1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	42 athletes from 31 countries
Competition location	Seoul Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 23, 1988 (qualifying) September 24, 1988 (final)
Medalist Christo Markow ( BUL )   Igor Lapschin ( URS )   Alexander Kowalenko ( URS )

The men's triple jump at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was held on September 23 and 24, 1988 in two rounds in the Seoul Olympic Stadium. 42 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Bulgarian Christo Markow . He won ahead of Igor Lapschin and Alexander Kowalenko , both from the Soviet Union.

Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany, the GDR, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1984	Al Joyner ( USA )	17.26 m	Los Angeles 1984
World Champion	Christo Markow ( Bulgaria )	17.92 m	Rome 1987
European champion 1986		17.66 m	Stuttgart 1986
Pan American champion 1987	Mike Conley Sr. ( USA )	17.31 m	Indianapolis 1987
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987	Héctor Marquetti ( Cuba )	16.91 m	Caracas 1987
South America Champion 1987	Jorge Luís da Silva ( Brazil )	16.24 m	São Paulo 1987
Asian champion 1987	Park Young-jun ( South Korea )	16.37 m	Singapore 1987
African Champion 1988	António Santos ( Angola )	16.43 m	Annaba 1988

Existing records

World record	17.97 m	Willie Banks ( USA )	Indianapolis , USA	June 16, 1985
Olympic record	17.39 m	Viktor Saneyev ( Soviet Union )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	17th October 1968

qualification

Date: September 23, 1988

For the qualification the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 16.90 m. Since only four jumpers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best jumpers from both groups to twelve starters (highlighted in light green). So finally 16.29 m was enough for the final.

Group A

World record holder from the USA Willie Banks came in sixth place in the final

José Quiñaliza from Ecuador was eliminated in tenth in his qualifying group

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Alexander Kovalenko	Soviet Union	17.24 m	-	-	17.24 m
2	Jacek Pastusiński	Poland	16.66 m	-	-	16.66 m
3	Ivan Slanař	Czechoslovakia	16.59 m	16.45 m	-	16.59 m
4th	Willie Banks	United States	16.57 m	x	-	16.57 m
5	Joseph Taiwo	Nigeria	16.42 m	16.24 m	16.34 m	16.42 m
6th	Norifumi Yamashita	Japan	16.27 m	x	16.29 m	16.29 m
7th	Vernon Samuels	Great Britain	15.85 m	16.28 m	16.07 m	16.28 m
8th	George Wright	Canada	15.26 m	x	16.09 m	16.09 m
9	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	13.66 m	15.66 m	15.88 m	15.88 m
10	José Quiñaliza	Ecuador	15.57 m	15.86 m	15.55 m	15.86 m
11	Frank Rutherford	Bahamas	x	15.42 m	15.84 m	15.84 m
12	Hui Fang Nai	Chinese Taipei	15.74 m	15.42 m	15.49 m	15.74 m
13	Abdul Marzouk Al-Yoha	Kuwait	15.62 m	15.72 m	15.60 m	15.72 m
14th	Robert Cannon	United States	14.33 m	15.69 m	x	15.69 m
15th	Lotfi Khaida	Algeria	15.40 m	14.07 m	15.68 m	15.68 m
16	José Luis Leitão	Portugal	15.51 m	15.60 m	15.47 m	15.60 m
17th	Ernesto Torres	Puerto Rico	15.44 m	15.35 m	15.59 m	15.59 m
18th	Abcélvio Rodrigues	Brazil	15.13 m	14.77 m	14.74 m	15.13 m
19th	Lennox Adams	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	14.44 m	14.73 m	14.68 m	14.73 m
20th	Paulo Noronha	Mozambique	14.71 m	14.35 m	14.07 m	14.71 m
21st	Devon Hyde	Belize	13.59 m	-	14.09 m	14.09 m
DNS	Béla Bakosi	Hungary

