Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump

Men's triple jump at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Date	August 2
Medalists
Mikio Oda   Japan   Levi Casey   United States   Vilho Tuulos   Finland

Official Video

Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's triple jump event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place on August 2.

Results

Qualifying round

The six best scores advanced to the Final Round.

Qualifying Round

Rank	Athlete	Country	Distance
1	Mikio Oda	Japan	15.21
2	Chuhei Nanbu	Japan	15.01
3	Levi Casey	United States	14.93
4	Ville Tuulos	Finland	14.73
5	Toimi Tulikoura	Finland	14.70
6	Erkki Järvinen	Finland	14.65
7	Wim Peters	Netherlands	14.55
8	Väinö Rainio	Finland	14.41
9	Sid Bowman	United States	14.35
9	Jan Blankers	Netherlands	14.35
11	Lloyd Bourgeois	United States	14.28
12	Nick Winter	Australia	14.15
13	Gijs Lamoree	Netherlands	14.08
14	Imre Fekete	Hungary	14.07
15	Steef van Musscher	Netherlands	13.93
16	Alex Munroe	Canada	13.87
17	Konstantinos Petridis	Greece	13.83
18	Hermann Brügmann	Denmark	13.82
19	Theo Phelan	Ireland	13.73
20	Bob Kelley	United States	13.64
21	Arild Lenth	Norway	13.39
22	Ferenc Molnár	Hungary	13.36
23	Wilfred Kalaugher	New Zealand	12.94
24	Johannes Viljoen	South Africa	12.49

Final

Rank	Name	Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Mikio Oda	Japan	x	15.21	14.30	15.21	x	15.21	15.21
	Levi Casey	United States	x	14.93	x	14.93	15.17	15.17	15.17
	Vilho Tuulos	Finland	14.97	14.97	15.09	15.09	15.11	15.11	15.11
4	Chuhei Nanbu	Japan	x	15.01	14.21	15.01	15.00	15.01	15.01
5	Toimi Tulikoura	Finland	14.34	14.70	x	14.70	14.62	14.70	14.70
6	Erkki Järvinen	Finland	14.06	14.65	x	14.65	x	14.65	14.65

Key: x = Foul

References

• 1928 Summer Olympics results: Men's triple jump, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-03-07.