1900 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Standing Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
place	Croix Catelan
Attendees	10 athletes from 4 countries
Competition phase	July 16, 1900
Medalist
gold	Ray Ewry ( USA )
silver	Irving Baxter ( USA )
bronze	Robert Garrett ( USA )

The men's standing triple jump at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris was decided on July 16, 1900 in the Croix Catelan . The rule stipulated that jumping could only be started once. In the triple jump, a foot was only allowed to leave the ground once after each jump; if the foot, which was completely lifted off the ground, was put down a second time in between, this was considered a failed attempt.

As in the standing vault, there was a US triple success and as in the other two standing jumping disciplines, high and long jump, Ray Ewry won ahead of Irving Baxter , who had won gold in the high and pole vault . Third place went to Robert Garrett , double Olympic champion in the shot put and discus throw from 1896 and third shot put here in Paris .

Records

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

World record	10.77 m	Ireland	J. Wall	1892

Since the discipline was first held at the Olympic Games, there was still no Olympic record .

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

OR

10.58 m

United States

Ray Ewry

16th of July

Results

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ray Ewry	United States	10.58 ( OR )
2	Irving Baxter	United States	09.95
3	Robert Garrett	United States	09.50
4th	Lewis Sheldon	United States	09.45
More sub contractor	Pál Koppán	Hungary	Wide and placement conclusions not to identify
	Waldemar Steffen	Germany
	Karl Gustaf Staaf	Sweden
	Daniel Horton	United States
	John McLean	United States
	Frank Jarvis	United States

Jumps from a standing position were very popular at the time and were often carried out without any binding rules. In the triple jump, one foot was only allowed to leave the ground once after each jump.

All three jumping disciplines took place on the same day. So Ewry became three times Olympic champion in one day, an unmatched record.

For this standing jump competition, only the first three are named at Ekkehard zur Megede . They match the jumpers listed here. There is a small difference in the distance for the runner-up. Instead of 9.95 m, the Megede leads to 9.93 m.

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  The triple standing jump Olympic champion Raymond Ewry

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  The triple standing jump runner-up Irving Baxter, at the same time double Olympic champion in the high and  pole vault

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  Robert Garrett takes third place - here as a discus thrower in Athens in  1896

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  The American triple jump and standing vault third Lewis Sheldon is Olympic champion

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  The Swedish athlete Karl Gustaf Staaf ( top row left ), participant in standing triple jump, triple jump , pole vault and hammer throw

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  The Olympic champion over 100 meters Frank Jarvis - also as a standing rice jumper and triple jumper in Paris

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 Standing Triple Jump , accessed July 25, 2018
• Olympic Games Paris 1900, Athletics, triple jump standing men , IOC website on athletics at the 1900 Olympic Games from olympic.org, English, accessed on 25 July 2018

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