1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	39 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Stadio Olimpico
Competition phase	September 6, 1960
Medalist Józef Szmidt ( POL )   Vladimir Goryayev ( URS )   Witold Krejer ( URS )

Olympic champion Józef Szmidt (POL)

The Japanese Koji Sakurai failed in the qualification.

Manfred Hinze (GER) finished seventh in the final.

Out in the qualification for Karl Thierfelder (GER)

The men's triple jump at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was held on September 6, 1960 in the Stadio Olimpico . 39 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Józef Szmidt from Poland . He won ahead of Vladimir Gorjajew and Witold Krejer , both from the Soviet Union.

While athletes from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part, three Germans started. Jörg Wischmeier and Karl Thierfelder failed because of the qualification distance for the final. Manfred Hinze was able to qualify for the final and finished seventh there.

Existing records

World record	17.03 m	Józef Szmidt ( Poland )	Olsztyn , Poland	5th August 1960
Olympic record	16.35 m	Adhemar da Silva ( Brazil )	Melbourne finals , Australia	November 27, 1956

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on September 6th, which was conducted in three groups. The required qualification width was 15.50 m. For all qualified jumpers the final took place on the afternoon of the same day. Each participant was initially entitled to three attempts. The best six athletes could then complete three more attempts.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The best widths are printed in bold. With the same distance, the second best distance decided the placement.

Time schedule

September 6, 9:00 a.m .: Qualification

September 6, 3 p.m .: Final

qualification

Date: September 6, 1960, from 9:00 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	Józef Szmidt	Poland	16.44 m OR	-	-	16.44 m	OR
2	Kari Rahkamo	Finland	15.85 m	-	-	15.85 m
3	Sten Erickson	Sweden	x	15.47 m	15.76 m	15.76 m
4th	Ira Davis	United States	15.64 m	-	-	15.64 m
5	Hannu Rantala	Finland	15.11 m	14.94 m	15.08 m	15.11 m
6th	Jan Jaskólski	Poland	x	14.84 m	15.04 m	15.04 m
7th	Hiroshi Shibata	Japan	14.93 m	14.80 m	x	14.93 m
8th	Luis Felipe Areta Sampériz	Spain	x	14.93 m	x	14.93 m
9	Federico Bisson	Italy	x	14.21 m	14.76 m	14.76 m
10	Samuel Igun	Nigeria	14.74 m	14.52 m	14.26 m	14.74 m
11	Kōji Sakurai	Japan	14.59 m	14.17 m	14.07 m	14.59 m
12	Ramón López	Cuba	14.05 m	14.53 m	14.52 m	14.53 m
13	Dave Norris	New Zealand	x	13.78 m	14.30 m	14.30 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	Vladimir Goryayev	Soviet Union	15.14 m	16.21 m	-	16.21 m
2	Ryszard Malcherczyk	Poland	15.46 m	15.93 m	-	15.93 m
3	Ian Tomlinson	Australia	15.29 m	15.89 m	-	15.89 m
4th	Pier Luigi Gatti	Italy	15.12 m	x	15.66 m	15.66 m
5	Fred Alsop	United Kingdom	x	15.65 m	-	15.65 m
6th	Witold Krejer	Soviet Union	15.56 m	-	-	15.56 m
7th	Bill Sharpe	United States	15.44 m	15.24 m	x	15.44 m
8th	Tomio Ota	Japan	13.59 m	15.42 m	x	15.42 m
9	Eric Battista	France	15.22 m	x	14.83 m	15.22 m
10	Karl Thierfelder	Germany	x	15.08 m	14.42 m	15.08 m
11	Ruhollah Rahmani	Iran	14.70 m	13.52 m	x	14.70 m
12	Konstantinos Sfikas	Greece	14.25 m	13.60 m	14.32 m	14.32 m
13	Pedro Camacho	Puerto Rico	x	14.21 m	13.58	14.21 m
14th	Yıldıray Pağda	Turkey	14.11 m	13.85 m	x	14.11 m

