1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	35 athletes from 23 countries
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 23, 1952
Medalist Adhemar da Silva ( BRA )   Leonid Shcherbakov ( URS )   Arnoldo Devonish ( VEN )

The men's triple jump at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki was held on July 23, 1952. 35 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Brazilian Adhemar da Silva . He won with a new world record ahead of Leonid Shcherbakov from the Soviet Union and Arnoldo Devonish from Venezuela.

Existing records

World record	16.01 m	Adhemar da Silva ( Brazil )	Rio de Janeiro , Brazil	September 30, 1951
Olympic record	16.00 m	Tajima Naoto ( Japan )	Berlin , Germany	August 6, 1936

Conducting the competition

The participants competed in two groups for a qualifying round on July 23, the qualifying distance was 14.55 meters. Should fewer than twelve athletes manage the required distance, the starting field would be filled to twelve jumpers according to the best distance achieved. This rule did not have to apply here, fifteen jumpers made it through the qualifying distance into the final round. The results achieved in this qualification were not counted for the final.

In the final, all participants initially had three attempts. The six best athletes were then allowed to make three more attempts.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

July 23, 10:00 am: Qualification
July 23, 3:00 pm: Final

qualification

Date: July 23, 1952, 10:00 a.m.

The order of the test series is unknown.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
01	Adhemar da Silva	Brazil	15.32 m
02	Arnoldo Devonish	Venezuela	15.24 m
03	Jim Gerhardt	United States	14.98 m
04th	Reino Hiltunen	Finland	14.82 m
05	Yoshio Iimuro	Japan	14.82 m
06th	Preben Larsen	Denmark	14.62 m
07th	Walter Ashbaugh	United States	14.59 m
08th	Jacques Boulanger	France	14.49 m
09	Choi Yeong-gi	South Korea	14.44 m
10	Malik M'Baye	France	14.39 m
	Keizo Hasagawa	Japan
12	William Laing	Gold coast	14.09 m
13	Eugénio Lopes	Portugal	14.05 m
14th	Stanislaw Kowal	Poland	14.03 m
15th	Willi Burgard	Saarland	13.86 m
16	Nikola Dagorow	Bulgaria	13.82 m
17th	Akın Altıok	Turkey	13.62 m
18th	Walter Herssens	Belgium	13.52 m
19th	Fawzi Chaaban	Egypt	13.45 m
20th	Francisco Castro	Puerto Rico	13.37 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
01	Leonid Shcherbakov	Soviet Union	15.05 m
02	Arne Åhman	Sweden	14.72 m
03	Nilsen rune	Norway	14.65 m
04th	Zygfryd vineyard	Poland	14.65 m
05	Geraldo de Oliveira	Brazil	14.64 m
06th	Tadashi Yamamoto	Japan	14.60 m
07th	Roger Norman	Sweden	14.59 m
	Rui Ramos	Portugal
09	José Telles da Conceição	Brazil	14.46 m
10	George Shaw	United States	14.39 m
11	Pentti Uusihauta	Finland	14.38 m
12	Valle Rautio	Finland	14.14 m
13	Rade Radovanović	Yugoslavia	14.13 m
14th	Vasilios Sakellarakis	Greece	14.05 m
15th	Felix Würth	Austria	13.65 m

Final and final result

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Adhemar da Silva	Brazil	15.95 m	16.12 m	15.54 m	16.09 m	16.22 m	16.05 m	16.22 m	WR
2	Leonid Shcherbakov	Soviet Union	15.07 m	15.26 m	15.18 m	15.98 m	15.84 m	x	15.98 m
3	Arnoldo Devonish	Venezuela	15.04 m	15.52 m	-	x	x	x	15.52 m
4th	Walter Ashbaugh	United States	15.05 m	15.39 m	14.56 m	14.50 m	15.38 m	x	15.39 m
5	Nilsen rune	Norway	15.13 m	14.21 m	x	14.70 m	x	x	15.13 m
6th	Yoshio Iimuro	Japan	14.99 m	x	x	x	14.66 m	13.70 m	14.99 m
7th	Geraldo de Oliveira	Brazil	x	14.95 m	12.66 m	not in the final of the six best jumpers			14.95 m
8th	Roger Norman	Sweden	14.89 m	x	12.66 m				14.89 m
9	Reino Hiltunen	Finland	14.85 m	x	14.40 m				14.85 m
10	Zygfryd vineyard	Poland	14.76 m	x	x				14.76 m
11	Jim Gerhardt	United States	14.69 m	14.28 m	14.06 m				14.69 m
12	Rui Ramos	Portugal	14.69 m	13.82 m	12.15 m				14.69 m
13	Preben Larsen	Denmark	14.62 m	x	14.19 m				14.62 m
14th	Tadashi Yamamoto	Japan	x	x	14.57 m				14.57 m
15th	Arne Åhman	Sweden	x	x	14.05 m				14.05 m

Date: July 23, 1952, 3 p.m.

Before the Helsinki Games , the 16-meter mark was jumped three times: on August 6, 1936 in Berlin by the Japanese Tajima Naoto, on December 3, 1950 by Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, who then scored 16.01 on September 30, 1951 m improved the world record by one centimeter. Da Silva was therefore seen as a top favorite. Medal chances were given to the Soviet European champion from 1950 , Leonid Shcherbakov.

In the final, da Silva jumped a new world record with 16.12 m in the second attempt, in the fourth round he reached 16.09 m and in the fifth he improved the world record again with 16.22 m. In the last attempt he finally reached 16.05 m. In total, da Silva jumped over the 16-meter mark four times in this competition. Shcherbakov was third up to round four. The Venezuelan Arnoldo Devonish jumped in the second attempt with 15.52 m in second place, before Shcherbakow in the fifth attempt with 15.98 m achieved a new European record and at the same time the jump in second place.
The Olympic champion of the last games , the Swede Arne Åhman, was there again in Helsinki. He qualified for the final with 14.72 m, but then finished only 15th and last place with 14.05 m.

Adhemar Ferreira da Silva won Brazil's first gold medal at the Olympic Games.

Arnoldo Devonish succeeded in winning the first medal for an athlete from Venezuela.

Note: The best size is printed in bold.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 92f

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump
• Official report p. 314f, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 27, 2017
• Brazilian Adhemar Ferreira da Silva Wins Triple Jump Gold - Helsinki 1952 Olympics , published May 21, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 27, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official report p. 266, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (English) ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2009 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.