1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	42 athletes from 31 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 26, 1996 (qualification) July 27, 1996 (final)
Medalist Kenny Harrison ( USA )   Jonathan Edwards ( GBR )   Yoelbi Quesada ( CUB )

The men's triple jump at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 26th and 27th, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 42 athletes took part.

American Kenny Harrison became Olympic champion . He won ahead of Jonathan Edwards from Great Britain and Cuban Yoelbi Quesada .

For Germany, Charles Friedek started , who failed in the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1992	Mike Conley Sr. ( USA )	18.17 m	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	Jonathan Edwards ( Great Britain )	18.29 m	Gothenburg 1995
European Champion 1994	Denis Kapustin ( Russia )	17.62 m	Helsinki 1994
Pan American champion 1995	Yoelbi Quesada ( Cuba )	17.67 m	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995	Jérôme Romain ( Dominica )	16.80 m	Guatemala City 1995
South American Champion 1995	Messiah José Baptista ( Brazil )	16.29 m	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Zheng Zizhi ( People's Republic of China )	16.78 m	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Paul Nioze ( Seychelles )	16.52 m	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania Champion 1994	Apolosi Foliaki ( Tahiti )	14.95 m	Auckland 1994

Existing records

World record	18.29 m	Jonathan Edwards ( Great Britain )	Gothenburg , Sweden	August 7, 1995
Olympic record	17.63 m	Mike Conley Sr. ( USA )	Final of Barcelona , Spain	3rd August 1992

Note: Conley's victory jump from 1992 with 18.17 m could not be recognized as an Olympic record because of the strong tail wind.

Further remarks:

• All times are local Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

July 26, 1996, from 6:10 p.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 17.00 m. Since only five jumpers reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best jumpers from both groups to a total of twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 16.73 m was enough to participate in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Kenny Harrison	United States	17.58	-	-	17.58
2	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	17.19	-	-	17.19
3	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	17.10	-	-	17.10
4th	Robert Howard	United States	16.83	16.76	16.92	16.92
5	Viktor Sotnikov	Russia	16.86	x	16.19	16.86
6th	Jérôme Romain	Dominica	16.80	x	x	16.80
7th	Frank Rutherford	Bahamas	x	16.38	16.73	16.73
8th	Francis Agyepong	Great Britain	16.71	16.68	x	16.71
9	Anísio Silva	Brazil	16.38	16.67	16.08	16.67
10	Carlos Calado	Portugal	16.43	16.65	x	16.65
11	Wasif Azadov	Azerbaijan	x	x	16.21	16.21
12	Jacob Katonon	Kenya	16.08	16.17	x	16.17
13	Stoyko Tsonov	Bulgaria	16.00	16.15	x	16.15
14th	Tibor Ordina	Hungary	16.04	x	x	16.04
15th	Andrew Murphy	Australia	15.97	x	16.00	16.00
16	Festus Igbinoghene	Nigeria	15.95	x	15.72	15.95
17th	Sergei Assamazov	Kazakhstan	15.91	x	-	15.91
18th	Maksim Smetanin	Kyrgyzstan	15.83	15.90	x	15.90
19th	Hussain Jasim	Iraq	15.19	15.27	x	15.27
20th	Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa	Zimbabwe	14.47	x	x	14.47
21st	Mohamed Karim Sassi	Turkey	x	x	14.25	14.25
DNS	Māris Bružiks	Latvia

