1956 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Triple jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 32 athletes from 20 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Melbourne Cricket Ground | ||||||||
Competition phase | November 27, 1956 | ||||||||
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The men's triple jump at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne was played on November 27, 1956 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground . 32 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Brazilian defending champion Adhemar da Silva . He won ahead of the Icelanders Vilhjálmur Einarsson and Witold Krejer from the Soviet Union.
Swiss, Austrian and German athletes did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 16.56 m |
Adhemar da Silva ( Brazil )
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Mexico City , Mexico | March 16, 1955 |
Olympic record | 16.22 m | Helsinki Final , Finland | July 23, 1952 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a qualifying round on November 27th. The required qualification width was 14.80 m. For all qualified jumpers the final took place in the afternoon of the same day. The results achieved in the qualifying round were not included in the further course of the competition. In the final, each jumper was initially entitled to three attempts. The best six jumpers could then make another three jumps.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The best results in the qualification and in the final are printed in bold.
Time schedule
November 27, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
November 27, 2:30 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are local Melbourne time (UTC + 10)
qualification
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | result | annotation |
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1 | Teruji Kogake |
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15.63 m | - | - | 15.63 m | |
2 | Leonid Shcherbakov |
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15.59 m | - | - | 15.59 m | |
3 | Kōji Sakurai |
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15.49 m | - | - | 15.49 m | |
4th | Kari Rahkamo |
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15.43 m | - | - | 15.43 m | |
5 | Witold Krejer |
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15.38 m | - | - | 15.38 m | |
6th | Hiroshi Shibata |
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15.27 m | - | - | 15.27 m | |
7th | George Shaw |
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14.79 m | 15.23 m | - | 15.23 m | |
8th | Tapio Lehto |
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14.67 m | 13.34 m | 15.21 m | 15.21 m | |
9 | Vilhjálmur Einarsson |
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15.16 m | - | - | 15.16 m | |
Bill Sharpe |
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11 | Adhemar da Silva |
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15.15 m | - | - | 15.15 m | |
12 | Eric Battista |
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14.99 m | - | - | 14.99 m | |
13 | Martin Řehák |
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14.97 m | - | - | 14.97 m | |
14th | Lawrence Ogwang |
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14.76 m | 14.31 m | 14.95 m | 14.95 m | |
15th | Mohinder Singh |
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14.66 m | 14.93 m | - | 14.93 m | |
16 | Ira Davis |
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14.93 m | - | - | 14.93 m | |
Peter Esiri |
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18th | Hannu Rantala |
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14.45 m | 14.92 m | 6.92 m | 14.92 m | |
19th | Ken Wilmshurst |
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14.89 m | - | - | 14.89 m | |
20th | Choi Yeong-gi |
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14.86 m | - | - | 14.86 m | |
21st | Ryszard Malcherczyk |
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14.84 m | - | - | 14.84 m | |
22nd | Paul Engo |
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14.81 m | - | - | 14.81 m | |
23 | Brian Oliver |
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14.37 m | 14.08 m | 14.74 m | 14.74 m | |
24 | Gabuh bin Piging |
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14.47 m | 14.55 m | 6.45 m | 14.55 m | |
25th | Ronald Gray |
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14.37 m | 14.46 m | 14.31 m | 14.46 m | |
26th | Wu Chun-Tsai |
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x | 14.36 m | x | 14.36 m | |
27 | Maurice Rich |
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14.26 m | 13.76 m | 13.91 m | 14.26 m | |
28 | Sium bin Diau |
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13.99 m | 13.56 m | 14.09 m | 14.09 m | |
29 | Walter Herssens |
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14.05 m | 13.99 m | x | 14.05 m | |
30th | Muhammad Ramzan Ali |
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x | x | 13.90 m | 13.90 m | |
31 | Muhammad Rashid |
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13.00 m | 13.53 m | 13.35 m | 13.53 m | |
ogV | Tan Eng Yoon |
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x | x | x | without space |
Date: November 27, 1956, 10:00 a.m.
