These are the official results of the
Men's Triple Jump event at the
1995 IAAF World Championships in
Gothenburg, Sweden
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. There were a total number of 44 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Monday August 7, 1995.
Almost three weeks before this championship,
Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards may refer to:
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*Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, pseudonym of bandleader Paul Weston and his wife, singer Jo Stafford
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had just marginally improved upon
Willie Banks
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' ten year old
world record (17.97m), by jumping 17.98m in
Salamanca. In the preliminary round he was not even the #1 qualifier, edged out by
Jérôme Romain. On his first trip down the runway in the final, Edwards became the first athlete in the world to jump further than 18 metres without wind assistance, registering a world record jump of 18.16 m. In his second jump, he jumped even further, setting a new world record of , the first jump one 60 feet and a improvement over his previous world record. 67 cm further than silver medal winner
Brian Wellman
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. It took more than 20 years for
Christian Taylor to become the first man to jump beyond Edwards' first record.
Schedule
*''All times are
Central European Time (
UTC+1)''
Results
Qualifying round
*Held on Saturday 1995-08-05
Qualifying standard: 17.10 metres
Final
See also
*
1993 Men's World Championships Triple Jump
*
1996 Men's Olympic Triple Jump
*
1997 Men's World Championships Triple Jump
References
Results
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Triple jump at the World Athletics Championships