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
Medalist Arne Åhman ( SWE )   George Avery ( AUS )   Ruhi Sarıalp ( TUR )

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
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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Official report "Athletic Timetable" p. 240, engl. (PDF)
3. ^ Official report "Athletic Timetable" p. 240, engl. (PDF)
4. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)