final
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Adhemar da Silva |
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15.69 m | 16.04 m | 15.90 m | 16.35 m | 16.26 m | 16.21 m | 16.35 m | OR |
2 | Vilhjálmur Einarsson |
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x | 16.26 m | 15.81 m | x | 15.61 m | - | 16.26 m | |
3 | Witold Krejer |
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15.83 m | x | 16.02 m | 15.51 m | x | x | 16.02 m | |
4th | Bill Sharpe |
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15.88 m | x | 14.15 m | - | - | - | 15.88 m | |
5 | Martin Řehák |
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15.58 m | x | 15.85 m | x | 15.10 m | 15.63 m | 15.85 m | |
6th | Leonid Shcherbakov |
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15.75 m | x | 15.58 m | x | 15.80 m | 15.12 m | 15.80 m | |
7th | Kōji Sakurai |
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15.73 m | 15.59 m | 15.29 m | not in the final of the six best jumpers |
15.73 m | |||
8th | Teruji Kogake |
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15.64 m | 14.71 m | 15.01 m | 15.64 m | ||||
9 | Ken Wilmshurst |
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15.42 m | 15.54 m | 15.09 m | 15.54 m | ||||
10 | Ryszard Malcherczyk |
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15.54 m | 15.26 m | 15.41 m | 15.54 m | ||||
11 | Ira Davis |
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14.16 m | x | 15.40 m | 15.40 m | ||||
12 | George Shaw |
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15.33 m | x | x | 15.33 m | ||||
13 | Hiroshi Shibata |
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15.25 m | 14.85 m | x | 15.25 m | ||||
14th | Kari Rahkamo |
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15.21 m | x | x | 15.21 m | ||||
15th | Mohinder Singh |
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15.20 m | x | x | 15.20 m | ||||
16 | Eric Battista |
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15.15 m | 15.03 m | 14.87 m | 15.15 m | ||||
17th | Paul Engo |
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14.98 m | 15.03 m | x | 15.03 m | ||||
18th | Tapio Lehto |
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14.63 m | 14.91 m | x | 14.91 m | ||||
19th | Hannu Rantala |
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14.65 m | 14.87 m | 14.87 m | 14.87 m | ||||
20th | Lawrence Ogwang |
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14.19 m | 14.72 m | 14.15 m | 14.72 m | ||||
21st | Choi Yeong-gi |
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14.65 m | x | x | 14.65 m | ||||
ogV | Peter Esiri |
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x | x | x | without space |
Date: November 27, 1956, 2:30 p.m.
The top favorite was the 1952 Olympic champion and world record holder Adhemar Ferreira da Silva from Brazil. The silver medalist from 1952, Leonid Shcherbakov from the USSR, like the Japanese Teruji Kogake, was one of the favorites.
A sensation, however, was the silver medal of the Icelandic Vilhjálmur Einarsson, who was able to challenge the Brazilian and was even in the lead after the first three rounds. Da Silva then improved in his fourth attempt to the new Olympic record width of 16.35 m and exceeded Einarsson by nine centimeters. That was the decision, da Silva repeated his Olympic victory from Helsinki . The bronze medal of Witold Krejer, a fellow Shcherbakov, who came in sixth, was just as unexpected.
Adhemar Ferreira da Silva was the second triple jumper after Myer Prinstein - gold medalist in 1900 and 1904 - to repeat his Olympic victory. Vilhjálmur Einarsson won the first ever Olympic medal for Iceland.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 143f
Web links
- SportsReference triple jump , accessed October 5, 2017
- Official report p. 332f, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2017
- Melbourne 1956 Official Olympic Film - Part 2 | Olympic History , range 3:26 min - 4:13 min, published on June 24, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on October 5, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Official report p. 284, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2017
- ^ Official report p. 332, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)