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 García 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 17.92 m (58 ft 9+12 in) 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 26 cm improvement in his personal best, 17.44m to take the bronze.

Medalists

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Gold   Jonathan Edwards
Great Britain (GBR)
Silver   Christian Olsson
Sweden (SWE)
Bronze   Igor Spasovkhodskiy
Russia (RUS)

Schedule

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Qualification Round
Group A Group B
04.08.2001 – 16:30 04.08.2001 – 16:30
Final Round
06.08.2001 – 17:00

Results

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Qualification

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Qualification: Qualifying Performance 17.10 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank Group Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes
1 B Jonathan Edwards   Great Britain x 16.51 17.46 17.46 Q
2 A Walter Davis   United States 17.22 17.22 Q, PB
3 B Larry Achike   Great Britain x 17.15 17.15 Q
4 A Christian Olsson   Sweden 17.15 17.11 Q
5 A Yoel García   Cuba 16.66 16.84 17.02 17.02 q
6 B Igor Spasovkhodskiy   Russia 15.92 16.59 16.91 16.91 q, PB
7 B Rostislav Dimitrov   Bulgaria 16.90 16.55 x 16.90 q
8 A Paolo Camossi   Italy x 16.25 16.89 16.89 q
9 B Brian Wellman   Bermuda 16.78 16.69 16.54 16.78 q
10 A Johan Meriluoto   Finland 16.25 16.76 16.64 16.76 q, SB
11 A Phillips Idowu   Great Britain x 16.74 x 16.74 q
12 A Konstadinos Zalagitis   Greece 16.64 x 16.53 16.64 q
13 B Marian Oprea   Romania 16.62 x 16.47 16.62
14 B LaMark Carter   United States 16.51 16.53 16.60 16.60
15 B Karl Taillepierre   France 16.58 16.38 16.27 16.58
16 A Aliaksandar Hlavatski   Belarus x x 16.56 16.56
17 A Andrew Murphy   Australia x 15.97 16.46 16.46
18 B Takanori Sugibayashi   Japan 15.77 15.90 16.41 16.41
19 B Hristos Meletoglou   Greece x 15.89 16.26 16.26
20 A Vasiliy Sokov   Uzbekistan x 16.26 14.41 16.26
21 A Sergey Bochkov   Azerbaijan 16.11 16.19 x 16.19
22 A Avi Tayari   Israel 14.80 16.06 15.78 16.06
23 B Sergey Arzamasov   Kazakhstan 15.87 15.74 15.77 15.87
24 B Thomas Moede   Germany 14.91 x 15.83 15.83
25 B Shawn Peters   Canada x 15.58 15.46 15.58
26 B Robert Howard   United States x 15.58 15.46 15.57
A Ionuț Pungă   Romania x NM
A Arnis Filet   France DNS
B Jadel Gregório   Brazil DNS

Final

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Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes
  Jonathan Edwards   Great Britain 16.84 x 17.92 x x 17.92 WL MWR
  Christian Olsson   Sweden 13.99 17.28 17.47 16.96 17.47
  Igor Spasovkhodskiy   Russia 16.79 16.69 16.37 16.89 17.44 16.88 17.44 PB
4 Yoel García   Cuba 17.06 17.40 17.06 17.23 17.22 17.34 17.40 SB
5 Walter Davis   United States 17.20 17.18 17.05 14.43 16.60 16.92 17.20
6 Brian Wellman   Bermuda 15.69 16.81 16.39 x 16.81
7 Larry Achike   Great Britain 16.75 16.67 16.79 16.77 15.48 16.74 16.79
8 Rostislav Dimitrov   Bulgaria 16.24 16.50 16.70 16.72 x 16.47 16.72
9 Phillips Idowu   Great Britain 16.32 16.60 16.08 16.60
10 Johan Meriluoto   Finland 16.51 16.54 16.31 16.54
11 Paolo Camossi   Italy 16.15 14.20 16.18 16.18
12 Konstadinos Zalagitis   Greece x x 16.13 16.13

References

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