1924 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	20 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Stade de Colombes
Competition phase	July 12, 1924
Medalist Nick Winter ( AUS )   Luis Brunetto ( ARG )   Vilho Tuulos ( FIN )

The men's triple jump at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris was held on July 12, 1924. 20 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Australian Nick Winter , who set a new world record . The silver medal went to the Argentine Luis Brunetto , bronze went to the Finn Vilho Tuulos .

Existing records

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

The two record holders Dan Ahearn and Tim Ahearne were brothers of Irish descent. 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 1912 Stockholm Games because they had not yet been granted US citizenship.

Conducting the competition

The athletes had to jump a qualifying round on July 12th. The jumpers were divided into two groups. The six best athletes from both qualification groups qualified for the final, which took place on the same day. The distances achieved in the preliminary fight were included in the final result.

Note: The qualified jumpers are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 12, 1924

Group 1

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Luis Brunetto	Argentina	15.425 m	OR
2	Väinö Rainio	Finland	14.94 m
3	Oda Mikio	Japan	14.35 m
4th	Earle Wilson	United States	14.235 m
5	Ivar Sahlin	Sweden	14.16 m
6th	Willem Peters	Netherlands	13.86 m
7th	Philip MacDonald	Canada	13.33 m
8th	Harold Langley	Great Britain	12.74 m
9	Kiril Petrunov	Bulgaria	12.02 m
ogV	DeHart Hubbard	United States
	André Clayeux	France

Group 2

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Nick Winter	Australia	15.18 m
2	Folke Jansson	Sweden	14.97 m
3	Vilho Tuulos	Finland	14.84 m
4th	Merwin Graham	United States	14.00 m
5	John O'Connor	Irish Free State	13.99 m
6th	John Odde	Great Britain	13.40 m
7th	Jack Higginson	Great Britain	13.34 m
8th	Russ Sheppard	Canada	12.72 m
9	Louis Wilhelme	France	12.66 m

final

space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	Final width	result	annotation
1	Nick Winter	Australia	15.18 m	15,530 m	15,530 m	WR
2	Luis Brunetto	Argentina	15.425 m	no improvement in the final	15.425 m
3	Vilho Tuulos	Finland	14.84 m	15,370 m	15,370 m
4th	Väinö Rainio	Finland	14.94 m	15,010 m	15,010 m
5	Folke Jansson	Sweden	14,970 m	no improvement in the final	14,970 m
6th	Oda Mikio	Japan	14.350 m	no improvement in the final	14.350 m
7th	Earle Wilson	United States	14.235 m	not in the final	14.235 m
8th	Ivar Sahlin	Sweden	14.160 m	not in the final	14.160 m

Date: July 12, 1924

The top favorite was the Olympic champion of 1920 Vilho Tuulos from Finland, who had achieved the second best ever jumped distance with 15.48 m before the Olympic Games.

The best qualifying distance was achieved by the Argentine Luis Brunetto with 15.425 m, who improved the Olympic record by half a meter. The final developed into a competition of a special class. Three other jumpers mastered the 15-meter mark. Tuulos jumped with 15.37 m exactly 87 centimeters further than his Olympic victory and still won "only" bronze. The gold medal went to the surprisingly strong Nick Winter, who set a new world record with 15.525 m in the last attempt and thus pushed Brunetto into second place.

Winter jumped to the first Australian victory in the triple jump.

Luis Brunetto won Argentina's first medal in athletics. The Argentine polo team also won the gold medal on July 12th, so that the first two Argentine medals were won at the Olympic Games on the same day.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic Champion Nick Winter (AUS)

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  Luis Brunetto (ARG) won the silver medal

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  Oda Mikio (JPN) finished sixth

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  DeHart Hubbard (USA), Olympic long jump champion, failed to make a valid attempt

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 169

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed September 9, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 169
2. ↑ Official report, pp. 135–136 (fr.) ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)