World Athletics Championships 1997 / men's triple jump
6th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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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) |
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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
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
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 |
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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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 22, 2020