Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump

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Men's triple jump
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue Beijing Olympic Stadium
Date 18 August 2008 (qualification)
21 August 2008 (final)
Competitors 39 from 27 nations
Winning distance 17.67
Medalists
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1st Nelson Évora  Portugal
2nd Phillips Idowu  Great Britain
3rd Leevan Sands  Bahamas
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Athletics at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men women
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase
men women
4 × 100 m relay men women
4 × 400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men women
20 km walk men women
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

The men's triple jump at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 18–21 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium.[1]

The qualifying standards were 17.10 m (56.1 ft) (A standard) and 16.80 m (55.12 ft) (B standard).[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record United Kingdom Jonathan Edwards (GBR) 18.29 m Gothenburg, Sweden 7 August 1995
Olympic record  Kenny Harrison (USA) 18.09 m Atlanta, USA 27 August 1996

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Results

Qualifying round

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

Rank Group Name Nationality 1 2 3 Mark Notes
1 A Phillips Idowu  Great Britain 17.44
(+1.0)
17.44 Q
2 A Nelson Évora  Portugal x 17.34
(+1.1)
17.34 Q, SB
3 B Li Yanxi  China 16.93
(+0.6)
16.83
(-0.5)
17.30
(+0.6)
17.30 Q, PB
4 A Arnie David Giralt  Cuba 17.30
(+0.9)
17.30 Q
5 B Leevan Sands  Bahamas 17.25
(+0.5)
17.25 Q
6 A Igor Spasovkhodskiy  Russia 16.79
(+1.8)
16.85
(+1.2)
17.23
(+0.4)
17.23 Q
7 B Onochie Achike  Great Britain x 17.18
(+1.1)
17.18 Q
8 A Marian Oprea  Romania x 16.99
(-0.1)
17.17
(-0.7)
17.17 Q
9 A Jadel Gregório  Brazil 17.15
(+0.4)
17.15 Q
10 B Héctor Dairo Fuentes  Cuba 16.73
(+0.3)
16.42
(+0.8)
17.14
(+1.1)
17.14 Q
11 B Momchil Karailiev  Bulgaria 17.06
(+0.4)
17.12
(+0.6)
17.12 Q
12 A Viktor Kuznyetsov  Ukraine 16.70
(+0.8)
17.11
(+0.1)
17.11 Q
13 A Alexis Copello  Cuba 17.09
(+0.6)
16.92
(+0.1)
x 17.09
14 A Dmitrij Valukevic  Slovakia x 16.86
(+0.4)
17.08
(+0.5)
17.08
15 B Randy Lewis  Grenada x 17.06
(+0.6)
x 17.06
16 B Mykola Savolaynen  Ukraine 17.00
(+0.9)
16.55
(+0.5)
16.29
(+0.5)
17.00 SB
17 B Aleksandr Petrenko  Russia 16.84
(+0.6)
16.97
(+1.1)
16.74
(+0.9)
16.97
18 A Kim Deok-Hyeon 23x15px South Korea 16.68
(+0.4)
14.68
(+1.0)
16.88
(+0.4)
16.88
19 A Rafeeq Curry  United States x 16.23
(+1.7)
16.88
(+0.4)
16.88
20 B Nathan Douglas  Great Britain 16.45
(+0.8)
16.68
(+1.2)
16.72
(+0.1)
16.72
21 A Fabrizio Donato  Italy 16.10
(+0.4)
x 16.70
(+0.1)
16.70
22 B Danil Burkenya  Russia 16.44
(+0.5)
16.69
(+1.0)
15.65
(+0.5)
16.69
23 B Dimitrios Tsiamis  Greece 16.37
(+0.6)
16.65
(+1.0)
16.48
(+0.5)
16.65
24 B Vladimir Letnicov  Moldova 16.62
(+0.5)
x x 16.62
25 A Kenta Bell  United States 16.55
(+0.9)
x 16.17
(0.0)
16.55
26 B Viktor Yastrebov  Ukraine x x 16.52
(+0.4)
16.52
27 A Dzmitry Platnitski  Belarus 16.51
(+0.1)
x x 16.51
28 A Jefferson Sabino  Brazil 16.12
(+0.6)
16.45
(+1.0)
x 16.45
29 B Colomba Fofana  France 16.42
(+1.2)
15.47
(+0.6)
x 16.42
30 A Roman Valiyev  Kazakhstan x 16.20
(+0.6)
15.93
(+0.3)
16.20
31 A Ibrahim Mohamdein Aboubaker  Qatar 16.03
(+0.4)
16.02
(+1.4)
15.90
(+0.1)
16.03
32 B Hugo Mamba-Schlick  Cameroon 16.01
(+0.3)
14.98
(+0.6)
x 16.01
33 B Aarik Wilson  United States x 15.51
(+0.8)
15.97
(+0.9)
15.97
34 B Gu Junjie  China 15.94
(+1.0)
15.87
(+0.8)
x 15.94
35 B Renjith Maheshwary  India 15.77
(+0.5)
x 15.51
(0.5)
15.77
36 A Zhong Minwei  China 15.59
(+0.4)
x 14.91
(0.8)
15.59
37 A Redzep Selman  North Macedonia 14.98
(+0.5)
15.29
(+1.6)
15.28
(+0.2)
15.29
B Ndiss Kaba Badji  Senegal x x - NM
B Tarik Bouguetaïb  Morocco x x x NM

Final

Rank Name Nationality 1 2 3 4 5 6 Result Notes
1st Nelson Évora  Portugal 17.31 17.56 x 17.67 17.24 16.52 17.67 SB
2nd Phillips Idowu  Great Britain 17.51 17.31 17.62 x 17.26 16.41 17.62 SB
3rd Leevan Sands  Bahamas 16.91 16.55 17.59 17.26 17.32 x 17.59 NR
4 Arnie David Giralt  Cuba 17.27 17.52 17.24 17.48 x 17.08 17.52 PB
5 Marian Oprea  Romania 17.22 x x x x 16.69 17.22
6 Jadel Gregório  Brazil 17.14 16.55 13.79 16.83 16.78 17.20 17.20
7 Onochie Achike  Great Britain 16.74 x 17.17 x 17.04 x 17.17
8 Viktor Kuznyetsov  Ukraine 16.71 16.87 x 16.81 16.48 x 16.87
9 Igor Spasovkhodskiy  Russia 16.79 16.37 15.63 16.79
10 Yanxi Li  China 15.93 16.35 16.77 16.77
11 Momchil Karailiev  Bulgaria 16.48 16.39 16.38 16.48
12 Héctor Dairo Fuentes  Cuba 15.92 x 16.28 16.28

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