1904 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	7 athletes from 1 country
Competition location	Francis Field
Competition phase	September 1, 1904
Medalist Meyer Prinstein ( USA )   Fred Englehardt ( USA )   Robert Stangland ( USA )

The men's triple jump at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis was held on September 1, 1904 at Francis Field .

Meyer Prinstein won in an all-US field of participants . The silver medal went to Fred Englehardt , Robert Stangland won bronze.

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	14.47 m	United States	Meyer Prinstein	Paris finals ( FRA ), July 16, 1900

There are still different versions of the world record holder. The American Edward Bloss is also given with his 14.78 m from 1893. The reason for this inconsistency is probably the fact that in the early years of athletics there was no binding rule for the order of the take-off leg for the three ground contacts during the jump. The current standard, in which the first two partial jumps with the same leg and the third partial jump with the other, was not always used at that time.

Double Olympic champion Meyer Prinstein in one of his attempts in the  triple jump

Results

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Meyer Prinstein	United States	14.35
2	Fred Englehardt	United States	13.90
3	Robert Stangland	United States	13.36
4th	John Fuhrer	United States	12.91
5	George Van Cleaf	United States	k. A.
6th	John Hagerman	United States
7th	Samuel Jones	United States

Meyer Prinstein repeated his Olympic victory in Paris , which apart from him only John Flanagan in the hammer throw and Ray Ewry in the three standing jumping disciplines. But Prinstein did not quite reach the distance he jumped four years ago. He only took the lead in the last round. This made Prinstein double Olympic champion in St. Louis, because he also won the gold medal in the long jump , which took place on the same day.

The information in the sources used here agree completely with regard to the first six. Seventh-placed Samuel Jones, who became Olympic champion in the high jump , does not mention the Megede , while all other sources have him in their lists.

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  Meyer Prinstein, Olympic champion in long and  triple jump

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  The Olympic seventh Samuel Jones, also gold medalist in the  high jump

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

• Sports-Reference, Athletics at the 1904 St. Louis Summer Games: Men's Triple Jump , accessed August 2, 2018
• Olympic Games St. Louis 1904, Athletics, triple jump men , IOC page on athletics at the 1904 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed August 2, 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. 56