1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	13 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	July 16, 1900
Medalist
gold	Meyer Prinstein ( USA )
silver	James Connolly ( USA )
bronze	Lewis Sheldon ( USA )

The men's triple jump at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris was decided on July 16, 1900 in the Croix Catelan .

There was a triple US success. Olympic champion was Meyer Prinstein , James Connolly finished second ahead of Lewis Sheldon .

Records

The world records that existed at the time were still unofficial.

World record	15.26 m	Ireland	Matthew Roseingreve	Gort ( Ireland ), August 15, 1895
Olympic record	13.71 m	United States	James Connolly	Athens ( Greece ), April 6, 1896

Different sources name the American Edward Bloss with 14.78 m (1893) or the American Daniel Shanahan with 15.28 m (1888) as record holders. The differences seem to have to do with whether different jumping techniques are recognized or not. For a long time now there has been a rule with regard to the order of the legs used when jumping that it is either left - left - right or right - right - left . At that time, however, this regulation was not yet clearly established and was not yet applied to the Olympic competition in Paris .

The following records were broken or set in the triple jump at these Olympic Games :

OR

14.47 m

United States

Meyer Prinstein

16th of July

Results

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Meyer Prinstein	United States	14.47 ( OR )
2	James Connolly	United States	13.97
3	Lewis Sheldon	United States	13.64
4th	Patrick Leahy	Great Britain	13.36
5	Albert Delannoy	France	k. A.
6th	Alexandre Tuffèri	France
More sub contractor	Frank Jarvis	United States	Wide and placement conclusions not to identify
	John McLean	United States
	Daniel Horton	United States
	Karl Gustaf Staaf	Sweden
	Eric Lemming	Sweden
	Waldemar Steffen	Germany
	Pál Koppán	Hungary

Meyer Prinstein used his second chance to win Olympic gold in the triple jump scheduled for Monday , after he had not started the long jump final the day before for religious reasons and had been displaced by one centimeter to second with his distance recognized from the qualification.

James Connolly won the triple jump at the first Olympic Games in Athens and with his second place he missed the chance to become the first athlete in history to become Olympic champion at two Olympic Games.

Fifth place Patrick Leahy was Irish . Ireland was not an independent state at that time, but part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland .

Alexandre Tuffèri - sixth here in Paris - was French, but lived in Athens , where he had already finished second in the triple jump at the first Olympic Games . He later took on Greek citizenship and competed in the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games in the 110-meter hurdles .

For the jumpers from 5th place onwards, no distance information can be determined, for those from 7th place onwards no ranking can be determined. Leahy's expanse is not given in all sources.

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  Olympic champion Meyer Prinstein - here in 1906 - from the United States, also silver medalist in the  long jump

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  US Olympic third-placed Lewis Sheldon

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  The French Albert Delannoy. Fifth in the triple jump and long jump - here in 1898

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  The American Olympic champion over 100 meters Frank Jarvis, also participant here in the triple jump

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  Sweden's Olympic team in Paris with the two triple jump participants Karl Gustaf Staaf ( top row, far left ) and Eric Lemming, who later became particularly successful in javelin throwing ( far right below )

literature

• Volker Kluge , Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle I, Berlin 1997 ( ISBN 3-328-00715-6 )
• Ekkehard zur Megede , The history of Olympic athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970

Web links

• SportsReference, Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's Triple Jump , accessed July 25, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, triple jump men , IOC website on athletics at the Olympic Games 1900 at olympic.org, English, accessed on 25 July 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 39