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

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.

Official Video
Men's triple jump
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Pictogram for athletics
VenueStadium Australia
Date23 September 2000 (qualifying)
25 September 2000 (final)
Competitors40 from 27 nations
Winning distance17.78
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jonathan Edwards
 Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yoel García
 Cuba
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Denis Kapustin
 Russia
← 1996
2004 →

Background

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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 2020) 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

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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

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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

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

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

Schedule

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

Date Time Round
Saturday, 23 September 2000 18:00 Qualifying
Monday, 25 September 2000 20:00 Final

Results

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All distances shown are in meters.

Qualifying

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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.

Rank Athlete Nation Group 1 2 3 Distance Notes
1 Onochie Achike   Great Britain A 16.71 17.30 17.30 Q, PB
2 Phillips Idowu   Great Britain B 17.12 17.12 Q, PB
Allan Mortimer   Bahamas B 17.12 17.12 Q, SB
4 Jonathan Edwards   Great Britain B 16.90 17.08 17.08 Q
5 Yoel García   Cuba B 17.08 17.08 Q
6 Denis Kapustin   Russia B 17.04 17.04 Q
7 Yoelbi Quesada   Cuba A X 17.03 17.03 Q, SB
8 Rostislav Dimitrov   Bulgaria A 17.00 17.00 Q
9 Charles Michael Friedek   Germany B 16.93 X X 16.93 q
Robert Howard   United States B X 16.93 X 16.93 q
11 Paolo Camossi   Italy A 15.30 16.87 16.80 16.87 q
12 Walter Davis   United States A 16.72 16.75 16.27 16.75 q
13 Ketill Hanstveit   Norway B 16.62 16.62 16.75 16.75
14 Ionut Punga   Romania B 16.72 14.74 16.45 16.72
15 Sergey Arzamasov   Kazakhstan B 16.70 16.40 16.42 16.70
16 Takanori Sugibayashi   Japan A 16.31 16.44 16.67 16.67
17 Christian Olsson   Sweden A 16.45 16.56 16.64 16.64
18 Zsolt Czingler   Hungary A 16.22 16.52 X 16.52
19 LaMark Carter   United States A X 16.16 16.47 16.47
20 Brian Wellman   Bermuda A 16.47 15.87 15.99 16.47
21 Lao Jianfeng   China B 16.43 16.04 X 16.43
22 Ivaylo Rusenov   Bulgaria B 16.24 16.40 X 16.40
23 Rogel Nachum   Israel B 16.38 16.39 16.38 16.39
24 Gennadiy Markov   Russia B 16.28 16.36 X 16.36
25 Fabrizio Donato   Italy B 16.34 15.75 X 16.34
26 Zoran Đurđević   FR Yugoslavia A X 16.31 X 16.31
27 Michael Calvo   Cuba B 16.30 16.04 16.15 16.30
28 Oleg Sakirkin   Kazakhstan A 16.20 15.61 16.09 16.20
29 Sergey Izmaylov   Ukraine B X 16.10 X 16.10
30 Sergey Bochkov   Azerbaijan B X 16.01 X 16.01
31 Hristos Meletoglou   Greece B X 16.00 X 16.00
32 Salem Mouled Al-Ahmadi   Saudi Arabia B 15.93 15.99 15.42 15.99
33 Igor Spasovkhodskiy   Russia A 15.79 15.51 13.41 15.79
34 Yevgeniy Petin   Uzbekistan A X 15.27 X 15.27
35 Armen Martirosyan   Armenia B 14.95 14.95
36 Colomba Fofana   France A X 14.59 X 14.59
37 Konstadinos Zalaggitis   Greece A X 14.15 X 14.15
38 Andrew Owusu   Ghana A X 14.12 X 14.12
Raúl Chapado   Spain A X X X No mark
Stamatios Lenis   Greece B X X X No mark

Final

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Jonathan Edwards celebrating his win
Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distance Notes
  Jonathan Edwards   Great Britain 17.12 17.37 17.71 17.06 X 17.71 SB
  Yoel García   Cuba 17.15 17.19 17.19 X 16.70 17.47 17.47 SB
  Denis Kapustin   Russia X 17.46 16.73 17.17 X 17.16 17.46 SB
4 Yoelbi Quesada   Cuba 17.19 X X X X 17.37 17.37 SB
5 Larry Achike   Great Britain 17.29 X X X 17.00 X 17.29
6 Phillips Idowu   Great Britain 16.97 X 16.83 17.08 X X 17.08 SB
7 Robert Howard   United States X 17.05 16.59 X 16.75 16.77 17.05
8 Allan Mortimer   Bahamas 16.96 16.60 X 16.39 16.95 X 16.96
9 Rostislav Dimitrov   Bulgaria 16.95 16.72 X Did not advance 16.95
10 Andrew Murphy   Australia 16.74 16.70 16.80 Did not advance 16.80
11 Walter Davis   United States 15.59 16.22 16.61 Did not advance 16.61
Charles Friedek   Germany X X X Did not advance No mark

References

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  1. ^ a b "Triple Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  2. ^ http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/images/stories/tfn_pdfs/ogqualifying_standards.pdf[permanent dead link]
  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.
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