World Athletics Championships 1991 / men's triple jump

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 28 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 25 (qualifying) August 26 (final)
Medalist Kenny Harrison ( USA )   Leonid Voloshin ( URS )   Mike Conley Sr. ( USA )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's triple jump at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 25 and 26, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

With gold and bronze, the US triple jumpers won two medals in this competition. Kenny Harrison became world champion . He won before the reigning European champion Leonid Voloshin from the Soviet Union . Bronze went to the Olympic II of 1984 and Vice World Champion 1987 Mike Conley Sr. .

Existing records

World record	17.97 m	Willie Banks	Indianapolis , USA	June 16, 1985
World championship record	17.92 m	Christo Markow	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	August 30, 1987

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

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 25, 1991, 5:00 p.m.

37 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 16.95 m. Eight athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the four next placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 16.88 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

With his 16.58 m Ján Čado failed in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind (m / s)
1	Vasily Sokov	Soviet Union	17.16 / +0.5
2	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	17.13 / +1.4
3	Kenny Harrison	United States	17.08 / +1.6
4th	Georges Sainte-Rose	France	17.07 / +1.1
5	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	17.02 / -0.3
6th	Oleg Denishchik	Soviet Union	16.92 / -0.2
7th	Andrzej Grabarczyk	Poland	16.88 / +0.9
8th	John Herbert	Great Britain	16.79 / +0.4
9	Christo Markow	Bulgaria	16.67 / +0.4
10	Ján Čado	Czechoslovakia	16.58 / ± 0.0
11	Lotfi Khaida	Algeria	16.54 / +1.3
12	Zou Sixin	People's Republic of China	16.35 / +0.6
13	Marios Hadjiandreou	Cyprus	16.04 / +0.9
14th	Santiago Moreno	Spain	16.04 / +2.3
15th	Paul Nioze	Seychelles	15.72 / +0.8
16	Lucian Sfiea	Romania	15.27 / -0.4
17th	François Reteno	Gabon	14.43 / -0.7
NM	Eugene Koranteng	Ghana	ogV
DNS	Khalid Ahmed Mousa	Sudan

Group B

Eugeniusz Bedeniczuk (here in 2011) his 16.76 m was not enough to take part in the final

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind (m / s)
1	Leonid Voloshin	Soviet Union	17.29 / +0.2
2	Tord Henriksson	Sweden	17.07 / +0.6
3	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	16.98 / +0.8
4th	Norifumi Yamashita	Japan	16.88 / +0.5
5	Ralf Jaros	Germany	16.88 / +0.2
6th	Eugeniusz Bedeniczuk	Poland	16.76 / +2.0
7th	Frank Rutherford	Bahamas	16.74 / +0.3
8th	Chen Yanping	People's Republic of China	16.70 / k. A.
9	Edrick Floréal	Canada	16.68 / +0.9
10	Serge Hélan	France	16.51 / -0.2
11	Pierre Camara	France	16.49 / -0.8
12	Don Parish	United States	16.45 / +0.3
13	Galin Georgiev	Bulgaria	16.18 / +0.5
14th	Anisio Silva	Brazil	16.18 / +1.2
15th	Rogel Nachum	Israel	15.90 / +0.9
16	Toussaint Rabenala	Madagascar	15.82 / -0.6
17th	Benjamin Koech	Kenya	15.74 / k. A.
18th	Jérôme Romain	Dominica	15.49 / +1.0
19th	Lindford Castillo	Belize	13.93 / +0.6

final

August 26, 1991, 4:40 p.m.

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

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) / wind (m / s)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Kenny Harrison	United States	17.78 / -0.8	x	17.78	17.41	17.59	x	17.53
2	Leonid Voloshin	Soviet Union	17.75 / +1.0	x	17.59	17.75	17.53	x	x
3	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	17.62 / +0.4	x	17.62	x	15.38	x	17.61
4th	Vasily Sokov	Soviet Union	17.28 / -0.4	17.22	17.28	x	16.92	16.07	x
5	Tord Henriksson	Sweden	17.12 / +0.5	17.12	x	x	x	16.14	x
6th	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	16.98 / -0.5	16.98	16.57	16.09	16.46	x	16.40
7th	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	16.94 / -0.4	16.75	16.78	16.94	15.40	16.40	x
8th	Georges Sainte-Rose	France	16.92 / -0.3	16.92	x	16.52	x	x	16.21
9	Ralf Jaros	Germany	16.76 / -2.1	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Oleg Denishchik	Soviet Union	16.61 / -0.2
11	Norifumi Yamashita	Japan	16.26 / -0.4
12	Andrzej Grabarczyk	Poland	16.23 / -0.2

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  Bronze this time went to the 1984 Olympic runner-up and 1987 vice world champion Mike Conley

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  Fifth place Tord Henriksson
  (Photo: 2014)

Video links

• 3388 World Track & Field 1991 Triple Jump Men Kenny Harrison on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020
• 3376 World Track & Field 1991 Triple Jump Men Leonid Voloshin on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020
• 3406 World Track & Field 1991 Triple Jump Men Mike Conley on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 25, 2020
• Men Triple Jump Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed April 25, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Triple Jump, Tokyo 1991, p. 177f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on April 25, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 25, 2020