Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump

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Men's triple jump
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Olympic Athletics
VenueJapan National Stadium
Dates3 August 2021
(qualifying)
5 August 2021
(final)
Competitors31 from 19 nations
Winning distance17.98
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pedro Pichardo  Portugal
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Zhu Yaming  China
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Hugues Fabrice Zango  
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The men's triple jump event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place between 3 and 5 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium.[1] Approximately 35 athletes were expected to compete; the exact number was dependent on how many nations use universality places to enter athletes in addition to the 32 qualifying through time or ranking (2 universality places were used in 2016).[2] 32 athletes from 19 nations competed. Pedro Pichardo of Portugal won the gold medal, the nation's second victory in the men's triple jump (after Nelson Évora in 2008). China's Zhu Yaming took silver, while Hugues Fabrice Zango earned Burkina Faso's first Olympic medal in any event.[3]

Summary

Defending champion

#2 jumper of all time) did not participate due to injury, nor did 2016 bronze medalist Dong Bin. However, the field returned the 2016 silver medalist Will Claye (#3 of all time), Pedro Pichardo (#5 of all time), and Hugues Fabrice Zango
, who had set the indoor world record 4 months prior. All had jumped over 18 metres. Taylor and Claye had also achieved gold and silver at the most recent World Championships, with Zango as the bronze medalist. Since the previous Olympics in April 2018, Pichardo had defected from Cuba and was now jumping for Portugal.

Four athletes managed to exceed 17 metres in the first round. Claye was first down the runway with a 17.19m. Five jumpers later, Pichardo established himself as the leader with 17.61m, Donald Scott moved onto the podium with a 17.15m, and Yasser Triki moved into second at 17.30m, breaking his own Algerian national record. Of the jumpers with a legal first attempt, Zango found himself in dead last place with at 15.91m. Leading off the second round, Claye landed his feet somewhere close to Pichardo's mark but dropped his elbow further back. He turned around to find that effort was a foul. A couple of jumps later, Zhu Yaming landed in the same area for 17.41m, to move into second place. Pichardo duplicated his 17.61m and Triki produced a second national record 17.42m to take back his position. With a 16.83m, Zango improved but still found himself in 9th place, in danger of being eliminated before the final three jumps.

Claye led off the third round with a 17.44m to move back into a podium position. Pichardo expanded his lead with a Portuguese national record 17.98 m (58 ft 11+3⁄4 in). Knowing he had hit a big one (equalling the #17 jump of all time), Pichardo posed and held up a fist while still lying in the pit. Under pressure, Zango gritted his teeth and pounded out a 17.47m bursting the bubble and moving into second place.

Nobody was able to improve through the finals except in the fifth round when Zhu jumped 17.57m to put himself into the silver medal. Triki's third national record of the competition, 17.43m couldn't move him back to the podium.

Background

This was the 29th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics.

No nations made their men's triple jump debut. The United States competed for the 28th time, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

Main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A

IAAF World Rankings pathway." The world rankings, based on the average of the best five results for the athlete over the qualifying period and weighted by the importance of the meet, will then be used to qualify athletes until the cap of 32 is reached.[2][4]

The qualifying period was originally from 1 May 2019 to 29 June 2020. Due to the

IAAF. Both outdoor and indoor meets are eligible. The most recent Area Championships may be counted in the ranking, even if not during the qualifying period.[2][5]

NOCs can also use their universality place—each NOC can enter one male athlete regardless of time if they had no male athletes meeting the entry standard for an athletics event—in the triple jump.[2]

Entry number: 32.

Qualification standard No. of athletes Nation Nominated athletes
Entry standard – 17.14 3  China Fang Yaoqing
Wu Ruiting
Zhu Yaming
2  Cuba Andy Díaz
Jordan Díaz[6]
Cristian Nápoles
3  Italy Tobia Bocchi
Emmanuel Ihemeje
Andrea Dallavalle
3  United States Chris Benard
Will Claye
Donald Scott
3  Brazil Almir dos Santos
Alexsandro Melo
Mateus de Sá
2  France Jean-Marc Pontvianne
Melvin Raffin
1  Algeria Yasser Triki
1  Armenia Levon Aghasyan
1  Azerbaijan Nazim Babayev
1  Burkina Faso Hugues Fabrice Zango
1  Georgia Lasha Gulelauri
1  Great Britain
Ben Williams
1  Jamaica Carey McLeod
1  Portugal Pedro Pichardo
1  ROC[Note RUS] Dmitry Sorokin
1  Spain Pablo Torrijos
1  Turkey Necati Er
World ranking 2  Portugal Nelson Évora
Tiago Pereira
1  Brazil Mateus de Sá
1  France Benjamin Compaoré
1  Germany Max Heß
1  Greece Dimitrios Tsiamis
1  Uzbekistan Ruslan Kurbanov
Total 32

Competition format

The 2020 competition continued to use the two-round format with divided final introduced in 1936. The qualifying round gave each competitor three jumps to achieve a qualifying distance (17.05 metres); if fewer than 12 men did so, the top 12 (including all those tied) would advance. The final provided each jumper with three jumps; the top eight jumpers received an additional three jumps for a total of six, with the best to count (qualifying round jumps were not considered for the final).[7]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic, and area records were as follows.

