Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump

The men's triple jump competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–22 August.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Forty-seven athletes from 35 nations competed.<ref name=Olympedia/> The event was won by Christian Olsson of Sweden, the nation's first victory in the event since 1948 and third overall. Marian Oprea won Romania's first men's triple jump medal with his silver. Russia earned bronze for the second consecutive Games, this time with Danil Burkenya taking the medal.

Background

This was the 25th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 2000 Games were fourth-place finisher Yoelbi Quesada of Cuba, sixth-place finisher Phillips Idowu of Great Britain, tenth-place finisher Andrew Murphy of Australia, eleventh-place finisher Walter Davis of the United States, and twelfth-place finisher Charles Friedek of Germany. Christian Olsson of Sweden was the reigning (2003) world champion and had also finished second in 2001; he was the favorite.<ref name=Olympedia>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Belarus, Burkina Faso, Estonia, Grenada, Moldova, Qatar, Slovenia, Syria, and Trinidad and Tobago each made their first appearance in the event. The United States competed for the 24th time, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

The qualification period for Athletics was 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For the men's triple jump, each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had jumped 16.95 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 16.55 metres or further could be entered.<ref name=QualStandards>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete jumped three times (stopping early if they made the qualifying distance). At least the top twelve athletes moved on to the final; if more than twelve reached the qualifying distance, all who did so advanced. Distances were reset for the final round. Finalists jumped three times, after which the eight best jumped three more times (with the best distance of the six jumps counted).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Records

Template:As of, the existing world record, Olympic record, and world leading jump were as follows:

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition. The following national records were set during the competition:

Nation	Athlete	Round	Distance
Template:FlagIOC	Christian Olsson	Final	17.79

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
Friday, 20 August 2004	09:55	Qualifying
Sunday, 22 August 2004	20:10	Final

