1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	25 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 28, 1976 (qualifying) July 30, 1976 (final)
Medalist Viktor Saneyev ( URS )   James Butts ( USA )   João Carlos de Oliveira ( BRA )

The men's triple jump at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 29 and 30, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 25 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Viktor Saneyev from the Soviet Union. He won ahead of the American James Butts and the Brazilian João Carlos de Oliveira .

Wolfgang Kolmsee started for the Federal Republic of Germany . He qualified for the final and finished sixth there.
Jumpers from the GDR, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	17.89 m	João Carlos de Oliveira ( Brazil )	Mexico City , Mexico	15th October 1975
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 July 29th. The qualifying distance for reaching the final on July 30th was 16.30 m. Since exactly twelve athletes reached this distance, the final field was not filled any further.

Time schedule

July 29, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification

July 30th, 3 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Olympic champion Viktor Saneyev from the USSR depicted on a postage stamp

Date: July 29, 1976, from 10 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	João Carlos de Oliveira	Brazil	16.81 m	-	-	16.81 m
2	Viktor Saneyev	Soviet Union	16.77 m	-	-	16.77 m
3	Tommy Haynes	United States	16.62 m	-	-	16.62 m
4th	James Butts	United States	16.55 m	-	-	16.55 m
5	Jiří Vyčichlo	Czechoslovakia	x	16.00 m	16.54 m	16.54 m
6th	Rayfield Dupree	United States	14.29 m	16.20 m	16.50 m	16.50 m
7th	Bernard Lamitié	France	16.39 m	-	-	16.39 m
8th	Pentti Kuukasjärvi	Finland	16.31 m	-	-	16.31 m
9	Michał Joachimowski	Poland	16.08 m	16.29 m	x	16.29 m
10	Nelson Prudêncio	Brazil	16.18 m	16.22 m	14.79 m	16.22 m
11	Armando Herrera	Cuba	15.98 m	x	x	15.98 m
12	Andrzej Sunday	Poland	15.72 m	15.30 m	15.82 m	15.82 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Wolfgang Kolmsee	BR Germany	16.68 m	-	-	16.68 m
2	Pedro Perez	Cuba	16.51 m	-	-	16.51 m
3	Eugeniusz Biskupski	Poland	16.46 m	-	-	16.46 m
4th	Carol Corbu	Romania	16.30 m	-	-	16.30 m
5	Valentin Shevchenko	Soviet Union	16.15 m	15.97 m	16.00 m	16.15 m
6th	Toshiaki Inoue	Japan	16.06 m	x	15.99 m	16.06 m
7th	Janoš Hegediš	Yugoslavia	15.50 m	16.03 m	16.00 m	16.03 m
8th	Ramón Cid	Spain	16.00 m	x	x	16.00 m
9	Maxwell Peters	Antigua and Barbuda	14.94 m	x	x	14.94 m
10	Apostolos Kathiniotis	Greece	14.13 m	x	x	14.13 m
11	Mohamed Al-Bouhairi	Saudi Arabia	13.85 m	x	x	13.85 m
ogV	Aston Moore	Great Britain	x	x	x		without space
	Phil Robins	Bahamas

final

Date: July 30, 1976, 3 p.m.

The Soviet double Olympic champion from 1968 and 1972 , Viktor Saneyev from Georgia, and world record holder João Carlos de Oliveira from Brazil were favorites in this competition. After Saneev's adversary Jörg Drehmel from the GDR, the European champion in 1971 , no longer took part here, it was difficult to identify further clear contenders for top positions. The Americans James Butts and Tommy Haynes and the Cuban Pedro Pérez Dueñas should be mentioned here.

In the final, Pérez took the lead in the first lap with 16.81 m ahead of Butts with 16.69 m, followed in third place by Wolfgang Kolmsee from the Federal Republic of Germany. With his first valid attempt in lap two, Saneyev improved to third place. In the third round, the Georgian took the lead with the first jump over the 17-meter mark. De Oliveira had moved up to second and pushed Pérez and Butts to third and fourth respectively. Butts jumped to the top in the fourth round with 17.18 m, before Saneyev countered 17.18 m in the following attempt. In the last attempt Oliveira repeated his best time again, nothing changed in the order. Viktor Saneyev won the gold medal again. The convincing James Butts came second with 17.18 m ahead of João Carlos de Oliveira, who took bronze with 16.90 m. Pedro Pérez Dueñas, Tommy Haynes and Wolfgang Kolmsee followed on the other places.

Viktor Saneyev won the gold medal in the triple jump for the third time in a row . This makes him the most successful triple jumper at the Olympic Games to this day - December 2016.

With the two Americans Al Oerter ( discus throw ) and Carl Lewis ( long jump ) - Viktor Saneyev is one of three athletes who have won three consecutive Olympic championships in a single athletics discipline. Oerter and Lewis even managed to do this four times.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Viktor Saneyev	Soviet Union	x	16.71 m	17.06 m	x	17.29 m	x	17.29 m
2	James Butts	United States	16.69 m	16.76 m	14.80 m	17.18 m	16.55 m	16.61 m	17.18 m
3	João Carlos de Oliveira	Brazil	x	16.15 m	16.85 m	14.91 m	16.69 m	16.90 m	16.90 m
4th	Pedro Perez	Cuba	16.81 m	16.24 m	16.48 m	16.47 m	x	x	16.81 m
5	Tommy Haynes	United States	15.46 m	x	16.68 m	16.78 m	16.71 m	16.71 m	16.78 m
6th	Wolfgang Kolmsee	BR Germany	16.23 m	x	16.68 m	16.58 m	16.31 m	x	16.68 m
7th	Eugeniusz Biskupski	Poland	15.91 m	x	16.49 m	x	15.79 m	x	16.49 m
8th	Carol Corbu	Romania	16.07 m	16.18 m	16.43 m	x	16.00 m	x	16.43 m
9	Jiří Vyčichlo	Czechoslovakia	x	x	16.28 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			16.28 m
10	Pentti Kuukasjärvi	Finland	16.15 m	16.14 m	16.23 m				16.23 m
11	Bernard Lamitié	France	x	16.23 m	15.93 m				16.23 m
12	Rayfield Dupree	United States	x	16.23 m	15.90 m				16.23 m

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 230f

Video

• TRIPLE JUMP USSR ATHLETE SANEYEF , Viktor Saneyev at his four Olympic Games from 1968 to 1980, published on December 24, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed on December 16, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed December 16, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 72f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 16, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 556 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 16 December 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 16, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 73, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 16, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 16, 2017