1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	47 athletes from 33 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	August 1, 1992 (qualification) August 3, 1992 (final)
Medalist Mike Conley Sr. ( USA )   Charles Simpkins ( USA )   Frank Rutherford ( BHS )

The men's triple jump at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on August 1st and 3rd, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 47 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the American Mike Conley Sr. , who won before his compatriot Charles Simpkins . The bronze medal went to Frank Rutherford from the Bahamas.

Ralf Jaros started for Germany . He failed in qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion in 1988	Christo Markow ( Bulgaria )	17.61 m	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991	Kenny Harrison ( USA )	17.78 m	Tokyo 1991
European champion 1990	Leonid Voloshin ( Soviet Union )	17.74 m	Split 1990
Pan American champion 1991	Yoelbi Quesada ( Cuba )	17.06 m	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991	Wendell Lawrence ( Bahamas )	16.79 m	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	Anísio Silva ( Brazil )	16.15 m	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Chen Yanping ( People's Republic of China )	17.22 m	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African Champion 1992	Toussaint Rabenala ( Madagascar )	17.04 m	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Simon Raynes ( New Zealand )	14.66 m	Suva 1990

Comment on the Oceania Championships :
The competition was won by the uncompetitive Steeve Druminy from New Caledonia , with 15.37 m.

Existing records

World record	17.97 m	Willie Banks ( USA )	Indianapolis , USA	June 16, 1985
Olympic record	17.61 m	Christo Markow ( Bulgaria )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 24, 1988

qualification

Date: August 1, 1992

For the qualification, the jumpers were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 17.00 m. Since only eight athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best jumpers from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 16.91 m was enough for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Frank Rutherford	Bahamas	x	16.96 m	17.28 m	17.28 m
2	Leonid Voloshin	EUN	17.21 m	-	-	17.21 m
3	Charles Simpkins	United States	16.41 m	16.59 m	17.05 m	17.05 m
4th	Alexander Kovalenko	EUN	x	16.93 m	x	16.93 m
5	Eugeniusz Bedeniczuk	Poland	x	16.92 m	x	16.92 m
6th	Toussaint Rabenala	Madagascar	16.45 m	16.58 m	16.84 m	16.84 m
7th	Georges Sainte-Rose	France	16.25 m	16.50 m	16.17 m	16.50 m
8th	Serge Hélan	France	16.27 m	16.23 m	16.47 m	16.47 m
9	Christo Markow	Bulgaria	x	x	16.46 m	16.46 m
10	Lotfi Khaida	Algeria	16.31 m	16.30 m	x	16.31 m
11	John Tillman	United States	16.22 m	x	x	16.22 m
12	Santiago Moreno	Spain	15.71 m	16.04 m	16.04 m	16.04 m
13	Norifumi Yamashita	Japan	x	15.51 m	15.97 m	15.97 m
14th	Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa	Zimbabwe	x	x	15.96 m	15.96 m
15th	Alvin Haynes	Barbados	x	15.93 m	15.64 m	15.93 m
16	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	x	15.76 m	15.06 m	15.76 m
17th	Chen Yanping	People's Republic of China	15.66 m	15.48 m	x	15.66 m
18th	Tord Henriksson	Sweden	14.48 m	15.30 m	15.66 m	15.66 m
19th	Jorge Luis Teixeira	Brazil	15.64 m	15.50 m	x	15.64 m
20th	Antonio dos Santos	Angola	15.48 m	15.41 m	15.38 m	15.48 m
21st	Khan Banaras	Pakistan	x	x	15.37 m	15.37 m
ogV	Francis Dodoo	Ghana	x	-	-		without space
	Galin Georgiev	Bulgaria	x	x	-
	Oral Ogilvie	Canada	x	x	x

Group B

The Israeli Rogel Nachum retired with 16.23 m in 14th place in his qualification group

