2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	39 athletes from 26 countries
Competition phase	18./21. August 2008
Medalist
gold	Nelson Évora ( POR )
silver	Phillips Idowu ( GBR )
bronze	Leevan Sands ( BAH )

The triple jump at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was held on August 18 and 21, 2008. 39 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Portuguese Nelson Évora . The silver medal went to the Briton Phillips Idowu . Bronze went to Leevan Sands from the Bahamas.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 2004	Christian Olsson ( Sweden )	17.79 m	Athens 2004
World Champion 2007	Nelson Évora ( Portugal )	17.74 m	Osaka 2007
European champion 2006	Christian Olsson ( Sweden )	17.67 m	Gothenburg 2006
Pan American Champion 2007	Jadel Gregório ( Brazil )	17.27 m	Rio de Janeiro 2007
Central America and Caribbean champions 2008	Leevan Sands ( Bahamas )	17.29 m	Cali 2008
South America Champion 2007	Jefferson Sabino ( Brazil )	16.68 m	São Paulo 2007
Asian champion 2007	Renjith Maheswary ( India )	17.19 m	Amman 2007
Africa Champion 2008	Ndiss Kaba Badji ( Senegal )	17.07 m	Addis Ababa 2008
Oceania Champion 2008	Frank Louey ( Fiji )	14.23 m	Saipan 2008

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

qualification

August 18, 2008, 10:00 a.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 17.10 m. Since exactly twelve athletes reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was not filled any further.

Group A

17.09 m is not enough for Cuban Alexis Copello to take part in the finals

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	17.44 m	-	-	17.44 m
2	Nelson Évora	Portugal	x	17.34 m	-	17.34 m
3	Arnie David Giralt	Cuba	17.30 m	-	-	17.30 m
4th	Igor Spasovchodsky	Russia	16.79 m	16.85 m	17.23 m	17.23 m
5	Marian Oprea	Romania	x	16.99 m	17.17 m	17.17 m
6th	Jadel Gregório	Brazil	17.15 m	-	-	17.15 m
7th	Viktor Kuznyetsov	Ukraine	16.70 m	17.11 m	x	17.11 m
8th	Alexis Copello	Cuba	17.09 m	16.92 m	x	17.09 m
9	Dimitri Valyukevich	Slovakia	x	16.86 m	17.08 m	17.08 m
10	Kim Deok-hyeon	South Korea	16.68 m	14.68 m	16.88 m	16.88 m
11	Rafeeq curry	United States	x	16.23 m	16.85 m	16.85 m
12	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	16.10 m	x	16.70 m	16.70 m
13	Kenta Bell	United States	16.55 m	x	16.17 m	16.55 m
14th	Dzmitryi Platnitsky	Belarus	16.51 m	x	x	16.51 m
15th	Jefferson Sabino	Brazil	16.12 m	16.45 m	x	16.45 m
16	Roman Valiev	Kazakhstan	x	16.20 m	15.93 m	16.20 m
17th	Ibrahim Babikir Mohamdein	Qatar	16.03 m	16.02 m	15.90 m	16.03 m
18th	Zhong Minwei	People's Republic of China	15.59 m	x	14.91 m	15.59 m
19th	Redžep Selman	Macedonia	14.98 m	15.29 m	15.28 m	15.29 m

Group B

The Cameroonian Hugo Mamba-Schlick Copello cannot qualify for the final

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Li Yanxi	People's Republic of China	16.93 m	16.83 m	17.30 m	17.30 m	PB
2	Leevan Sands	Bahamas	17.25 m	-	-	17.25 m
3	Onochie Achike	Great Britain	x	17.18 m	-	17.18 m
4th	Héctor Dairo Fuentes	Cuba	16.73 m	16.42 m	17.14 m	17.14 m
5	Momchil Karailiev	Bulgaria	17.06 m	17.12 m	-	17.12 m
6th	Randy Lewis	Grenada	x	17.06 m	x	17.06 m
7th	Mykola Savolainen	Ukraine	17.00 m	16.55 m	16.29 m	17.00 m
8th	Alexander Petrenko	Russia	16.84 m	16.97 m	16.74 m	16.97 m
9	Nathan Douglas	Great Britain	16.45 m	16.68 m	16.72 m	16.72 m
10	Daniil Burkenja	Russia	16.44 m	16.69 m	15.65 m	16.69 m
11	Dimitrios Tsiamis	Greece	16.37 m	16.65 m	16.48 m	16.65 m
12	Vladimir Letnicov	Moldova	16.62 m	x	x	16.62 m
13	Viktor Iastrebov	Ukraine	x	x	16.52 m	16.52 m
14th	Colomba Fofana	France	16.42 m	15.47 m	x	16.42 m
15th	Hugo Mamba-Schlick	Cameroon	16.01 m	14.98 m	x	16.01 m
16	Aarik Wilson	United States	x	15.51 m	15.97 m	15.97 m
17th	Gu Junjie	People's Republic of China	15.94 m	15.84 m	x	15.94 m
18th	Renjith Maheswary	India	15.77 m	x	15.51 m	15.77 m
DNS	Ndiss Kaba Badji	Senegal	x	x	x		without space
	Tarik Bouguetaïb	Morocco	x	x	x

final

August 21, 2008, 8:25 pm

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final. All had reached the qualification range. There were two Cubans and two Brits, as well as one participant each from the Bahamas, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Portugal, Romania, Russia and the Ukraine.