Group B

The Israeli Rogel Nachum retired as ninth in his qualification group

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	17.20	-	-	17.20
2	Galin Georgiev	Bulgaria	17.02	-	-	17.02
3	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	16.93	16.96	-	16.96
4th	Volodymyr Kravchenko	Ukraine	16.71	16.90	x	16.90
5	Poor Martirosjan	Armenia	15.71	16.68	16.74	16.74
6th	Charles Friedek	Germany	x	16.71	16.58	16.71
7th	Aliecer Urrutia	Cuba	16.71	16.54	x	16.71
8th	Vasily Sokov	Russia	x	16.68	x	16.68
9	Rogel Nachum	Israel	15.86	16.67	16.53	16.67
10	Yoel García	Cuba	15.94	x	16.62	16.62
11	Zou Sixin	People's Republic of China	16.13	16.44	16.53	16.53
12	Messiah José Baptista	Brazil	16.02	16.45	16.13	16.45
13	Audrius Raizgys	Lithuania	16.38	x	16.06	16.38
14th	Zsolt Czingler	Hungary	16.22	16.35	x	16.35
15th	Salem Al-Ahmadi	Saudi Arabia	x	15.97	16.30	16.30
16	Francis Dodoo	Ghana	x	x	16.24	16.24
17th	Sigurd Njerve	Norway	15.22	x	16.15	16.15
18th	Aleksey Fatyanov	Azerbaijan	16.14	x	16.13	16.14
19th	Igor Sautkin	Russia	x	x	16.06	16.06
20th	Yevgeny Petin	Uzbekistan	x	15.58	15.89	15.89
21st	Paul Nioze	Seychelles	15.63	15.43	x	15.63
22nd	Kawan Lovelace	Belize	15.40	x	14.97	15.40

The Olympic champion from 1992 , Mike Conley Sr. from the US, reached in Atlanta fourth

final

July 27, 1996, 7:00 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, five by the required qualification distance, the other seven by their placements. Three Americans met one participant each from Armenia, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Bulgaria, Dominica, Cuba, Russia, Ukraine and Great Britain.

The favorites were the reigning world champion and world record holder Jonathan Edwards from Great Britain and the American Olympic champion from 1992 Mike Conley Sr. In addition, Conley's compatriot Kenny Harrison, the Cuban Pan-American champion and World Cup fourth, Yoelbi Quesada, and vice world champion Brian Wellman from Bermuda and the World Cup third Jérôme Romain from Dominica with good prospects for medals at the start.

In the finals, a high-class competition developed right from the start. With a new Olympic record of 17.99 m, Kenny Harrison took the lead on the first lap. Romain had to give up injured after his first jump. Quesada moved up to second in the second half, while Edwards had two failed attempts. In the third attempt the Brit reached 17.13 m, so he could at least continue the competition for the time being. He seemed pretty shocked by Harrison's special achievement. Harrison, meanwhile, extended his lead to 18.09 m in the third lap. This made him the first regular 18-meter jump in Olympic history. In the fourth attempt, Edwards jumped 17.88 m to an appropriate level and pulled past Quesada, who in turn had improved to 17.44 m. In round five there was only one valid jump by the US athlete Robert Howard. Harrison had left out, all others produced unsuccessful attempts. Also in the last round nothing changed in the order of the medal ranks. Olympic champion was Kenny Harrison, the medals went to Jonathan Edwards - silver - and Yoelbi Quesada - bronze. Mike Conley Sr. finished fourth with 17.40 m in the fourth attempt ahead of Armen Martirosjan and Brian Wellman.

Yoelbi Quesada was Cuba's first medalist in the men's triple jump .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Kenny Harrison	United States	17.99 OR	x	18.09 OR	x	-	-	18.09	OR
2	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	x	x	17.13	17.88	x	x	17.88
3	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	17.04	17.29	x	17.44	x	x	17.44
4th	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	17.08	x	16.17	17.40	x	x	17.40
5	Poor Martirosjan	Armenia	16.85	x	16.97	16.48	x	16.34	16.97
6th	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	16.95	x	16.82	x	x	x	16.95
7th	Galin Georgiev	Bulgaria	16.85	x	x	x	x	16.92	16.92
8th	Robert Howard	United States	16.72	16.83	16.90	x	16.44	16.52	16.90
9	Viktor Sotnikov	Russia	16.84	16.53	16.56	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			16.84
10	Volodymyr Kravchenko	Ukraine	16.35	15.92	16.62				16.62
11	Frank Rutherford	Bahamas	16.38	x	16.36				16.38
ogV	Jérôme Romain	Dominica	x	from	from					abandoned due to injury

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed March 4, 2018
• Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 91f, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 4, 2018

Video

• Men's Triple Jump Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published June 20, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 4, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 678 , accessed on March 4, 2018
2. ↑ Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 91, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 4, 2018 
3. ↑ Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 92, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 4, 2018