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

Men's triple jump; at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	20–22 August
Competitors	47 from 35 nations
Winning distance	17.79 NR
Medalists

The men's triple jump competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–22 August.[1]

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).[2]

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

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

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	18.29 m	Gothenburg, Sweden	7 August 1995
Olympic record	Kenny Harrison (USA)	18.09 m	Atlanta, United States	27 July 1996

No new records were set during the competition.

Results

Qualifying round

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

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	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	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	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	x	16.91	16.91	q
13	B	Nathan Douglas	Great Britain	16.84	x	x	16.84
14	A	Andrew Murphy	Australia	16.59	16.82	x	16.82
15	B	Li Yanxi	China	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	x	16.63	16.70	16.70
18	B	Melvin Lister	United States	16.62	x	16.64	16.64
19	A	Andrew Owusu	Ghana	15.85	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	x	16.45	x	16.45
23	B	Viktor Yastrebov	Ukraine	16.43	16.32	x	16.43
24	A	Ivaylo Rusenov	Bulgaria	16.39	x	x	16.39
25	B	Mohammad Hazzory	Syria	16.37	x	16.14	16.37
26	A	Péter Tölgyesi	Hungary	16.33	15.74	16.36	16.36
27	A	Leevan Sands	Bahamas	x	x	16.35	16.35
28	A	Randy Lewis	Grenada	x	x	16.33	16.33
29	B	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena	South Africa	16.23	16.32	x	16.32
30	B	Dmitrij Vaľukevič	Belarus	x	x	16.32	16.32
31	B	Andreas Pohle	Germany	x	16.29	16.23	16.29
32	B	Vladimir Letnicov	Moldova	x	15.88	16.25	16.25
33	B	Lauri Leis	Estonia	x	16.06	16.18	16.18
34	A	Aleksandr Glavatskiy	Belarus	16.18	15.73	x	16.18
35	B	Salem Mouled Al-Ahmadi	Saudi Arabia	16.16	16.03	x	16.16
36	A	LeJuan Simon	Trinidad and Tobago	x	14.75	16.16	16.16
37	B	Boštjan Šimunič	Slovenia	x	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	x	15.84	x	15.84
40	B	Nelson Évora	Portugal	15.72	15.84	x	15.72
41	A	Olivier Sanou	Burkina Faso	x	15.67	x	15.67
42	B	Karl Taillepierre	France	15.50	x	x	15.50
43	A	Armen Martirosyan	Armenia	15.05	x	x	15.05
	A	Charles Friedek	Germany	x	—	—	NM
	A	Vitaliy Moskalenko	Russia	x	x	x	NM
	A	Berk Tuna	Turkey	x	x	—	NM
	A	Roman Valiyev	Kazakhstan	x	x	x	NM
	A	Sergey Bochkov	Azerbaijan				DNS

Final

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

References

"Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics". Athens 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
"Athletics at the 2004 Athens Summer Games: Men's Triple Jump". Athens 2004. Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2015.

External links

Official Olympic Report

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[1] "Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics". Athens 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 12 February 2015.

[2] "Athletics at the 2004 Athens Summer Games: Men's Triple Jump". Athens 2004. Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2015.

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Track events
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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
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3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
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Road events
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20 km walk	men	women
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Field events
Long jump	men	women
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High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
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Discus throw	men	women
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