Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump

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Men's triple jump
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Athletics pictogram.svg
Pictogram for athletics
Venue Stadium Australia
Date23 September 2000 (qualifying)
25 September 2000 (final)
Competitors40 from 27 nations
Winning distance17.71
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Jonathan Edwards
Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain
Silver medal icon.svg Yoel García
Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba
Bronze medal icon.svg Denis Kapustin
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
  1996
2004  

The men's triple jump event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Olympic Stadium. Forty athletes from 27 nations competed. [1] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The triple jump has been ever present since the beginning of the modern Olympic Games in 1896. The event was won by Jonathan Edwards of Great Britain, the nation's first victory in the men's triple jump since 1908 (and only the second overall). Edwards became the 12th man to win two medals in the event, adding gold to his 1996 silver. Yoel García's silver put Cuba on the podium for the second Games in a row.

Background

This was the 24th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1996 Games were silver medalist Jonathan Edwards of Great Britain, bronze medalist Yoelbi Quesada of Cuba, fifth-place finisher Armen Martirosyan of Armenia, sixth-place finisher Brian Wellman of Bermuda (who had also made the final in 1992), and eighth-place finisher Robert Howard of the United States. Edwards (whose 1995 world record still stands in 2025) was the favorite, with Quesada (the 1997 world champion, over Edwards) also a strong contender. Charles Friedek of Germany, the 1999 world champion (Edwards had come in third) was present but injured. [1]

No nations made their first appearance in the event, which had happened before only in 1904 (when the United States was the only nation to compete). The United States competed for the 23rd time, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had jumped 16.85 metres or further during the qualification period. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had jumped 16.65 metres or further could be entered. [2]

Competition format

The top twelve athletes from the three jumps in qualifying (and all who jumped 16.95 metres) progressed through to the final where the qualifying distances were scrapped and they started afresh with another three jumps. After these the top eight athletes carried their record forward and then had a further three attempts to decide the gold medalist. [3]

Records

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

World recordFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Jonathan Edwards  (GBR)18.29 Gothenburg, Sweden 7 August 1995
Olympic recordFlag of the United States.svg  Kenny Harrison  (USA)18.09 Atlanta, United States 27 July 1996

Schedule

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

DateTimeRound
Saturday, 23 September 200018:00Qualifying
Monday, 25 September 200020:00Final

Results

All distances shown are in meters.

Qualifying

Held on 23 September 2000.

The qualifying distance was 16.95m. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the longest jumps until a total of 12 qualifiers.

RankAthleteNationGroup123DistanceNotes
1 Onochie Achike Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain A16.7117.3017.30Q, PB
2 Phillips Idowu Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain B17.1217.12Q, PB
Allan Mortimer Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas B17.1217.12Q, SB
4 Jonathan Edwards Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain B16.9017.0817.08Q
5 Yoel García Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba B17.0817.08Q
6 Denis Kapustin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia B17.0417.04Q
7 Yoelbi Quesada Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba AX17.0317.03Q, SB
8 Rostislav Dimitrov Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria A17.0017.00Q
9 Charles Michael Friedek Flag of Germany.svg  Germany B16.93XX16.93q
Robert Howard Flag of the United States.svg  United States BX16.93X16.93q
11 Paolo Camossi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy A15.3016.8716.8016.87q
12 Walter Davis Flag of the United States.svg  United States A16.7216.7516.2716.75q
13 Ketill Hanstveit Flag of Norway.svg  Norway B16.6216.6216.7516.75
14 Ionut Punga Flag of Romania.svg  Romania B16.7214.7416.4516.72
15 Sergey Arzamasov Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan B16.7016.4016.4216.70
16 Takanori Sugibayashi Flag of Japan.svg  Japan A16.3116.4416.6716.67
17 Christian Olsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden A16.4516.5616.6416.64
18 Zsolt Czingler Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary A16.2216.52X16.52
19 LaMark Carter Flag of the United States.svg  United States AX16.1616.4716.47
20 Brian Wellman Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda A16.4715.8715.9916.47
21 Lao Jianfeng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China B16.4316.04X16.43
22 Ivaylo Rusenov Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria B16.2416.40X16.40
23 Rogel Nachum Flag of Israel.svg  Israel B16.3816.3916.3816.39
24 Gennadiy Markov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia B16.2816.36X16.36
25 Fabrizio Donato Flag of Italy.svg  Italy B16.3415.75X16.34
26 Zoran Đurđević Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg  FR Yugoslavia AX16.31X16.31
27 Michael Calvo Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba B16.3016.0416.1516.30
28 Oleg Sakirkin Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan A16.2015.6116.0916.20
29 Sergey Izmaylov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine BX16.10X16.10
30 Sergey Bochkov Flag of Azerbaijan (1991-2013).svg  Azerbaijan BX16.01X16.01
31 Hristos Meletoglou Flag of Greece.svg  Greece BX16.00X16.00
32 Salem Mouled Al-Ahmadi Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia B15.9315.9915.4215.99
33 Igor Spasovkhodskiy Flag of Russia.svg  Russia A15.7915.5113.4115.79
34 Yevgeniy Petin Flag of Uzbekistan (3-2).svg  Uzbekistan AX15.27X15.27
35 Armen Martirosyan Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia B14.9514.95
36 Colomba Fofana Flag of France.svg  France AX14.59X14.59
37 Konstadinos Zalaggitis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece AX14.15X14.15
38 Andrew Owusu Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana AX14.12X14.12
Raúl Chapado Flag of Spain.svg  Spain AXXXNo mark
Stamatios Lenis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece BXXXNo mark

Final

Jonathan Edwards celebrating his win Jonathan Edwards olympics 2000.jpg
Jonathan Edwards celebrating his win
RankAthleteNation123456DistanceNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Jonathan Edwards Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 17.1217.3717.7117.06X17.71SB
Silver medal icon.svg Yoel García Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 17.1517.1917.19X16.7017.4717.47SB
Bronze medal icon.svg Denis Kapustin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia X17.4616.7317.17X17.1617.46SB
4 Yoelbi Quesada Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 17.19XXXX17.3717.37SB
5 Larry Achike Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 17.29XXX17.00X17.29
6 Phillips Idowu Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 16.97X16.8317.08XX17.08SB
7 Robert Howard Flag of the United States.svg  United States X17.0516.59X16.7516.7717.05
8 Allan Mortimer Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas 16.9616.60X16.3916.95X16.96
9 Rostislav Dimitrov Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 16.9516.72XDid not advance16.95
10 Andrew Murphy Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 16.7416.7016.80Did not advance16.80
11 Walter Davis Flag of the United States.svg  United States 15.5916.2216.61Did not advance16.61
Charles Friedek Flag of Germany.svg  Germany XXXDid not advanceNo mark

References

  1. 1 2 "Triple Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  2. http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/images/stories/tfn_pdfs/ogqualifying_standards.pdf%5B%5D
  3. "Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Triple Jump". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2017.