The favorites were primarily the reigning world champion and European championship fourth Nelson Évora from Portugal and the Brazilian vice world champion and Pan-American champion Jadel Gregório. Other medal candidates were the silver medalists of the Games of 2004 , the World Championship -Third 2005 and EM -Third Marian Oprea of Romania, the World Cup -Vierte of 2005 Central American / Caribbean champion Leevan Sands of the Bahamas and the British Championships -Sechste of 2007 and EM fifth Phillips Idowu.

In the final there were a few attempts far beyond the 17-meter mark in the first round. Idowu took the lead with 17.51 ​​m in front of Évora with 17.31 m. The Cuban Arnie David Giralt jumped 17.27 m, Oprea 17.22 m. Gregório reach 17.14 m. The second lap continued with wide jumps. World champion Évora improved to 17.56 m and thus led the field. Giralt took second place with 17.52 m in front of Idowu, who was now third with his 17.51 ​​m from round one.

The Briton countered in the next series of tests with 17.62 m and was back in front. Sands now intervened in the action. He pushed Évora from second place with 17.59 m. Before the final of the top eight, Giralt was still fourth with 17.52 m ahead of Oprea - 17.22 m. The British Onochie Achike was sixth with 17.17 m ahead of Gregório - 17.14 m.

But the decision was not yet made. In lap four Évora scored 17.67 m and was five inches ahead of Idowu. In the next two rounds there were still numerous jumps that were significantly further than seventeen meters. Except for Gregório, none of the athletes was able to improve their previously recorded distance. The Brazilian reached 17.20 m in his last jump, displacing Achike three centimeters from sixth place. With that, world champion Nelson Évora also became Olympic champion. Phillips Idowu only narrowly won the silver medal. He had jumped three inches further than bronze medalist Leevan Sands. Just another seven centimeters behind, Arnie David Giralt took fourth place in front of Marian Oprea, Jadel Gregório and Onochie Achike. All of them had passed the 17-meter mark.

Nelson Évora won the first gold medal for Portugal in the triple jump .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Nelson Évora	Portugal	17.31 m	17.56 m	x	17.67 m	17.24 m	16.52 m	17.67 m
2	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	17.51 ​​m	17.31 m	17.62 m	x	17.26 m	16.41 m	17.62 m
3	Leevan Sands	Bahamas	16.91 m	16.55 m	17.59 m	17.26 m	17.32 m	x	17.59 m	NO
4th	Arnie David Giralt	Cuba	17.27 m	17.52 m	17.24 m	17,458 m	x	17.08 m	17.52 m	PB
5	Marian Oprea	Romania	17.22 m	x	x	x	x	16.69 m	17.22 m
6th	Jadel Gregório	Brazil	17.14 m	16.55 m	13.79 m	16.83 m	16.78 m	17.20 m	17.20 m
7th	Onochie Achike	Great Britain	16.74 m	x	17.17 m	x	17.04 m	x	17.17 m
8th	Viktor Kuznyetsov	Ukraine	16.71 m	16.87 m	x	16.81 m	16.48 m	x	16.87 m
9	Igor Spasovchodsky	Russia	16.79 m	16.37 m	15.63 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			16.79 m
10	Li Yanxi	People's Republic of China	15.93 m	16.35 m	16.77 m				16.77 m
11	Momchil Karailiev	Bulgaria	16.48 m	16.39 m	16.38 m				16.48 m
12	Héctor Dairo Fuentes	Cuba	15.92 m	x	16.28 m				16.28 m

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  Olympic champion Nelson Évora from Portugal

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  Silver medalist Phillips Idowu, Great Britain

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  The Olympic champion Leevan Sands of the Bahamas

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  The Romanian Marian Oprea is fifth in the final

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  The Brazilian Jadel Gregório is sixth in the Olympics

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed June 11, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed June 11, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 11, 2018

Video

• Athletics - Men's Triple Jump Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 21, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 11, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 11, 2018
2. ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 11, 2018
3. ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 11, 2018 
4. ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 11, 2018
5. ↑ IAAF Statistics, World Records Triple Jump Men , accessed on June 11, 2018