European Athletics Championships 2016 / men's triple jump

23rd European Athletics Championships
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	27 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Amsterdam
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 7th (qualification) July 9th (final)
Medalist Max Hess ( GER )   Karol Hoffmann ( POL )   Julian Reid ( GBR )

The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam

The men's triple jump at the 2016 European Athletics Championships was held on July 7th and 9th, 2016 in the Olympic Stadium in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam .

European champion was the German Max Hess . He won ahead of the Pole Karol Hoffmann . Bronze went to the Briton Julian Reid .

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

July 7, 2016, 1:10 p.m.

27 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 16.65 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the next seven athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 16.45 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Karol Hoffmann	Poland	16.93	16.11 / -0.4	16.93 / +3.1	-
2	Şeref Osmanoğlu	Turkey	16.81	16.34 / +0.3	16.81 / +1.1	-
3	Georgi Zonow	Bulgaria	16.65	16.46 / +2.5	x	16.65 / +2.3
4th	Pablo Torrijos	Spain	16.58	16.44 / +3.0	16.58 / +1.1	r
5	Dzmitryi Platnitsky	Belarus	16.50	16.37 / +1.3	16.58 / +2.4	16.22 / +3.2
6th	Elvijs Misāns	Latvia	16.50	16.50 / +1.3	x	x
7th	Harold Correa	France	16.33	16.26 / +2.4	16.33 / +1.0	16.17 / +0.7
8th	Nathan Douglas	Great Britain	16.33	16.33 / +2.7	x	16.24 / +1.0
9	Martin Jasper	Germany	16.27	16.27 / +1.5	x	16.05 / +2.7
10	Andriy Stanchev	Ukraine	16.22	16.22 / +1.8	15.95 / +3.3	16.06 / -1.3
11	Levon Aghasjan	Armenia	16.21	15.98 / +1.5	15.79 / +1.0	16.21 / +2.8
12	Dimítrios Tsiámis	Greece	16.16	15.94 / +0.6	16.16 / +2.5	16.10 / +0.4
13	Arzyom Bandarenka	Belarus	16.06	16.06 / +2.9	x	x
14th	Vladimir Letnicov	Moldova	15.98	x	15.98 / +0.9	x

Three jumpers eliminated from group A in qualification:

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  Harold Correa - seventh place with 16.33 m

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  Martin Jasper - ninth place with 16.27 m

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  Dimítrios Tsiámis - twelfth place with 16.16 m

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  Arzjom Bandarenka - thirteenth with 16.06 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Max Hess	Germany	16.93	x	16.93 / +2.4	-
2	Maksim Niastiarenka	Belarus	16.68	16.52 / +0.9	15.89 / +1.1	16.68 / +1.7
3	Julian Reid	Great Britain	16.62	15.80 / -0.6	16.62 / +1.3	15.88 / +2.1
4th	Momchil Karailiev	Bulgaria	16.59	16.59 / +1.8	x	-
5	Benjamin Compaoré	France	16.53	15.65 / +1.5	16.22 / +0.7	16.59 / ± 0.0
6th	Fabian Florant	Netherlands	16.45	16.36 / +2.4	16.16 / +0.7	16.45 / -0.8
7th	Zlatozar Atanasov	Bulgaria	16.34	15.81 / +1.5	16.34 / +2.0	16.28 / +2.8
8th	Lasha Torgvaidze	Georgia	16.32	x	16.20 / -0.2	16.32 / +2.0
9	Nelson Évora	Portugal	16.27	15.88 / +1.0	16.27 / +1.1	16.15 / -1.0
10	Ashkin Karaca	Turkey	16.19	16.19 / +0.4	x	x
11	Nazim Babayev	Azerbaijan	16.06	16.06 / +2.6	x	-
12	Dimítrios Baltadoúros	Greece	15.99	15.99 / +2.3	15.58 / +0.7	x
13	Marian Oprea	Romania	15.40	x	15.40 / +1.5	x

Three jumpers eliminated from group B in qualification:

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  Lasha Torgvaidze - eighth with 16.32 m

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  For Nelson Évora, et al. a. Olympic champion from 2012 and world champion from 2015 , it was no longer enough to take part in the finals with ninth place and 16.27 m

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  Nazim Babayev - eleventh place with 16.06 m

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  Marian Oprea, 2004 Olympic runner-up , 2005 World Cup third, 2006 European Championship third and 2010 European runner -up, did not make it into the final as thirteenth with 16.06 m

final

July 9, 2016, 7:45 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	Max Hess	Germany	17.20 tbsp	x	17.20 / +0.5	-	-	x	x
2	Karol Hoffmann	Poland	17.16	16.59 / +2.4	16.96 / -1.0	17.16 / +0.1	x	16.93 / +0.2	16.92 / -0.5
3	Julian Reid	Great Britain	16.76	16.76 / +0.5	x	15.85 / +0.9	15.91 / -0.1	x	x
4th	Momchil Karailiev	Bulgaria	16.65	16.65 / +0.1	16.65 / -0.2	x	r
5	Maksim Niastiarenka	Belarus	16.63	16.14 / -0.5	16.16 / -1.7	16.63 / +0.4	16.62 / +0.4	16.38 / -1.1	16.50 / -0.4
6th	Şeref Osmanoğlu	Turkey	16.55	16.55 / -1.4	x	x	16.53 / +0.9	x	x
7th	Georgi Zonow	Bulgaria	16.53	16.05 / +1.9	15.84 / -5	16.53 / +0.7	x	r
8th	Pablo Torrijos	Spain	16.34	15.88 / +0.3	16.23 / -0.9	16.34 / +0.7	x	16.33 / -0.3	16.30 / +0.3
9	Elvijs Misāns	Latvia	16.32	x	16.11 / -0.8	16.32 / +0.1	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Fabian Florant	Netherlands	16.23	16.12 / -0.4	x	16.23 / -0.8
11	Dzmitryi Platnitsky	Belarus	16.18	15.24 / -3.1	16.16 / -0.1	16.18 / -0.4
12	Benjamin Compaoré	France	16.12	16.01 / -1.6	x	16.12 / -0.5

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  European champion Max Hess

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  Vice European Champion Karol Hoffmann

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  Bronze medalist Julian Reid

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  Fabian Florant came in tenth

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  Twelfth place for Benjamin Compaoré

Video

• Triple Jump Men / Final / 09 Jul / European Athletics Championships 2016 on youtube.com, accessed February 29, 2020

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 29, 2020
• European Championship 2016 Amsterdam, Men Triple Jump on todor66.com, accessed February 29, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2016 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 29, 2020
• 23rd European Athletics Championships 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands from ifosta.de, accessed on February 29, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump men , accessed February 29, 2020