1908 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | Triple jump |
gender | Men |
place | White City Stadium |
Attendees | 20 athletes from 8 countries |
Competition phase | July 25, 1908 |
Medalist | |
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gold | Tim Ahearne ( GBR ) |
silver | Garfield MacDonald ( CAN ) |
bronze | Edvard Larsen ( NOR ) |
The men's triple jump at the 1908 Olympic Games in London was decided on July 22, 1908 at the White City Stadium . On the morning of the same day a qualification took place, from which three jumpers qualified for the competition. For the first time ever, the order in which the legs were used was precisely laid down in the regulations in the same form as it is today, i.e. the first two partial jumps must be performed with the same leg and the third partial jump with the other.
The Irishman Tim Ahearne starting for Great Britain became Olympic champion. Garfield MacDonald from Canada won the silver medal, bronze went to the Norwegian Edvard Larsen .
Records
The world records were still unofficial back then. 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 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 are to be performed with the same leg and the third partial jump with the other, has not always been used. But the Irish expert Tony O'Donaghue determined in detailed research that the Irish John Breshnihan had already jumped 15.34 m in 1906. In the 1908 games, however, the rule problem ended with a clear stipulation.
World record | 15.34 m | Ireland | John Breshnihan | Bandon ( Ireland ), August 26, 1906 |
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Olympic record | 14.47 m | United States | Meyer Prinstein | Paris finals ( FRA ), July 16, 1900 |
The following records were broken or set in this discipline at the 1908 Olympic Games:
OR | 14.72 m | Great Britain | Tim Ahearne | qualification |
14.76 m | Canada | Garfield MacDonald | Final battle | |
14.92 m | Great Britain | Tim Ahearne |
Results
qualification
The qualification was held in three staggered groups. The results of these groups were combined. Only the best three jumpers of the qualification could contest the final competition. The results achieved in the preliminary fight were included in the overall ranking. In both the qualification and the final, the participants had three attempts each.
Group A
athlete | country | Width (m) |
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Platt Adams | United States | 14.07 |
Karl Fryksdahl | Sweden | 13.65 |
Martin Sheridan | United States | 13.42 |
Cyril Dugmore | Great Britain | 13.31 |
Henry Olsen | Norway | 13.17 |
Dimitrios Müller | Greece | 13.09 |
Frank Irons | United States | 12.67 |
Group B
athlete | country | Width (m) |
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Tim Ahearne | Great Britain | 14.72 OR |
Garfield MacDonald | Canada | 14.12 |
John Brennan | United States | 13.59 |
Doug Stupart | South Africa | 13.40 |
Oscar Guttormsen | Norway | 13.16 |
Samuel Bellah | United States | 12.55 |
Nathaniel Sherman | United States | k. A. |
George Mayberry | Great Britain | |
Juho Halme | Finland |
Group C
athlete | country | Width (m) |
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Edvard Larsen | Norway | 14.37 |
Calvin Bricker | Canada | 14.10 |
Frank Mount Pleasant | United States | 13.97 |
Michael Dineen | Great Britain | 13.23 |
Final and final result of the best twelve
space | athlete | country | Width (m) |
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1 | Tim Ahearne | Great Britain | 14.92 OR |
2 | Garfield MacDonald | Canada | 14.76 |
3 | Edvard Larsen | Norway | 14.39 |
4th | Calvin Bricker | Canada | 14.09 |
5 | Platt Adams | United States | 14.07 |
6th | Frank Mount Pleasant | United States | 13.97 |
7th | Karl Fryksdahl | Sweden | 13.65 |
8th | John Brennan | United States | 13.59 |
9 | Martin Sheridan | United States | 13.42 |
10 | Doug Stupart | South Africa | 13.40 |
11 | Cyril Dugmore | Great Britain | 13.31 |
12 | Michael Dineen | Great Britain | 13.23 |
All three finalists were able to improve again. The competition was very exciting. Garfield MacDonald led up to and including the fifth round. Then Tim Ahearne increased and achieved the winning distance and the new Olympic record with his last jump , which was initially proclaimed as a world record . But detailed research revealed that the Irishman John Breshnihan had already jumped 15.34 m in 1906.
Third place went to Edvard Larsen from Norway, ahead of Canadian Calvin Bricker, bronze medalist in the long jump . Fifth was the American Platt Adams, who also achieved good placements in the standing jump competitions and won gold in the standing vault in 1912 . The double Olympic champion in the discus throw from 1904 and 1908, Martin Sheridan, also took part in this competition, but injured himself after his first attempt, so that no further jumps were possible. He finished ninth in the end.
The US American Platt Adams, Olympic champion in standing vault in 1912 , was Olympic five
The American double Olympic champion in the discus throw of 1904 and 1908, Martin Sheridan, came in ninth
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 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Triple Jump , accessed August 30, 2018
- Olympic Games London 1908, Athletics , IOC page on athletics at the 1908 Olympic Games at olympic.org, English, accessed 30 August 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 87