Jaak Uudmäe (born 3 September 1954) is an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n former

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 and

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a ...

er who competed for the Soviet Union. He was the gold medalist at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He set a personal best of in his Olympic victory – a mark which remains the Estonian record. In 1979 and 1980, Uudmäe was acknowledged as Estonian Athlete of the Year. In 1980, Uudmäe's coach, Jaan Jürgenson, was nominated as the

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Coach of the Year , and Jaak himself as the USSR Master Sportsman of the Year. He was the runner-up at the

1979 Soviet Spartakiad The 7th Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR ( rus, VII летняя Спартакиада народов СССР) was held in the Soviet Union in 1979, with the final stage in July and August 1979. Most events of the final stage were held ...

, behind Gennadiy Valyukevich. His two sons, Jaanus Uudmäe and Jaak Joonas Uudmäe, are also both long and triple jumpers.

1980 Olympics

His victory at the 1980 Summer Olympics was adjudicated by an all-Soviet panel. Some observers later claimed that the bronze medalist João Carlos de Oliveira and fifth-placer Ian Campbell both produced multiple jumps longer than Uudmäe's, though the Soviet judges ruled all these as fouls, to protestations from the athletes and questioning by several observers. Uudmäe's longest jump was also ruled as a foul. In 2015,

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made a request to the

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to investigate the matter and review the outcome.Australia demands probe of triple jump final at 1980 Games
Reuters (2015-07-25). Retrieved 2018-04-11.

International competitions

National titles

* Estonian Athletics Championships **Triple jump: 1976, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1988 *Estonian Indoor Championships **Triple jump: 1975, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1985 **Long jump: 1978

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Uudmae, Jaak 1954 births Living people Athletes from Tallinn Estonian sportsperson-politicians Estonian male long jumpers Estonian male triple jumpers Estonian athletics coaches Soviet male long jumpers Soviet male triple jumpers Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Estonian University of Life Sciences alumni Universiade silver medalists for the Soviet Union Medalists at the 1979 Summer Universiade

1980 Olympics

International competitions

National titles

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