Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump

The Men's triple jump competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 7–9 August.[1]

Men's triple jump
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
Date7–9 August
Competitors27 from 21 nations
Winning distance17.81
Medalists
Christian Taylor  United States
Will Claye  United States
Fabrizio Donato  Italy
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In the qualifying round, Christian Taylor made the automatic qualifier on his first attempt, Leevan Sands made the only other auto qualifier. The two Italian jumpers Daniele Greco and Fabrizio Donato anticipated the outcome and let their first attempt marks qualify them to the finals, taking the rest of the other rounds off. Lyukman Adams and Will Claye took all three attempts to get in a sufficient jump. Host team favorite 2009 world champion Phillips Idowu made it to the qualifying round,[2] but could not advance.

In the first round, 35-year-old Fabrizio Donato took the lead over 40 cm ahead of Alexis Copello. In the second round Will Claye took the lead, while Donato improved and his teammate Daniele Greco moved into third. Meanwhile, reigning world champion Christian Taylor was struggling to find the board, taking until his third jump just to get a mark to allow him three more attempts. Donato improved again. In the fourth round Taylor put it all together, jumping 17.81 to take what turned out to be an insurmountable lead. Donato made another improvement for his best attempt 17.48, though any of his four legal jumps would have won the bronze. Then Claye secured another silver medal with a 17.62[3]

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).[4]

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date Time Round
Tuesday, 7 August 201210:45Qualifications
Thursday, 9 August 201219:20Finals

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
2012 World leading  Christian Taylor (USA) 17.63 m Eugene, United States 30 June 2012
Broken records during the 2012 Summer Olympics
2012 World leading  Christian Taylor (USA) 17.81 London, United Kingdom 9 August 2012

Results

Qualifying round

Qual. rule: qualification standard 17.10m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

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RankGroupNameNationality#1#2#3ResultNotes
1BChristian Taylor United States17.21
(+0.2)		--17.21Q
2BLeevan Sands Bahamas 17.17
(-0.4)		-- 17.17Q
3ABenjamin Compaoré France16.82
(-0.5)		17.06
(+0.8)		-17.06q
4ADaniele Greco Italy17.00
(+0.6)		--17.00q
5BDong Bin ChinaX16.94
(+0.1)		-16.94q
6ALyukman Adams Russia16.67
(-1.0)		X16.88
(-0.9)		16.88q
7AWill Claye United States16.56
(-0.5)		16.44
(-1.5)		16.87
(-0.2)		16.87q
8BFabrizio Donato Italy16.86
(-1.2)		--16.86q
9ATosin Oke Nigeria16.59
(-1.3)		16.83
(-0.3)		X16.83q
10ASamyr Laine Haiti16.14
(0.0)		16.81
(+1.4)		X
(+0.1)		16.81q
11BAlexis Copello CubaX16.70
(-0.7)		16.79
(+1.0)		16.79q
12ADzmitry Platnitski BelarusX15.66
(-0.4)		16.62
(+0.3)		16.62q
13BSheryf El-Sheryf Ukraine16.60
(+0.4)		14.83
(-2.5)		X16.60
14APhillips Idowu Great Britain16.47
(-0.7)		X16.53
(-1.0)		16.53
15BIssam Nima Algeria15.21
(-0.7)		X16.50
(+0.5)		16.50
16AArnie David Girat Cuba15.74
(+1.1)		16.42
(+0.1)		16.45
(+1.1)		16.45
17BHenry Frayne Australia16.25
(+0.2)		16.35
(+0.2)		16.40
(-0.2)		16.40
18BMuhammad Halim Virgin Islands15.54
(-0.6)		16.39
(-0.6)		15.31
(+0.5)		16.39
19AYevgeniy Ektov KazakhstanX16.31
(-0.1)		X16.31
20ACao Shuo China16.11
(-1.8)		16.26
(+1.2)		16.27
(-1.2)		16.27
21BRoman Valiyev KazakhstanXX16.23
(-1.0)		16.23
22BKim Deok-Hyeon South Korea15.35
(-0.8)		X16.22
(-0.3)		16.22
23BYoandris Betanzos Cuba14.84
(+0.2)		16.22
(+2.9)		X16.22
24BMohamed Abbas Darwish United Arab EmiratesX16.06
(+1.7)		15.93
(+1.6)		16.06
25AJosé Adrián Sornoza Ecuador15.61
(-0.5)		16.04
(-2.4)		X16.04
26BJonathan Henrique Silva Brazil15.59
(-1.3)		XX15.59
N/AARenjith Maheshwary IndiaXXXN/ANM

Final

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RankNameNationality#1#2#3#4#5#6ResultNotes
Christian Taylor United StatesXX17.1517.8117.55X17.81WL, SB
Will Claye United StatesX17.5417.4317.6217.2516.6617.62
Fabrizio Donato Italy17.3817.4417.4517.48–X17.48
4Daniele Greco Italy16.9017.34XX–16.9217.34
5Leevan Sands BahamasX17.1917.12X––17.19
6Benjamin Compaoré France15.5317.0814.1616.2713.68X17.08
7Tosin Oke NigeriaX16.9116.95XXX16.95
8Alexis Copello Cuba16.92XX14.75X16.6816.92
DSQLyukman Adams Russia16.78XX16.78
10Dong Bin China16.75XX16.75
11Samyr Laine HaitiX16.6516.5916.65
12Dzmitry Platnitski Belarus16.08X16.1916.19

References
  1. Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics
  2. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/athletics/9457354/London-2012-Olympics-Great-Britains-Phillips-Idowu-to-start-triple-jump-in-spite-of-injury-concerns.html
  3. http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/OLY12/Results/ResultsByDate.aspx?racedate=08-09-2012/sex=M/discCode=TJ/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#detM_TJ_hash_f
  4. "Men's Triple Jump competition format". London 2012 Organising Committee. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  5. Savaliya, Gautam. "Men's Triple Jump". London 2012 Organising Committee. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  6. Savaliya, Gautam. "Men's Triple Jump - Final". London 2012 Organising Committee. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
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