1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	23 athletes from 19 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 24, 1980 (qualification) July 25, 1980 (final)
Medalist Jaak Uudmäe ( URS )   Viktor Saneyev ( URS )   João Carlos de Oliveira ( BRA )

The men's triple jump at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 24th and 25th, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 23 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Jaak Uudmäe from the Soviet Union. He won before his compatriot, the Olympic champion of 1968 , 1972 and 1976 , Viktor Sanejew , and the Brazilian João Carlos de Oliveira .

Jumpers from the GDR, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

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 24th. The qualifying distance for reaching the final on July 25th was 16.55 m. Since fewer than twelve athletes reached this distance with seven participants, the final field was filled to twelve jumpers according to the next best distance. So finally 16.42 m was enough to participate in the final.

Time schedule

Silver for three-time Olympic champion Viktor Saneyev, USSR

July 24th, 6:50 p.m .: Qualification
July 25th, 6:40 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )

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

qualification

Date: July 24, 1980, from 6:50 p.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Ian Campbell	Australia	17.02 m	-	-	17.02 m
2	Jaak Uudmäe	Soviet Union	16.03 m	16.69 m	-	16.69 m
3	Viktor Saneyev	Soviet Union	16.57 m	-	-	16.57 m
4th	Béla Bakosi	Hungary	15.99 m	16.45 m	16.22 m	16.45 m
5	Atanas Chochev	Bulgaria	16.20 m	16.42 m	16.17 m	16.42 m
6th	Ramón Cid	Spain	16.20 m	x	16.04 m	16.20 m
7th	Moujhed Fahid Khalifa	Iraq	x	15.77 m	15.86 m	15.86 m
8th	Abdoulaye Samba Diallo	Senegal	x	15.51 m	15.68 m	15.68 m
9	Bogger Mushanga	Zambia	14.79 m	-	-	14.79 m
ogV	Alejandro Herrera	Cuba	x	-	-		without space
	Olli Pousi	Finland

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Ken Lorraway	Australia	15.84 m	16.29 m	16.80 m	16.80 m
2	Yevgeny Anikin	Soviet Union	16.77 m	-	-	16.77 m
3	João Carlos de Oliveira	Brazil	x	16.62 m	-	16.62 m
4th	Keith Connor	Great Britain	16.58 m	-	-	16.58 m
5	Armando Herrera	Cuba	16.28 m	x	16.49 m	16.49 m
6th	Milan Spasojevic	Yugoslavia	16.21 m	16.48 m	-	16.48 m
7th	Christian Valétudie	France	15.99 m	16.43 m	16.39 m	16.43 m
8th	Zdzisław Hoffmann	Poland	x	15.35 m	15.28 m	15.35 m
9	Henri Dagba	Benin	x	13.64 m	14.71 m	14.71 m
10	Dương Đức Thủy	Vietnam	14.51 m	14.19 m	14.59 m	14.59 m
11	Arthure Agathine	Seychelles	x	13.99 m	14.21 m	14.21 m
12	Yadessa Kuma	Ethiopia	13.49 m	13.60 m	x	13.60 m

final

Date: July 25, 1980, 6:40 p.m.

In his fourth Olympic participation, the Soviet jumper Viktor Saneyev wanted to win the fourth gold medal in a row after his victories in 1968 , 1972 and 1976 and thus draw level with the American discus thrower Al Oerter , who had achieved this feat in 1956 , 1960 , 1964 and 1968. The favorite in Moscow , however, was the Brazilian world record holder João Carlos de Oliveira. The Briton Keith Connor and the Australian Ian Campbell were also highly rated.

In the first attempt, de Oliveira took the lead with 16.96 m, followed by Sanejew - 16.85 m - and Connor - 16.32 m. However, these widths were only a preliminary skirmish. In the second round, Saneev's team-mate Jaak Uudmäe moved into third place with 16.83 m. Campbell was in fourth place, Connor in five. But still there had been no jump over the 17-meter mark. That changed in the third lap when Uudmäe was in the front with 17.35 m. De Oliveira improved to second place with 17.22 m, Sanejew with 17.04 m in third place.

In the further rounds, neither de Oliveira nor Campbell succeeded in a valid attempt. In the last round, Viktor Saneev jumped 17.24 m to the silver rank. Olympic champion was surprisingly Jaak Uudmäe. The bronze medal remained for the world record holder João Carlos de Oliveira. All other jumpers stayed under seventeen meters. Keith Connor took fourth place ahead of Ian Campbell and the Bulgarian Atanas Tschotschew.

With three gold and one silver medal, Viktor Saneyev is the most successful triple jumper at the Olympic Games to date - as of December 2017 .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Jaak Uudmäe	Soviet Union	x	16.83 m	17.35 m	x	17.08 m	17.28 m	17.35 m
2	Viktor Saneyev	Soviet Union	16.85 m	16.53 m	17.04 m	x	17.07 m	17.24 m	17.24 m
3	João Carlos de Oliveira	Brazil	16.96 m	x	17.22 m	x	x	x	17.22 m
4th	Keith Connor	Great Britain	16.32 m	16.64 m	16.51 m	16.87 m	14.54 m	16.48 m	16.87 m
5	Ian Campbell	Australia	x	16.72 m	x	x	x	x	16.72 m
6th	Atanas Chochev	Bulgaria	16.12 m	16.55 m	x	x	-	16.56 m	16.56 m
7th	Béla Bakosi	Hungary	x	16.28 m	16.11 m	16.47 m	16.03 m	15.77 m	16.47 m
8th	Ken Lorraway	Australia	16.12 m	16.44 m	16.20 m	16.40 m	-	15.70 m	16.44 m
9	Yevgeny Anikin	Soviet Union	16.12 m	15.75 m	x	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			16.12 m
10	Milan Spasojevic	Yugoslavia	16.09 m	16.08 m	15.93 m				16.09 m
11	Armando Herrera	Cuba	15.90 m	x	16.03 m				16.03 m
ogV	Christian Valétudie	France	x	-	-					without space

controversy

Numerous jumps by João Carlos de Oliveira and Ian Campbell, judged by the judges as failed attempts, caused controversy. It became known that the IAAF had agreed to only allow Soviet referees for the athletics competitions. Campbell's first jump, which had been rated as a failed attempt due to breaking the take-off mark, caused discussions. Campbell, jumping off with his right foot, wanted to look at the marking on the plasticine vaulting board to see how far he had stepped over. However, there was only the imprint of an athlete who jumped off with his left.

Campbell's third attempt, which apparently would have put him in the lead, was counted as a failed attempt because the Australian should have touched the ground between the second (step) and third jump (jump) (scraping). Campbell countered that if he had actually touched the ground, he would not have reached the expanse.

De Oliveira was also credited with two jumps - one visibly further than Campbell's failed attempt - in a controversial manner as a failed attempt.

Video

• 1980 Olympic Triple Jump , published October 1, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed December 31, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed December 31, 2017
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 56f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 556 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 31 December 2017
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 57, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 31, 2017
5. ↑ Tim Lane: Cheating the only conclusion you can jump to . In: The Sydney Morning Herald . August 18, 2013, accessed December 31, 2017