Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump

Men's triple jump at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Pictogram for athletics
Venue	Stadium Australia
Date	23 September 2000 (qualifications) 25 September 2000 (finals)
Competitors	40 from 28 nations
Winning distance	17.78
Medalists
Jonathan Edwards  Great Britain Yoel García  Cuba Denis Kapustin  Russia

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The Men's triple jump event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Olympic Stadium. The triple jump has been ever present since the beginning of the modern Olympic Games in 1896.

The top twelve athletes from the three jumps in qualifying progressed through to the final where the qualifying distances are scrapped and they start afresh with another three jumps. After these the top eight athletes carry their record forward and then have a further three attempts to decide the gold medalist.

Medalists

Gold	Jonathan Edwards  Great Britain
Silver	Yoel García  Cuba
Bronze	Denis Kapustin  Russia

Schedule

• All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
23.09.2000 – 18:00h	23.09.2000 – 18:00h
Final Round
25.09.2000 – 20:00h

Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	18.29 m	7 August 1995	Gothenburg, Sweden
Olympic Record	Kenny Harrison (USA)	18.09 m	27 July 1996	Atlanta, United States

Results

All distances shown are in meters.

• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• DQ denotes disqualification.
• NR denotes national record.
• AR denotes area/continental record.
• OR denotes Olympic record.
• WR denotes world record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season best

Qualifying

Held on 23 September 2000.

The qualifying distance was 16.95m. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the longest jumps until a total of 12 qualifiers.

Group A

Place	Overall	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Qual	Record
1	1	Onochie Achike	Great Britain	17.30	Q	PB
2	4	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	17.08	Q
3	7	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	17.03	Q	SB
4	8	Rostislav Dimitrov	Bulgaria	17.00	Q
5	11	Paolo Camossi	Italy	16.87	q
6	12	Walter Davis	United States	16.75	q
7	16	Takanori Sugibayashi	Japan	16.67
8	17	Christian Olsson	Sweden	16.64
9	18	Zsolt Czingler	Hungary	16.52
10	19	LaMark Carter	United States	16.47
11	20	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	16.47
12	26	Zoran Đurđević	FR Yugoslavia	16.31
13	28	Oleg Sakirkin	Kazakhstan	16.20
14	30	Sergey Bochkov	Azerbaijan	16.01
15	33	Igor Spasovkhodskiy	Russia	15.79
16	34	Yevgeniy Petin	Uzbekistan	15.27
17	36	Colomba Fofana	France	14.59
18	37	Konstadinos Zalaggitis	Greece	14.15
19	38	Andrew Owusu	Ghana	14.12
		Raúl Chapado	Spain	NM

Group B

Place	Overall	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Qual	Record
1	T2	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	17.12	Q	PB
1	T2	Andrew Murphy	Australia	17.12	Q	SB
3	5	Yoel García	Cuba	17.08	Q
4	6	Denis Kapustin	Russia	17.04	Q
5	T9	Charles Michael Friedek	Germany	16.93	q
6	T9	Robert Howard	United States	16.93	q
7	13	Ketill Hanstveit	Norway	16.75
8	14	Ionut Punga	Romania	16.72
9	15	Sergey Arzamasov	Kazakhstan	16.70
10	21	Lao Jianfeng	China	16.43
11	22	Ivaylo Rusenov	Bulgaria	16.40
12	23	Rogel Nachum	Israel	16.39
13	24	Gennadiy Markov	Russia	16.36
14	25	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	16.34
15	27	Michael Calvo	Cuba	16.30
16	29	Sergey Izmaylov	Ukraine	16.10
17	31	Hristos Meletoglou	Greece	16.00
18	32	Salem Mouled Al-Ahmadi	Saudi Arabia	15.99
19	35	Armen Martirosyan	Armenia	14.95
		Stamatios Lenis	Greece	NM

Overall qualifying results

Place	Athlete	Nation	Group	Mark	Qual	Record
1	Onochie Achike	Great Britain	A	17.30	Q	PB
T2	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	B	17.12	Q	PB
	Andrew Murphy	Australia	B	17.12	Q	SB
4	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	B	17.08	Q
5	Yoel García	Cuba	B	17.08	Q
6	Denis Kapustin	Russia	B	17.04	Q
7	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	A	17.03	Q	SB
8	Rostislav Dimitrov	Bulgaria	A	17.00	Q
T9	Charles Michael Friedek	Germany	B	16.93	q
	Robert Howard	United States	B	16.93	q
11	Paolo Camossi	Italy	A	16.87	q
12	Walter Davis	United States	A	16.75	q
13	Ketill Hanstveit	Norway	B	16.75
14	Ionut Punga	Romania	B	16.72
15	Sergey Arzamasov	Kazakhstan	B	16.70
16	Takanori Sugibayashi	Japan	A	16.67
17	Christian Olsson	Sweden	A	16.64
18	Zsolt Czingler	Hungary	A	16.52
19	LaMark Carter	United States	A	16.47
20	Brian Wellman	Bermuda	A	16.47
21	Lao Jianfeng	China	B	16.43
22	Ivaylo Rusenov	Bulgaria	B	16.40
23	Rogel Nachum	Israel	B	16.39
24	Gennadiy Markov	Russia	B	16.36
25	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	B	16.34
26	Zoran Đurđević	FR Yugoslavia	A	16.31
27	Michael Calvo	Cuba	B	16.30
28	Oleg Sakirkin	Kazakhstan	A	16.20
29	Sergey Izmaylov	Ukraine	B	16.10
30	Sergey Bochkov	Azerbaijan	B	16.01
31	Hristos Meletoglou	Greece	B	16.00
32	Salem Mouled Al-Ahmadi	Saudi Arabia	B	15.99
33	Igor Spasovkhodskiy	Russia	A	15.79
34	Yevgeniy Petin	Uzbekistan	A	15.27
35	Armen Martirosyan	Armenia	B	14.95
36	Colomba Fofana	France	A	14.59
37	Konstadinos Zalaggitis	Greece	A	14.15
38	Andrew Owusu	Ghana	A	14.12
	Raúl Chapado	Spain	A	NM
	Stamatios Lenis	Greece	B	NM

Final

Jonathan Edwards celebrating his win

Rank	Name	Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Jonathan Edwards	United Kingdom	17.12	17.37	17.71	17.06	-	X	17.71	SB
	Yoel García	Cuba	17.15	17.19	17.19	X	16.70	17.47	17.47	SB
	Denis Kapustin	Russia	X	17.46	16.73	17.17	X	17.16	17.46	SB
4	Yoelbi Quesada	Cuba	17.19	X	X	X	X	17.37	17.37	SB
5	Larry Achike	United Kingdom	17.29	X	X	X	17.00	X	17.29
6	Phillips Idowu	United Kingdom	16.97	X	16.83	17.08	X	X	17.08	SB
7	Robert Howard	United States	X	17.05	16.59	X	16.75	16.77	17.05
8	Paolo Camossi	Italy	16.96	16.60	X	16.39	16.95	X	16.96
9	Rostislav Dimitrov	Bulgaria	16.95	16.72	X				16.95
10	Andrew Murphy	Australia	16.74	16.70	16.80				16.80
11	Walter Davis	United States	15.59	16.22	16.61				16.61
-	Charles Friedek	Germany	X	X	X				N.M.

External links

• Official results, qualification - IAAF.org
• Official results, final - IAAF.org
• Source: Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics available at https://web.archive.org/web/20080522105330/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm