1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	36 athletes from 22 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 16, 1964
Medalist Józef Szmidt ( POL )   Oleg Fjodossejew ( URS )   Viktor Kravchenko ( URS )

The men's triple jump at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was held on October 16, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 36 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Józef Szmidt from Poland . He won before the Soviet jumpers Oleg Fjodossejew and Viktor Kravchenko .

While jumpers from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part, three Germans started. Günter Krivec failed in qualification, he was two centimeters short. Hans-Jürgen Rückborn reached the final and was eighth there. Even Manfred Hinze qualified for the final and finished sixth.

Existing records

World record	17.03 m	Józef Szmidt ( Poland )	Olsztyn (formerly Allenstein), Poland	5th August 1960
Olympic record	16.81 m		Final of Rome , Italy	September 6, 1960

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on October 16, in which each participant had three attempts. The qualification width was 15.80 m. For all qualified jumpers the final took place in the afternoon of the same day. There, each participant initially had three attempts. The six best athletes were then allowed three more attempts.

Time schedule

October 16, 10:30 a.m .: Qualification

October 16, 2.30 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

Best widths are printed in bold.

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

qualification

Date: October 16, 1964, 10:30 a.m.

Weather conditions: clear, 19-21 ° C, 42-44% humidity

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Fred Alsop	Great Britain	x	15.21 m	16.41 m	16.41 m
2	Ira Davis	United States	16.29 m	-	-	16.29 m
3	Manfred Hinze	Germany	14.10 m	15.47 m	16.23 m	16.23 m
4th	Georgi Stojkowski	Bulgaria	16.21 m	-	-	16.21 m
5	Józef Szmidt	Poland	16.18 m	-	-	16.18 m
6th	Jan Jaskólski	Poland	16.10 m	-	-	16.10 m
7th	Takayuki Okazaki	Japan	15.76 m	15.47 m	16.05 m	16.05 m
8th	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn	Germany	15.88 m	-	-	15.88 m
9	Oleg Fyodoseyev	Soviet Union	15.87 m	-	-	15.87 m
10	Mansour slide	Senegal	15.64 m	15.84 m	-	15.84 m
11	Șerban Ciochină	Romania	15.81 m	-	-	15.81 m
	Viktor Kravchenko	Soviet Union
13	Bill Sharpe	United States	15.80 m	-	-	15.80 m
14th	Günter Krivec	Germany	x	15.78 m	15.78 m	15.78 m
15th	Ian Tomlinson	Australia	15.09 m	15.76 m	15.34 m	15.76 m
16	Witold Krejer	Soviet Union	15.71 m	15.57 m	15.69 m	15.71 m
17th	Kōji Sakurai	Japan	15.42 m	15.59 m	15.45 m	15.59 m
18th	Michael Ralph	Great Britain	15.09 m	13.98 m	15.57 m	15.57 m
19th	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	x	15.53 m	15.15 m	15.53 m
20th	Luis Felipe Areta Sampériz	Spain	15.41 m	x	x	15.41 m
21st	Kent Floerke	United States	15.36 m	x	15.33 m	15.36 m
22nd	George Ogan	Nigeria	x	15.35 m	15.28 m	15.35 m
23	Aşkın Tuna	Turkey	15.08 m	15.21 m	x	15.21 m
24	Christian Ohiri	Nigeria	14.35 m	15.08 m	15.00 m	15.08 m
25th	Eric Battista	France	15.04 m	x	x	15.04 m
26th	Labh Singh	India	14.95 m	x	14.74 m	14.95 m
27	Lyuben Gurgushinov	Bulgaria	14.75 m	x	x	14.75 m
28	Marc Rabémila	Madagascar	14.15 m	14.62 m	13.92 m	14.62 m
29	Hartley Saunders	Bahamas	14.59 m	13.75 m	14.58 m	14.59 m
30th	Hwang Chung-dae	South Korea	x	x	13.98 m	13.98 m
31	Samir Vincent	Iraq	x	x	13.85 m	13.85 m
32	Chu Ming	Hong Kong	13.25 m	x	13.50 m	13.50 m
ogV	Graham Boase	Australia	x	x	x		without space
	Tomio Ota	Japan

final

Date: October 16, 1964, 2:30 p.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, 18-21 ° C, 47-57% humidity

The Pole Józef Szmidt, Olympic champion in 1960 and world record holder , did compete, but after a knee operation a few months before the games he was not expected to win.

In the final, the Briton Fred Alsop reached 16.46 m in the first attempt. So he did not lead long, because Szmidt jumped 16.65 m in the second lap. Before the last three rounds with the best six athletes, this order remained at the top. But in rounds four and five, two Soviet jumpers triumphed. First Viktor Kravchenko reached 16.57 m, then Oleg Fjodosejew rose to 16.58 m. So Alsop was ousted from the medals. In his last attempt, Józef Szmidt even improved his own Olympic record to 16.85 m and surprisingly repeated his Olympic victory in 1960.

As in 1960, a Pole won in front of two jumpers from the Soviet Union.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Józef Szmidt	Poland	16.37 m	16.65 m	16.58 m	x	14.55 m	16.85 m OR	16.85 m	OR
2	Oleg Fyodoseyev	Soviet Union	15.73 m	15.67 m	16.35 m	16.20 m	16.58 m	16.38 m	16.58 m
3	Viktor Kravchenko	Soviet Union	16.14 m	16.38 m	16.17 m	16.57 m	16.10 m	15.99 m	16.57 m
4th	Fred Alsop	Great Britain	16.46 m	x	16.14 m	x	x	16.14 m	16.46 m
5	Șerban Ciochină	Romania	15.79 m	16.23 m	15.70 m	16.10 m	15.79 m	15.77 m	16.23 m
6th	Manfred Hinze	Germany	15.81 m	16.06 m	16.15 m	x	13.63 m	x	16.15 m
7th	Georgi Stojkowski	Bulgaria	15.30 m	15.96 m	16.10 m	not in the final of the six best jumpers			16.10 m
8th	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn	Germany	16.09 m	x	15.52 m				16.09 m
9	Ira Davis	United States	15.97 m	15.82 m	16.00 m				16.00 m
10	Takayuki Okazaki	Japan	15.69 m	x	15.90 m				15.90 m
11	Bill Sharpe	United States	15.84 m	15.69 m	15.67 m				15.84 m
12	Jan Jaskólski	Poland	15.82 m	x	x				15.82 m
13	Mansour slide	Senegal	15.40 m	x	15.44 m				15.44 m

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Józef Szmidt from Poland

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  Silver went to Oleg Fjodossejew, USSR

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  Viktor Kravchenko, USSR, won bronze

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  Best German: Manfred Hinze in sixth place

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  Hans-Jürgen Rückborn from Germany reached eighth place

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  The Japanese Koji Sakurai did not survive the qualification

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 278–280

Video

• The Tokyo 1964 Olympics Part 3 | Olympic History , range 4:58 min - 6:30 min, published October 17, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed October 26, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed October 28, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 48f engl. (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 556 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) retrieved on October 28, 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017 
3. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. P. 48f (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017 
4. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 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. P. 49 (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 28, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference (English) ( Memento of the original from July 5, 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. , accessed October 28, 2017