Group C

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	Manfred Hinze	Germany	15.86 m	-	-	15.86 m
2	Vilhjálmur Einarsson	Iceland	15.49 m	15.74 m	-	15.74 m
3	Yevgeny Mikhailov	Soviet Union	15.68 m	-	-	15.68 m
4th	Adhemar da Silva	Brazil	15.47 m	15.61 m	-	15.61 m
5	John Baguley	Australia	14.62 m	14.74 m	15.56 m	15.56 m
6th	Enzo Cavalli	Italy	15.48 m	15.33 m	15.37 m	15.48 m
7th	Dodyu Patarinski	Bulgaria	x	15.37 m	x	15.37 m
8th	Jörg Wischmeier	Germany	x	15.20 m	15.23 m	15.23 m
9	Herman Stokes	United States	14.74 m	14.53 m	14.48 m	14.74 m
10	Abdul Razzak	Iraq	14.08 m	14.56 m	14.27 m	14.56 m
11	Muhammad Khan	Pakistan	x	14.43 m	14.20 m	14.43 m
12	Pierre William	France	13.29 m	x	x	13.29 m

final

Date: September 6, 1960, 3 p.m.

15 athletes had qualified for the final, among them world record holder Józef Szmidt from Poland, the first 17-meter jumper to improve the Olympic record in his qualification attempt . In the final, he jumped another 34 centimeters in the first round. Nobody could dispute the leadership anymore. In the third attempt, Szmidt added another three centimeters. Behind him, two Soviet jumpers took second and third place: Vladimir Gorjajew won the silver medal 18 centimeters behind, ahead of Witold Krejer, who was another 20 centimeters behind.

Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, who had dominated the triple jump competitions of the last two Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 and in Melbourne in 1956 , was again at the start in Rome . But the standard of performance had evolved and da Silva was no longer in the shape of previous years, so this time it was only 14th in the final.

Józef Szmidt won the first Polish gold medal in the triple jump .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Józef Szmidt	Poland	16.78 m OR	x	16.81 m OR	x	16.63 m	13.48 m	16.81 m	OR
2	Vladimir Goryayev	Soviet Union	16.11 m	16.39 m	15.55 m	16.63 m	16.28 m	x	16.63 m
3	Witold Krejer	Soviet Union	16.21 m	16.00 m	15.96 m	16.01 m	15.91 m	16.43 m	16.43 m
4th	Ira Davis	United States	x	16.41 m	x	16.13 m	x	16.05 m	16.41 m
5	Vilhjálmur Einarsson	Iceland	16.37 m	16.06 m	15.90 m	16.24 m	x	16.36 m	16.37 m
6th	Ryszard Malcherczyk	Poland	15.87 m	16.01 m	15.83 m	15.82 m	13.18 m	14.66 m	16.01 m
7th	Manfred Hinze	Germany	15.93 m	x	15.84 m	not in the final of the six best jumpers			15.93 m
8th	Kari Rahkamo	Finland	15.84 m	x	15.71 m				15.84 m
9	Ian Tomlinson	Australia	15.40 m	15.71 m	13.21 m				15.71 m
10	Yevgeny Mikhailov	Soviet Union	15.50 m	15.67 m	14.83 m				15.67 m
11	Sten Erickson	Sweden	15.49 m	15.32 m	x				15.49 m
12	Fred Alsop	United Kingdom	15.49 m	x	x				15.49 m
13	John Baguley	Australia	14.88 m	15.16 m	15.22 m				15.22 m
14th	Adhemar da Silva	Brazil	x	14.87 m	15.07 m				15.07 m
ogV	Pier Luigi Gatti	Italy	x	x	x					without space

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 208f

Videos

• Stadio olimpico: nel salto triplo, la medaglia d'oro va la polacco Schiedt che con i suoi 16 .. , published on June 21, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed on October 18, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed October 18, 2017
• Official report pp. 139–142, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 18, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump men , accessed on rekorde-im-sport.de on October 18, 2017
2. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 64 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 18, 2017
3. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 139f (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 18, 2017
4. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 142 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 18, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 18, 2017