The men's
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 ...
at the
2009 World Championships in Athletics
The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () were held in Berlin, Germany from 15–23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in the Olympiastadion, while the marathon and racewalking events started and finished at the Brandenburg ...
was held at the
Olympic Stadium
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on 16 and 18 August. The season had seen a number of athletes performing to a high level before the championships, with reigning World and Olympic champion
Nelson Évora
Nelson Évora GCIH (born 20 April 1984) is an Ivory Coast-born Portuguese track and field athlete who specializes in the triple jump.
Évora is a former outdoor Olympic, World, and European triple jump champion. He has also won a European i ...
leading with 17.66 metres and all three athletes of the
Cuban team having jumped over 17.60 m in the season. The other athlete to jump that distance was
Phillips Idowu, who was keen make up for his loss to Évora in the 2008 Olympics. The Olympic medallists Évora, Idowu, and
Leevan Sands
Leevan Sands (born August 16, 1981 Nassau) is a Bahamian triple jumper.
His personal best jump is 17.59 metres, achieved in 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. This is the current Bahamian record and won a bronze medal. He also won bronze medals ...
, and the Cuban trio of
David Giralt,
Yoandris Betanzos and
Alexis Copello, were judged to be the strongest competitors entering the competition.
In the qualifying rounds, Évora and Idowu were the first to pass the automatic qualifying mark of 17.15 metres, recording bests of 17.44 and 17.32 m respectively. Chinese jumper
Li Yanxi was the third through the qualifying mark, and Sands and Giralt soon followed. The qualifying was not of the same standard as the
2008 Olympic final, as Copello and
Dmitrij Valukevic rounded out the top twelve competitors with jumps under 17 m.
In the final, Olympic champion Évora set the standard with a first jump of 17.54 m, Idowu also started well with a jump of 17.51 m. Giralt and Sands moved into third and fourth with jumps around the 17.2 m mark. Évora led the competition until round three, where Idowu produced a personal best and world-leading jump of 17.73 m to take the top spot. A large jump by Alexis Copello followed, but he was given the red flag, indicating a foul. Sands' season's best jump of 17.32 m moved him into the third medal spot, but it was Copello's final jump of 17.36 m that took the bronze medal. Évora's best also came in the final round, but the 17.55-metre jump did not rival that of Idowu. It was the thirty-one-year-old Briton's first ever major title, building on his silver medal at the
2008 Beijing Olympics.
[Mulkeen, Jon (2009-08-18)]
Event Report - Men's Triple Jump - Final
. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-19.
Medalists
Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.
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Phillips Idowu beat Évora's world leading mark in the competition, jumping 17.73 metres.
Qualification standards
Schedule
Results
Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 17.15 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the
final
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.
Key: NR = National record, PB = Personal best, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best
Final
Key: SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season)
References
;General
Triple jump results IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-16.
;Specific
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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 ...
Triple jump at the World Athletics Championships