Results

Qualifying

Rule: Qualifying standard 17.00 (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nation	1	2	3	Distance	Notes
1	A	Christian Olsson	Template:FlagIOC	17.68	—	—	17.68	Template:Abbr
2	B	Yoandri Betanzos	Template:FlagIOC	17.53	—	—	17.53	Template:Abbr, Template:Abbr
3	B	Marian Oprea	Template:FlagIOC	17.44	—	—	17.44	Template:Abbr
4	A	Phillips Idowu	Template:FlagIOC	17.33	—	—	17.33	Template:Abbr
5	B	Jadel Gregório	Template:FlagIOC	17.20	—	—	17.20	Template:Abbr
6	B	Viktor Gushchinskiy	Template:FlagIOC	16.71	—	17.17	17.17	Template:Abbr
7	A	Danil Burkenya	Template:FlagIOC	16.77	16.91	17.08	17.08	Template:Abbr
8	A	Hristos Meletoglou	Template:FlagIOC	16.75	16.50	17.06	17.06	Template:Abbr, Template:Abbr
9	A	Yoelbi Quesada	Template:FlagIOC	16.89	X	17.01	17.01	Template:Abbr
10	B	Kenta Bell	Template:FlagIOC	16.77	16.82	16.98	16.98	Template:Abbr
11	A	Walter Davis	Template:FlagIOC	16.28	14.77	16.94	16.94	Template:Abbr
12	A	Julien Kapek	Template:FlagIOC	16.67	X	16.91	16.91	Template:Abbr
13	B	Nathan Douglas	Template:FlagIOC	16.84	X	X	16.84
14	A	Andrew Murphy	Template:FlagIOC	16.59	16.82	X	16.82
15	B	Li Yanxi	Template:FlagIOC	X	16.70	16.74	16.74
16	A	Ibrahim Mohamdein Aboubaker	Template:FlagIOC	15.98	16.37	16.71	16.71
17	B	Arnie David Giralt	Template:FlagIOC	X	16.63	16.70	16.70
18	B	Melvin Lister	Template:FlagIOC	16.62	X	16.64	16.64
19	A	Andrew Owusu	Template:FlagIOC	15.85	X	16.64	16.64	Template:Abbr
20	A	Mykola Savolaynen	Template:FlagIOC	16.56	16.48	15.57	16.56
21	B	Fabrizio Donato	Template:FlagIOC	16.16	16.45	16.34	16.45
22	B	Momchil Karailiev	Template:FlagIOC	X	16.45	X	16.45
23	B	Viktor Yastrebov	Template:FlagIOC	16.43	16.32	X	16.43
24	A	Ivaylo Rusenov	Template:FlagIOC	16.39	X	X	16.39
25	B	Mohammad Hazzory	Template:FlagIOC	16.37	X	16.14	16.37
26	A	Péter Tölgyesi	Template:FlagIOC	16.33	15.74	16.36	16.36
27	A	Leevan Sands	Template:FlagIOC	X	X	16.35	16.35
28	A	Randy Lewis	Template:FlagIOC	X	X	16.33	16.33
29	B	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena	Template:FlagIOC	16.23	16.32	X	16.32
30	B	Dmitrij Vaľukevič	Template:FlagIOC	X	X	16.32	16.32
31	B	Andreas Pohle	Template:FlagIOC	X	16.29	16.23	16.29
32	B	Vladimir Letnicov	Template:FlagIOC	X	15.88	16.25	16.25
33	B	Lauri Leis	Template:FlagIOC	X	16.06	16.18	16.18
34	A	Aliaksandar Hlavatski	Template:FlagIOC	16.18	15.73	X	16.18
35	B	Salem Mouled Al-Ahmadi	Template:FlagIOC	16.16	16.03	X	16.16
36	A	LeJuan Simon	Template:FlagIOC	X	14.75	16.16	16.16
37	B	Boštjan Šimunič	Template:FlagIOC	X	X	16.07	16.07
38	B	Takanori Sugibayashi	Template:FlagIOC	15.38	15.67	15.95	15.95
39	B	Park Hyung-jun	Template:FlagIOC	X	15.84	X	15.84
40	B	Nelson Évora	Template:FlagIOC	15.72	15.84	X	15.72
41	A	Olivier Sanou	Template:FlagIOC	X	15.67	X	15.67
42	B	Karl Taillepierre	Template:FlagIOC	15.50	X	X	15.50
43	A	Armen Martirosyan	Template:FlagIOC	15.05	X	X	15.05
—	A	Charles Friedek	Template:FlagIOC	X	—	—	No mark
	A	Vitaliy Moskalenko	Template:FlagIOC	X	X	X	No mark
	A	Berk Tuna	Template:FlagIOC	X	X	—	No mark
	A	Roman Valiyev	Template:FlagIOC	X	X	X	No mark
—	A	Sergey Bochkov	Template:FlagIOC	Template:Abbr

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	1	2	3	4	5	6	Distance	Notes
Template:Gold01	Christian Olsson	Template:FlagIOC	17.69	17.79	17.69	16.82	17.58	—	17.79	NR
Template:Silver02	Marian Oprea	Template:FlagIOC	17.55	X	17.47	17.34	—	17.38	17.55	Template:Abbr
Template:Bronze03	Danil Burkenya	Template:FlagIOC	16.99	16.68	16.16	17.45	17.48	17.47	17.48
4	Yoandri Betanzos	Template:FlagIOC	X	17.47	X	X	17.24	X	17.47
5	Jadel Gregório	Template:FlagIOC	17.22	17.27	15.97	X	16.82	17.31	17.31
6	Hristos Meletoglou	Template:FlagIOC	17.13	X	17.10	17.05	16.65	17.06	17.13	Template:Abbr
7	Viktor Gushchinskiy	Template:FlagIOC	X	X	17.11	16.27	16.95	X	17.11
8	Yoelbi Quesada	Template:FlagIOC	16.93	X	16.96	X	X	—	16.96
9	Kenta Bell	Template:FlagIOC	16.90	X	16.39	Did not advance			16.90
10	Julien Kapek	Template:FlagIOC	X	16.79	16.81	Did not advance			16.81
11	Walter Davis	Template:FlagIOC	16.78	16.65	16.59	Did not advance			16.78
—	Phillips Idowu	Template:FlagIOC	X	X	X	Did not advance			No mark

External links

• Official Olympic Report

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