1948 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Triple jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 29 athletes from 18 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Wembley Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 3, 1948 | ||||||||
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The men's triple jump at the 1948 Olympic Games in London was held on August 3, 1948 at Wembley Stadium . 29 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the Swede Arne Åhman . He won ahead of the Australian George Avery and the Turk Ruhi Sarıalp .
Existing records
- World record : 16.00 m - Tajima Naoto ( Japan ), Berlin , August 6, 1936
- Olympic record : 16.00 m - Tajima Naoto ( Japan ), Olympic final in Berlin , August 6, 1936
Conducting the competition
Participants competed in a qualifying round on August 3. The required qualification distance was 14.50 meters. All jumpers who managed this distance qualified for the final on the same day.
Note: The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The test series and their order in qualification are unknown. It was measured in the British system (feet, inches), so half a centimeter is also given.
qualification
August 3, 1948, 11 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | George Avery | Australia | 15,335 m | |
2 | Valle Rautio | Finland | 14,860 m | |
3 | Åke Hallgren | Sweden | 14,770 m | |
4th | Adhemar da Silva | Brazil | 14.690 m | |
5 | Henry Rebello | India | 14,650 m | |
6th | Helio da Silva | Brazil | 14,640 m | |
7th | Arne Åhman | Sweden | 14,600 m | |
7th | Kim Won-kwon | South Korea | 14,600 m | |
9 | Geraldo de Oliveira | Brazil | 14,590 m | |
10 | Lennart Moberg | Sweden | 14,570 m | |
11 | Les McKeand | Australia | 14,550 m | |
12 | Bill Albans | United States | 14,550 m | |
13 | Ruhi Sarıalp | Turkey | 14,530 m | |
14th | Preben Larsen | Denmark | 14,520 m | |
15th | Máximo Reyes | Peru | 14.380 m | |
16 | Erkki Koutonen | Finland | 14.370 m | |
17th | João Rodrigues Vieira | Portugal | 14,280 m | |
18th | Robert Bobin | France | 14.130 m | |
19th | Bob Beckus | United States | 14.030 m | |
20th | Charles Épalle | France | 14.020 m | |
21st | Felix Würth | Austria | 13,920 m | |
22nd | Luís García | Portugal | 13,920 m | |
23 | Carlos Vera | Chile | 13,850 m | |
24 | Allan Lindsay | Great Britain | 13,700 m | |
25th | Sidney Cross | Great Britain | 13,455 m | |
ogV | Jorge Aguirre | Mexico | ||
Robert Hawkey | Great Britain | |||
Gallage Peiris | Ceylon |
final
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Best | annotation |
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1 | Arne Åhman | Sweden | 15,400 m | 14,680 m | 14,890 m | 14,580 m | x | x | 15,400 m | |
2 | George Avery | Australia | 15.365 m | x | 14,670 m | 14.320 m | 14,780 m | 15.365 m | ||
3 | Ruhi Sarıalp | Turkey | 14.230 m | 15,020 m | 14.910 m | 15.025 m | x | 15.025 m | ||
4th | Preben Larsen | Denmark | 14.830 m | |||||||
5 | Geraldo de Oliveira | Brazil | 14.825 m | |||||||
6th | Valle Rautio | Finland | 14,700 m | |||||||
7th | Les McKeand | Australia | 14,530 m | |||||||
8th | Adhemar da Silva | Brazil | 14,490 m | |||||||
9 | Åke Hallgren | Sweden | 14,485 m | |||||||
10 | Bill Albans | United States | 14.330 m | |||||||
11 | Helio da Silva | Brazil | 14.310 m | |||||||
12 | Kim Won-kwon | South Korea | 14,250 m | |||||||
13 | Lennart Moberg | Sweden | 14.215 m | |||||||
ogV | Henry Rebello | India |
August 3, 1948, 3:30 p.m.
Note: Only the trial series of medalists are known. For the other finalists, only the best scores are submitted. It was measured in the British system (feet, inches), so half a centimeter is also given.
14 jumpers qualified for the final. The favorites before the games were the Swede Arne Ahman and the reigning European champion Valle Rautio from Finland. After his good distance in qualifying, the Australian George Avery was also counted among the favorites. Ahman won his gold medal with his first final jump. At the level of the competition by 1936 could triple jump in London unable to match. The last Olympic gold medalist had jumped more than half a meter, but three years after World War II people were preoccupied with many things other than sports. In eighth place came the then unknown Adhemar da Silva, who should win the triple jump in the next two games in 1952 and 1956 .
Ruhi Sarıalp succeeded in winning the first medal in athletics for Turkey. It was also the only athletics medal for this country in the 20th century.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 35f
Web links
- SportsReference triple jump , accessed August 23, 2017
- Official report p. 269, engl. (PDF), accessed on August 23, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Official report "Athletic Timetable" p. 240, engl. (PDF)
- ^ Official report "Athletic Timetable" p. 240, engl. (PDF)
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)