1912 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	20 athletes from 7 countries
Competition location	Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 15, 1912
Medalist Gustaf Lindblom ( SWE )   Georg Åberg ( SWE )   Erik Almlöf ( SWE )

The men's triple jump at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm was held on July 15, 1912 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. 20 athletes took part.

The Swede Gustaf Lindblom was Olympic champion ahead of his compatriots Georg Åberg and Erik Almlöf .

The German Otto Bäurle took 14th place and was one place better than the Austrian Gustav Kröjer. Swiss athletes were not at the start.

Existing records

World record	Dan Ahearn ( USA )	15.52 m	new York	May 30, 1911
Olympic record	Tim Ahearne ( Great Britain )	14.92 m	London	July 25, 1908

Dan Ahearn's world record was retrospectively recognized after the IAAF was founded in 1912.

The two jumpers with the name Dan Ahearn and Tim Ahearne were brothers of Irish origin. Dan emigrated to the USA in 1909 and deleted the "e" in his last name. Tim later followed his brother. Both athletes were not eligible to compete in the Stockholm Games because they had not yet been granted US citizenship.

Conducting the competition

All 20 jumpers had three attempts. The best three jumpers then completed another three jumps, taking into account the jumps from the first three rounds.

Note: The best widths are shown in bold.

Result

space	Surname	nation	result	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt
1	Gustaf Lindblom	Sweden	14.76 m	14.74	14.76	14.20	-	14.35	14.32
2	Georg Åberg	Sweden	14.51 m	13.58	13.90	14.51	-	14.03	-
3	Erik Almlöf	Sweden	14.17 m	-	13.46	14.17	-	13.85	14.10
4th	Erling Vinne	Norway	14.14 m	13.63	14.14	13.34
5	Platt Adams	United States	14.09 m	13.72	14.09	-
6th	Edvard Larsen	Norway	14.06 m	13.27	13.90	14.06
7th	Hjalmar Ohlsson	Sweden	14.01 m	14.01	13.87	13.91
8th	Nils Fixdal	Norway	13.96 m	13.96	13.58	13.66
9	Charles Brickley	United States	13.88 m	13.88	13.84	13.77
10	Gustaf Nordén	Sweden	13.81 m	13.81	12.76	-
11	Juho Halme	Grand Duchy of Finland	13.79 m	13.79	13.43	13.51
12	Inge Lindholm	Sweden	13.74 m	13.14	13.57	13.74
13	Edward Farrell	United States	13.57 m	-	13.42	13.57
14th	Otto Bäurle	German Empire	13.52 m	13.12	-	13.52
15th	Gustav Krojer	Austria	13.45 m	12.90	13.45	12.95
	Patrik Ohlsson	Sweden		12.98	13.37	13.45
17th	Skotte Jacobsson	Sweden	13.33 m	13.33	-	12.71
18th	Calvin Bricker	Canada	13.25 m	13.25	-	-
19th	Timothy Carroll	Great Britain	12.56 m	-	12.54	12.56
20th	Arthur Maranda	Canada	12.53 m	12.53	12.07	12.25

Date: July 15, 1912

None of the three finalists could improve their distance from the preliminary round, so the ranking from the preliminary round was valid. Winner Gustaf Lindblom was the only jumper who brought all of his valid jumps over the 14-meter mark and was thus a deserved Olympic champion. However, the Olympic record and of course the world record remained completely untouched.

Lindblom, Georg Åberg and Erik Almlöf provided the first three Swedish medals in this discipline.
Eight of the top ten athletes were from Sweden or Norway - five Swedes / three Norwegians.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Gustaf Lindblom (SWE)

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  Georg Åberg (SWE), winner of the silver medal

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  Platt Adams (USA), Olympic champion in standing vault, reached 5th place

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  Charles Brickley (USA), football and baseball player, finished ninth

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  Calvin Bricker (CAN) is only 18th after silver in the long jump.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 118f

Video

• Gustav Lindblom Completes A Swedish 1,2,3 Medal Podium- Stockholm 1912 Olympics on YouTube , accessed February 18, 2019.

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed August 27, 2017
• Official report , engl. (PDF), accessed on August 27, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Description in the official report ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pp. 398-399, engl. (PDF)