1906 Olympic Intermediate Games / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Men
place	Panathinaic Stadium
Attendees	21 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	April 30, 1906

The men's triple jump at the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens was decided on April 30, 1906. The participants had three attempts each, the three best then another three jumps.

Records

World record	14.78 m	United States	Edward Bloss	1893
Olympic record	14.47 m	United States	Meyer Prinstein	1900

Results

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Peter O'Connor	Great Britain	14.075
2	Con Leahy	Great Britain	13.98
3	Thomas Cronan	United States	13.70
4th	Oscar Guttormsen	Norway	13.34
5	Dimitrios Müller	Greece	13.125
6th	Francis Connolly	United States	12.75
7th	Vasilios Stournaras	Greece	12.725
8th	Carl Alfred Pedersen	Norway	12.68
9	Paul Weinstein	Germany	12.615
10	Khristos Parsalis	Greece	12.52
11	Meyer Prinstein	United States	12.27
12	Bohuslav Pohl-Polenský	Bohemia	12.195
13	Eric Lemming	Sweden	12.195
14th	Niels Løw	Denmark	12.00
15th	Gustav Krojer	Austria	11.985
16	L. Leon	Greece	11.96
17th	Stavros Lelekos	Greece	11.455
	Martin Brustmann	Germany	ogV
	Karl Lampelmayer	Austria
	Nikolaos Andreadakis	Greece
	James Connolly	United States

Con Leahy jumped his best distance in the first attempt and was in the lead until the last round when Peter O'Connor even outdid him. The two-time triple jump Olympic champion Prinstein could not defend his title because the injury from the long jump competition still hindered him.

literature

• Volker Kluge , Olympic Summer Games - The Chronicle I, Berlin 1997 ( ISBN 3-328-00715-6 )
• Ekkehard zur Megede , The history of Olympic athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970

Web links

• Sports Reference

Remarks

1. ↑ These jumpers remained without a valid attempt.