World Athletics Championships 1997 / men's triple jump

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	39 athletes from 28 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (qualification) August 8th (final)
Medalist Yoelbi Quesada ( CUB )   Jonathan Edwards ( GBR )   Aliecer Urrutia ( CUB )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

The men's triple jump at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 6 and 8, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

In this competition, the Cuban three jumpers won two medals, gold and bronze. World champion was Yoelbi Quesada, third in the 1996 Olympics . He won ahead of the British defending champion, Olympic second in 1996, World Cup third in 1993 and world record holder Jonathan Edwards . Bronze went to Aliecer Urrutia .

Existing records

World record	18.29 m	Jonathan Edwards	World Cup 1995 in Gothenburg , Sweden	July 7, 1995
World championship record

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

The Greek Hrístos Melétoglou achieved a national record with two jumps:

• 17.04 m - qualification on August 6th (record equalized)
• 17.12 m - final on August 8th (record improved)

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the 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. In this competition, the wind support was in the permitted range both in qualification and in the finals for all jumps.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid
r	Competition not continued (retired)
NWI	no wind information

qualification

August 6, 1997, 8:15 a.m.

39 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 17.00 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 16.84 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	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	17.47	17.47 / ± 0.0	-	-
2	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	17.28	17.28 / +0.3	-	-
3	Kenny Harrison	United States	17.11	17.11 / ± 0.0	-1.0	+0.1
4th	Hrístos Melétoglou	Greece	17.04 NRe	15.93 / -0.2	17.04 / +0.8	+0.7
5	Jérôme Romain	Dominica	17.03	16.96 / +1.0	17.03 / +1.0	+0.6
6th	Charles Friedek	Germany	16.98	x	16.98 / -2.0	x
7th	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	16.84	x	16.68 / -0.7	16.84 / +0.8
8th	Yoel García	Cuba	16.79	16.52 / +0.4	16.79 / +0.7	16.51 / -0.7
9	Nikolay Raev	Bulgaria	16.72	16.00 / -0.1	16.72 / +0.4	x
10	Andrei Kurennoi	Russia	16.59	16.59 / +1.3	16.59 / +0.6	x
11	Zoran Djurdjevic	Yugoslavia	16.49	16.49 / +0.2	16.32 / -1.2	16.49 / +0.2
12	Ketill Hanstveit	Norway	16.45	16.23 / -0.7	16.38 / +0.5	16.45 / +0.8
13	Avi Tayari	Israel	16.45	16.38 / NWI	16.45 / +1.0	r
14th	Tibor Ordina	Hungary	16.38	16.30 / 1.0	15.51 / +0.5	16.38 / +1.2
15th	Sergey Arzamasov	Kazakhstan	16.37	16.26 / +0.2	16.25 / +0.4	16.37 / +0.7
16	Georges Sainte-Rose	France	16.32	x	16.32 / +0.8	x
17th	Volodymyr Kravchenko	Ukraine	16.24	x	16.24 / +0.7	x
18th	Andrius Raizgys	Lithuania	16.21	16.12 / +1.3	16.10 / +0.1	16.21 / +0.6
19th	Xavier Montané	Andorra	14.58	14.58 / +0.8	r	-
NM	Aleksandr Tumanov	Turkmenistan	ogV	x	x	x

Group B

Raúl Chapado (Photo: 2017) did not reach the final with his 16.80 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	Aliecer Urrutia	Cuba	17.11	17.11 / ± 0.0	-	-
2	Andrew Owusu	Ghana	17.05	17.05 / +0.3	-	-
3	Serge Hélan	France	17.01	16.73 / ± 0.0	16.42 / -1.0	17.01 / +0.1
4th	Poor Martirosjan	Armenia	16.98	16.90 / -0.2	16.42 / +0.8	16.98 / +0.7
5	Denis Kapustin	Russia	16.96	16.57 / +1.0	16.96 / +0.6	x
6th	Francis Agyepong	Great Britain	16.83	16.83 / +0.4	x	x
7th	Raúl Chapado	Spain	16.80	x	x	16.80 / +1.5
8th	Robert Howard	United States	16.63	16.24 / -0.3	16.63 / +0.6	16.58 / +0.7
9	Rostislav Dimitrov	Bulgaria	16.62	16.55 / +0.1	16.62 / +0.3	x
10	Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa	Zimbabwe	16.56	16.20 / -1.2	16.56 / +0.2	16.41 / +1.1
11	Vasily Sokov	Russia	16.42	16.20 / +0.4	16.42 / +0.2	x
12	Māris Bružiks	Latvia	16.35	16.35 / -0.5	16.14 / -0.7	14.42 / +0.6
13	Oluyemi Sule	Nigeria	16.16	15.88 / NWI	16.16 / +0.9	r
14th	Yevgeniy Petin	Uzbekistan	16.13	16.13 / ± 0.0	16.05 / NWI	r
15th	Yuri Ossypenko	Ukraine	16.13	16.04 / -0.3	16.13 / +0.8	x
16	Zsolt Czingler	Hungary	16.04	14.30 / -1.2	15.73 / +0.2	16.04 / -0.8
17th	Paul Nioze	Seychelles	15.79	15.64 / +0.7	15.67 / +0.2	15.79 / +0.7
NM	Paolo Camossi	Italy	ogV	x	x	x
	Majed Jabbar	Iraq		x	x	x
DNS	Lao Jianfeng	People's Republic of China

final

The defending champion and world record holder Jonathan Edwards,  second in the 1996 Olympics and third in the 1993  World Championships, won silver this time

August 8, 1997, 6:45 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	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	17.85 WL	17.60 / -0.3	17.85 / +0.9	17.60 / +0.4	x	r	-
2	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	17.69	17.33 / ± 0.0	x	16.80 / -0.5	17.66 / -0.8	17.57 / +0.3	17.69 / +0.3
3	Aliecer Urrutia	Cuba	17.64	17.23 / ± 0.0	17.64 / ± 0.0	17.25 / -0.2	15.67 / -1.3	x	x
4th	Denis Kapustin	Russia	17.59	x	x	17.29 / ± 0.0	17.19 / -0.4	17.59 / -0.2	x
5	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	17.22	x	17.22 / ± 0.0	16.90 / +0.3	x	x	x
6th	Jérôme Romain	Dominica	17.17	16.75 / -1.2	17.17 / -0.4	16.85 / ± 0.0	16.87 / -0.2	16.62 / ± 0.0	16.63 / +0.1
7th	Hrístos Melétoglou	Greece	17.12 NO	16.75 / -0.7	x	17.12 / -0.2	x	16.48 / -0.5	16.85 / -0.3
8th	Andrew Owusu	Ghana	17.11	17.11 / +0.4	16.74 / +0.1	15.33 / -1.6	x	16.82 / -0.1	16.38 / -0.5
9	Kenny Harrison	United States	17.05	x	17.04 / -1.6	17.05 / +0.8	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Serge Hélan	France	16.97	16.89 / +0.3	x	16.97 / -0.6
11	Charles Friedek	Germany	16.86	16.83 / -0.2	x	16.86 / ± 0.0
12	Poor Martirosjan	Armenia	16.70	16.46 / +0.3	x	16.70 / -0.2

Video

• Men's Triple Jump Qualifying & Final - 1997 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed June 13, 2020

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 9, 2020
• Men Triple Jump Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed June 22, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Triple Jump, Athens 1997, p. 179 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 22, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 22, 2020