World Athletics Championships 1995 / men's triple jump

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	43 athletes from 34 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 5th (qualification) August 7th (final)
Medalist Jonathan Edwards ( GBR )   Brian Wellman BER  Jérôme Romain DMA

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The men's triple jump at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 5th and 7th, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

The world champion was the British World Cup third in 1993, Jonathan Edwards , who celebrated his first victory in a major international championship here and developed into one of the most successful three jumpers in sporting history in the years to come. He improved his own world record twice in the finals and was the first athlete to exceed the 18-meter mark. Second place went to Brian Wellman from Bermuda . Bronze went to the Central America / Caribbean Champion of 1993 and winner of the Pan American Games in 1995 Jérôme Romain from Dominica .

Records

Existing records

World record	17.98 m	Jonathan Edwards	Salamanca , Spain	July 18, 1995
World championship record	17.92 m	Christo Markow	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	August 30, 1987

Record improvement

The British World Champion Jonathan Edwards improved the existing World Championship record at these World Championships twice:

• 18.16 m - final on August 7th, 1st attempt
• 18.29 m - final on August 7, 2nd attempt

At the same time, Jonathan Edwards increased his own world record by 31 centimeters and was the first triple jumper to exceed the mark of eighteen meters.

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 6, 1995, 5:35 p.m.

43 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 17.10 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 16.71 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

Oleg Sakirkin (right, next to him his trainer Mikhail Gannota) remained in the qualification without a valid attempt

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) wind (m / s)
1	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	17.46 / +1.4
2	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	17.26 / +1.2
3	Māris Bružiks	Latvia	16.95 / +0.8
4th	Rogel Nachum	Israel	16.71 / +1.7
5	Poor Martirosjan	Armenia	16.60 / +2.7
6th	Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa	Zimbabwe	16.53 / +1.9
7th	Georges Sainte-Rose	France	16.52 / +2.8
8th	Andrius Raizgys	Lithuania	16.40 / +2.0
9	Andrew Murphy	Australia	16.37 / -0.1
10	Denis Kapustin	Russia	16.32 / -0.8
11	Karim Sassi	Tunisia	16.26 / +0.9
12	Arne Holm	Sweden	15.94 / +0.1
13	Aleksey Fatyanov	Azerbaijan	15.77 / +0.4
14th	Paul Nioze	Seychelles	15.71 / +1.8
15th	Festus Igbinoghene	Nigeria	15.68 / -1.6
16	Edward Manderson	Cayman Islands	15.50 / +1.2
17th	Xavier Montané	Andorra	15.04 / +1.6
18th	Leonard Cobb	United States	14.90 / +1.1
NM	Oleg Sakirkin	Kazakhstan	ogV
	Jacek Butkiewicz	Poland
	Anisio Souza da Silva	Brazil
	Salem Mouled Al-Ahmadi	Saudi Arabia

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) wind (m / s)
1	Jérôme Romain	Dominica	17.48 / +1.6
2	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	17.44 / +2.3
3	Sergey Arzamasov	Kazakhstan	17.27 / +1.6
4th	Yoel García	Cuba	16.98 / -0.1
5	Tord Henriksson	Sweden	16.94 / +0.5
6th	James Beckford	Jamaica	16.92 / +1.3
7th	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	16.80 / +0.9
8th	Galin Georgiev	Bulgaria	16.80 / +0.8
9	Francis Agyepong	Great Britain	16.58 / +0.9
10	Jacob Katonon	Kenya	16.55 / +1.5
11	LaMark Carter	United States	16.51 / -1.2
12	Lars Hedman	Sweden	16.43 / +1.2
13	Frank Rutherford	Bahamas	16.38 / +1.7
14th	Serge Hélan	France	15.91 / +0.1
15th	Julio Lopez	Spain	15.80 / -0.1
16	Daniel Flores	Honduras	14.92 / +2.1
NM	Vasif Asadov	Azerbaijan	ogV
	Zsolt Czingler	Hungary
	Marios Hadjiandreou	Cyprus
	Zeng Lizhi	People's Republic of China
	Kawan Lovelace	Belize
DNS	Francis Dodoo	Ghana

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

final

August 7, 1995, 5:20 pm

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	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	18.29 / +1.3 WR	18.16 WR	18.29 WR	-	-	17.49	-
2	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	17.62 / +2.7	x	x	17.31	17.62	x	x
3	Jérôme Romain	Dominica	17.59 / +2.1	17.36	17.59	17.25	17.18	x	x
4th	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	17.59 / +2.6	17.19	x	x	x	x	17.59
5	Yoel García	Cuba	17.18 / +1.2	16.90	17.18	x	x	-	x
6th	James Beckford	Jamaica	17.13 / +2.5	16.90	17.13	x	-	-	-
7th	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	16.96 / +3.6	x	16.96	16.77	-	x	x
8th	Galin Georgiev	Bulgaria	16.93 / -0.2	16.93	x	x	16.79	x	x
9	Tord Henriksson	Sweden	16.92 / +0.1	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Māris Bružiks	Latvia	16.80 / +1.4
11	Rogel Nachum	Israel	16.69 / +1.7
12	Sergey Arzamasov	Kazakhstan	16.68 / +0.8

• 

  World champion Jonathan Edwards - here after his Olympic victory in 2000 - was the first triple jumper to surpass the 18-meter mark

• 

  Sixth-placed James Beckford took silver in the long jump five days later 

• 

  The defending champion Mike Conley Sr., 1992 Olympic champion, 1984 Olympic second and 1987 vice world champion, came in seventh place

• 

  Tord Henriksson (here in 2014) came in ninth

• 

  Eleventh place for Rogel Nachum

Video

• World Record - Triple Jump Men Goteborg 1995 , video posted November 2, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed June 1, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed June 1, 2020
• Men Triple Jump Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed June 1, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Triple Jump, Gothenborg 1995, p. 178f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 1, 2020

References and comments

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