Triple jump at the Olympics

Triple jump
at the Olympic Games

Willie Banks in the 1988 Olympic triple jump competition
Overview
Sport Athletics
Gender Men and women
Years held Men: 18962012
Women: 19962012
Olympic record
Men 18.09 m Kenny Harrison (1996)
Women 15.39 m Françoise Mbango Etone (2008)
Reigning champion
Men  Christian Taylor (USA)
Women  Olga Rypakova (KAZ)

The triple jump at the Summer Olympics is grouped among the four track and field jumping events held at the multi-sport event. The men's triple jump has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's triple jump is one of the more recent additions to the programme, having been first contested in 1996. It became the third Olympic jumping event for women after the high jump and long jump.

The Olympic records for the event are 18.09 m (59 ft 4 in) for men, set by Kenny Harrison in 1996, and 15.39 m (50 ft 534 in) for women, set by Françoise Mbango Etone in 2008. The men's triple jump world record was broken at the competition in 1924, 1932, 1936, 1956 and 1968. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, three men improved the record a total of five times at the high altitude of Mexico City.[1] The women's world record has never been broken at the Olympics and the current mark of 15.50 m (50 ft 10 in), set in 1995, pre-dates the first Olympic event.[2]

James Brendan Connolly was the first Olympic triple jump champion and, as it was the first event to conclude in 1896, he was also the first Olympic champion of the modern era.[3] Inessa Kravets, the world record holder, became the first women's champion 100 years later. American Christian Taylor and Kazakhstan's Olga Rypakova are the reigning Olympic champions from 2012.

Viktor Saneyev is the event's most successful athlete as he was Olympic champion three times consecutively from 1968 to 1976, as well as runner-up in 1980. Françoise Mbango Etone is the only woman to win two Olympic triple jump titles. Saneyev, Vilho Tuulos and Tatyana Lebedeva are the only three athletes to have won more than two Olympic medals in the event. The United States is the most successful nation in the event, with seven gold medals to its name. The Soviet Union is the next most successful, with four golds.

A short-lived standing triple jump variant of the event was contested in 1900 and 1904 and standing jumps specialist Ray Ewry won both gold medals.

Medalists

Men

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Athens
 James Connolly (USA)  Alexandre Tuffèri (FRA)  Ioannis Persakis (GRE)
1900 Paris
 Myer Prinstein (USA)  James Connolly (USA)  Lewis Sheldon (USA)
1904 St. Louis
 Myer Prinstein (USA)  Fred Englehardt (USA)  Robert Stangland (USA)
1908 London
 Tim Ahearne (GBR)  Garfield MacDonald (CAN)  Edvard Larsen (NOR)
1912 Stockholm
 Gustaf Lindblom (SWE)  Georg Åberg (SWE)  Erik Almlöf (SWE)
1920 Antwerp
 Vilho Tuulos (FIN)  Folke Jansson (SWE)  Erik Almlöf (SWE)
1924 Paris
 Nick Winter (AUS)  Luis Brunetto (ARG)  Vilho Tuulos (FIN)
1928 Amsterdam
 Mikio Oda (JPN)  Levi Casey (USA)  Vilho Tuulos (FIN)
1932 Los Angeles
 Chuhei Nambu (JPN)  Erik Svensson (SWE)  Kenkichi Oshima (JPN)
1936 Berlin
 Naoto Tajima (JPN)  Masao Harada (JPN)  Jack Metcalfe (AUS)
1948 London
 Arne Åhman (SWE)  George Avery (AUS)  Ruhi Sarialp (TUR)
1952 Helsinki
 Adhemar da Silva (BRA)  Leonid Shcherbakov (URS)  Arnoldo Devonish (VEN)
1956 Melbourne
 Adhemar da Silva (BRA)  Vilhjálmur Einarsson (ISL)  Vitold Kreyer (URS)
1960 Rome
 Józef Szmidt (POL)  Vladimir Goryaev (URS)  Vitold Kreyer (URS)
1964 Tokyo
 Józef Szmidt (POL)  Oleg Fyodoseyev (URS)  Viktor Kravchenko (URS)
1968 Mexico City
 Viktor Saneyev (URS)  Nelson Prudencio (BRA)  Giuseppe Gentile (ITA)
1972 Munich
 Viktor Saneyev (URS)  Jörg Drehmel (GDR)  Nelson Prudencio (BRA)
1976 Montreal
 Viktor Saneyev (URS)  James Butts (USA)  João Carlos de Oliveira (BRA)
1980 Moscow
 Jaak Uudmäe (URS)  Viktor Saneyev (URS)  João Carlos de Oliveira (BRA)
1984 Los Angeles
 Al Joyner (USA)  Mike Conley, Sr. (USA)  Keith Connor (GBR)
1988 Seoul
 Khristo Markov (BUL)  Igor Lapshin (URS)  Aleksandr Kovalenko (URS)
1992 Barcelona
 Mike Conley, Sr. (USA)  Charles Simpkins (USA)  Frank Rutherford (BAH)
1996 Atlanta
 Kenny Harrison (USA)  Jonathan Edwards (GBR)  Yoelbi Quesada (CUB)
2000 Sydney
 Jonathan Edwards (GBR)  Yoel García (CUB)  Denis Kapustin (RUS)
2004 Athens
 Christian Olsson (SWE)  Marian Oprea (ROU)  Danil Burkenya (RUS)
2008 Beijing
 Nelson Évora (POR)  Phillips Idowu (GBR)  Leevan Sands (BAH)
2012 London
 Christian Taylor (USA)  Will Claye (USA)  Fabrizio Donato (ITA)

