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1991 World Championships In Athletics – Men's Triple Jump
These are the official results of the Men's Triple Jump event at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. There were a total of 38 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Monday August 26, 1991. Schedule *''All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9 UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00. During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time with ...)'' Final Qualifying round *Held on Sunday 1991-08-25 with the mark set at 17.00 metres See also * 1990 Men's European Championships Triple Jump * 1992 Men's Olympic Triple Jump * 1993 Men's World Championships Triple Jump References Results {{DEFAULTSORT:1991 World Championships In Athletics - Men's Triple Jump T Triple jump at the World Athletics Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triple Jump
The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit. The triple jump was inspired by the ancient Olympic Games and has been a modern Olympics event since the Games' inception in 1896. According to World Athletics rules, "the hop shall be made so that an athlete lands first on the same foot as that from which he has taken off; in the step he shall land on the other foot, from which, subsequently, the jump is performed." The current male world record holder is Jonathan Edwards of the United Kingdom, with a jump of . The current female world record holder is Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela, with a jump of . History Historical sources on the ancient Olympic Games occasionally mention jumps of 15 meters or more. This led sports ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Denishchik
Oleg Denishchik ( be, Алег Дзянішчык; born 10 November 1969) is a retired triple jumper who represented the USSR and later Belarus. His personal best jump was 17.53 metres, achieved in July 1991 in Kyiv. He twice competed at the World Championships in Athletics, reaching the final on both occasions. He was a one-time national champion at the Belarusian Athletics Championships, winning the men's triple jump in 1993. He was runner-up at the 1991 Soviet Athletics Championships.Спартакиада народов СССР и чемпионат СССР // Лёгкая атлетика : журнал. — 1991. — № 9. — С. 4—5. International competitions National titles *Belarusian Athletics Championships **Triple jump: 1993 Belarusian Athletics Championships, 1993 References * 1969 births Living people Soviet male triple jumpers Belarusian male triple jumpers World Athletics Championships athletes for Belarus World Athletics Championships athletes for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Koranteng
Eugene Koranteng (born 20 December 1966) is a retired Ghanaian triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...er. He won the gold medal at the 1989 African Championships, with a jump of . This was his career best jump. He later competed at the 1991 World Championships, but failed to get a valid mark. References External links * 1966 births Living people Ghanaian male triple jumpers 20th-century Ghanaian people 21st-century Ghanaian people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Ghana-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Reteno
François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, King of France and King consort of Scots (), known as the husband of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher *François Aubry (other), several people *François Baby (other), several people * François Beauchemin (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player for the Anaheim Duck * François Blanc (1806–1877), French entrepreneur and operator of casinos * François Boucher (other), several people * François Caron (other), several people * François Cevert (1944–1973), French racing driver * François Chau (born 1959), Cambodian American acto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucian Sfiea
Lucian of Samosata, '; la, Lucianus Samosatensis ( 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal. Although his native language was probably Syriac, all of his extant works are written entirely in ancient Greek (mostly in the Attic Greek dialect popular during the Second Sophistic period). Everything that is known about Lucian's life comes from his own writings, which are often difficult to interpret because of his extensive use of sarcasm. According to his oration ''The Dream'', he was the son of a lower middle class family from the city of Samosata along the banks of the Euphrates in the remote Roman province of Syria. As a young man, he was apprenticed to his uncle to become a sculptor, but, after a failed attempt at sculpting, he ran away to pursue an education in Ionia. He m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