World record  Jonathan Edwards (GBR) 18.29 Gothenburg, Sweden 7 August 1995
Olympic record  Kenny Harrison (USA) 18.09 Atlanta, United States 27 August 1996
Area Distance (m) Wind Athlete Nation
Africa (records) 17.82 +0.5 Hugues Fabrice Zango  Burkina Faso
Asia (records) 17.59 +0.0 Li Yanxi  China
Europe (records) 18.29 WR +1.3 Jonathan Edwards  Great Britain
North, Central America
and Caribbean (records
)		 18.21 +0.2 Christian Taylor  United States
Oceania (records) 17.46 +1.7 Ken Lorraway  Australia
South America (records
)		 17.90 +0.4 Jadel Gregório  Brazil

The following national records were set during this competition:

Country Athlete Round Distance Notes
Portugal Pedro Pichardo Final 17.98
Algeria Yasser Triki Final 17.43

Schedule

All times are

UTC+9
)

The men's triple jump took place over two separate days.[1]

Date Time Round
Tuesday, 3 August 2021 9:00 Qualifying
Thursday, 5 August 2021 9:00 Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification Rules: Qualifying performance 17.05 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank Group Athlete Nation 1 2 3 Distance Notes
1 B Pedro Pichardo  Portugal 16.98 17.71 — 17.71 Q
2 B Necati Er  Turkey x 16.70 17.13 17.13 Q, SB
3 A Zhu Yaming  China 17.11 — — 17.11 Q
4 A Cristian Nápoles  Cuba 17.08 — — 17.08 Q, SB
5 B Yasser Triki  Algeria 16.75 16.67 17.05 17.05 Q
6 B Donald Scott  United States 17.01 16.43 r 17.01 q
7 A Andrea Dallavalle  Italy 16.99 16.59 — 16.99 q
8 A Will Claye  United States 16.78 16.88 16.91 16.91 q
9 B Emmanuel Ihemeje  Italy 16.88 x 16.28 16.88 q
10 B Fang Yaoqing  China 16.79 16.69 16.84 16.84 q
11 B Melvin Raffin  France 16.49 16.83 16.58 16.83 q
12 A Hugues Fabrice Zango  Burkina Faso 16.83 16.46 16.37 16.83 q
13 A Tobia Bocchi  Italy 16.78 16.67 15.45 16.78
14 A Wu Ruiting  China x 16.73 16.10 16.73
15 A Nazim Babayev  Azerbaijan 16.38 16.30 16.72 16.72 SB
16 A Tiago Pereira  Portugal 16.62 16.71 15.79 16.71
17 B Max Heß  Germany 13.79 16.69 x 16.69
18 B Chris Benard  United States 16.44 16.59 16.49 16.59
19 B Benjamin Compaoré  France 16.59 16.39 15.29 16.59
20 A Mateus de Sá  Brazil 16.49 x 16.33 16.49
21 B Levon Aghasyan  Armenia x 16.42 x 16.42
22 B Ben Williams  Great Britain x 16.30 x 16.30
23 B Almir dos Santos  Brazil x 16.27 16.27 16.27
24 A Carey McLeod  Jamaica 15.82 16.01 x 16.01
25 B Pablo Torrijos  Spain 15.87 x x 15.87
26 A Alexsandro Melo  Brazil 15.65 r — 15.65
27 A Nelson Évora  Portugal x 15.39 x 15.39
A Lasha Gulelauri  Georgia x x — NM
A Jean-Marc Pontvianne  France x x x NM
A Ruslan Kurbanov  Uzbekistan x r — NM
B Dimitrios Tsiamis  Greece x r — NM
B Andy Díaz  Cuba — — — DNS

Final

Rank Athlete Nation 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distance Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pedro Pichardo  Portugal 17.61 17.61 17.98 x — x 17.98 NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Zhu Yaming  China 16.63 17.41 17.11 17.16 17.57 15.02 17.57 PB
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Hugues Fabrice Zango  Burkina Faso 15.91 16.83 17.47 x 17.31 17.43 17.47
4 Will Claye  United States 17.19 x 17.44 16.69 17.04 17.36 17.44 SB
5 Yasser Triki  Algeria 17.30 17.42 17.40 17.08 17.43 17.10 17.43 NR
6 Necati Er  Turkey 16.84 15.27 17.25 — x x 17.25 SB
7 Donald Scott  United States 17.15 x 16.86 17.18 16.79 16.95 17.18 =SB
8 Fang Yaoqing  China 16.95 16.52 16.53 17.01 14.60 15.94 17.01
9 Andrea Dallavalle  Italy 16.62 16.85 16.74 Did not advance 16.85
10 Cristian Nápoles  Cuba x 16.63 x Did not advance 16.63
11 Emmanuel Ihemeje  Italy x 16.52 16.04 Did not advance 16.52
Melvin Raffin  France x x x Did not advance NM

References

  1. ^ a b "Athletics Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  2. ^
    IAAF
    . Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Tokyo 2020: Burkina Faso claims first ever Olympic medal". Africanews. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  4. ^ "IAAF to follow other sports with world ranking system for athletes". BBC Sport. 7 March 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Olympic qualification period suspended until 1 December 2020". World Athletics. 6 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Uno de los mejores atletas cubanos, el triplista Jordan Díaz Fortún, se queda en España".
  7. ^ "Athletics Explanatory Guide". Tokyo 2020. August 2019.
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