2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

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Olympic rings
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sport athletics
discipline Triple jump
gender Men
Attendees 27 athletes from 21 countries
Competition location Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase August 7, 2012 (qualification)
August 9, 2012 (final)
Medalist
gold medal Christian Taylor ( USA ) United StatesUnited States 
Silver medal Will Claye ( USA ) United StatesUnited States 
Bronze medal Fabrizio Donato ( ITA ) ItalyItaly 

The men's triple jump at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on August 7th and 9th, 2012 at the Olympic Stadium in London . 27 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the American Christian Taylor , who won before his compatriot Will Claye . The bronze medal went to the Italian Fabrizio Donato .

Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion Nelson Évora ( Portugal ) PortugalPortugal  17.67 m Beijing 2008
World Champion Christian Taylor ( USA ) United StatesUnited States  17.96 m Daegu 2011
European champion Fabrizio Donato ( Italy ) ItalyItaly  17.63 m Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions Samyr Lainé ( Haiti ) HaitiHaiti  17.09 m Mayagüez 2011
South America champion Maximiliano Díaz ( Argentina ) ArgentinaArgentina  16.51 m Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion Yevgeny Ektow ( Kazakhstan ) KazakhstanKazakhstan  16.91 m Kobe 2011
African champions Tosin Oke ( Nigeria ) NigeriaNigeria  16.98 m Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion Scott Thomson ( New Zealand ) New ZealandNew Zealand  14.74 m Cairns 2012

Existing records

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

Remarks:

  • All times in this article are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
  • All widths are noted in meters (m).

qualification

August 7, 2012, 10:45 am

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance was 17.10 m. Since only two jumpers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to a total of twelve athletes (highlighted in light green). So finally 16.62 m were necessary for a final.

Group A

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Expanse annotation
1 Benjamin Compaoré FranceFrance France 16.82 17.06 - 17.06
2 Daniele Greco ItalyItaly Italy 17.00 - - 17.00
3 Lyukman Adams RussiaRussia Russia 16.67 x 16.88 16.88
4th Will Claye United StatesUnited States United States 16.56 16.44 16.87 16.87
5 Tosin Oke NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 16.59 16.83 x 16.83
6th Samyr Lainé HaitiHaiti Haiti 16.14 16.81 x 16.81
7th Dzmitryi Platnitsky BelarusBelarus Belarus x 15.66 16.62 16.62
8th Phillips Idowu United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 16.47 x 16.53 16.53
9 Arnie David Giralt CubaCuba Cuba 15.74 16.42 16.45 16.45
10 Yevgeny Ektov KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan x 16.31 x 16.31
11 Cao Shuo China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 16.11 16.26 16.27 16.27
12 José Adrián Sornoza EcuadorEcuador Ecuador 15.59 x x 15.59
ogV Renjith Maheswary IndiaIndia India x x x - without space

Group B

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Expanse annotation
1 Christian Taylor United StatesUnited States United States 17.21 - - 17.21
2 Leevan Sands BahamasBahamas Bahamas 17.17 - - 17.17
3 Dong bin China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China x 16.94 - 16.94
4th Fabrizio Donato ItalyItaly Italy 16.86 - - 16.86
5 Alexis Copello CubaCuba Cuba x 16.70 16.79 16.79
6th Sheryf El-Sheryf UkraineUkraine Ukraine 16.60 14.83 x 16.60
7th Issam Nima AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 15.21 x 16.50 16.50
8th Henry Frayne AustraliaAustralia Australia 16.25 16.35 16.40 16.40
9 Muhammad Halim American Virgin IslandsAmerican Virgin Islands American Virgin Islands 15.54 16.39 15.31 16.39
10 Roman Valiev KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan x x 16.23 16.23
11 Kim Deok-hyeon Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 15.35 x 16.22 16.22
12 Yoandri Betanzos CubaCuba Cuba 14.84 16.22 x 16.22
13 Mohamed Abbas Darwish United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates x 16.06 15.93 16.06
14th Jonathan Henrique Silva BrazilBrazil Brazil 15.59 x x 15.59

  • 16.53 m was not enough for the Briton Phillips Idowu to take part in the final

  • The Indian Renjith Maheswary did not get beyond the qualification without a valid attempt

  • The Ukrainian Sheryf El-Sheryf was two centimeters short of participating in the final

final

August 9, 2012, 7:20 pm

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, two of them had reached the qualifying distance. Two US-Americans and two Italians fought for the medals together with one participant each from the Bahamas, China, France, Haiti, Cuba, Nigeria, Russia and Belarus.

The favorite was the reigning world champion , the American Christian Taylor. One of his main competitors, British vice world champion Phillips Idowu, suffered from a pinched nerve that he had contracted at a meeting in the context of the IAAF Diamond League , the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene , USA in June. Idowu still competed in London , but failed in qualifying.

In the first round the Italian European champion Fabrizio Donato took the lead with 17.38 m. In the second attempt he improved to 17.44 m, but remained in second place after Will Claye from the USA, bronze medalist in the long jump , had achieved 17.54 m. Donato improved by one centimeter in the third lap, while Taylor came to 17.15 m after two failed attempts and was now fifth behind the Italians Daniele Greco and Leevan Sands from the Bahamas.

In the fourth round, the decision about the medals was made. Donato jumped 17.48 m, Claye improved to 17.62 m. Taylor reached 17.81 m, so he conquered the top. This order lasted until the end.

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt 4th attempt 5th attempt 6th attempt Expanse annotation
1 Christian Taylor United StatesUnited States United States x x 17.15 17.81 17.55 x 17.81
2 Will Claye United StatesUnited States United States x 17.54 17.43 17.62 17.25 16.66 17.62
3 Fabrizio Donato ItalyItaly Italy 17.38 17.44 17.45 17.48 - x 17.48
4th Daniele Greco ItalyItaly Italy 16.90 17.34 x x - 16.92 17.34
5 Leevan Sands BahamasBahamas Bahamas x 17.19 17.12 x - - 17.19
6th Benjamin Compaoré FranceFrance France 15.53 17.08 14.16 16.27 13.68 x 17.08
7th Tosin Oke NigeriaNigeria Nigeria x 16.91 16.95 x x x 16.95
8th Alexis Copello CubaCuba Cuba 16.92 x x 14.75 x 16.68 16.92
9 Lyukman Adams RussiaRussia Russia 16.78 x x not in the final of the
eight best jumpers		 16.78
10 Dong bin China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 16.75 x x 16.75
11 Samyr Lainé HaitiHaiti Haiti x 16.65 16.59 16.65
12 Dzmitryi Platnitsky BelarusBelarus Belarus 16.08 x 16.19 16.19

  • Olympic Champion:
    Christian Taylor, USA

  • Silver medal:
    Will Claye, USA

  • Bronze medal:
    Fabrizio Donato, Italy

  • The Italian Daniele Greco finished fourth in the final

  • Leevan Sands of the Bahamas finished fifth in the Olympics

  • The French Olympic sixth Benjamin Compaoré

  • The Cuban Alexis Copello came in eighth place

  • Samyr Lainé from Haiti finished eleventh

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 678 , accessed on September 15, 2018
  2. ↑ Simon Hart in the Telegraph on August 6, 2012 (English) , accessed on September 15, 2018