2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Triple jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 47 athletes from 36 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estádio Nilton Santos | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 15, 2016 (qualification) August 16, 2016 (final) |
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The men's triple jump at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 15 and 16, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 47 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the American Christian Taylor , who won before his compatriot Will Claye . The Chinese Dong Bin won bronze .
Max Hess started for Germany and was eliminated in the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion | Christian Taylor ( USA ) | 17.81 m | London 2012 |
World Champion | 18.21 m | Beijing 2015 | |
European champion | Max Heß ( Germany ) | 17.20 m | Amsterdam 2016 |
North / Central America / Caribbean champions | Yordanys Durañona ( Dominica ) | 16.98 m | San José 2015 |
South America champion | Jhon Murillo ( Colombia ) | 16.55 m | Lima 2015 |
Asian champion | Kim Deok-hyeon ( South Korea ) | 16.86 m | Wuhan 2015 |
African champions | Tosin Oke ( Nigeria ) | 17.13 m | Durban 2016 |
Oceania Champion | Tim McGuire ( Australia ) | 14.97 m | Cairns 2015 |
Existing records
World record | Jonathan Edwards ( Great Britain ) | 18.29 m | Gothenburg , Sweden | August 7, 1995 |
Olympic record | Kenny Harrison ( USA ) | 18.09 m | Atlanta Final , USA | July 27, 1996 |
Remarks:
- All times are based on local time in Rio ( UTC-3 ).
- All widths are given in meters (m).
qualification
August 15, 2016, 9:30 a.m.
The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 16.95 m. Since only five jumpers exceeded this distance - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best jumpers from both groups to twelve athletes - highlighted in light green. So finally a width of 16.61 m had to be achieved for the final participation.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Width (m) | annotation |
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1 | Dong bin | People's Republic of China | 17.10 | - | - | 17.10 | |
2 | Will Claye | United States | 16.43 | 16.76 | 17.05 | 17.05 | |
3 | Cao Shuo | People's Republic of China | 16.97 | - | - | 16.97 | |
4th | Troy Doris | Guyana | 16.54 | 16.58 | 16.81 | 16.81 | |
5 | Benjamin Compaoré | France | 16.34 | 16.57 | 16.72 | 16.72 | |
6th | Alberto Álvarez | Mexico | 16.50 | 16.67 | 16.60 | 16.67 | |
7th | Ernesto Revé | Cuba | 16.13 | 16.16 | 16.58 | 16.58 | |
8th | Max Hess | Germany | 13.88 | x | 16.56 | 16.56 | |
9 | Fabrizio Donato | Italy | 16.54 | x | x | 16.54 | |
10 | Leevan Sands | Bahamas | 16.47 | x | 16.53 | 16.53 | |
11 | Maxim Njastsjarenka | Belarus | 16.12 | 16.39 | 16.52 | 16.52 | |
12 | Fabian Florant | Netherlands | 16.51 | x | x | 16.51 | |
13 | Nassim Babayev | Azerbaijan | x | 16.38 | 15.60 | 16.38 | |
14th | Rumen Dimitrov | Bulgaria | 16.23 | x | 16.36 | 16.36 | |
15th | Daigo Hasegawa | Japan | 16.17 | 15.93 | x | 16.17 | |
16 | Olumide Olamigoke | Nigeria | 16.10 | 15.95 | 15.64 | 16.10 | |
17th | Clive Pullen | Jamaica | x | x | 16.08 | 16.08 | |
18th | Levon Aghasjan | Armenia | x | 15.54 | x | 15.54 | |
ogV | Yordany's Durañona | Dominica | x | x | x | - | without space |
Muhammad Halim | American Virgin Islands | x | x | x | |||
Marian Oprea | Romania | x | x | x | |||
Lascha Torgwaidse | Georgia | x | x | x | |||
Roman Valiev | Kazakhstan | x | x | x | |||
DNS | Pedro Pablo Pichardo | Cuba |
The German European Champion Max Hess missed the final with his 16.56 m by only 7 cm after an injury
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Width (m) | annotation |
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1 | Christian Taylor | United States | 17.24 | - | - | 17.24 | |
2 | Nelson Évora | Portugal | 16.48 | 16.72 | 16.99 | 16.99 | |
3 | Karol Hoffmann | Poland | 16.79 | 16.75 x | x | 16.79 | |
4th | Jhon Murillo | Colombia | 16.78 | 16.58 | x | 16.78 | |
5 | Xu Xiaolong | People's Republic of China | x | 16.35 | 16.65 | 16.65 | |
6th | Lázaro Martínez | Cuba | 16.38 | x | 16.61 | 16.61 | |