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Igor Lapschin	Soviet Union	17.37 m	-	-	17.37 m
2	Oleg Prozenko	Soviet Union	17.00 m	-	-	17.00 m
3	Christo Markow	Bulgaria	16.49 m	16.91 m	-	16.91 m
4th	Norbert Elliott	Bahamas	16.43 m	16.33 m	x	16.43 m
5	Charles Simpkins	United States	16.00 m	16.27 m	16.35 m	16.35 m
6th	Didier Falise	Belgium	16.19 m	x	16.35 m	16.35 m
7th	Chen Yanping	People's Republic of China	x	16.25 m	x	16.25 m
8th	Andrzej Grabarczyk	Poland	16.18 m	16.24 m	16.24 m	16.24 m
9	John Herbert	Great Britain	16.01 m	16.17 m	16.18 m	16.18 m
10	Francis Dodoo	Ghana	15.79 m	x	16.17 m	16.17 m
11	Edrick Floréal	Canada	16.11 m	x	14.57 m	16.11 m
12	Patterson Johnson	Bahamas	15.85 m	16.03 m	x	16.03 m
13	Marios Hadjiandreou	Cyprus	15.89 m	15.95 m	x	15.95 m
14th	Jorge Luís da Silva	Brazil	15.95 m	15.63 m	15.87 m	15.95 m
15th	Park Young-jun	South Korea	15.79 m	15.79 m	15.86 m	15.86 m
16	Ricardo Vallente	Peru	x	15.54 m	15.59 m	15.59 m
17th	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	15.07 m	15.31 m	15.47 m	15.47 m
18th	Fathi Khalifa Aboud	Libya	15.13 m	-	-	15.13 m
19th	Haider Ali Shah	Pakistan	14.88 m	14.57 m	x	14.88 m
20th	Toyi Simklina	Togo	14.88 m	14.57 m	x	14.88 m
ogV	Milan Mikuláš	Czechoslovakia	x	x	x		without space
	Antonio Santos	Angola	x	x	x
DNS	James Browne	Antigua and Barbuda

final

Date: September 24, 1988

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, four of them had achieved the required qualification distance. All three athletes from the Soviet Union and two US jumpers were in the final, plus one participant each from the Bahamas, Belgium, Japan, Nigeria, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

The top favorite was the world and European champion Christo Markow from Bulgaria. World record holder Willie Banks from the USA was not in top form from 1985, the year he jumped the record. The three Soviet participants Alexander Kowalenko, Igor Lapschin and Oleg Prozenko were considered to be the real challengers for Markov.

Christo Markow achieved his best distance of 17.61 m in the first lap, which was a new Olympic record and earned him the gold medal. Kowalenko followed with 17.42 m ahead of Prozenko, who had reached 17.38 m. This ranking was maintained until the last round. With his last jump, Igor Lapschin reached 17.52 m. So he improved from fifth place on Prozenko and Kowalenko to second and won the silver medal. Bronze went to Alexander Kowalenko and Oleg Prozenko had to be content with fourth place despite his good width of 17.38 m. The US-American Charles Simpkins finished fifth and sixth with 17.29 m and world record holder Willie Banks with 17.03 m. These six athletes had passed the 17-meter mark.

Christo Markow was Bulgaria's first triple jump Olympic champion .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Christo Markow	Bulgaria	17.61 m OR	x	15.71 m	17.54 m	x	17.10 m	17.61 m	OR
2	Igor Lapschin	Soviet Union	16.75 m	17.09 m	x	x	x	17.52 m	17.52 m
3	Alexander Kovalenko	Soviet Union	17.42 m	17.40 m	x	x	-	x	17.42 m
4th	Oleg Prozenko	Soviet Union	17.38 m	x	x	17.31 m	x	16.61 m	17.38 m
5	Charles Simpkins	United States	16.62 m	x	x	-	x	17.29 m	17.29 m
6th	Willie Banks	United States	x	17.03 m	16.90 m	-	16.86 m	x	17.03 m
7th	Ivan Slanař	Czechoslovakia	16.58 m	16.75 m	16.59 m	x	x	16.24 m	16.75 m
8th	Jacek Pastusiński	Poland	16.72 m	x	x	x	16.50 m	16.56 m	16.72 m
9	Joseph Taiwo	Nigeria	x	16.46 m	16.27 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			16.46 m
10	Norbert Elliott	Bahamas	16.19 m	x	16.08 m				16.19 m
11	Didier Falise	Belgium	16.06 m	x	16.17 m				16.17 m
12	Norifumi Yamashita	Japan	15.62 m	x	x				15.62 m

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed January 28, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 243f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 28, 2018

Video

• Igor Lapshin 5:52 PM seoul olympics , published October 20, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed January 28, 2018
• kovalenko 17:42 seoul olympics , published October 20, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed January 28, 2018
• protsenko 17:38 seoul olympics , published October 20, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed January 28, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 678 , accessed on January 28, 2018
2. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 243f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 28, 2018
3. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 244, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 28, 2018