European Athletics Championships 2018 / men's triple jump

discipline	Men's triple jump
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Attendees	24 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 10, 2018 (qualification) August 12, 2018 (final)
Medalist
gold	Nelson Évora ( POR )
silver	Alexis Copello ( AZE )
bronze	Dimitrios Tsiamis ( GRE )

Berlin Olympic Stadium

The men's triple jump at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 10th and 12th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

It won the Portuguese Nelson Évora . Alexis Copello from Azerbaijan became vice European champion. The Greek Dimitrios Tsiamis won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	Jonathan Edwards	18.29 m	World Cup in Gothenburg , Sweden	August 7, 1995
European record
Championship record		17.99 m	EM in Budapest , Hungary	August 23, 1998

qualification

German defending champion Max Hess missed the final by nine centimeters with his 16.32 m

The Italian Fabrizio Donato scored 16.15 m, which was not enough for the final qualification

The Romanian Marian Oprea was eliminated with 15.93 m in the qualification

August 10, 2018 at 12:40 p.m. CEST

The Pole Karol Hoffmann, who was still vice European champion in 2016 , was without a valid jump this time

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 16.75 m. Since only three jumpers exceeded this distance - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best jumpers from both groups - highlighted in light green - to a total of twelve participants. So finally 16.41 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Alexis Copello	Azerbaijan	16.82	-	-	16.82
2	Pablo Torrijos	Spain	16.79	-	-	16.79
3	Can Özüpek	Turkey	16.66	15.91		16.66
4th	Marcos Ruiz	Spain	x	x	16.59	16.59
5	Simo Lipsanen	Finland	16.24	16.51	x	16.51
6th	Simone Forte	Italy	15.77	15.81	16.35	16.35
7th	Max Hess	Germany	16.32	x	x	16.32
8th	Alexei Feodorov	Authorized Neutral Athletes	16.08	16.29	15.88	16.29
9	Kevin Luron	France	16.25	x	16.24	16.25
10	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	15.24	15.11	16.15	16.15
11	Marian Oprea	Romania	x	x	15.93	15.93
NM	Lascha Ghulelauri	Georgia	x	x	x	without space

Group B

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Jean-Marc Pontvianne	France	16.77	-	-	16.77
2	Dimitrios Tsiamis	Greece	16.17	16.39	16.69	16.69
3	Nelson Évora	Portugal	16.62	x	x	16.62
4th	Nathan Douglas	Great Britain	16.22	x	16.56	16.56 SB
5	Nazim Babayev	Azerbaijan	x	16.54	x	16.54
6th	Harold Correa	France	16.43	15.48	15.58	16.43
7th	Tomáš Veszelka	Slovakia	16.41	16.41	x	16.41
8th	Levon Aghasjan	Armenia	16.34	16.19	16.25	16.34
9	Elvijs Misāns	Latvia	16.23	16.20	16.26	16.26
10	Necati He	Turkey	16.04	15.96	16.26	16.26
NM	Karol Hoffmann	Poland	x	R.		NM
DNS	Momchil Karailiev	Bulgaria

final

August 12, 2018, 7:55 p.m. CEST

The two first-placed winners of the 2016 European Athletics Championships, Max Heß from Germany and Karol Hoffmann, got stuck in the qualification - partly due to injury-related training deficits. The favorite was primarily the Portuguese Nelson Évora, third in the 2015 and 2017 World Cup . His fiercest rival was former Cuban Alexis Copello, who now started for Azerbaijan. This had taken fifth place at the 2017 World Championships. Other candidates for top places were the launching under a neutral flag Russian Alexei Fyodorov as EM -Dritter of 2014 and EM -Vierter of 2012 , the Romanian EM -Fünfte of 2014 Marian Oprea and the Italian European champion Fabrizio Donato of 2012. However, Fyodorov was also eliminated in the qualification.

The level of this competition could not match the results of previous years at major international championships. In the entire course, the 17-meter mark was exceeded only once.

After the first round, Copello was leading with 16.78 m in front of Briton Nathan Douglas with 16.71 m. In lap two, Copello extended his lead with a jump to 16.93 m. The Spaniard Pablo Torrijos came third with 16.65 m. In lap three Évora reached 16.86 m, which he was now second. The Greek Dimitrios Tsiamis scored 16.86 m and finished third in front of Torrijos, who increased to 16.74 m.

In the first round of the final Évora improved by an inch, the ranking remained unaffected. Nelson Évora took the lead with his fifth jump. He had achieved 17.10 m and thus won the competition. Not much happened in the following ranks either. Alexis Copello won silver ahead of Dimitrios Tsiamis. Nazim Babayev improved to fourth place on his last attempt. His 16.76 m put him two inches ahead of Pablo Torrijos. Nathan Douglas finished sixth.

space	athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Nelson Évora	Portugal	x	16.55	16.86	16.87	17.10	x	17.10 SB
	Alexis Copello	Azerbaijan	16.78	16.93	x	-	15.91	16.79	16.93
	Dimitrios Tsiamis	Greece	16.55	x	16.78	16.48	x	16.13	16.78 SB
4th	Nazim Babayev	Azerbaijan	x	x	16.66	16.17	x	16.76	16.76
5	Pablo Torrijos	Spain	16.07	16.65	16.74	16.43	16.57	16.47	16.74
6th	Nathan Douglas	Great Britain	16.71	x	16.69	16.59	x	16.71	16.71 SB
7th	Jean-Marc Pontvianne	France	x	16.42	16.61	16.58	x	16.59	16.61
8th	Tomáš Veszelka	Slovakia	16.48	x	16.29	16.26	x	x	16.48
9	Simo Lipsanen	Finland	16.37	x	16.46	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			16.46
10	Marcos Ruiz	Spain	x	x	16.44				16.44
11	Harold Correa	France	x	x	16.33				16.33
12	Can Özüpek	Turkey	15.74	15.88	15.82				15.88

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  European Champion Nelson Évora, Portugal

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  Vice European Champion Alexis Copello, former Cuban and now starting for Azerbaijan

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  The Finn Simo Lipsanen finished ninth

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  Eleventh place for Frenchman Harold Correa

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 7, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 7, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 7, 2019