1995 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump

These are the official results of the Men's Triple Jump event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 44 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Monday August 7, 1995.

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Almost three weeks before this championship, Jonathan Edwards had just marginally improved upon Willie Banks' ten year old world record (17.97m), by jumping 17.98m in Salamanca. In the preliminary round he was not even the #1 qualifier, edged out by Jérôme Romain. On his first trip down the runway in the final, Edwards became the first athlete in the world to jump further than 18 metres without wind assistance, registering a world record jump of 18.16 m. In his second jump, he jumped even further, setting a new world record of 18.29 m (60 ft 0 in), the first jump one 60 feet and a .31 m (1 ft 0 in) improvement over his previous world record. 67 cm further than silver medal winner Brian Wellman. It took more than 20 years for Christian Taylor to become the first man to jump beyond Edwards' first record.

Schedule edit

Qualification Round
Group A Group B
05.08.1995 – 09:50h 05.08.1995 – 09:50h
Final Round
07.08.1995 – 17:20h

Results edit

Qualifying round edit

  • Held on Saturday 1995-08-05
    Qualifying standard: 17.10 metres
RANK GROUP A DISTANCE
1.   Jonathan Edwards (GBR) 17.46 m
2.   Yoelbi Quesada (CUB) 17.26 m
3.   Māris Bružiks (LAT) 16.95 m
4.   Rogel Nachum (ISR) 16.71 m
5.   Armen Martirosyan (ARM) 16.60 m
6.   Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa (ZIM) 16.53 m
7.   Georges Sainte-Rose (FRA) 16.52 m
8.   Audrius Raizgys (LTU) 16.40 m
9.   Andrew Murphy (AUS) 16.37 m
10.   Denis Kapustin (RUS) 16.32 m
11.   Mohamed Karim Sassi (TUN) 16.26 m
12.   Arne Holm (SWE) 15.94 m
13.   Aleksey Fatyanov (AZE) 15.77 m
14.   Paul Nioze (SEY) 15.71 m
15.   Festus Igbinoghene (NGR) 15.68 m
16.   Edward Manderson (CAY) 15.50 m
17.   Xavier Montané (AND) 15.04 m
18.   Leonard Cobb (USA) 14.90 m
  Oleg Sakirkin (KAZ) NM
  Jacek Butkiewicz (POL)
  Anísio Silva (BRA)
  Salem Mouled Al-Ahmadi (KSA)


RANK GROUP B DISTANCE
1.   Jérôme Romain (DMA) 17.48 m
2.   Brian Wellman (BER) 17.44 m
3.   Sergey Arzamasov (KAZ) 17.27 m
4.   Yoel García (CUB) 16.98 m
5.   Tord Henriksson (SWE) 16.94 m
6.   James Beckford (JAM) 16.92 m
7.   Mike Conley (USA) 16.80 m
8.   Galin Georgiev (BUL) 16.80 m
9.   Francis Agyepong (GBR) 16.58 m
10.   Jacob Katonon (KEN) 16.55 m
11.   LaMark Carter (USA) 16.51 m
12.   Lars Hedman (SWE) 16.43 m
13.   Frank Rutherford (BAH) 16.38 m
14.   Serge Helan (FRA) 15.91 m
15.   Julio López (ESP) 15.80 m
16.   Daniel Flores (HON) 14.92 m
  Kawan Lovelace (BIZ) NM
  Vasif Asadov (AZE)
  Zsolt Czingler (HUN)
  Marios Hadjiandreou (CYP)
  Zeng Lizhi (CHN)
  Francis Dodoo (GHA) DNS

Final edit

Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes
  Jonathan Edwards   Great Britain 18.16 18.29 17.49 18.29 WR
  Brian Wellman   Bermuda x x 17.31 17.62w x x 17.62w
  Jérôme Romain   Dominica 17.36 17.59w 17.25 17.18 x x 17.59w
4 Yoelbi Quesada   Cuba 17.19 x x x x 17.59w 17.59w
5 Yoel García   Cuba 16.90 17.16 x x x 17.16
6 James Beckford   Jamaica x 17.13w x 17.13w
7 Mike Conley   United States x 16.96w 16.77 x x 16.96w
8 Galin Georgiev   Bulgaria 16.93 x x 16.79 x x 16.93
9 Tord Henriksson   Sweden 16.88 16.92 16.87 16.92
10 Māris Bružiks   Latvia x 16.18 16.80 16.80
11 Rogel Nachum   Israel 16.34 16.69 x 16.69
12 Sergey Arzamasov   Kazakhstan 16.59 16.68 x 16.68

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