Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump

Men's triple jump at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	20–22 August
Competitors	47 from 35 nations
Winning distance	17.79 NR
Medalists
Christian Olsson   Sweden   Marian Oprea   Romania   Danil Burkenya   Russia

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men
Wheelchair races

The men's triple jump competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–22 August.^[1]

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete jumped three times (stopping early if they made the qualifying distance). At least the top twelve athletes moved on to the final; if more than twelve reached the qualifying distance, all who did so advanced. Distances were reset for the final round. Finalists jumped three times, after which the eight best jumped three more times (with the best distance of the six jumps counted).^[2]

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

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

No new records were set during the competition.

Results

Qualifying round

Rule: Qualifying standard 17.00 (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	Christian Olsson	Sweden	17.68	00.00 !—	00.00 !—	17.68	Q
2	B	Yoandri Betanzos	Cuba	17.53	00.00 !—	00.00 !—	17.53	Q, PB
3	B	Marian Oprea	Romania	17.44	00.00 !—	00.00 !—	17.44	Q
4	A	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	17.33	00.00 !—	00.00 !—	17.33	Q
5	B	Jadel Gregório	Brazil	17.20	00.00 !—	00.00 !—	17.20	Q
6	B	Viktor Gushchinskiy	Russia	16.71	00.00 !x	17.17	17.17	Q
7	A	Danil Burkenya	Russia	16.77	16.91	17.08	17.08	Q
8	A	Hristos Meletoglou	Greece	16.75	16.50	17.06	17.06	Q, SB
9	A	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	16.89	00.00 !x	17.01	17.01	Q
10	B	Kenta Bell	United States	16.77	16.82	16.98	16.98	q
11	A	Walter Davis	United States	16.28	14.77	16.94	16.94	q
12	A	Julien Kapek	France	16.67	00.00 !x	16.91	16.91	q
13	B	Nathan Douglas	Great Britain	16.84	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	16.84
14	A	Andrew Murphy	Australia	16.59	16.82	00.00 !x	16.82
15	B	Li Yanxi	China	00.00 !x	16.70	16.74	16.74
16	A	Ibrahim Mohamdein Aboubaker	Qatar	15.98	16.37	16.71	16.71
17	B	Arnie David Giralt	Cuba	00.00 !x	16.63	16.70	16.70
18	B	Melvin Lister	United States	16.62	00.00 !x	16.64	16.64
19	A	Andrew Owusu	Ghana	15.85	00.00 !x	16.64	16.64	SB
20	A	Mykola Savolaynen	Ukraine	16.56	16.48	15.57	16.56
21	B	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	16.16	16.45	16.34	16.45
22	B	Momchil Karailiev	Bulgaria	00.00 !x	16.45	00.00 !x	16.45
23	B	Viktor Yastrebov	Ukraine	16.43	16.32	00.00 !x	16.43
24	A	Ivaylo Rusenov	Bulgaria	16.39	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	16.39
25	B	Mohammad Hazzory	Syria	16.37	00.00 !x	16.14	16.37
26	A	Péter Tölgyesi	Hungary	16.33	15.74	16.36	16.36
27	A	Leevan Sands	Bahamas	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	16.35	16.35
28	A	Randy Lewis	Grenada	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	16.33	16.33
29	B	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena	South Africa	16.23	16.32	00.00 !x	16.32
30	B	Dmitrij Vaľukevič	Belarus	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	16.32	16.32
31	B	Andreas Pohle	Germany	00.00 !x	16.29	16.23	16.29
32	B	Vladimir Letnicov	Moldova	00.00 !x	15.88	16.25	16.25
33	B	Lauri Leis	Estonia	00.00 !x	16.06	16.18	16.18
34	A	Aleksandr Glavatskiy	Belarus	16.18	15.73	00.00 !x	16.18
35	B	Salem Mouled Al-Ahmadi	Saudi Arabia	16.16	16.03	00.00 !x	16.16
36	A	LeJuan Simon	Trinidad and Tobago	00.00 !x	14.75	16.16	16.16
37	B	Boštjan Šimunič	Slovenia	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	16.07	16.07
38	B	Takanori Sugibayashi	Japan	15.38	15.67	15.95	15.95
39	B	Park Hyung-jun	South Korea	00.00 !x	15.84	00.00 !x	15.84
40	B	Nelson Évora	Portugal	15.72	15.84	00.00 !x	15.72
41	A	Olivier Sanou	Burkina Faso	00.00 !x	15.67	00.00 !x	15.67
42	B	Karl Taillepierre	France	15.50	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	15.50
43	A	Armen Martirosyan	Armenia	15.05	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	15.05
99	A	Charles Friedek	Germany	00.00 !x	00.00 !—	00.00 !—	00.00 !NM
99	A	Vitaliy Moskalenko	Russia	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !NM
99	A	Berk Tuna	Turkey	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !—	00.00 !NM
99	A	Roman Valiyev	Kazakhstan	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !NM
99	A	Sergey Bochkov	Azerbaijan	00.00 !	00.00 !	00.00 !	00.00 !DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
01 !	Christian Olsson	Sweden	17.69	17.79	17.69	16.82	17.58	00.00 !—	17.79	NR
02 !	Marian Oprea	Romania	17.55	00.00 !x	17.47	17.34	00.00 !—	17.38	17.55	SB
03 !	Danil Burkenya	Russia	16.99	16.68	16.16	17.45	17.48	17.47	17.48
04 !4	Yoandri Betanzos	Cuba	00.00 !x	17.47	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	17.24	00.00 !x	17.47
05 !5	Jadel Gregório	Brazil	17.22	17.27	15.97	00.00 !x	16.82	17.31	17.31
06 !6	Hristos Meletoglou	Greece	17.13	00.00 !x	17.10	17.05	16.65	17.06	17.13	SB
07 !7	Viktor Gushchinskiy	Russia	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	17.11	16.27	16.95	00.00 !x	17.11
08 !8	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	16.93	00.00 !x	16.96	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !—	16.96
09 !9	Kenta Bell	United States	16.90	00.00 !x	16.39				16.90
10	Julien Kapek	France	00.00 !x	16.79	16.81				16.81
11	Walter Davis	United States	16.78	16.65	16.59				16.78
99 !	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !x				00.00 !NM

References

External links

• Official Olympic Report