Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump


The men's triple jump competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 15–16 August.

Summary

The top entrant was Christian Taylor of the United States, who was the defending 2012 Olympic champion and the 2015 World Champion. The second best athlete of all-time, he held the season's top mark at 17.78 m. He had been beaten by Will Claye at the American Olympic Trials, who was second on the world rankings and runner-up at the previous Olympics. Cuban Pedro Pablo Pichardo entered but had not performed highly that year. The 2016 World Indoor Champion Dong Bin started as the fourth best on the world lists. India's Renjith Maheswary and American Chris Benard filled out the world's top five of 2016. The event had enjoyed a resurgence globally and an unusually large starting field of 48 athletes had made the qualifying grade.
The qualifying round saw perhaps the most significant non-event as #4 all time Pedro Pablo Pichardo scratched. European champion and world indoor silver medalist Max Hess was also unable to qualify.
The final was barely dramatic. On the third jump of the competition, Dong Bin jumped his personal best of 17.58 m to take the lead. Four jumpers later, Christian Taylor jumped which proved to be the gold medal winning jump. Three jumps after Taylor, Will Claye jumped a personal best 17.76 m to take over silver medal position. The 1 cm improvement moved him into the #23 position of all time. From a medal perspective, the next five rounds were unnecessary, none of the medalists improved and no other athlete seriously challenged their position. Taylor jumped 17.77m two times during those subsequent rounds, either of those jumps would have still edged Claye for the win. Taylor and Claye repeated their medals from 2012.
In the medal ceremony, the medals were presented by Austin Sealy, Barbados, IOC member, and the gifts were presented by Alberto Juantorena, Vice President of the IAAF.

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete jumped three times. 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.

Schedule

All times are Brasilia Time
DateTimeRound
Monday, 15 August 201609:30Qualifications
Tuesday, 16 August 201609:50Finals

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
World record18.29 mGothenburg, Sweden7 August 1995
Olympic record18.09 mAtlanta, United States27 July 1996
2016 World leading17.78 mLondon, United Kingdom22 July 2016

The following record was established during the competition:
DateEventNationalityAthleteDistanceRecord
16 AugustFinalChristian Taylor17.86 m2016 World Leading

The following national record was established during the competition:
CountryAthleteRoundDistanceNotes
ColombiaFinal17.09 m

Results

Qualifying round

Qualification rule: qualification standard 16.95 m or at least best 12 qualified.
RankGroupNameNationality#1#2#3ResultNotes
1BChristian Taylor17.2417.24
2ADong Bin17.1017.10
3AWill Claye16.4316.7617.0517.05
4BNelson Évora16.4816.7216.9916.99,
5ACao Shuo16.9716.97
6ATroy Doris16.5416.5816.8116.81
7BKarol Hoffmann16.7916.75x16.79
8BJhon Murillo16.7816.58x16.78
9ABenjamin Compaore16.3416.5716.7216.72
10AAlberto Álvarez16.5016.6716.6016.67
11BXu Xiaolongx16.3516.6516.65,
12BLazaro Martinez16.38x16.6116.61
13BHarold Correa16.3116.6016.5516.60
14AErnesto Reve16.1316.1616.5816.58
15AMax Hess13.88x16.5616.56
16BChris Benardx16.4416.5516.55
17AFabrizio Donato16.54xx16.54
18ALeevan Sands16.47x16.5316.53
19BDzmitry Platnitskix16.4816.5216.52
20AMaksim Niastsiarenka16.1216.3916.5216.52
21BGodfrey Khotso Mokoena15.1316.5116.4416.51
22AFabian Florant16.51xx16.51
23BTosin Okex16.4516.4716.47
24BMamadou Cherif Diax16.4516.1916.45
25ANazim Babayevx16.3815.6016.38
26ARumen Dimitrov16.23x16.3616.36
27BKim Deok-hyeonx16.1316.3616.36
28BJonathan Drackxx16.2116.21
29ADaigo Hasegawa16.1715.93x16.17
30BRenjith Maheswary15.8016.1315.9916.13
31BPablo Torrijos15.7816.1115.7416.11
32AOlu Olamigoke16.1015.9515.6416.10
33AClive Pullenxx16.0816.08
34BHugues Fabrice Zango15.99xx15.99
35BKohei Yamashita15.7115.4615.6615.71
36ALevon Aghasyanx15.54x15.54
37BArtsem Bandarenka15.43xx15.43
38BVladimir Letnicovx15.29x15.29
39BGeorgi Tsonovxx15.2015.20
BLatario Collie-Minnsxxx'
AYordanys Durañonaxxx'
AMuhammad Halimxxx'
BRuslan Kurbanovxxx'
AMarian Opreaxxx'
BŞeref Osmanoğluxxx'
ALasha Torgvaidzexxx'
ARoman Valiyevxxx'
APedro Pablo Pichardo

Final