2017 World Athletics Championships / men's triple jump
2017 World Athletics Championships | |
---|---|
discipline | Men's triple jump |
city | London |
place | Olympic Stadium London |
Attendees | 31 athletes from 21 countries |
Competition phase | August 7, 2017 (qualification) August 10, 2017 (final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Christian Taylor ( USA ) |
silver | Will Claye ( USA ) |
bronze | Nelson Évora ( POR ) |
The men's triple jump at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , Great Britain , on August 7-10, 2017 .
There was a US double victory. Christian Taylor won the competition. Will Claye became vice world champion . The Portuguese Nelson Évora won the bronze medal.
Records
World record | Jonathan Edwards | 18.29 m | World Cup in Gothenburg , Sweden | August 7, 1995 |
Championship record |
qualification
August 7, 2017, 6:35 p.m. local time (7:35 p.m. CEST )
The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 17.00 m. Since only seven 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 16.66 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 | Chris Benard | United States | 17.20 m | - | - | 17.20 |
2 | Christian Taylor | United States | 17.15 m | - | - | 17.15 |
3 | Andy Díaz | Cuba | 16.96 m | 16.86 m | x | 16.96 |
4th | Nelson Évora | Portugal | 16.64 m | 16.94 m | x | 16.94 |
5 | Alexis Copello | Cuba | 16.89 m | 16.88 m | 16.53 m | 16.89 |
6th | Pablo Torrijos | Spain | 16.57 m | 16.00 m | 16.80 m | 16.80 |
7th | Wu Ruiting | People's Republic of China | x | 16.40 m | 16.66 m | 16.66 |
8th | Momchil Karailiev | Bulgaria | x | 16.01 m | 16.57 m | 16.57 |
9 | Simo Lipsanen | Finland | 16.54 m | 16.48 m | 16.41 m | 16.54 |
10 | Nathan Fox | Great Britain | 16.27 m | 16.49 m | 16.02 m | 16.49 |
11 | Benjamin Compaoré | France | 16.46 m | 16.35 m | x | 16.46 |
12 | Miguel van Assen | Suriname | 16.38 m | x | x | 16.38 |
13 | Melvin Raffin | France | 16.18 m | 14.25 m | x | 16.18 |
14th | Mateus de Sá | Brazil | 16.10 m | 16.09 m | x | 16.10 |
15th | Ryōma Yamamoto | Japan | x | x | 16.01 m | 16.01 |
Group B
space | athlete | country | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Width (m) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Christian Nápoles | Cuba | 17.06 m | - | - | 17.06 |
2 | Will Claye | United States | 16.95 m | 16.57 m | x | 16.95 |
3 | Jean-Marc Pontvianne | France | 16.66 m | 16.17 m | 16.78 m | 16.78 |
4th | Yordany's Durañona | Dominica | 16.71 m | 16.63 m | 16.49 m | 16.71 |
5 | Lázaro Martínez | Cuba | 16.36 m | x | 16.66 m | 16.66 |
6th | Donald Scott | United States | 16.55 m | 16.63 m | 16.27 m | 16.63 |
7th | Nazim Babayev | Azerbaijan | 15.76 m | 16.58 m | 16.61 m | 16.61 |
8th | Elvijs Misāns | Latvia | 16.55 m | 16.39 m | x | 16.55 |
9 | Georgi Zonow | Bulgaria | 16.53 m | 16.32 m | x | 16.53 |
10 | Alberto Álvarez | Mexico | 15.60 m | 16.41 m | 16.48 m | 16.48 |
11 | Troy Doris | Guyana | 16.43 m | x | 16.24 m | 16.43 |
12 | Tosin Oke | Nigeria | x | 16.14 m | 16.17 m | 16.17 |
13 | Yaoqing Fang | People's Republic of China | x | 16.17 m | x | 16.17 |
14th | Dimitris Tsiamis | Greece | 16.06 m | x | x | 16.06 |
15th | Clive Pullen | Jamaica | x | x | 15.61 m | 15.61 |
DNS | Max Hess | Germany |
final
August 10, 2017, 8:20 p.m. local time (9:20 p.m. CEST )
American Christian Taylor was the clear favorite for this competition. As world champion in 2015 , he was the defending champion and triumphed at the Olympic Games in 2012 and 2016 . Competition for him initially came from his own camp. Will Claye was the Olympic runner-up in 2012/2016 and third in the World Cup in 2013. Another favorite was the Portuguese World Cup third Nelson Évora. The two Chinese, Dong Bin and Cao Shuo - in third and fourth place at the 2016 Olympic Games - did not start here. The German European champion from 2016 Max Hess also had to pass due to an injury.
