2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
Attendees	47 athletes from 34 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 20, 2004 (qualification) August 22, 2004 (final)
Medalist Christian Olsson ( SWE )   Marian Oprea ( ROM )   Daniil Burkenja ( RUS )

The men's triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 24th and 26th, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 47 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Swede Christian Olsson . He won ahead of the Romanian Marian Oprea and the Russian Daniil Burkenja .

With Andreas Pohle and Charles Friedek , two German participants started. Both were eliminated in qualifying.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein were not among the participants.

Current title holders

Olympic Champion 2000	Jonathan Edwards ( Great Britain )	17.71 m	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Christian Olsson ( Sweden )	17.72 m	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002		17.53 m	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Yoandri Betanzos ( Cuba )	17.26 m	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003	Leevan Sands ( Bahamas )	17.18 m	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Jadel Gregório ( Brazil )	16.76 m	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian champion 2003	Kazuyoshi Ishikawa ( Japan )	16.72 m	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Olivier Sanou ( Burkina Faso )	16.31 m	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Tim Hawkes ( New Zealand )	14.66 m	Christchurch 2002

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 Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

August 20, 2004, 9:55 a.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 nine jumpers reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). Finally, 16.91 m had to be jumped to participate.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Christian Olsson	Sweden	17.68	-	-	17.68
2	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	17.33	-	-	17.33
3	Daniil Burkenja	Russia	16.77	16.91	17.08	17.08
4th	Hristos Meletoglou	Greece	16.75	16.50	17.06	17.06
5	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	16.89	x	17.01	17.01
6th	Walter Davis	United States	16.28	14.77	16.94	16.94
7th	Julien Kapek	France	16.61	x	16.91	16.91
8th	Andrew Murphy	Australia	16.59	16.82	x	16.82
9	Ibrahim Mohamedin	Qatar	15.98	16.37	16.71	16.71
10	Andrew Owusu	Ghana	15.85	x	16.64	16.64
11	Mikola Sawolainen	Ukraine	15.56	16.48	15.57	15.56
13	Ivailo Rusenow	Bulgaria	16.39	x	x	16.39
13	Péter Tölgyesi	Hungary	16.33	15.74	16.36	16.36
14th	Leevan Sands	Bahamas	x	x	16.35	16.35
15th	Randy Lewis	Grenada	x	x	16.33	16.33
16	Aljaksandr Hlawazki	Belarus	16.18	15.73	x	16.18
17th	LeJuan Simon	Trinidad and Tobago	x	14.75	16.16	16.16
18th	Olivier Sanou	Burkina Faso	x	15.67	x	15.67
19th	Poor Martirosjan	Armenia	15.05	x	x	15.05
ogV	Charles Friedek	Germany	x	x	x		without space
	Vitaly Moskalenko	Russia	x	x	x
	Berk Tuna	Turkey	x	x	x
	Roman Valiev	Kazakhstan	x	x	x
DNS	Sergey Bochkov	Azerbaijan

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Yoandri Betanzos	Cuba	17.53	-	-	17.53
2	Marian Oprea	Romania	17.44	-	-	17.44
3	Jadel Gregório	Brazil	17.20	-	-	17.20
4th	Viktor Gushchinsky	Russia	16.71	x	17.17	17.17
5	Kenta Bell	United States	16.77	16.82	16.98	16.98
6th	Nathan Douglas	Great Britain	16.84	x	x	16.84
7th	Li Yanxi	People's Republic of China	x	16.70	16.74	16.74
8th	Arnie David Giralt	Cuba	x	16.63	16.74	16.70
9	Melvin Lister	United States	16.62	x	16.64	16.64
10	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	16.16	16.45	16.34	16.45
11	Momchil Karailiev	Bulgaria	x	16.45	x	16.45
13	Viktor Jastrebow	Ukraine	16.43	16.32	x	16.43
13	Mohammad Hazzory	Syria	16.37	x	16.14	16.37
14th	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena	South Africa	16.23	16.32	x	16.32
15th	Dimitri Valyukevich	Belarus	x	x	16.32	16.32
16	Andreas Pohle	Germany	x	16.23	16.29	16.29
17th	Vladimir Letnicov	Moldova	x	15.88	16.25	16.25
18th	Lauri Leis	Estonia	x	16.06	16.18	16.18
19th	Salem Al-Ahmadi	Saudi Arabia	16.16	16.03	x	16.16
20th	Boštjan Šimunič	Slovenia	x	x	16.07	16.07
21st	Takanori Sugibayashi	Japan	15.38	16.00	15.95	16.00
22nd	Park Hyung-jun	South Korea	x	15.84	x	15.84
23	Nelson Évora	Portugal	15.72	x	x	15.72
24	Karl Taillepierre	France	15.50	x	x	15.50

