1928 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 14 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	August 2, 1928
Medalist Oda Mikio ( JPN )   Levi Casey ( USA )   Vilho Tuulos ( FIN )

The men's triple jump at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam was held on August 2, 1928 in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam . 24 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Japanese Oda Mikio ahead of the American Levi Casey . Bronze went to Vilho Tuulos from Finland.

Existing records

• World record : 15.52 s - Nick Winter ( Australia ), Paris , July 12, 1924
• Olympic record : 15.52 s - Nick Winter ( Australia ), Olympic triple jump final in Paris , July 12, 1924

Conducting the competition

On August 2nd there was a qualifying round in two groups. The six best jumpers from the four groups qualified for the final, which took place on the same day. The result of the qualification was included in the final result.

Note: The qualified jumpers are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: August 2, 1928

Group 1

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Oda Mikio	Japan	15.21 m
2	Vilho Tuulos	Finland	14.73 m
3	Toimi Tulikoura	Finland	14.70 m
4th	Willem Peters	Netherlands	14.55 m
5	Sidney Bowman	United States	14.35 m
6th	Nick Winter	Australia	14.15 m
7th	Steef van Musscher	Netherlands	13.93 m
8th	Konstantinos Petridis	Greece	13.83 m
9	Theo Phelan	Irish Free State	13.73 m
10	Bob Kelley	United States	13.64 m
11	Arild Lenth	Norway	13.39 m
12	Ferenc Molnár	Hungary	13.36 m
13	Wilfrid Kalaugher	New Zealand	12.94 m

Group 2

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Nambu Chuhei	Japan	15.01 m
2	Levi Casey	United States	14.93 m
3	Erkki Järvinen	Finland	14.65 m
4th	Väinö Rainio	Finland	14.41 m
5	Jan Blankers	Netherlands	14.35 m
6th	Lloyd Bourgeois	United States	14.28 m
7th	Gijs Lamoree	Netherlands	14.08 m
8th	Imre Fekete	Hungary	14.07 m
9	Alex Munroe	Canada	13.87 m
10	Hermann Brügmann	Denmark	13.82 m
11	Johannes Viljoen	South African Union	12.49 m

Bottom line

				final
space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Oda Mikio	Japan	15.21 m	15.21 m	X	15.21 m	15.21 m
2	Levi Casey	United States	14.93 m	14.93 m	15.17 m	15.17 m	15.17 m
3	Vilho Tuulos	Finland	15.09 m	15.09 m	15.11 m	15.11 m	15.11 m
4th	Nambu Chuhei	Japan	15.01 m	15.01 m	15.00 m	15.01 m	15.01 m
5	Toimi Tulikoura	Finland	14.70 m	14.70 m	14.62 m	14.70 m	14.70 m
6th	Erkki Järvinen	Finland	14.65 m	14.65 m	X	14.65 m	14.65 m
7th	Willem Peters	Netherlands	14.55 m	did not qualify for the finals			14.55 m
8th	Väinö Rainio	Finland	14.41 m				14.41 m

Date: August 2, 1928

In Amsterdam , Oda Mikio established the Japanese dominance in the triple jump for three Olympic Games. He won with 15.21 m, just ahead of the American Levi Casey, who jumped 15.17 m. With 15.11 m, the now 33-year-old Olympic champion of 1920 Vilho Tuulos won the bronze medal. Nick Winter , Olympic champion from 1924 also took part in this competition, but no longer had the form of 1924 and ended up in eleventh place.

Oda Mikio won the first Japanese Olympic victory and at the same time the first Japanese medal in the triple jump.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic Champion Oda Mikio (JPN)

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  4th place for Nambu Chūhei (JPN)

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 205

Video

• Oda Becomes Asia's First Individual Olympic Champion - Amsterdam 1928 Olympics , published October 9, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed September 14, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed September 14, 2017
• Official report pp. 446–448, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 14, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 548 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Official report, pp. 446 - 448 (Eng.)