The competition was not quite as high-quality as the competitions at the World Championships and Olympic Games in recent years, where there had always been widths of more than 17.80 m or even more than eighteen meters. But it remained exciting and tight until the end. On lap one, Claye was clearly at the front of the field with a jump of 17.54 m. He was followed by the Cuban Alexis Copello with 17.16 m, his compatriot Andy Díaz - 17.13 m - and Évora with 17.02 m. In his second attempt, Taylor outstripped his teammate by three centimeters and took the lead. Claye also jumped very far with 17.52 m. Évora rose to 17.19 m and was three centimeters ahead of Copello in third place. The two Americans also dominated in the third round. Taylor reached 17.68 m, Claye improved to 17.63 m. The Cuban Christian Nápoles equalized the 17.16 m of his compatriot Copello after two invalid jumps, so that now three Cubans occupied places four to six.
In round four, the first round of the final of the top eight, there were no changes. The two Americans shone again with widths well over seventeen meters. It was the same on lap five. There were no more changes in the medal ranks in the final round. But after that it got a bit strange. First, Chris Benard, the third American in this final, reached 17.16 m, which means that there were three athletes with exactly this distance. Of them, Bernard had the second best attempt by far and was fourth. But the two Cubans Copello and Nápoles followed suit. Copello scored 17.06 m and surpassed Bernard's second best jump. Nápoles hit the mark of 17.16 m exactly again, which brought him fourth place in the final bill.
World champion became the top favorite Christian Taylor, who jumped five centimeters with 17.68 m than Will Claye. Nelson Évora won the bronze medal with 17.19 m and was three centimeters ahead of Christian Nápoles in fourth. Fifth placed Alexis Copello and Chris Benard in sixth were also three centimeters short of bronze. The third Cuban, Andy Díaz, was seventh another three centimeters behind. Frenchman Jean-Marc Pontvianne finished eighth with 16.79 m.
space | athlete | country | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Width (m) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Christian Taylor | United States | 16.97 m | 17.57 m | 17.68 m | 17.26 m | 17.38 m | 17.03 m | 17.68 | |
Will Claye | United States | 17.54 m | 17.52 m | 17.63 m | 17.49 m | 17.53 m | x | 17.63 | |
Nelson Évora | Portugal | 17.02 m | 17.19 m | 16.58 m | x | x | 16.01 m | 17.19 | |
4th | Cristian Nápoles | Cuba | x | x | 17.16 m | x | x | 17.16 m | 17.16 |
5 | Alexis Copello | Cuba | 17.16 m | x | x | 16.87 m | 16.91 m | 17.06 m | 17.16 SB |
6th | Chris Benard | United States | 16.88 m | x | 16.94 m | x | x | 17.16 m | 17.16 |
7th | Andy Díaz | Cuba | 17.13 m | x | x | x | - | x | 17.13 |
8th | Jean-Marc Pontvianne | France | x | 16.62 m | 16.79 m | x | x | 16.57 m | 16.79 |
9 | Wu Ruiting | People's Republic of China | 16.47 m | 16.66 m | 16.53 m | not in the final of the eight best jumpers |
16.53 | ||
10 | Pablo Torrijos | Spain | 16.60 m | 16.51 m | 16.50 m | 16.60 | |||
11 | Yordany's Durañona | Dominica | 16.42 m | x | x | 16.42 | |||
12 | Lázaro Martínez | Cuba | x | 16.25 m | 16.09 m | 16.09 |
Web links and sources
- Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, men's triple jump on the IAAF website , accessed on December 1, 2018
- Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships from Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 1, 2018
- Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 1, 2018
Video
- WCH London 2017 - Triple Jump - Men - Final on youtube.com, published August 13, 2017, accessed December 1, 2018