The men's

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competition at the

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was held at the

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on 20–22 August. Forty-seven athletes from 35 nations competed. The event was won by

Christian Olsson Christian Olsson (born 25 January 1980) is a former Swedish athlete competing in high jump and triple jump. He won an Olympic gold medal, one gold and one silver medal in the World Championships and two gold medals in the European Championship ...

of Sweden, the nation's first victory in the event since 1948 and third overall.

Marian Oprea Marian Oprea (born 6 June 1982) is a Romanian athlete, competing in triple jump, who won the silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games. His personal best is 17.81 meters.Danil Burkenya Daniil Sergeyevich Burkenya (; born July 20, 1978, in Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR) is a Russian track and field athlete who competes mainly in triple jump. He was a long jumper before taking up triple jumping in 2004, and the same year he won the bronze ...

taking the medal.

Background

This was the 25th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 2000 Games were fourth-place finisher

Yoelbi Quesada Yoelbi Luis Quesada Fernández (; born August 4, 1973, in Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus) is a Cuban athlete competing mostly in triple jump. Career He has an Olympic bronze medal, and became world champion in 1997 with a personal best jump of 17.8 ...

of Cuba, sixth-place finisher

Phillips Idowu Phillips Olaosebikan Idowu, (born 30 December 1978) is a British athlete who specialised in the triple jump and was active at elite level between 2000 and 2014, with his greatest success coming between 2006 and 2011. He is a former World Outdo ...

of Great Britain, tenth-place finisher

Andrew Murphy Andrew Ray-Jamie Murphy (born 18 December 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former triple jumper, best known for his bronze medal at the 2001 World Indoor Championships where he achieved an Oceanian indoor record of 17.20 metres. Hi ...

of Australia, eleventh-place finisher Walter Davis of the United States, and twelfth-place finisher

Charles Friedek Charles Michael Friedek (born 26 August 1971 in Gießen) is a German triple jumper who became world champion in 1999 with a jump of 17.59 metres. He had already won the World Indoor Championships the same year, with an indoor PB of 17.18 metres. ...

of Germany.

of Sweden was the reigning (2003) world champion and had also finished second in 2001; he was the favorite. Belarus, Burkina Faso, Estonia, Grenada, Moldova, Qatar, Slovenia, Syria, and Trinidad and Tobago each made their first appearance in the event. The United States competed for the 24th time, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

The qualification period for Athletics was 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For the men's triple jump, each

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was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had jumped 16.95 metres or further during the qualification period. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had jumped 16.55 metres or further could be entered.

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).

Records

, the existing world record, Olympic record, and world leading jump were as follows: No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition. The following national records were set during the competition:

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (

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Results

Qualifying

Rule: Qualifying standard 17.00 (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Final

References

External links

Official Olympic Report
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