2001 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump


These are the results of the Men's triple jump event at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
In the first round, Walter Davis took the lead with a 17.20m. Now 35 years old, world record holder and 1995 champion Jonathan Edwards lurked in second place with a 16.84m. Early in the second round Yoel Garcia moved into the lead with a 17.40m. Christian Olsson moved into second with a 17.28m. With his next jump, Olsson took the lead with a 17.47m. The next jumper on the runway was Edwards. His masters world record was more than a foot further than all but one of these jumpers had ever achieved. In the fifth round, Igor Spasovkhodskiy, who was only 7th at the end of the preliminary jumps, leapfrogged past Garcia with a 26cm improvement in his personal best, 17.44m to take the bronze.

Medalists

Schedule

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 17.10 or at least 12 best performers advance to the [|final].
RankGroupAthleteNationality#1#2#3ResultNotes
BJonathan Edwards16.5117.4617.46Q
AWalter Davis17.2217.22Q, PB
BOnochie Achike17.1517.15Q
AChristian Olsson17.1517.11Q
AYoel Garcia16.6616.8417.0217.02q
BIgor Spasovkhodskiy15.9216.5916.9116.91q, PB
BRostislav Dimitrov16.9016.5516.90q
APaolo Camossi16.2516.8916.89q
BBrian Wellman16.7816.6916.5416.78q
10AJohan Meriluoto16.2516.7616.6416.76q, SB
11APhillips Idowu16.7416.74q
12AKonstadinos Zalaggitis16.6416.5316.64q
13BMarian Oprea16.6216.4716.62
14BLaMark Carter16.5116.5316.6016.60
15BKarl Taillepierre16.5816.3816.2716.58
16AAleksandr Glavatskiy16.5616.56
17AAndrew Murphy15.9716.4616.46
18BTakanori Sugibayashi15.7715.9016.4116.41
19BHristos Meletoglou15.8916.2616.26
20AVasiliy Sokov16.2614.4116.26
21ASergey Bochkov16.1116.1916.19
22AAvi Tayari14.8016.0615.7816.06
23BSergey Arzamasov15.8715.7415.7715.87
24BThomas Moede14.9115.8315.83
25BShawn Peters15.5815.4615.58
26BRobert Howard15.5815.4615.57
AIonut Punga
AArnis Filet
BJadel Gregorio

Final