1912 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Triple jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 20 athletes from 7 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stockholm Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 15, 1912 | ||||||||
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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 )
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15.52 m | new York | May 30, 1911 |
Olympic record |
Tim Ahearne ( Great Britain )
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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 |
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1 | Gustaf Lindblom |
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14.76 m | 14.74 | 14.76 | 14.20 | - | 14.35 | 14.32 |
2 | Georg Åberg |
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14.51 m | 13.58 | 13.90 | 14.51 | - | 14.03 | - |
3 | Erik Almlöf |
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14.17 m | - | 13.46 | 14.17 | - | 13.85 | 14.10 |
4th | Erling Vinne |
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14.14 m | 13.63 | 14.14 | 13.34 | |||
5 | Platt Adams |
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14.09 m | 13.72 | 14.09 | - | |||
6th | Edvard Larsen |
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14.06 m | 13.27 | 13.90 | 14.06 | |||
7th | Hjalmar Ohlsson |
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14.01 m | 14.01 | 13.87 | 13.91 | |||
8th | Nils Fixdal |
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13.96 m | 13.96 | 13.58 | 13.66 | |||
9 | Charles Brickley |
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13.88 m | 13.88 | 13.84 | 13.77 | |||
10 | Gustaf Nordén |
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13.81 m | 13.81 | 12.76 | - | |||
11 | Juho Halme |
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13.79 m | 13.79 | 13.43 | 13.51 | |||
12 | Inge Lindholm |
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13.74 m | 13.14 | 13.57 | 13.74 | |||
13 | Edward Farrell |
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13.57 m | - | 13.42 | 13.57 | |||
14th | Otto Bäurle |
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13.52 m | 13.12 | - | 13.52 | |||
15th | Gustav Krojer |
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13.45 m | 12.90 | 13.45 | 12.95 | |||
Patrik Ohlsson |
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12.98 | 13.37 | 13.45 | |||||
17th | Skotte Jacobsson |
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13.33 m | 13.33 | - | 12.71 | |||
18th | Calvin Bricker |
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13.25 m | 13.25 | - | - | |||
19th | Timothy Carroll |
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12.56 m | - | 12.54 | 12.56 | |||
20th | Arthur Maranda |
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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
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
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 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)