1956 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 20 countries
Competition location	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Competition phase	November 27, 1956
Medalist Adhemar da Silva ( BRA )   Vilhjálmur Einarsson ( ISL )   Witold Krejer ( URS )

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 )	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
1	Teruji Kogake	Japan	15.63 m	-	-	15.63 m
2	Leonid Shcherbakov	Soviet Union	15.59 m	-	-	15.59 m
3	Kōji Sakurai	Japan	15.49 m	-	-	15.49 m
4th	Kari Rahkamo	Finland	15.43 m	-	-	15.43 m
5	Witold Krejer	Soviet Union	15.38 m	-	-	15.38 m
6th	Hiroshi Shibata	Japan	15.27 m	-	-	15.27 m
7th	George Shaw	United States	14.79 m	15.23 m	-	15.23 m
8th	Tapio Lehto	Finland	14.67 m	13.34 m	15.21 m	15.21 m
9	Vilhjálmur Einarsson	Iceland	15.16 m	-	-	15.16 m
	Bill Sharpe	United States
11	Adhemar da Silva	Brazil	15.15 m	-	-	15.15 m
12	Eric Battista	France	14.99 m	-	-	14.99 m
13	Martin Řehák	Czechoslovakia	14.97 m	-	-	14.97 m
14th	Lawrence Ogwang	Uganda	14.76 m	14.31 m	14.95 m	14.95 m
15th	Mohinder Singh	India	14.66 m	14.93 m	-	14.93 m
16	Ira Davis	United States	14.93 m	-	-	14.93 m
	Peter Esiri	Nigeria
18th	Hannu Rantala	Finland	14.45 m	14.92 m	6.92 m	14.92 m
19th	Ken Wilmshurst	South Korea	14.89 m	-	-	14.89 m
20th	Choi Yeong-gi	South Korea	14.86 m	-	-	14.86 m
21st	Ryszard Malcherczyk	Poland	14.84 m	-	-	14.84 m
22nd	Paul Engo	Nigeria	14.81 m	-	-	14.81 m
23	Brian Oliver	Australia	14.37 m	14.08 m	14.74 m	14.74 m
24	Gabuh bin Piging	North Borneo	14.47 m	14.55 m	6.45 m	14.55 m
25th	Ronald Gray	Australia	14.37 m	14.46 m	14.31 m	14.46 m
26th	Wu Chun-Tsai	Taiwan	x	14.36 m	x	14.36 m
27	Maurice Rich	Australia	14.26 m	13.76 m	13.91 m	14.26 m
28	Sium bin Diau	North Borneo	13.99 m	13.56 m	14.09 m	14.09 m
29	Walter Herssens	Belgium	14.05 m	13.99 m	x	14.05 m
30th	Muhammad Ramzan Ali	Pakistan	x	x	13.90 m	13.90 m
31	Muhammad Rashid	Pakistan	13.00 m	13.53 m	13.35 m	13.53 m
ogV	Tan Eng Yoon	Singapore	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
1	Adhemar da Silva	Brazil	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	Iceland	x	16.26 m	15.81 m	x	15.61 m	-	16.26 m
3	Witold Krejer	Soviet Union	15.83 m	x	16.02 m	15.51 m	x	x	16.02 m
4th	Bill Sharpe	United States	15.88 m	x	14.15 m	-	-	-	15.88 m
5	Martin Řehák	Czechoslovakia	15.58 m	x	15.85 m	x	15.10 m	15.63 m	15.85 m
6th	Leonid Shcherbakov	Soviet Union	15.75 m	x	15.58 m	x	15.80 m	15.12 m	15.80 m
7th	Kōji Sakurai	Japan	15.73 m	15.59 m	15.29 m	not in the final of the six best jumpers			15.73 m
8th	Teruji Kogake	Japan	15.64 m	14.71 m	15.01 m				15.64 m
9	Ken Wilmshurst	Great Britain	15.42 m	15.54 m	15.09 m				15.54 m
10	Ryszard Malcherczyk	Poland	15.54 m	15.26 m	15.41 m				15.54 m
11	Ira Davis	United States	14.16 m	x	15.40 m				15.40 m
12	George Shaw	United States	15.33 m	x	x				15.33 m
13	Hiroshi Shibata	Japan	15.25 m	14.85 m	x				15.25 m
14th	Kari Rahkamo	Finland	15.21 m	x	x				15.21 m
15th	Mohinder Singh	India	15.20 m	x	x				15.20 m
16	Eric Battista	France	15.15 m	15.03 m	14.87 m				15.15 m
17th	Paul Engo	Nigeria	14.98 m	15.03 m	x				15.03 m
18th	Tapio Lehto	Finland	14.63 m	14.91 m	x				14.91 m
19th	Hannu Rantala	Finland	14.65 m	14.87 m	14.87 m				14.87 m
20th	Lawrence Ogwang	Uganda	14.19 m	14.72 m	14.15 m				14.72 m
21st	Choi Yeong-gi	South Korea	14.65 m	x	x				14.65 m
ogV	Peter Esiri	Nigeria	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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 556 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report p. 284, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2017
3. ^ Official report p. 332, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)