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Pierre Camara	France	x	16.58 m	17.34 m	17.34 m
2	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	17.23 m	-	-	17.23 m
3	Yoelvis Quesada	Cuba	16.93 m	16.69 m	17.21 m	17.21 m
4th	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	16.26 m	16.69 m	17.16 m	17.16 m
5	Zou Sixin	People's Republic of China	17.07 m	-	-	17.07 m
6th	Māris Bružiks	Latvia	16.94 m	x	x	16.94 m
7th	Vasily Sokov	EUN	16.91 m	13.52 m	x	16.91 m
8th	Ralf Jaros	Germany	16.89 m	x	x	16.89 m
9	Milan Mikuláš	Czechoslovakia	x	x	16.82 m	16.82 m
10	Abdul Marzouk Al-Yoha	Kuwait	16.44 m	16.75 m	x	16.75 m
11	Wendell Lawrence	Bahamas	14.57 m	16.53 m	16.70 m	16.70 m
12	Francis Agyepong	Great Britain	x	16.55 m	x	16.55 m
13	Paul Nioze	Seychelles	16.32 m	15.86 m	15.66 m	16.32 m
14th	Rogel Nachum	Israel	16.13 m	16.23 m	-	16.23 m
15th	Julian Golley	Great Britain	16.16 m	16.18 m	x	16.18 m
16	Sydney Mdluli	Swaziland	15.78 m	16.07 m	16.18 m	16.18 m
17th	Anísio Silva	Brazil	16.03 m	x	x	16.03 m
18th	Norbert Elliot	Bahamas	x	x	15.85 m	15.85 m
19th	Andrzej Grabarczyk	Poland	x	15.79 m	x	15.79 m
20th	Marios Hadjiandreou	Cyprus	15.64 m	15.32 m	x	15.64 m
21st	Luis Flores	Honduras	15.08 m	13.88 m	14.52 m	15.08 m
22nd	Nikolaj Raev	Bulgaria	x	14.67 m	-	14.67 m
23	Elston Shaw	Belize	x	13.13 m	13.56 m	13.56 m

final

Date: August 3, 1992

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, eight of them by the required qualification distance, the others by their placement. All three athletes of the United Team were in the final, as were two Americans. The final field was completed by one participant each from the Bahamas, Bermuda, China, France, Cuba and Latvia.

The favorites were the Russian Leonid Woloschin, who started for the United Team, Vice World Champion and European Champion , and Mike Conley Sr. from the USA, third in the World Cup and silver medalist from 1984 . On the other hand, the reigning world champion, Kenny Harrison from the USA, could not participate due to an injury.

In the first lap, Voloshin took the lead with 17.32 m, but Conley pushed him out of the top position in the second round with the new Olympic record of 17.63 m. Frank Rutherford from the Bahamas also passed the Russian with 17.36 m. In the two following laps nothing changed in the classification. In the fifth round, US athlete Charles Simpkins improved to fourth with 17.29 m. In his last attempt, Charles Simpkins then scored 17.60 m and won the silver medal ahead of Frank Rutherford. Leonid Voloshin finished fourth ahead of Brian Wellman, Bermuda. Olympic champion Mike Conley Sr. recently even reached 18.17 m, but this jump could not be recognized as a world and Olympic record because of the strong tail wind .

The first eight jumpers conquered the 17-meter mark.

Frank Rutherford was the first triple jumper in the Bahamas to win a medal.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	16.82 m	17.63 m OR	17.19 m	17.54 m	x	18.17 m w	18.17 m	OR : 17.63 m - best distance with a strong tail wind
2	Charles Simpkins	United States	16.87 m	16.66 m	x	16.74 m	17.29 m	17.60 m	17.60 m
3	Frank Rutherford	Bahamas	16.75 m	17.36 m	17.36 m	17.16 m	16.33 m	x	17.36 m
4th	Leonid Voloshin	EUN	17.32 m	17.24 m	x	x	17.32 m	16.82 m	17.32 m
5	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	16.98 m	17.24 m	16.99 m	x	x	x	17.24 m
6th	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	17.15 m	16.75 m	17.05 m	x	17.04 m	17.18 m	17.18 m
7th	Alexander Kovalenko	EUN	16.84 m	16.92 m	x	16.78 m	17.06 m	x	17.06 m
8th	Zou Sixin	People's Republic of China	x	17.00 m	x	x	-	-	17.00 m
9	Vasily Sokov	EUN	16.86 m	15.84 m	x	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			16.86 m
10	Māris Bružiks	Latvia	16.56 m	x	16.80 m				16.80 m
11	Pierre Camara	France	16.52 m	x	14.48 m				16.52 m
12	Eugeniusz Bedeniczuk	Poland	16.23 m	x	16.15 m				16.23 m

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed February 12, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 50, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 12, 2018

Video

• Men's Triple Jump Final Barcelona Olympics 1992 , published November 5, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 12, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 678 , accessed on February 12, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 50, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 12, 2018