1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's triple jump

These are the official results of the Men's triple jump event at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. There were a total number of 32 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday August 23, 1998. The top twelve and ties, and all those reaching 16.90 metres advanced to the final. The qualification round was held in Saturday August 22, 1998.

Medalists edit

Gold   Jonathan Edwards
Great Britain (GBR)
Silver   Denis Kapustin
Russia (RUS)
Bronze   Rostislav Dimitrov
Bulgaria (BUL)

Abbreviations edit

  • All results shown are in metres
Q automatic qualification
q qualification by rank
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records edit

Standing records prior to the 1998 European Athletics Championships
World Record   Jonathan Edwards (GBR) 18.29 m August 7, 1995   Gothenburg, Sweden
Event Record   Leonid Voloshin (URS) 17.74 m August 31, 1990   Split, Yugoslavia
Broken records during the 1998 European Athletics Championships
Event Record   Jonathan Edwards (GBR) 17.99 m August 23, 1998   Budapest, Hungary

Qualification edit

Group A edit

Rank Overall Athlete Attempts Result Note
1 2 3
1 1   Aleksandr Glavatskiy (BLR) 17.10 m
2 3   Jonathan Edwards (GBR) 16.97 m
3 5   Vasiliy Sokov (RUS) 16.82 m
4 8   Zoran Đurđević (SCG) 16.69 m
5 9   Zsolt Czingler (HUN) 16.69 m
6 11   Hrvoje Verzi (GER) 16.54 m
7 12   Johan Meriluoto (FIN) 16.50 m
8 13   Raúl Chapado (ESP) 16.49 m
9 14   Audrius Raizgys (LTU) 16.39 m
10 15   Yuriy Osipenko (UKR) 16.34 m
11 18   Avi Tayari (ISR) 16.26 m
12 23   Igor Gavrilenko (RUS) 16.12 m
13 24   Hristos Meletoglou (GRE) 16.10 m
14 25   Csaba Boros (ROM) 15.91 m
15 27   Nikolay Raev (BUL) 15.54 m
  Eduardo Pérez (ESP) X X X NM

Group B edit

Rank Overall Athlete Attempts Result Note
1 2 3
1 1   Charles Friedek (GER) 17.10 m
2 4   Rogel Nachum (ISR) 16.87 m
3 6   Denis Kapustin (RUS) 16.79 m
4 7   Rostislav Dimitrov (BUL) 16.78 m
5 10   Ketill Hanstveit (NOR) 16.55 m
6 16   Armen Martirosyan (ARM) 16.33 m
7 17   Julian Golley (GBR) 16.32 m
8 19   Paolo Camossi (ITA) 16.24 m
9 20   Colomba Fofana (FRA) 16.16 m
10 21   Larry Achike (GBR) 16.13 m
11 22   Jiří Kuntoš (CZE) 16.13 m
12 26   Vitaliy Kolpakov (UKR) 15.69 m
13 28   Stamatios Lenis (GRE) 15.42 m
14 29   Alen Topolovcan (SLO) 14.65 m
  Galin Georgiev (BUL) X X X NM
  Yago Lamela (ESP) DNS

Final edit

Rank Athlete Attempts Result Note
1 2 3 4 5 6
    Jonathan Edwards (GBR) 17.84 17.53 17.99 17.99 m CR
    Denis Kapustin (RUS) 17.13 17.22 17.45 16.90 X 17.45 m
    Rostislav Dimitrov (BUL) 17.26 X X X X X 17.26 m
4   Aliaksandar Hlavatski (BLR) 16.56 17.22 16.93 X 16.77 X 17.22 m
5   Vasiliy Sokov (RUS) X 17.16 16.48 16.77 X 16.15 17.16 m
6   Charles Friedek (GER) X 16.94 16.92 X 17.04 16.98 17.04 m
7   Zsolt Czingler (HUN) 16.45 16.20 17.03 X 16.75 X 17.03 m
8   Rogel Nachum (ISR) 16.99 X 16.74 X 16.62 X 16.99 m
9   Johan Meriluoto (FIN) 16.73 16.84 15.58 16.84 m
10   Zoran Đurđević (SCG) 16.83 16.66 16.48 16.83 m
11   Hrvoje Verzi (GER) X 16.62 16.67 16.67 m
12   Ketill Hanstveit (NOR) 16.43 16.53 16.58 16.58 m

See also edit

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