Multiple medalists

Rank Athlete Nation Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Saneyev, ViktorViktor Saneyev  Soviet Union (URS) 1968–1980 3 1 0 4
2= Prinstein, MyerMyer Prinstein  United States (USA) 1900–1904 2 0 0 2
2= da Silva, AdhemarAdhemar da Silva  Brazil (BRA) 1952–1956 2 0 0 2
2= Szmidt, JózefJózef Szmidt  Poland (POL) 1960–1964 2 0 0 2
5= Connolly, James BrendanJames Brendan Connolly  United States (USA) 1896–1900 1 1 0 2
5= Edwards, JonathanJonathan Edwards  Great Britain (GBR) 1996–2000 1 1 0 2
5= Conley, Sr., MikeMike Conley, Sr.  United States (USA) 1984–1992 1 1 0 2
8 Tuulos, VilhoVilho Tuulos  Finland (FIN) 1920–1928 1 0 2 3
9 Prudencio, NelsonNelson Prudencio  Brazil (BRA) 1968–1972 0 1 1 2
10= Almlöf, ErikErik Almlöf  Sweden (SWE) 1912–1920 0 0 2 2
10= Kreyer, VitoldVitold Kreyer  Soviet Union (URS) 1956–1960 0 0 2 2
10= de Oliveira, João CarlosJoão Carlos de Oliveira  Brazil (BRA) 1976–1980 0 0 2 2

Medalists by country

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States (USA) 7 7 2 16
2  Soviet Union (URS) 4 5 4 13
3  Sweden (SWE) 3 3 2 8
4  Japan (JPN) 3 1 1 5
5  Great Britain (GBR) 2 2 1 5
6  Brazil (BRA) 2 1 3 6
7  Poland (POL) 2 0 0 2
8  Australia (AUS) 1 1 1 3
9  Finland (FIN) 1 0 2 3
10=  Bulgaria (BUL) 1 0 0 1
10=  Portugal (POR) 1 0 0 1
12  Cuba (CUB) 0 1 1 2
13=  Argentina (ARG) 0 1 0 1
13=  Canada (CAN) 0 1 0 1
13=  East Germany (GDR) 0 1 0 1
13=  France (FRA) 0 1 0 1
13=  Iceland (ISL) 0 1 0 1
13=  Romania (ROU) 0 1 0 1
19=  Bahamas (BAH) 0 0 2 2
19=  Italy (ITA) 0 0 2 2
19=  Russia (RUS) 0 0 2 2
22=  Greece (GRE) 0 0 1 1
22=  Norway (NOR) 0 0 1 1
22=  Turkey (TUR) 0 0 1 1
22=  Venezuela (VEN) 0 0 1 1

Women

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1996 Atlanta
 Inessa Kravets (UKR)  Inna Lasovskaya (RUS)  Šárka Kašpárková (CZE)
2000 Sydney
 Tereza Marinova (BUL)  Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS)  Olena Hovorova (UKR)
2004 Athens
 Françoise Mbango Etone (CMR)  Hrysopiyí Devetzí (GRE)  Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS)
2008 Beijing
 Françoise Mbango Etone (CMR)  Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS)  Hrysopiyí Devetzí (GRE)
2012 London
 Olga Rypakova (KAZ)  Caterine Ibargüen (COL)  Olha Saladukha (UKR)

Multiple medalists

Rank Athlete Nation Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Mbango Etone, FrançoiseFrançoise Mbango Etone  Cameroon (CMR) 2004–2008 2 0 0 2
2 Lebedeva, TatyanaTatyana Lebedeva  Russia (RUS) 2000–2008 0 2 1 3
3 Devetzí, HrysopiyíHrysopiyí Devetzí  Greece (GRE) 2004–2008 0 1 1 2

Medalists by country

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Cameroon (CMR) 2 0 0 2
2  Ukraine (UKR) 1 0 2 3
3=  Bulgaria (BUL) 1 0 0 1
3=  Kazakhstan (KAZ) 1 0 0 1
5  Russia (RUS) 0 3 1 4
6  Greece (GRE) 0 1 1 2
7  Colombia (COL) 0 1 0 1
8  Czech Republic (CZE) 0 0 1 1

Standing triple jump

Standing triple jump
at the Olympic Games

Ray Ewry at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Overview
Sport Athletics
Gender Men
Years held Men: 19001904
Olympic record
Men 10.58 m Ray Ewry (1900)

In 1900 and 1904 a variation of the event was contested at the Olympics where athletes had to triple jump from a standing position. This was one of three standing jumps to have featured on the Olympic programme, alongside the standing high jump and the standing long jump (both running from 1900 to 1912).[4]

The standing jump competitions were dominated by Ray Ewry, who won the 1900 Olympic standing triple jump title and defended it four years later. His clearance of 10.58 m (34 ft 812 in) to win the inaugural competition went unbettered as the Olympic record for the event. Ewry took Olympic three gold medals in standing jumps in both 1900 and 1904, then won the standing high and long jumps at the 1908 Olympics, as well as the 1906 Intercalated Games.[5]

Standing jump events had been a relatively common type of athletics event at the end of the 19th century, but became increasingly rare at top level national and international competitions as the 20th century progressed.[5] The standing triple jump was the least common of the standing jumps and the Olympics remains the only major international competition to have featured the event.

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1900 Paris
 Ray Ewry (USA)  Irving Baxter (USA)  Robert Garrett (USA)
1904 St. Louis
 Ray Ewry (USA)  Charles King (USA)  Joseph Stadler (USA)

References

Participation and athlete data
Olympic record progressions
Specific
  1. Athletics at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Men's Triple Jump. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-11.
  2. 12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook Berlin 2009 (pgs. 546, 556, 646). IAAF (2009). Retrieved on 2014-05-03.
  3. James B. Connolly. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-11.
  4. Athletics Men's Standing Triple Jump Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-07.
  5. 1 2 Ray Ewry. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-05-07.

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