final

August 22, 2004, 8:10 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, nine of them by qualifying distance and three by their placements. Two jumpers each from Cuba, Russia and the United States had reached the final. There was also one participant each from Brazil, France, Greece, Great Britain, Romania and Sweden.

The favorite was the Swedish world and European champion Christian Olsson. But as the qualification had already shown, there was strong competition, especially from the Cuban vice world champion Yoandri Betanzos, the Romanian Marian Oprea and the British Phillips Idowu. However, the Briton did not make a valid jump in the final.

In the final there were very long jumps from the start, the level was absolutely high-class. In the first round, Olsson reached 17.69 m, putting him in the lead ahead of Oprea with 17.55 m, the Brazilian Jadel Gregório - 17.22 m - and the Greek Hristos Meletoglou - 17.13 m. In the second lap, Olsson climbed another ten centimeters to 17.79 m, which was the Swedish national record. The Cuban Yoandri Betanzos jumped 17.47 m to third place. Round three again brought four jumps over the 17-meter mark, but only the Russian Viktor Guschtschinski changed his position. He was now sixth and in the final of the eight best jumpers.

The Russian Daniil Burkenja came in seventh with 16.99 m in this final of the eight best. But now he really found his way into the competition. First he reached 17.45 m, so he was fourth behind Olsson, Oprea and Betanzos. His next jump was 17.48 m, so he had exceeded the Cuban by an inch and was now third. In the last round four more widths of more than seventeen meters were achieved, Burkenja was there again with 17.47 m. However, only Gregório, who managed 17.31 m, could improve, but this did not bring him any improvement in rank.

Christian Olsson was Olympic champion ahead of Marian Oprea, Daniil Burkenja won the bronze medal. Just an inch behind him, Yoandri Betanzos was fourth ahead of Jadel Gregório and Hristos Meletoglou. Viktor Guschtschinski, in seventh place, was also able to surpass the 17-meter mark.

Christian Olsson's gold medal was already the third for Sweden in the triple jump . Gustaf Lindblom had in 1912 in Stockholm , Arne Åhman 1948 in London won.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Christian Olsson	Sweden	17.69	17.79	17.69	16.82	17.58	-	17.79	NO
2	Marian Oprea	Romania	17.55	x	17.47	17.34	-	17.38	17.55
3	Daniil Burkenja	Russia	16.99	16.68	16.16	17.45	17.48	17.47	17.48
4th	Yoandri Betanzos	Cuba	x	17.47	x	x	17.24	x	17.47
5	Jadel Gregório	Brazil	17.22	17.27	15.97	x	16.82	17.31	17.31
6th	Hristos Meletoglou	Greece	17.13	x	17.10	17.05	16.65	17.06	17.13
7th	Viktor Gushchinsky	Russia	x	x	17.11	16.27	16.95	x	17.11
8th	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	16.93	x	16.96	x	x	x	16.96
9	Kenta Bell	United States	16.90	x	16.39	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			16.90
10	Julien Kapek	France	x	16.79	16.81				16.81
11	Walter Davis	United States	16.78	16.65	16.59				16.78
ogV	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	x	x	x					without space

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  Olympic champion Christian Olsson from Sweden in 2010

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  Silver medalist Marian Oprea, Romania

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  The Brazilian Olympic fifth Jadel Gregório

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  The Frenchman Julien Kapek finished tenth in the final

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed April 27, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 27, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on April 27, 2018

Video

• 2004 Olympics Men's Triple Jump - 5th - Jadel Gregorio - shows only Olympic fifth , posted December 25, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed April 27, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pan American Games on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
2. ↑ Central American and Caribbean Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
3. ^ South American Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
4. ↑ Asian Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
5. ↑ African Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
6. ^ Oceania Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
7. ↑ IAAF Statistics World Records Triple Jump Men , accessed on April 28, 2018