2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
The Men's triple jump event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on September 2 and 4.
Seven made the automatic qualifying mark. The eventual winner was not one of them, barely qualifying with the 9th best mark.
Favorite Phillips Idowu led through the first three rounds as Will Claye failed to make a legal jump through the first two rounds, waited until his third jump to jump 17.50, to not only qualify for his [|final] three jumps but to move into second place. In the fourth round, unheralded American collegian Christian Taylor popped 17.96, the number ten all time jump to blast into the lead. Idowu jumped 17.77 in his fourth attempt but was unable to improve upon that.
Medalists
Records
Prior to the competition, the established records were as follows.| World record | 18.29 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 7 August 1995 | |
| Championship record | 18.29 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 7 August 1995 | |
| World leading | 17.91 | Lausanne, Switzerland | 30 June 2011 | |
| African record | 17.37 | Khemisset, Morocco | 14 July 2007 | |
| Asian record | 17.59 | Jinan, China | 26 October 2009 | |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | 18.09 | Atlanta, United States | 27 July 1996 | |
| South American record | 17.90 | Belém, Brazil | 20 May 2007 | |
| European record | 18.29 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 7 August 1995 | |
| Oceanian record | 17.46 | London, United Kingdom | 7 August 1982 |
Qualification standards
Schedule
Results
Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 17.10 or at least 12 best performers advance to the final.| Rank | Group | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
| 1 | B | Alexis Copello | 17.06 | 17.31 | 17.31 | Q | ||
| 2 | B | Nelson Évora | 17.05 | 17.20 | 17.20 | Q | ||
| 3 | A | Will Claye | 17.19 | 17.19 | Q | |||
| 4 | A | Phillips Idowu | 17.17 | 17.17 | Q | |||
| 5 | B | Christian Olsson | 16.55 | 17.16 | 17.16 | Q | ||
| 6 | A | Leevan Sands | 17.13 | 17.13 | Q, SB | |||
| 7 | A | Benjamin Compaoré | 17.11 | 17.11 | Q | |||
| 8 | B | Yoandri Betanzos | 17.01 | 13.66 | 17.01 | q | ||
| 9 | A | Christian Taylor | 16.99 | 16.81 | 16.99 | q | ||
| 10 | B | Fabrizio Donato | 16.55 | 16.70 | 16.88 | 16.88 | q | |
| 11 | B | Henry Frayne | 16.54 | 16.83 | 16.64 | 16.83 | q | |
| 12 | A | Şeref Osmanoğlu | 16.81 | 16.73 | 16.81 | q | ||
| 13 | A | Arnie David Giralt | 16.74 | 16.68 | 16.17 | 16.74 | ||
| 14 | A | Fabrizio Schembri | 16.71 | 16.28 | 16.63 | 16.71 | ||
| 15 | B | Marian Oprea | 16.61 | 16.19 | 16.61 | |||
| 16 | B | Tosin Oke | 16.50 | 16.60 | 16.60 | |||
| 17 | B | Jefferson Sabino | 16.18 | 15.91 | 16.51 | 16.51 | ||
| 18 | A | Aleksey Fyodorov | 15.84 | 16.42 | 16.26 | 16.42 | ||
| 19 | A | Samyr Lainé | 16.38 | 15.83 | 16.30 | 16.38 | ||
| 20 | A | Li Yanxi | 15.68 | 16.28 | 15.42 | 16.28 | ||
| 21 | B | Hugo Mamba-Schlick | 15.66 | 15.93 | 16.15 | 16.15 | ||
| 22 | B | Anders Møller | 16.14 | 14.07 | 16.14 | |||
| 23 | B | Walter Davis | 15.28 | 13.90 | 16.12 | 16.12 | ||
| 24 | A | Wilbert Walker | 15.66 | 14.50 | 15.97 | 15.97 | ||
| 25 | B | Yevhen Semenenko | 15.72 | 15.96 | 15.96 | |||
| 26 | B | Maximiliano Díaz | 15.91 | 15.65 | 15.91 | |||
| A | Sief El Islem Temacini | ' | ||||||
| A | Renjith Maheshwary | ' | ||||||
| A | Kim Deok-hyeon | ' | ||||||
| A | Tumelo Thagane | ' | ||||||
| B | Yevgeniy Ektov |