Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump

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Men's triple jump
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Triple Jump,Idowu Phillips, Beijing 08.jpg
Panorama of Phillips Idowu jumping
Venue Beijing Olympic Stadium
Dates18 August 2008 (qualifying)
21 August 2008 (final)
Competitors39 from 27 nations
Winning distance17.67
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Nelson Évora
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
Silver medal icon.svg Phillips Idowu
Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain
Bronze medal icon.svg Leevan Sands
Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas
  2004
2012  

The men's triple jump at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 18–21 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium. [1] Thirty-nine athletes from 26 nations competed. [2] The event was won by Nelson Évora of Portugal, the nation's first medal and victory in the men's triple jump. Leevan Sands's bronze medal was the Bahamas' second bronze in the event, with the previous one in 1992.

Background

This was the 26th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 2004 Games were silver medalist Marian Oprea of Romania, bronze medalist Danil Burkenya of Russia, fifth-place finisher Jadel Gregório of Brazil, ninth-place finisher Kenta Bell of the United States, and Phillips Idowu of Great Britain, who had not made a legal mark in the final but whose qualifying round score (if it could have been carried over) would have placed him fifth. Nelson Évora of Portugal, who had finished 40th in 2004, had become the best triple jumper in the world over the intervening four years, winning the 2007 world championship and coming into the Beijing Games as the favorite. [2]

Macedonia, Morocco, and Slovakia each made their first appearance in the event. The United States competed for the 25th time, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

The qualifying standards were 17.10 m (26.9 ft) (A standard) and 16.80 m (26.41 ft) (B standard). [3] Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to three entrants providing they had met the A qualifying standard in the qualifying period (1 January 2007 to 23 July 2008). NOCs were also permitted to enter one athlete providing he had met the B standard in the same qualifying period. [4] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress.

Competition format

The competition used the two-round format introduced in 1936. In the qualifying round, each jumper received three attempts to reach the qualifying distance of 17.10 metres; if fewer than 12 men did so, the top 12 (including all those tied) would advance. In the final round, each athlete had three jumps; the top eight received an additional three jumps, with the best of the six to count. [2] [5]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world record, Olympic record, and world leading jump were as follows:

World recordFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Jonathan Edwards  (GBR)18.29 Gothenburg, Sweden7 August 1995
Olympic recordFlag of the United States.svg  Kenny Harrison  (USA)18.09 Atlanta, United States27 August 1996
World LeadingFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Phillips Idowu  (GBR)17.75 (i) Valencia, Spain9 March 2008

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition. The following national records were set during the competition:

NationAthleteRoundDistance
Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas Leevan Sands Final17.59

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

DateTimeRound
Monday, 18 August 200810:00Qualifying
Thursday, 21 August 200820:25Final

Results

Qualifying

Qualifying Performance 17.10 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

