2019 World Athletics Championships – Men's triple jump


The men's triple jump at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha from 27 to 29 September 2019.

Summary

On the second jump of the competition, Will Claye took the lead with a 17.61m. Two jumpers later, Cristian Nápoles went 17.36m, then Pedro Pablo Pichardo, now jumping for Portugal, jumped 17.49m. That held through the round. In the second round, Claye improved to 17.72m and Nápoles improved to 17.38m before Hugues Fabrice Zango bounded into contention with a 17.46m African record. After two rounds, defending everything Christian Taylor had not landed a legal jump. Faced with do or die, Taylor made 17.42m to be allowed to continue in the competition. After Claye improved to 17.74m and Pichardo improved to 17.62m, Taylor's fourth attempt of 17.86m put him into the lead. In the fifth round, Zango improved the African record to 17.56m but still wasn't on the podium, while Taylor produced the capper. The only one to improve in the final round was Zango, his third African record of the competition was yet another 10cm improvement to 17.66 to snatch the bronze medal.
Since 2011 the triple jump story remains virtually the same, Taylor in first, his former University of Florida teammate, Claye slightly behind.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:
World record18.29 mGothenburg, Sweden7 August 1995
Championship record18.29 mGothenburg, Sweden7 August 1995
World Leading18.14 mLong Beach, United States29 June 2019
African Record17.37 mKhémisset, Morocco14 July 2007
Asian Record17.59 mJinan, China26 October 2009
North, Central American and Caribbean record18.21 mBeijing, China27 August 2015
South American Record17.90 mBelém, Brazil20 May 2007
European Record18.29 mGothenburg, Sweden7 August 1995
Oceanian record17.46 mLondon, Great Britain7 August 1982

The following records were set at the competition:
RecordAthleteDate
African17.66mHugues Fabrice Zango29 Sep 2019
Burkinabé17.66mHugues Fabrice Zango29 Sep 2019

[|Qualification] standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 16.95 m.

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time, was as follows:
DateTimeRound
27 September19:25Qualification
29 September21:45Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 17.10 or at least 12 best performers advanced to the final.
RankGroupNameNationality#1#2#3ResultNotes
1APedro Pablo Pichardo17.3817.38
2AHugues Fabrice Zango16.6017.1717.17
3BChristian Taylor16.9916.94—16.99
4ADonald Scott16.4716.9916.99
5AWill Claye16.8315.2516.9716.97
6BAlexis Copello16.6716.9516.95
7BJordan Díaz16.6116.6016.9316.93
8AAlmir dos Santos16.92—16.2116.92
9BFang Yaoqing16.9216.92
10BWu Ruiting16.9016.8016.90
11ACristian Nápoles16.8416.7516.8816.88
12BNecati Er16.6516.8716.87
13BOmar Craddock16.8716.87
14BDmitriy Sorokin16.6816.8616.86
15BNelson Évora16.2616.6716.8016.80
16AZhu Yaming16.7916.7516.4816.79
17BBenjamin Williams15.8916.7715.5516.77
18AAlexey Fyodorov16.4916.7116.1616.71
19ANazim Babayev16.6516.3816.5116.65
20AYasser Mohamed Triki16.3416.6216.5116.62
21BGeorgi Tsonov16.6116.0816.61
22ABenjamin Compaoré16.5916.3516.1516.59
23ASimo Lipsanen16.4416.4716.47
24AAndy Díaz16.4116.3916.41
25AChengetayi Mapaya14.8016.3616.36
26BJean-Marc Pontvianne16.0216.3116.31
27BAlexsandro Melo15.9016.2616.26
28ALatario Collie-Minns16.2616.26
29BLevon Aghasyan16.2415.9816.0416.24
30BLathone Collie-Minns15.6213.5015.8915.89
31ARuslan Kurbanov15.8615.86
32AAndrea Dallavalle14.6315.0915.09
33BJordan Scott14.73——14.73

Final

The final was started on 29 September at 21:46.