7th | Harold Correa | France | 16.31 | 16.60 | 16.55 | 16.60 | |
8th | Chris Benard | United States | x | 16.44 | 16.55 | 16.55 | |
9 | Dzmitryi Platnitsky | Belarus | x | 16.48 | 16.52 | 16.52 | |
10 | Godfrey Khotso Mokoena | South Africa | 15.13 | 16.51 | 16.44 | 16.51 | |
11 | Tosin Oke | Nigeria | x | 16.45 | 16.47 | 16.47 | |
12 | Mamadou Chérif Dia | Mali | x | 16.45 | 16.19 | 16.45 | |
13 | Kim Deok-hyeon | South Korea | x | 16.13 | 16.36 | 16.36 | |
14th | Jonathan Drack | Mauritius | x | x | 16.21 | 16.21 | |
15th | Renjith Maheshwary | India | 15.80 | 16.13 | 15.99 | 16.13 | |
16 | Pablo Torrijos | Spain | 15.78 | 16.11 | 15.74 | 16.11 | |
17th | Hugues Fabrice Zango | Burkina Faso | 15.99 | x | x | 15.99 | |
18th | Kōhei Yamashita | Japan | 15.71 | 15.46 | 15.66 | 15.71 | |
19th | Arzyom Bandarenka | Belarus | 15.43 | x | x | 15.43 | |
20th | Vladimir Letnikov | Moldova | x | 15.29 | x | 15.29 | |
21st | Georgi Tsonov | Bulgaria | x | x | 15.20 | 15.20 | |
ogV | Latario Collie Minns | Bahamas | x | x | x | - | without space |
Ruslan Kurbanov | Uzbekistan | x | x | x | |||
Şeref Osmanoğlu | Turkey | x | x | x |
final
August 16, 2016, 9:50 a.m.
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, five of them beyond the qualification range. the others about their placements. Three Chinese, two US-Americans and one athlete each from France, Guyana, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Poland and Portugal competed for the medals.
The 2012 Olympic champion and reigning world champion Christian Taylor from the USA was the clear favorite for this competition. The US silver medalist from London Will Claye was also in the final and was one of the medal candidates. The Portuguese World Cup third Nelson Évora also started with good prospects . The two-time vice world champion Pedro Pablo Pichardo from Cuba could not compete due to an injury and the German Max Hess, who had just become European champion , was eliminated in the qualification after an injury.
The medal award was decided in the first attempt. Taylor jumped 17.86 m, Claye 17.76 m. In third place was the Chinese Dong Bin with 17.58 m. In this order and the best results achieved by the top three, nothing changed until the end. Taylor subsequently had two more valid attempts, both of which would also have been enough for victory. Dong produced two failed attempts and then did without his remaining three jumps. His compatriot Cao Shuo was able to improve to fourth place in the fifth attempt and was ahead of the Colombian South American champion Jhon Murillo. Nelson Évora from Portugal, the 2008 winner , finished sixth.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Width (m) | annotation |
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1 | Christian Taylor | United States | 17.86 | 17.77 | x | 17.77 | x | x | 17.86 | |
2 | Will Claye | United States | 17.76 | x | x | 17.61 | x | 17.55 | 17.76 | |
3 | Dong bin | People's Republic of China | 17.58 | x | x | - | - | - | 17.58 | |
4th | Cao Shuo | People's Republic of China | 16.78 | x | 16.89 | x | 17.13 | 15.27 | 17.13 | |
5 | Jhon Murillo | Colombia | x | 17.09 | 16.43 | 16.79 | 16.66 | x | 17.09 | NO |
6th | Nelson Évora | Portugal | 16.90 | 16.93 | 17.03 | x | x | x | 17.03 | |
7th | Troy Doris | Guyana | 16.88 | x | 16.63 | x | 16.90 | x | 16.90 | |
8th | Lázaro Martínez | Cuba | 16.68 | x | x | 15.89 | - | 15.23 | 16.68 | |
9 | Alberto Álvarez | Mexico | 16.26 | 16.56 | 16.47 | not in the final of the eight best jumpers |
16.56 | |||
10 | Benjamin Compaoré | France | 15.53 | 16.54 | 16.47 | 16.54 | ||||
11 | Xu Xiaolong | People's Republic of China | 16.41 | x | 16.29 | 16.41 | ||||
12 | Karol Hoffmann | Poland | 16.31 | x | x | 16.31 |
Web links
- Results Book Rio 2016, official report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 7, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF men's triple jump (English), accessed on October 7, 2018
- Sports-Reference, result of the triple jump men (English), accessed on October 7, 2018
Video
- Rio Replay: Triple Jump Final on youtube.com, published August 21, 2016, accessed October 7, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 678 , accessed on October 7, 2018