1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	16 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	4th August 1932
Medalist Nambu Chūhei ( JPN )   Eric Svensson ( SWE )   Ōshima Kenkichi ( JPN )

The men's triple jump at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 4, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 16 athletes took part.

The Japanese Nambu Chūhei became Olympic champion with a new world record. The silver medal went to Eric Svensson from Sweden , bronze went to Ōshima Kenkichi from Japan .

Existing records

• World record : 15.58 m - Oda Mikio ( Japan ), Tokyo , October 27, 1931
• Olympic record : 14.92 m - Tim Ahearne ( Great Britain ), London final , July 25, 1908

Conducting the competition

All athletes went into a qualifying round with three attempts each on August 4th. The best three jumpers had three more attempts in the final. The result of the qualification was included in the final result.

Note: The qualified jumpers are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: August 4, 1932

Only the test series of the first four jumpers are known, of the remaining jumpers only the final results are known.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	Eric Svensson	Sweden	14.21 m	15.32 m	X	15.32 m
2	Nambu Chuhei	Japan	15.07 m	14.67 m	15.22 m	15.22 m
3	Ōshima Kenkichi	Japan	X	X	15.05 m	15.05 m
4th	Eamonn Fitzgerald	Irish Free State	14.98 m	15.01 m	X	15.01 m
5	Willem Peters	Netherlands	Trial series not known			14.93 m
6th	Sol Furth	United States				14.88 m
7th	Sidney Bowman	United States				14.87 m
8th	Rolland Romero	United States				14.85 m
8th	Péter Bácsalmási	Hungary				14.33 m
10	Francesco Tabai	Italy				14.29 m
11	Onni Rajasaari	Finland				14.20 m
12	Oda Mikio	Japan				13.97 m
13	Nikolaos Papanikolaou	Greece				13.92 m
14th	Mehar Chand Dhawan	British India				13.66 m
15th	Salvador Alanís	Mexico				13.28 m
ogV	Jack Portland	Canada	X	X	X

Bottom line

				final
space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Nambu Chuhei	Japan	15.22 m	14.89 m	15.72 m	14.85 m	15.72 m	WR
2	Eric Svensson	Sweden	15.32 m	14.70 m	14.77 m	X	15.32 m
3	Ōshima Kenkichi	Japan	15.05 m	X	14.85 m	15.12 m	15.12 m
4th	Eamonn Fitzgerald	Irish Free State	15.01 m	not in the final			15.01 m
5	Willem Peters	Netherlands	14.93 m				14.93 m
6th	Sol Furth	United States	14.88 m				14.88 m
7th	Sidney Bowman	United States	14.87 m				14.87 m
8th	Péter Bácsalmási	Hungary	14.33 m				14.33 m

Date: August 4, 1932

In the triple jump , Nambu Chūhei, whom his poor long jump performance had taken off, made up for everything. His compatriot Oda Mikio , the world record holder and Olympic champion of 1928 , was the real favorite . But Oda remained far below his possibilities due to an injury and finished twelfth in the end. Nambu set a new world record with 15.72 m and thus became Olympic champion. Thirty centimeters behind, the Swede Eric Svensson took silver and with Kenkichi Ōshima another Japanese came third with 15.12 m.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Nambu Chūhei (JPN)

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  Ōshima Kenkichi (JPN) jumped to the bronze medal.

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  The 1928 Olympic champion and world record holder Oda Mikio (JPN) only came in 12th due to an injury.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 240

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed September 18, 2017
• Official report pp. 447–448, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 18, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)