2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump

American Christian Taylor beat the defending champion Phillips Idowu.

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Events at the 2011 World Championships
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		women
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

The Men's triple jump event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on September 2 and 4.

Seven made the automatic qualifying mark. The eventual winner was not one of them, barely qualifying with the 9th best mark.

Favorite Phillips Idowu led through the first three rounds as Will Claye failed to make a legal jump through the first two rounds, waited until his third jump to jump 17.50, to not only qualify for his final three jumps but to move into second place. In the fourth round, unheralded American collegian Christian Taylor popped 17.96, the number ten all time jump to blast into the lead. Idowu jumped 17.77 in his fourth attempt but was unable to improve upon that.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Christian Taylor  United States (USA)	Phillips Idowu  Great Britain	Will Claye  United States (USA)

Records

Prior to the competition, the established records were as follows.

World record	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	18.29	Gothenburg, Sweden	7 August 1995
Championship record	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	18.29	Gothenburg, Sweden	7 August 1995
World leading	Teddy Tamgho (FRA)	17.91	Lausanne, Switzerland	30 June 2011
African record	Tarik Bouguetaïb (MAR)	17.37	Khemisset, Morocco	14 July 2007
Asian record	Li Yanxi (CHN)	17.59	Jinan, China	26 October 2009
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Kenny Harrison (USA)	18.09	Atlanta, United States	27 July 1996
South American record	Jadel Gregório (BRA)	17.90	Belém, Brazil	20 May 2007
European record	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	18.29	Gothenburg, Sweden	7 August 1995
Oceanian record	Ken Lorraway (AUS)	17.46	London, United Kingdom	7 August 1982

Qualification standards

A standard	B standard
17.10	16.85

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
September 2, 2011	10:30	Qualification
September 4, 2011	19:05	Final

Results

Qualification

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

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	B	Alexis Copello	Cuba	17.06	17.31		17.31	Q
2	B	Nelson Évora	Portugal	17.05	17.20		17.20	Q
3	A	Will Claye	United States	x	17.19		17.19	Q
4	A	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	17.17			17.17	Q
5	B	Christian Olsson	Sweden	16.55	17.16		17.16	Q
6	A	Leevan Sands	Bahamas	17.13			17.13	Q, SB
7	A	Benjamin Compaoré	France	17.11			17.11	Q
8	B	Yoandri Betanzos	Cuba	17.01	13.66	-	17.01	q
9	A	Christian Taylor	United States	x	16.99	16.81	16.99	q
10	B	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	16.55	16.70	16.88	16.88	q
11	B	Henry Frayne	Australia	16.54	16.83	16.64	16.83	q
12	A	Sheryf El-Sheryf	Ukraine	16.81	x	16.73	16.81	q
13	A	Arnie David Giralt	Cuba	16.74	16.68	16.17	16.74
14	A	Fabrizio Schembri	Italy	16.71	16.28	16.63	16.71
15	B	Marian Oprea	Romania	x	16.61	16.19	16.61
16	B	Tosin Oke	Nigeria	x	16.50	16.60	16.60
17	B	Jefferson Sabino	Brazil	16.18	15.91	16.51	16.51
18	A	Aleksey Fyodorov	Russia	15.84	16.42	16.26	16.42
19	A	Samyr Laine	Haiti	16.38	15.83	16.30	16.38
20	A	Li Yanxi	China	15.68	16.28	15.42	16.28
21	B	Hugo Mamba-Schlick	Cameroon	15.66	15.93	16.15	16.15
22	B	Anders Møller	Denmark	16.14	14.07	x	16.14
23	B	Walter Davis	United States	15.28	13.90	16.12	16.12
24	A	Wilbert Walker	Jamaica	15.66	14.50	15.97	15.97
25	B	Yevhen Semenenko	Ukraine	x	15.72	15.96	15.96
26	B	Maximiliano Díaz	Argentina	15.91	15.65	x	15.91
99	A	Sief El Islem Temacini	Algeria	x	x	x	NM
99	A	Renjith Maheshwary	India	x	x	x	NM
99	A	Kim Deok-Hyeon	South Korea	x	x	x	NM
99	A	Tumelo Thagane	South Africa	x	x	x	NM
99	B	Yevgeniy Ektov	Kazakhstan	x	x	x	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Christian Taylor	United States	x	17.04	17.40	17.96	–	15.64	17.96	WL, PB
	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	17.56	17.38	17.70	17.77	17.48	17.49	17.77	SB
	Will Claye	United States	x	x	17.50	17.30	–	17.14	17.50	PB
4	Alexis Copello	Cuba	x	17.19	x	17.36	17.47	16.11	17.47
5	Nelson Évora	Portugal	17.35	16.80	16.63	16.18	16.57	16.95	17.35	SB
6	Christian Olsson	Sweden	17.23	16.80	17.22	16.75	–	–	17.23
7	Leevan Sands	Bahamas	16.81	x	17.07	17.12	17.21	16.59	17.21
8	Benjamin Compaoré	France	x	17.04	17.17	x	16.99	x	17.17
9	Henry Frayne	Australia	16.45	16.78	16.60				16.78
10	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	16.77	x	x				16.77
11	Yoandri Betanzos	Cuba	14.93	16.22	16.67				16.67
12	Sheryf El-Sheryf	Ukraine	16.29	x	16.38				16.38

References

External links

• Triple jump results at IAAF website