1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	36 athletes from 28 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	September 3, 1972 (qualification) September 4, 1972 (final)
Medalist Viktor Saneyev ( URS )   Jörg Drehmel ( GDR )   Nelson Prudêncio ( BRA )

The men's triple jump at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 3rd and 4th, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 36 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Viktor Saneyev from the Soviet Union. The silver medal was won by Jörg Drehmel from the GDR, the bronze went to the Brazilian Nelson Prudêncio .

In addition to the silver medalist, Heinz-Günter Schenk also started for the GDR , who was eliminated in the qualification.
Jumpers from the Federal Republic of Germany (officially Germany), Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	17.40 m	Pedro Pérez ( Cuba )	Cali , Colombia	5th August 1971
Olympic record	17.39 m	Viktor Saneyev ( Soviet Union )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	17th October 1968

Conducting the competition

The jumpers competed in two groups for a qualifying round on September 3rd. The qualifying distance for reaching the final on September 4th was 16.20 m. Since exactly twelve athletes reached this distance, the final field did not have to be filled any further after the next best distance.
In the final, each athlete initially had three attempts. The best eight participants then had another three attempts.

Time schedule

September 3, 10 a.m .: Qualification
September 4, 4 p.m .: Final

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: September 3, 1972, from 10 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Jörg Drehel	GDR	16.57 m	-	-	16.57 m
2	Mansour slide	Senegal	16.55 m	-	-	16.55 m
3	Carol Corbu	Romania	15.59 m	15.92 m	16.51 m	16.51 m
4th	Toshiaki Inoue	Japan	16.01 m	16.19 m	16.49 m	16.49 m
5	Kristen Fløgstad	Norway	x	16.41 m	-	16.41 m
6th	Samuel Igun	Nigeria	15.19 m	x	16.33 m	16.33 m
7th	Mikhail Bariban	Soviet Union	16.09 m	16.12 m	16.26 m	16.26 m
8th	Bernard Lamitié	France	16.24 m	-	-	16.24 m
9	Gennady Bessonov	Soviet Union	16.10 m	15.95 m	16.18 m	16.18 m
10	Esa gutter	Finland	15.49 m	15.98 m	15.76 m	15.98 m
11	Mick McGrath	Australia	15.40 m	15.90 m	15.32 m	15.90 m
12	Johnson Amoah	Ghana	15.84 m	15.79 m	15.69	15.84 m
13	Milan Spasojevic	Yugoslavia	15.63 m	15.69 m	15.33 m	15.69 m
14th	Yukito Muraki	Japan	15.53 m	15.59 m	x	15.59 m
15th	Dave Smith	United States	x	14.55 m	x	14.55 m
16	Ghazi Saleh Marzouk	Saudi Arabia	13.82 m	13.41 m	13.51 m	13.82 m
17th	Martin Matupi	Malawi	13.57 m	x	13.34 m	13.57 m
ogV	Henry Jackson	Jamaica	x	x	x		without space
	Mohinder Singh Gill	India

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Viktor Saneyev	Soviet Union	16.85 m	-	-	16.85 m
2	Michał Joachimowski	Poland	16.43 m	-	-	16.43 m
3	Nelson Prudêncio	Brazil	x	x	16.42 m	16.42 m
4th	John Craft	United States	15.78 m	16.09 m	16.32 m	16.32 m
5	Gábor Katona	Hungary	16.19 m	15.43 m	14.89 m	16.19 m
6th	Kosei Gushiken	Japan	16.19 m	x	x	16.19 m
7th	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	15.79 m	x	16.04 m	16.04 m
8th	Václav Fišer	Czechoslovakia	15.96 m	15.75 m	15.75 m	15.96 m
9	Heinz-Günter Schenk	GDR	15.54 m	15.91 m	15.41 m	15.91 m
10	Abraham Munabi	Uganda	14.72 m	15.82 m	x	15.82 m
11	Moise Pomaney	Ghana	15.72 m	15.18 m	15.31 m	15.72 m
12	Pedro Perez	Cuba	15.72 m	14.85 m	x	15.72 m
13	Tim Barrett	Bahamas	15.51 m	15.43 m	x	15.51 m
14th	Wilfredo Maisonave	Puerto Rico	14.07 m	14.77 m	15.38 m	15.38 m
15th	Art Walker	United States	x	15.29 m	x	15.29 m
16	Patrick Onyango	Kenya	x	x	14.74 m	14.74 m
17th	Chen Ming-chi	Taiwan	x	14.73 m	14.11 m	14.73 m
DNS	Martin Adouna	Togo
	Chodoton	Dahomey

final

Date: September 4, 1972, 4 p.m.

Jörg Drehmel, European champion from 1971 , and the Olympic champion from 1968 , Viktor Sanejew, were favorites, especially since the Cuban world record holder Pedro Pérez failed in the qualification. The silver medalist from Mexico City , the Brazilian Nelson Prudêncio, was back at the start and, unlike Pérez, reached the final.
In the final, the medal award was decided after the first two rounds. Sanejew was in the lead with 17.35 m supported by the wind, while Drehel was second with 17.02 m. Prudêncio was third with 16.87 m. Drehel came within four centimeters of Saneyev in the fifth run, but could not improve in the last attempt. Prudêncio succeeded in doing this with a width of 17.05 m, but this did not change the placements on the medal ranks. The Romanian Carol Corbu, third in the 1971 European Championship, finished fourth with 16.85 m. The third-best distance of the two jumpers in question had to be used to determine fifth and sixth place. Both the American John Craft and Mansour Dia from Senegal had the best distance 16.83 m. Both had the second best width of 16.77 m. In the third-best width, Craft was 16.75 m ahead of Dia with 16.15 m.

Jörg Drehmel won the first German medal in the triple jump .

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  Olympic champion Viktor Saneyev, USSR - depicted on a postage stamp

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  Jörg Drehmel, GDR, winner of the silver medal

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Viktor Saneyev	Soviet Union	17.35 m	16.71 m	17.19 m	x	16.98 m	x	17.35 m
2	Jörg Drehel	GDR	x	17.02 m	x	x	17.31 m	15.34 m	17.31 m
3	Nelson Prudêncio	Brazil	16.87 m	16.61 m	16.35 m	16.88 m	17.05 m	x	17.05 m
4th	Carol Corbu	Romania	16.62 m	16.85 m	16.40 m	x	13.72 m	x	16.85 m
5	John Craft	United States	16.77 m	16.75 m	16.83 m	16.26 m	x	x	16.83 m
6th	Mansour slide	Senegal	16.77 m	16.83 m	x	x	16.15 m	x	16.83 m
7th	Michał Joachimowski	Poland	16.69 m	x	14.62 m	14.98 m	x	x	16.69 m
8th	Kristen Fløgstad	Norway	x	16.44 m	x	x	15.97 m	x	16.44 m
9	Mikhail Bariban	Soviet Union	x	16.30 m	15.96 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			16.30 m
10	Bernard Lamitié	France	16.22 m	15.88 m	16.27 m				16.27 m
11	Samuel Igun	Nigeria	x	15.79 m	16.03 m				16.03 m
12	Toshiaki Inoue	Japan	15.88 m	x	x				15.88 m

literature

• Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , pp. 44f

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed November 30, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 61, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 30, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 556 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 30, 2017
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 30, 2017 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 61, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 30, 2017 
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 30, 2017