2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	40 athletes from 28 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 23, 2000 (qualification) September 25, 2000 (final)
Medalist Jonathan Edwards ( GBR )   Yoel García ( CUB )   Denis Kapustin ( RUS )

The men's triple jump at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 23 and 25, 2000 at Stadium Australia . Forty athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Jonathan Edwards from the United Kingdom. He won ahead of the Cuban Yoel García and the Russian Denis Kapustin .

With Charles Friedek , a German took part in the competition. Friedek reached the final, but failed to make a valid attempt.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1996	Kenny Harrison ( USA )	18.09 m	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Charles Friedek ( Germany )	17.59 m	Seville 1999
European champion 1998	Jonathan Edwards ( Great Britain )	17.99 m	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Yoelbi Quesada ( Cuba )	17.19 m	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999	Brian Wellman ( Bermuda )	17.01 m	Bridgetown 1999
South American Champion 1999	Anísio Silva ( Brazil )	16.48 m	Bogotá 1999
Asian champion 2000	Nattaporn Nomkanha ( Thailand )	16.53 m	Jakarta 2000
African Champion 2000	Andrew Owusu ( Ghana )	16.69 m	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Fagamanu Sofai ( Samoa )	14.92 m	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	18.29 m	Jonathan Edwards ( Great Britain )	Gothenburg , Sweden	August 7, 1995
Olympic record	18.09 m	Kenny Harrison ( USA )	Atlanta Final , USA	July 27, 1996

Remarks:

• All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

September 23, 2000, 6:00 p.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 16.95 m. Since only eight jumpers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve athletes (highlighted in light green). The width required for participation in the final was finally 16.75 m.

Group A

The Swede Christian Olsson failed with his 16.64 m in the qualification

With 16.20 m Oleg Sarkirkin from Kazakhstan was eliminated in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Onochie Achike	Great Britain	16.71	17.30	-	17.30
2	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	16.90	17.08	-	17.08
3	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	x	17.03	-	17.03
4th	Rostislav Dimitrov	Bulgaria	17.00	-	-	17.00
5	Paolo Camossi	Italy	15.30	16.87	16.80	16.87
6th	Walter Davis	United States	16.72	16.75	16.27	16.75
7th	Takanori Sugibayashi	Japan	16.31	16.44	16.67	16.67
8th	Christian Olsson	Sweden	16.45	16.56	16.64	16.64
9	Zsolt Csingler	Hungary	16.22	16.52	x	16.52
10	LaMark Carter	United States	x	16.16	16.47	16.47
11	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	16.47	15.87	15.99	16.47
12	Zoran Đurđević	Yugoslavia	x	16.31	x	16.31
13	Oleg Sarkirkin	Kazakhstan	16.20	15.61	16.09	16.20
14th	Sergey Boçkov	Azerbaijan	x	16.01	x	16.01
15th	Igor Spasovchodsky	Russia	15.79	15.51	13.41	15.79
16	Evgeny Petin	Uzbekistan	x	15.27	x	15.27
17th	Colomba Fofana	France	x	14.59	x	14.59
18th	Konstantinos Zalagitis	Greece	x	14.15	x	14.15
19th	Andrew Owusu	Ghana	x	14.12	x	14.12
ogV	Raúl Chapado	Spain	x	x	x		without space

Group B

Rogel Nachum from Israel reached 16.39 m and was eliminated in the qualification

The Italian Fabrizio Donato did not reach the final with his 16.34 m

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	17.12	-	-	17.12
	Andrew Murphy	Australia	17.12	-	-	17.12
3	Yoel García	Cuba	17.08	-	-	17.08
4th	Denis Kapustin	Russia	17.04	-	-	17.04
5	Charles Friedek	Germany	16.93	x	x	16.93
	Robert Howard	United States	x	16.93	x	16.93
7th	Ketill Hanstveit	Norway	16.62	16.62	16.75	16.75
8th	Ionuț Punga	Romania	16.72	14.74	16.45	16.72
9	Sergei Arsamasov	Kazakhstan	16.70	16.40	16.42	16.70
10	Lao Jianfeng	People's Republic of China	16.43	16.04	x	16.43
11	Ivajlo Rusenow	Bulgaria	16.24	16.40	x	16.40
12	Rogel Nachum	Israel	16.38	16.39	16.38	16.39
13	Gennady Markov	Russia	16.28	16.36	x	16.36
14th	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	16.34	15.75	x	16.34
15th	Michael Calvo	Cuba	16.30	16.04	16.15	16.30
16	Serhiy Izmailov	Ukraine	x	16.10	x	16.10
17th	Khristos Meletoglou	Greece	x	16.00	x	16.00
18th	Salem Mouled Al-Ahmadi	Saudi Arabia	15.93	15.99	15.42	15.99
19th	Poor Martirosjan	Armenia	14.95	x	x	14.95
ogV	Stamatios Lenis	Greece	x	x	x		without space

final

September 25, 2000, 8:00 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, eight of them by qualifying distance, the other four by their placements. Three athletes from Great Britain, two Cubans and two Americans competed for the medals with one participant each from Australia, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy and Russia.

The clear favorite was the British world record holder Jonathan Edwards. The Cuban Yoelbi Quesada was seen as his strongest competitor. The reigning world champion , the German Charles Friedek, was able to qualify for the final despite an injury. Other medal candidates were the Bulgarian Vice World Champion and European Championship third Rostislaw Dimitrov and Vice European Champion Denis Kapustin from Russia.

Edward's team-mate Onochie Achike took the lead in the first lap with 17.29 m, but was replaced in round two by Kapustin with 17.46 m. Edwards also pushed past Achike with 17.37 m. In the third round, the favorite reached 17.71 m and he took the lead. Friedek was eliminated with three failed attempts.

Rounds four and five brought no changes at the top. Only in the last series of tests did the classification move again. First, Quesada improved to third place with 17.37 m after four failed jumps in a row. Then the Cuban Yoel García surpassed Kapustin with 17.47 m by one centimeter and displaced him from second place and Quesada fell out of the medal ranks. Jonathan Edwards remained unchallenged at the top and became Olympic champion. Yoel García won silver, Denis Kapustin bronze. Yoelbi Quesada finished fourth, ahead of Onochie Achike and third British Phillips Idowu.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	17.12	17.37	17.71	17.06	-	x	17.71
2	Yoel García	Cuba	17.15	17.19	17.19	x	16.70	17.47	17.47
3	Denis Kapustin	Russia	x	17.46	16.73	17.17	x	17.16	17.46
4th	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	17.19	x	x	x	x	17.37	17.37
5	Onochie Achike	Great Britain	17.29	x	x	x	17.00	x	17.29
6th	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	16.97	x	16.83	17.08	x	x	17.08
7th	Robert Howard	United States	x	17.05	16.59	x	16.75	16.77	17.05
8th	Paolo Camossi	Italy	16.96	16.60	x	16.39	16.95	x	16.96
9	Rostislav Dimitrov	Bulgaria	16.95	16.72	x	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			16.95
10	Andrew Murphy	Australia	16.74	16.70	16.80				16.80
11	Walter Davis	United States	15.59	16.22	16.61				16.61
ogV	Charles Friedek	Germany	x	x	x					without space

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  Olympic Champion Jonathan Edwards from Great Britain

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  British Olympic sixth Phillips Idowu

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  The American Walter Davis finished eleventh in the final.

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed April 1, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 1, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 1, 2018

Video

• Sydney 2000 - Jonathan Edwards - Triple Jump Gold , published January 29, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed April 1, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 678 , accessed on April 1, 2018