamin Compaoré

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  Bronze medalist Alexei Fyodorov

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  Yoann Rapinier came in fourth

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  Marian Oprea finished fifth

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  Nelson Évora, 2008 Olympic Champion, 2007 World Champion and 2009 Vice World Champion, finished sixth

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  Fabrizio Donato reached seventh place

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  Tenth place Dimítrios Tsiámis

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  Fabrizio Schembri - Twelfth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Zurich 2014 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 8, 2020
• European Championship 2014 Zurich, Men Triple Jump on todor66.com, accessed on February 8, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2014 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 8, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2014, triple jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on February 8, 2020
• 22nd European Athletics Championships 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on February 8, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump men , accessed February 8, 2020