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

Men's triple jump at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Athens Olympic Stadium
Dates	August 20 to August 22
Competitors	47 from 35 nations
Medalists
Christian Olsson  Sweden   Marian Oprea  Romania   Danil Burkenya  Russia
«2000	2008»

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Men's Triple Jump event at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Athens Olympic Stadium.

The triple jump has been ever present since the beginning of the modern Olympic Games in 1896.

The top twelve athletes from the three jumps in qualifying progressed through to the final where the qualifying distances are scrapped and they start afresh with another three jumps. After these the top eight athletes carry their record forward and then have a further three attempts to decide the gold medalist.

Schedule

• All times are Eastern European Time (UTC+2)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
20.08.2004 – 09:55h	20.08.2004 – 09:55h
Final Round
22.08.2004 – 20:10h

Abbreviations

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
OR	Olympic record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 2004 Summer Olympics
World Record	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	18.29 m	August 7, 1995	Goteborg, Sweden
Olympic Record	Kenny Harrison (USA)	18.09 m	July 27, 1996	Atlanta, United States

Results

Qualifying round

To qualify automatically athletes needed to jump 17 metres. As only nine competitors achieved this the three jumpers with the longest jumps not over this mark also progressed through to the final on August 22. All distances shown are in metres.
Q denotes automatic qualification.
q denotes fastest losers.
DNS denotes did not start.
DNF denotes did not finish.
NR denotes national record.
PB denotes personal best.
SB denotes season best.

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	Mark	Notes
1	A	Christian Olsson	Sweden	17.68			17.68	Q
2	B	Yoandri Betanzos	Cuba	17.53			17.53	Q, PB
3	B	Marian Oprea	Romania	17.44			17.44	Q
4	A	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	17.33			17.33	Q
5	B	Jadel Gregório	Brazil	17.20			17.20	Q
6	B	Viktor Gushchinskiy	Russia	16.71	00.00 !x	17.17	17.17	Q
7	A	Danil Burkenya	Russia	16.77	16.91	17.08	17.08	Q
8	A	Hristos Meletoglou	Greece	16.75	16.50	17.06	17.06	Q, SB
9	A	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	16.89	00.00 !x	17.01	17.01	Q
10	B	Kenta Bell	United States	16.77	16.82	16.98	16.98	q
11	A	Walter Davis	United States	16.28	14.77	16.94	16.94	q
12	A	Julien Kapek	France	16.67	00.00 !x	16.91	16.91	q
13	B	Nathan Douglas	Great Britain	16.84	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	16.84
14	A	Andrew Murphy	Australia	16.59	16.82	00.00 !x	16.82
15	B	Li Yanxi	China	00.00 !x	16.70	16.74	16.74
16	A	Ibrahim Mohamdein Aboubaker	Qatar	15.98	16.37	16.71	16.71
17	B	Arnie David Giralt	Cuba	00.00 !x	16.63	16.70	16.70
18	B	Melvin Lister	United States	16.62	00.00 !x	16.64	16.64
19	A	Andrew Owusu	Ghana	15.85	00.00 !x	16.64	16.64	SB
20	A	Mykola Savolaynen	Ukraine	16.56	16.48	15.57	16.56
21	B	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	16.16	16.45	16.34	16.45
22	B	Momchil Karailiev	Bulgaria	00.00 !x	16.45	00.00 !x	16.45
23	B	Viktor Yastrebov	Ukraine	16.43	16.32	00.00 !x	16.43
24	A	Ivaylo Rusenov	Bulgaria	16.39	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	16.39
25	B	Mohammad Hazzory	Syria	16.37	00.00 !x	16.14	16.37
26	A	Péter Tölgyesi	Hungary	16.33	15.74	16.36	16.36
27	A	Leevan Sands	Bahamas	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	16.35	16.35
28	A	Randy Lewis	Grenada	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	16.33	16.33
29	B	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena	South Africa	16.23	16.32	00.00 !x	16.32
30	B	Dmitrij Vaľukevič	Belarus	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	16.32	16.32
31	B	Andreas Pohle	Germany	00.00 !x	16.29	16.23	16.29
32	B	Vladimir Letnicov	Moldova	00.00 !x	15.88	16.25	16.25
33	B	Lauri Leis	Estonia	00.00 !x	16.06	16.18	16.18
34	A	Aleksandr Glavatskiy	Belarus	16.18	15.73	00.00 !x	16.18
35	B	Salem Mouled Al-Ahmadi	Saudi Arabia	16.16	16.03	00.00 !x	16.16
36	A	LeJuan Simon	Trinidad and Tobago	00.00 !x	14.75	16.16	16.16
37	B	Boštjan Šimunič	Slovenia	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	16.07	16.07
38	B	Takanori Sugibayashi	Japan	15.38	15.67	15.95	15.95
39	B	Park Hyung-Jun	South Korea	00.00 !x	15.84	00.00 !x	15.84
40	B	Nelson Évora	Portugal	15.72	15.84	00.00 !x	15.72
41	A	Olivier Sanou	Burkina Faso	00.00 !x	15.67	00.00 !x	15.67
42	B	Karl Taillepierre	France	15.50	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	15.50
43	A	Armen Martirosyan	Armenia	15.05	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	15.05
99	A	Charles Friedek	Germany	00.00 !x	00.00 !—	00.00 !—	00.00 !NM
99	A	Vitaliy Moskalenko	Russia	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !NM
99	A	Berk Tuna	Turkey	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !—	00.00 !NM
99	A	Roman Valiyev	Kazakhstan	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !NM
99	A	Sergey Bochkov	Azerbaijan	00.00 !	00.00 !	00.00 !	00.00 !DNS

Final

August 22, 20:10

Rank	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
01 !	Christian Olsson	Sweden	17.69	17.79	17.69	16.82	17.58	00.00 !—	17.79	NR
02 !	Marian Oprea	Romania	17.55	00.00 !x	17.47	17.34	00.00 !—	17.38	17.55	SB
03 !	Danil Burkenya	Russia	16.99	16.68	16.16	17.45	17.48	17.47	17.48
04 !4	Yoandri Betanzos	Cuba	00.00 !x	17.47	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	17.24	00.00 !x	17.47
05 !5	Jadel Gregório	Brazil	17.22	17.27	15.97	00.00 !x	16.82	17.31	17.31
06 !6	Hristos Meletoglou	Greece	17.13	00.00 !x	17.10	17.05	16.65	17.06	17.13	SB
07 !7	Viktor Gushchinskiy	Russia	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	17.11	16.27	16.95	00.00 !x	17.11
08 !8	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	16.93	00.00 !x	16.96	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !—	16.96
09 !9	Kenta Bell	United States	16.90	00.00 !x	16.39				16.90
10	Julien Kapek	France	00.00 !x	16.79	16.81				16.81
11	Walter Davis	United States	16.78	16.65	16.59				16.78
99 !	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	00.00 !x				00.00 !NM

References

• Official Olympic Report
• 2004 Olympic Results
• sports-reference