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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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
- ^ Pan American Games on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
- ↑ Central American and Caribbean Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
- ^ South American Championships (Men) on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
- ↑ Asian Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
- ↑ African Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
- ^ Oceania Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed April 28, 2018
- ↑ IAAF Statistics World Records Triple Jump Men , accessed on April 28, 2018