Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump

Men's triple jump at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	7–9 August
Competitors	27 from 21 nations
Winning distance	17.81
Medalists
Christian Taylor   United States   Will Claye   United States   Fabrizio Donato   Italy

Official video highlights

Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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 competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 7–9 August.^[1]

In the qualifying round, Christian Taylor made the automatic qualifier on his first attempt, Leevan Sands made the only other auto qualifier. The two Italian jumpers Daniele Greco and Fabrizio Donato anticipated the outcome and let their first attempt marks qualify them to the finals, taking the rest of the other rounds off. Lyukman Adams and Will Claye took all three attempts to get in a sufficient jump. After controversy,^[2] host team favorite, 2009 world champion Phillips Idowu made it to the qualifying round,^[3] but could not advance.

In the first round, 35-year-old Fabrizio Donato took the lead over 40 cm ahead of Alexis Copello. In the second round Will Claye took the lead, while Donato improved and his teammate Daniele Greco moved into third. Meanwhile, reigning world champion Christian Taylor was struggling to find the board, taking until his third jump just to get a mark to allow him three more attempts. Donato improved again. In the fourth round Taylor put it all together, jumping 17.81 to take what turned out to be an insurmountable lead. Donato made another improvement for his best attempt 17.48, though any of his four legal jumps would have won the bronze. Then Claye secured another silver medal with a 17.62^[4]

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete jumped three times (stopping early if they made the qualifying distance). 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 (with the best distance of the six jumps counted).^[5]

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Records

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

World record	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	18.29 m	Gothenburg, Sweden	7 August 1995
Olympic record	Kenny Harrison (USA)	18.09 m	Atlanta, United States	27 July 1996
2012 World leading	Christian Taylor (USA)	17.63 m	Eugene, United States	30 June 2012
Broken records during the 2012 Summer Olympics
2012 World leading	Christian Taylor (USA)	17.81	London, United Kingdom	9 August 2012

Results

Qualifying round

Qual. rule: qualification standard 17.10m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

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Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	B	Christian Taylor	United States	17.21 (+0.2)	-	-	17.21	Q
2	B	Leevan Sands	Bahamas	17.17 (-0.4)	-	-	17.17	Q
3	A	Benjamin Compaoré	France	16.82 (-0.5)	17.06 (+0.8)	-	17.06	q
4	A	Daniele Greco	Italy	17.00 (+0.6)	-	-	17.00	q
5	B	Dong Bin	China	X	16.94 (+0.1)	-	16.94	q
6	A	Lyukman Adams	Russia	16.67 (-1.0)	X	16.88 (-0.9)	16.88	q
7	A	Will Claye	United States	16.56 (-0.5)	16.44 (-1.5)	16.87 (-0.2)	16.87	q
8	B	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	16.86 (-1.2)	-	-	16.86	q
9	A	Tosin Oke	Nigeria	16.59 (-1.3)	16.83 (-0.3)	X	16.83	q
10	A	Samyr Laine	Haiti	16.14 (0.0)	16.81 (+1.4)	X (+0.1)	16.81	q
11	B	Alexis Copello	Cuba	X	16.70 (-0.7)	16.79 (+1.0)	16.79	q
12	A	Dzmitry Platnitski	Belarus	X	15.66 (-0.4)	16.62 (+0.3)	16.62	q
13	B	Sheryf El-Sheryf	Ukraine	16.60 (+0.4)	14.83 (-2.5)	X	16.60
14	A	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	16.47 (-0.7)	X	16.53 (-1.0)	16.53
15	B	Issam Nima	Algeria	15.21 (-0.7)	X	16.50 (+0.5)	16.50
16	A	Arnie David Girat	Cuba	15.74 (+1.1)	16.42 (+0.1)	16.45 (+1.1)	16.45
17	B	Henry Frayne	Australia	16.25 (+0.2)	16.35 (+0.2)	16.40 (-0.2)	16.40
18	B	Muhammad Halim	Virgin Islands	15.54 (-0.6)	16.39 (-0.6)	15.31 (+0.5)	16.39
19	A	Yevgeniy Ektov	Kazakhstan	X	16.31 (-0.1)	X	16.31
20	A	Cao Shuo	China	16.11 (-1.8)	16.26 (+1.2)	16.27 (-1.2)	16.27
21	B	Roman Valiyev	Kazakhstan	X	X	16.23 (-1.0)	16.23
22	B	Kim Deok-Hyeon	South Korea	15.35 (-0.8)	X	16.22 (-0.3)	16.22
23	B	Yoandris Betanzos	Cuba	14.84 (+0.2)	16.22 (+2.9)	X	16.22
24	B	Mohamed Abbas Darwish	United Arab Emirates	X	16.06 (+1.7)	15.93 (+1.6)	16.06
25	A	José Adrián Sornoza	Ecuador	15.61 (-0.5)	16.04 (-2.4)	X	16.04
26	B	Jonathan Henrique Silva	Brazil	15.59 (-1.3)	X	X	15.59
N/A	A	Renjith Maheshwary	India	X	X	X	N/A	NM

Final

^[7]

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
01 !	Christian Taylor	United States	X	X	17.15	17.81	17.55	X	17.81	WL, SB
02 !	Will Claye	United States	X	17.54	17.43	17.62	17.25	16.66	17.62
03 !	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	17.38	17.44	17.45	17.48	–	X	17.48
4	Daniele Greco	Italy	16.90	17.34	X	X	–	16.92	17.34
5	Leevan Sands	Bahamas	X	17.19	17.12	X	–	–	17.19
6	Benjamin Compaoré	France	15.53	17.08	14.16	16.27	13.68	X	17.08
7	Tosin Oke	Nigeria	X	16.91	16.95	X	X	X	16.95
8	Alexis Copello	Cuba	16.92	X	X	14.75	X	16.68	16.92
9	Lyukman Adams	Russia	16.78	X	X				16.78
10	Dong Bin	China	16.75	X	X				16.75
11	Samyr Laine	Haiti	X	16.65	16.59				16.65
12	Dzmitry Platnitski	Belarus	16.08	X	16.19				16.19

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