RankGroupAthleteNation123DistanceNotes
1A Phillips Idowu Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 17.44
(+1.0)
17.44Q
2A Nelson Évora Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal X17.34
(+1.1)
17.34Q, SB
3B Li Yanxi Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 16.93
(+0.6)
16.83
(-0.5)
17.30
(+0.6)
17.30Q, PB
4A Arnie David Giralt Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 17.30
(+0.9)
17.30Q
5B Leevan Sands Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas 17.25
(+0.5)
17.25Q
6A Igor Spasovkhodskiy Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 16.79
(+1.8)
16.85
(+1.2)
17.23
(+0.4)
17.23Q
7B Onochie Achike Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain X17.18
(+1.1)
17.18Q
8A Marian Oprea Flag of Romania.svg  Romania X16.99
(-0.1)
17.17
(-0.7)
17.17Q
9A Jadel Gregório Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 17.15
(+0.4)
17.15Q
10B Héctor Dairo Fuentes Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 16.73
(+0.3)
16.42
(+0.8)
17.14
(+1.1)
17.14Q
11B Momchil Karailiev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 17.06
(+0.4)
17.12
(+0.6)
17.12Q
12A Viktor Kuznyetsov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 16.70
(+0.8)
17.11
(+0.1)
17.11Q
13A Alexis Copello Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 17.09
(+0.6)
16.92
(+0.1)
X17.09
14A Dmitrij Valukevic Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia X16.86
(+0.4)
17.08
(+0.5)
17.08
15B Randy Lewis Flag of Grenada.svg  Grenada X17.06
(+0.6)
X17.06
16B Mykola Savolaynen Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 17.00
(+0.9)
16.55
(+0.5)
16.29
(+0.5)
17.00SB
17B Aleksandr Petrenko Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 16.84
(+0.6)
16.97
(+1.1)
16.74
(+0.9)
16.97
18A Kim Deok-Hyeon Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea 16.68
(+0.4)
14.68
(+1.0)
16.88
(+0.4)
16.88
19A Rafeeq Curry Flag of the United States.svg  United States X16.23
(+1.7)
16.88
(+0.4)
16.88
20B Nathan Douglas Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 16.45
(+0.8)
16.68
(+1.2)
16.72
(+0.1)
16.72
21A Fabrizio Donato Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 16.10
(+0.4)
x16.70
(+0.1)
16.70
22B Danil Burkenya Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 16.44
(+0.5)
16.69
(+1.0)
15.65
(+0.5)
16.69
23B Dimitrios Tsiamis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 16.37
(+0.6)
16.65
(+1.0)
16.48
(+0.5)
16.65
24B Vladimir Letnicov Flag of Moldova (3-2).svg  Moldova 16.62
(+0.5)
XX16.62
25A Kenta Bell Flag of the United States.svg  United States 16.55
(+0.9)
X16.17
(0.0)
16.55
26B Viktor Yastrebov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine XX16.52
(+0.4)
16.52
27A Dzmitry Platnitski Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 16.51
(+0.1)
XX16.51
28A Jefferson Sabino Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 16.12
(+0.6)
16.45
(+1.0)
X16.45
29B Colomba Fofana Flag of France.svg  France 16.42
(+1.2)
15.47
(+0.6)
X16.42
30A Roman Valiyev Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan X16.20
(+0.6)
15.93
(+0.3)
16.20
31A Ibrahim Mohamdein Aboubaker Flag of Qatar (3-2).svg  Qatar 16.03
(+0.4)
16.02
(+1.4)
15.90
(+0.1)
16.03
32B Hugo Mamba-Schlick Flag of Cameroon.svg  Cameroon 16.01
(+0.3)
14.98
(+0.6)
X16.01
33B Aarik Wilson Flag of the United States.svg  United States X15.51
(+0.8)
15.97
(+0.9)
15.97
34B Gu Junjie Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 15.94
(+1.0)
15.87
(+0.8)
X15.94
35B Renjith Maheshwary Flag of India.svg  India 15.77
(+0.5)
X15.51
(0.5)
15.77
36A Zhong Minwei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 15.59
(+0.4)
X14.91
(0.8)
15.59
37A Redzep Selman Flag of Macedonia.svg  Macedonia 14.98
(+0.5)
15.29
(+1.6)
15.28
(+0.2)
15.29
B Ndiss Kaba Badji Flag of Senegal.svg  Senegal XXNo mark
B Tarik Bouguetaïb Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco XXXNo mark

Final

RankAthleteNation123456DistanceNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Nelson Évora Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 17.3117.56X17.6717.2416.5217.67SB
Silver medal icon.svg Phillips Idowu Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 17.5117.3117.62X17.2616.4117.62SB
Bronze medal icon.svg Leevan Sands Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas 16.9116.5517.5917.2617.32X17.59NR
4 Arnie David Giralt Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 17.2717.5217.2417.48X17.0817.52PB
5 Marian Oprea Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 17.22XXXX16.6917.22
6 Jadel Gregório Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 17.1416.5513.7916.8316.7817.2017.20
7 Onochie Achike Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 16.74X17.17X17.04X17.17
8 Viktor Kuznyetsov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 16.7116.87X16.8116.48X16.87
9 Igor Spasovkhodskiy Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 16.7916.3715.63Did not advance16.79
10 Yanxi Li Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 15.9316.3516.77Did not advance16.77
11 Momchil Karailiev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 16.4816.3916.38Did not advance16.48
12 Héctor Dairo Fuentes Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 15.92X16.28Did not advance16.28

References

  1. "Olympic Athletics Competition Schedule". IAAF. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
  2. 1 2 3 "Triple Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  3. "Entry Standards - The XXIX Olympic Games - Beijing, China - 8/24 August 2008". IAAF. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
  4. "Entry Standards - The XXIX Olympic Games - Beijing, China - 8/24 August 2008". IAAF. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
  5. Official Report, Results Book for Athletics.