Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump

Men's triple jump at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 6
Medalists
Józef Szmidt Poland   Vladimir Goryaev Soviet Union   Vitold Kreyer Soviet Union

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
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
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's triple jump field event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 6.

Results

All jumpers reaching 15.50 metres advanced to the finals. All distances are listed in metres.

Qualifying

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	Notes
1	Józef Szmidt	Poland	16.44	OR
2	Vladimir Goryaev	Soviet Union	16.21
3	Ryszard Malcherczyk	Poland	15.93
4	Ian Tomlinson	Australia	15.89
5	Manfred Hinze	Germany	15.86
6	Kari Rahkamo	Finland	15.85
7	Sten Erickson	Sweden	15.76
8	Vilhjálmur Einarsson	Iceland	15.74
9	Yevgeny Mikhaylov	Soviet Union	15.68
10	Pier Luigi Gatti	Italy	15.66
11	Fred Alsop	Great Britain	15.65
12	Ira Davis	United States	15.64
13	Adhemar da Silva	Brazil	15.61
14	John Baguley	Australia	15.56
15	Vitold Kreyer	Soviet Union	15.56
16	Enzo Cavalli	Italy	15.48
17	Bill Sharpe	United States	15.44
18	Tomio Ota	Japan	15.42
19	Dodyu Patarinski	Bulgaria	15.37
20	Jörg Wischmeyer	Germany	15.23
21	Eric Battista	France	15.22
22	Hannu Rantala	Finland	15.11
23	Karl Thierfelder	Germany	15.08
24	Jan Jaskólski	Poland	15.04
25	Hiroshi Shibata	Japan	14.93
26	Luis Felipe Areta	Spain	14.93
27	Frederico Bisson	Italy	14.76
28	Herman Stokes	United States	14.74
29	Samuel Igun	Nigeria	14.74
30	Rouhollah Rahmani	Iran	14.70
31	Koji Sakurai	Japan	14.59
32	A. Abdul Razzak	Iraq	14.56
33	Ramón López	Cuba	14.53
34	Muhammad Khan	Pakistan	14.43
35	Konstantinos Sfikas	Greece	14.32
36	Dave Norris	New Zealand	14.30
37	Pedro Camacho	Puerto Rico	14.21
38	Yıldıray Pağda	Turkey	14.11
39	Pierre William	France	13.29

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
	Józef Szmidt	Poland	16.81	16.78	x	16.81	x	16.63	13.48	OR
	Vladimir Goryaev	Soviet Union	16.63	16.11	16.39	15.55	16.63	16.28	x
	Vitold Kreyer	Soviet Union	16.43	16.21	16.00	15.96	16.01	15.91	16.43
4	Ira Davis	United States	16.41	x	16.41	x	16.13	x	16.05
5	Vilhjálmur Einarsson	Iceland	16.37	16.37	16.06	15.90	16.24	x	16.36
6	Ryszard Malcherczyk	Poland	16.01	15.87	16.01	15.83	15.82	13.18	14.66
7	Manfred Hinze	Germany	15.93	15.93	x	15.84
8	Kari Rahkamo	Finland	15.84	15.84	x	15.71
9	Ian Tomlinson	Australia	15.71	15.40	15.71	13.29
10	Yevgeny Mikhaylov	Soviet Union	15.67	15.50	15.67	14.83
11	Sten Erickson	Sweden	15.49	15.49	15.32	x
12	Fred Alsop	Great Britain	15.49	15.49	x	x
13	John Baguley	Australia	15.22	14.88	15.16	15.22
14	Adhemar da Silva	Brazil	15.07	x	14.87	15.07
-	Pier Luigi Gatti	Italy	-	x	x	x

Key: OR = Olympic record; X = foul

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's triple jump, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-12.